Nice Work.

But it would also be nice if we can use the Gunners Position in Hind :-)

It will be really peace of work) Not planning, but who knows.

Have someone "clean" frame cockpit gunner in Iwo?From another game,with other source, of course.

looks like I move away a bit, but I am really interesting in lighting effects right now. I don't think I will separate it from hind improvements, so we will test all things together. Now I am making all cockpits sensitive to global lights and also I'm testing point lights - they never used before, maybe because has some side effects that need to be fixed. anyway looks good I think =)

Woow woooow WOOOW lighting wrecks is also possible?

technically all objects, particles, sprites etc can be affected by global lights. problem is some of them rendering in different methods in game so to change it I need more than basic knowledge of directx programming. now light affects most 3d objects (vehicles, buildings, ... wrecks) and some sprites (crater on the screen for example). but terrain use manual lighting and it's really problem. now just trying around to understand how things works.

still a lot of troubles but damn, it works!

AAAAAA !!! You are amazing total shock There is no chance for dynamic shadows, there is no chance for shaders, but that lighting is beautiful
Btw you can add this light source for flying missile/cannon trail?

thanks) there is still chance for shadows - simple but not so bad, like in operation flashpoint.


there is some limits. landscape lighting works by sectors - each 20x20 meters or something. Light affect sectors pretty smooth but for small light source in incorrect position, for explosions it's not so visible because light affects several sectors at once. But 3d models hasn't this sort of troubles - lights works with big precision. And yes - I can attach lights at any entity or sprite - missile or trail or jet's afterburner for example. Question in quantity - can't say about it anything, it's not configurated properly yet. Now I noticed performance decrease when in the scene more than 50-100 lights.

That's pretty cool. Nice work.

Could you start a new thread for this though, just so that it doesn't get lost in this thread about the Hind cockpit?

I will return to hind when get basic lights work stable, so i think it's not necessary. Some day I will continue to work with effects and of course will make new thread for discussions.

I think the lights simply need to have a time limit, like smoke.Minutes, or 1:30 and this will solve problems.
Time flames and smoke can be set in explos.csv
It's my dream to fly over the burning wrecks as in DCS
Imo your lighting looks better than first dcs bs.
You say shadows as in OF, maybe it is also possible blinding sun as in OF?

had to launch it to understand what are you talking about) it's already made, just too weak - texture calls SUN_COLOUR_FLARE

hey everyone. start thinking what options I can use to make my stuff adjustable, this poll about your avionics and gameplay configs will really help me. thanks in advance.

Forgot one thing.

Where's "Whatever you're willing to implement?" in the last poll?

Do whatever you fancy with the Hind. You're, after all, developing it.

It's not about it. Imagine in thirst poll will be advantage in one side, but in last question will be balance. It means this options doesn't work like they have to. Be sure I'm making whatever I want =)

I clicked werewolf's flight model by accident. I think the default eech.ini is set to use Arneh's flight model (correct if I'm wrong) I'm not sure what the difference between them is.

Yes, default is Arneh's , its quite good and has suspenssion model but it feels way too overpowered and no feel of mass when loaded full of weapons.

So now i use default (orginal eech model)




-haukka81

If I'm not mistaken the only difference between the default and arneh is that the latter has suspension modelling.