Ground crew for immersion

[Witchking]

Hi ED,

 

I was watching an old favourite... the Su 27 flanker / Mig 29 documentaries from Wings of Russia. The presence of a ground crew:

 

1) A tow truck towing aircraft out of hangar (could be an option in mission editor (tow from hangar to parking area)

 

 

2) Re-arming... a skid with assorted missiles/bombs/rockets appears while the re-arming takes place

 

 

3) re-fueling...a refueling truck drives up to beside the aircraft. It spawns a minute away on taxi area...drives to aircraft... ideally a tube appears loading aircraft fuel and 2 min later..refuel done.

 

 

PS: we don't need the guys standing on the truck. :p

 

Just some little things to add immersion and something interesting to the 3min it takes to refuel and repair/rearm aircraft.

 

cheers

 

V

[Demongornot]

This is a OOOOOLD requested so many time feature with a lot of things like canopy fog, rain on canopy, ice on aircraft, vapor on wings, 3D encyclopedia, contrail don't come from inside the engine but a little after it like in real and other things like this.

 

Sadly immersion or not this is conciser like eyes candy that's why this is not implemented even if this was asked since decades...

 

It can't be long to be done if we just talk about vehicle and soldier just get here and don't do any animated things but only spend time next to our aircraft.

 

But their is two reason why it can't happen now.

 

First, well actual DCS World have huge performance issue, and sometimes adding a single aircraft in plus can drive to a serious fps drop, for multiplayer it will be really hard to don't get headache from low ips (images per seconds) and in solo it will take on some missions too much performances with all others objects, statics or not.

 

And second reason, they actually work on something that will probably make this happen, but it take huge manpower, this is EDGE, and the Nevada map !

They already focus on EDGE, next aircraft such as FW190, AFM for SU-27, F/A-18C Hornet and bugfixing in plus, i think they are too much in rush now for think about it...

BUT !!!

Nevada map with EDGE already include a bench of statics vehicles and objects which will improves immersion AND more important, if this is done its cause EDGE can handle so many objects on map without many performance hit as actual graphic engine have.

 

Look at Nevada screenshots !

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=115306

or this http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=113708

And since EDGE will also work with actual Georgia map :

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2067392&postcount=8

We will probably get from this improvement the possibility to handle more statics object and get possibility to use ground crew, and maybe after this rush period with a lot of main thing to do will be over in few month, with less manpower from 3D artist team to work on the map, maybe new animations will be done while codders do bug fixing and it can hopefully drive to all this requested features and maybe things like fully animated ground crew with guy really do fluid and nice movement (like ejection from Mustang or for example like the torpedo loading animation from Silent Hunter) for loading weapons or connect truck and others ground crew stuff can be added !

 

For the moment i can understand why they don't yet have done this with this actual period where a lot of things are planed, but we will soon (month) get maybe better than what you ask for !

[Witchking]

yup! just watched a documentary got some nice ref images...so wanted to post it here. I know ED has enough things to work on....but hey...the wing flex thing dropped on us from no where...so u never know what they consider is worth working on. ;) But I agree...some nice water, snow accumulation on ground.... rooster tails on runway from landing gear.... a better looking spray effect, smoke fx, raindrops, snow..are definitely higher on the priority list. :)