Dragon1-1 Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 You can do that with names on canopy rails, too, unless they're in a fancy cursive. You just need a lot of letters on the texture. Also, wouldn't that be possible to place an extra surface on the canopy rail that would accept a texture with a transparent background? It's how many old games did nameplates and such. This would require a custom graphic for the pilot's name (not something just anyone can make), but on the flipside, it would allow a fully customized graphic for the pilot's name.
Skysurfer Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Dragon1-1 said: You can do that with names on canopy rails, too, unless they're in a fancy cursive. You just need a lot of letters on the texture. Also, wouldn't that be possible to place an extra surface on the canopy rail that would accept a texture with a transparent background? It's how many old games did nameplates and such. This would require a custom graphic for the pilot's name (not something just anyone can make), but on the flipside, it would allow a fully customized graphic for the pilot's name. Yes but all of those wouldnt look right. I get that this feature would be nice to have eventually but it's not that easy to implement properly and there are far more important things on the list currently. The only reason why FC3 planes, the Hornet and Viper can use dynamic modex is the beforementioned lack of font variety and names below the canopy or BuNo numbers etc. And even then the implementation on the Viper is pretty lackluster and still has a few glitches. The only places where you'd actually benefit from having said dynamic modex numbers is maybe while operating off of the ship and on the cat or in fingertip or echelon (even then you wouldnt be looking at the number but at your leads airframe cues). And like I said you can still do that as HB provide 2-3 ship liveries on the 14B for example by default - anything beyond that it's fairly easy to arrange your own liveries when flying in an online group. You simply wont have ech full squadron included by default by HB as it's a ton of work and a ton of harddrive space. 1
Swordsman422 Posted December 30, 2020 Posted December 30, 2020 On 12/26/2020 at 5:31 AM, Dragon1-1 said: Well, the names on the canopy rail should be dynamic, too. Ideally, they'd be set to your pilot's own name (unless the mission/campaign designer had other ideas). Aside the aforementioned problems, it's also incredibly rare for a naval aviator to fly the plane with his name on it. Maintenance, mission requirements, and scheduling mean that the air crew is put in whatever the available up aircraft is, regardless of who it "belongs" to, so this would kinda be a waste of effort. 3
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