In-cockpit animations (lack of)

[Jester Darrak]

A few days ago I had a conversation about the Flaps lever in the F-15 and where to find it. Then I checked a few things in the Eagle and the A-10A and found out that almost every switch/knob animation are completely absent.

 

Some time ago when you started the engine on the Eagle you could look at the ENG panel and see all the switches flip as the JFS came up and so on. All that's working now in the F-15 is the ATT Hold, ALT Hold and the SAS channel switches and the fuel gauge knob. The Flaps lever seems to be totally absent.

 

On the A-10 none of the EAC/AP switches seem to work and the fuel gauge knob also has no animation which makes it hard to determine what mode is selected and if EAC is even on/working. I don't know the state of the other FC3 aircraft for sure, but missing all those animations really kills the immersion and also takes your attention away when you have to look/check for 30 seconds instead of 2 seconds.

 

So, could we please have all the nice animations back? I'm not talking of clickable cockpits (singularity), just the switches and knobs turn as you press the keys on the keyboard.

[Domcho]

This is actually a big issue.

 

While the Su-25A and Su-25T have the animations for cut of burst, bomb interval, ripple quantity etc, the Sukhois and MiGs don't have them, not to mention that with the latest update of the MiG-29 cockpit you can't tell on which waypoint you are or when you shift through airfield return/landing modes you can't tell which airfield you've picked since they removed the MFD option to display it for realism reasons. The waypoint is not displayed on the HUD either unlike in the Sukhois. This causes big problems in navigation (for MiG-29) and bombing (for both MiG-29 and Su-27, Su-33).

 

Neither the MiGs nor Sukhois have flaps, gear, hook (Su-33) nor gear/navigation lights switch animatons (correct me if I'm wrong please). While those are not a big necessity, if we can't have ASM or clickable cockpits for simple stuff, at least we should have more animations.

Also the Su-25T needs a switch animation for the Vikhres salvo mode or at least a HUD indication to tell us if we'll shoot 1 or 2 Vikhres.

 

As for the US aircraft, I don't know about them, but if A-10A doesn't have simple animations for flaps and lights, why can't that be copy-pasted from the A-10C version. It's just flaps and lights animations. :(

[SinusoidDelta]

I haven't checked the russian jets but the F-15C pit has a lot of animation arguments that are un-used at the moment:

Edited August 20, 2016 by SinusoidDelta
The actual .gif is very large, unfortunately there is no way to embed gifv

[Jester Darrak]

I haven't checked the russian jets but the F-15C pit has a lot of animation arguments that are un-used at the moment:

https://i.imgur.com/CLvdQNy.gifv

 

I bet they were made in preparation for a "just-in-case" full fidelity F-15C. One still can dream, right?^^

 

But on the other hand the model we got with FC3 was a former Mod for FC2 by Gys&Valeri. Maybe they did it.

[fitness88]

Post moved due to high animated graphics slowing things down.

Edited August 21, 2016 by fitness88

[Domcho]

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[feefifofum]

Man those videos just get me all worked up. :lol:

Maybe one day...