good luck!

[takedown47]

Hey there,

 

takedown reporting for the first time. Just thought i'd give this game two thumbs up!!

 

cant wait until it's finished. Some suggestions though:

 

Can you simulate life at the airfield aswell? I've always found that this aspect of a WW1 era sim is always overlooked by developers. Over Flanders Fields tried to do it and half succeeded. Basically it would really be awesome if you started as your pilot and had to run to your plane, jump in like battlefield and take off. U get shot up bad and have to land back at base so u jump out and find a new plane to take off with. Possible?

[+Gr.Viper]

And then someone will come and ask for an ability to jump on a bike and go search for unconfirmed kill

 

Running the same route to plane would quickly become boring unless it's a scramble mission and there's a swarm of incendiary bullets buzzing in the air.

[+kendo353]

Basically it would really be awesome if you started as your pilot and had to run to your plane, jump in like battlefield and take off. U get shot up bad and have to land back at base so u jump out and find a new plane to take off with. Possible?

 

Hi Takedown47.

yes, its possible. though as Gr.Viper says.... it may get boring after several dozen missions.

default behaviour is to have the player start off in their plane with no engine running. If a

crash landing is called for, it's easy enough to transfer the camera viewpoint onto a newly

spawned pilot model.... and then you are on your feet, looking at the wreckage. Ridable

vehicles are achieved, by just bumping into them. (i was going to make a full WW1 online

game... but settled just for air combat, so that i would have a hope of completing it).

 

Gr.Viper: The bike would take a bit of work... but people have done motorbikes... so i do know it's possible. :)

 

 

cheers

ken

[+Gr.Viper]

and then you are on your feet, looking at the wreckage

What if you just landed to combat side effects of castor oil and wanted to turn your plane around, so that you don't take off into a wall of trees?

On the topic of nice crashes - watch the final 30 or so seconds of this vid from Rigs of Rods

Funny but their flexible mesh system gives the plane a very bendy and fragile look even in flight. Tends to CTD a lot on my PC though.

 

 

kendo, any ideas on finding more stuff for The Library? http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=24902 *yes, it's advertising! *

[+kendo353]

Hi Gr.Viper,

 

What if you just landed to combat side effects of castor oil and wanted to turn your plane around, so that you don't take off into a wall of trees?

 

landing and getting out won't be a problem. when you press the "E" key (eject), the engine spawns your pilot model next to the plane.

being able to turn the plane around will be more tricky. because as soon as you bump into the invisible collision model, you will be back in the cockpit.

 

if you land by trees, or where you can't take off... that's your fault.

 

kendo, any ideas on finding more stuff for The Library?

very nice! If i stumble across anything useful, i'll add it to the thread.

thanks for starting it. great resource.

 

:yes:

Edited February 16, 2008 by kendo353