Ok, fair enough. It would seem that since the paratroopers are modified bombs you will get a mission complete message.

I don't have a lot of buy in to this but I can see that it's important to other members. I wasn't being a naysayer, just asking some questions to stimulate the conversation.

As it was bugging me I found a way to display the parachutes better.
Now if "ord99.3dz" is used for the parachute graphic the release hardpoint Z value is lowered by 40 feet.

The parachutes open below the aircraft:


Alsi in the F11 view the sprites are more visible because that last acceleration of the bomb used to kick in at 500 feet, but now it kicks in at 20 feet:


I have never bothered to download better people sprites, but maybe I should

There is a lot of good stuff out there, lying forgotten on Sandbagger's. I'm glad you found some.

The EAW sprites could do with an overhaul, from a few 8 bit pixels, to a decent resolution. Most games these days use a set of textures or larger textures to animate an explosion, smoke, or spray.

The FXEXE, was way before it's time, in using a series of textures show sprites, and there are loads of better textures available from several sites.

When I messed around with the sprite code, I found a single texture was referenced, and a series of 16 mapping points specified, on a 256x256 texture. Now, maybe we could simply move to a 512x512 texture? Worth trying??

When you fancy tapping the keyboard again, here is a site packed with better sprites we could use.

These are little Germans, but there are loads more!
http://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/ww2gi/sheet/33727

With some trigonometry I was able to get the parachutes to appear slightly behind the aircraft in addition to them being below:




This is independent of the direction of the aircraft