Originally Posted by HungaroJET I guess you wrote wrongly. Inversely: heating up - firstly redish, then yellowish. What you wrote is the cooling down process/effect/colour, but i think you will never see the yellow. Means: too high temperature ---> cause thermal deformation
Combat flight sims have come a long way when people are arguing about the effect of heat on the color of gun barrels I don't believe anyone playing Jane's Fighters Anthology or even Falcon 4.0 ever worried about such details. I can see a day when rivet counting will be critical to correctly modeling the structural integrity of aircraft. Overstressing the airframe will literally pop rivets and having the wrong count will affect the effective strength of the aircraft.
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Combat flight sims have come a long way when people are arguing about the effect of heat on the color of gun barrels I don't believe anyone playing Jane's Fighters Anthology or even Falcon 4.0 ever worried about such details. I can see a day when rivet counting will be critical to correctly modeling the structural integrity of aircraft. Overstressing the airframe will literally pop rivets and having the wrong count will affect the effective strength of the aircraft.
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I guess now we find out if opening DCS to third parties was worth it. I have doubts that the quality will be the same.
I think the plan is that 3rd party developers can make other aircraft but they'd be of various quality.. most probably LockOn fidelity. However some very special aircraft will get the official DCS tag and those ones will be up to DCS standards e.g. the 21 and now IRIS F-15E.
It's all good not matter how you look at it. More aircraft flying in DCS world is better than just playing with one.
Wish they'd give the F-15C the full treatment too. I'm sure it's doable.
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I think it was already mentioned some hundred posts before, but I would ask again. Are the instruments in the cockpit (altitude meter, ai horizont, vario, etc.) work in progress and subject to change, or they are already finalized. I ask this, because the cockpit itself is a fantastic work, every switch/hat/knob everything looks perfect. But the instruments have no depth. I mean I am really got used to Ricardo's instruments, they look fantastic. I know, it's my bad I am also aware, that those instruments cannot be reused, as the 21 has different gauges. It can be only my perversion, but I feel, that the cockpit is an excellent peace of work, while the gauges are "just good ones".
Edit: After posting, I found, that of course you can do such nice instruments If I look at the oxigen meter right next to the throttle, that's what I'm talking about.
I know my instruments need some additional enhance. Unfortunately both of my contact who promise me to help upgrade my gauges is lost in space so I have to do that without any help. As you know it's a bit time consuming and during test I use a last stable version that's the reason why you can't see the updated instruments in the videos or screenshots yet. If you take a look the attached pics you can clearly see which instruments are the older ones. :-)
There's a link to a pdf on the DCS MiG 21 site although it's running very slow for me at the moment.
Lol, you know that posting that here will send 100 people over the the site and make it run even slower. I'm trying to download it now and getting nowhere
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As I recognised need some clarification and info about the MiG-21 release so far.
So the SITREP is the following:
- Planned release date 2013 Q1. That caused by several thing especially we need to a find a new C++ coder. - Need to be recreate the cockpit textures. The good news is to a very good texture artist help us and working on both the cockpit and exterior model texture enhancement. - A few general aircraft system doesn't aligned to the MiG-21 requirements and capabilities. Also we need to recreate some AC system from scratch to align them the new standards as well. - Some feature that required for MiG-21 still WIP in DCS:World side. Also we need a stable workaround (bug free) environment for testing and features implementation. - As mentioned before I don't want to release a beta DCS:MiG-21 module that has any significant bug. I plan to release a working, bug-free, fully playable module. - It's named DCS:MiG-21Bis as stated many times. I think the DCS tag will answer your questions about the mod complexity.