Sea State

[AG-51_Razor]

It appears to me that the sea state, the amount of pitch and roll of the ships, is determined by the velocity of the wind set into the weather page of the Mission Editor. Could it not be a separate tab of its own in the weather page? In order to get the ship (carrier) to have any real detectable movement at all, the wind velocity has to be up above 10 m/s, which is about 20 knots. Ideally, you'd want about 30-35 knots of wind over the deck for flight operations but as the mission planner, you'd like to give the ships some speed to get somewhere on the map. Is there not some other way to give the ships a realistic interaction with the ocean?

 

I do understand that wind is responsible for the waves which cause the ships to rock 'n roll but I am just "wishing" for a better way to achieve it in this simulation. At the very least, could the water effects reflect the wind conditions? It appears to be mirror calm regardless of what the wind is set to. Only introducing precipitation changes the look of the water.

 

I also realize that this request is merely for a visual affect and making the mission planner's work a little easier. It should rightly be placed near the bottom of ED's priority list of things to do. I just thought I'd bring it up in case it might be fairly easy to implement. Thank you all for a great sim!! :thumbup:

[Northstar98]

Good idea! :thumbup: I believe some rep is in order!

 

It would be great to have separate weather options for sea state and wind - at the moment, without any wind there are waves (fair enough) but they have no impact on a ship in terms of pitching and rolling. Localized weather should be on the agenda too - so we don't have the coastline battered by tsunamis :)

 

I think on the whole the ship aspect needs to be dramatically improved - wake, weapons, models, systems, animations etc.

 

Cheers,

 

Ollie