LostOblivion Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) I originally posted this in the 40-page long official announcement, but as people are more occupied with whining up there, I thought I'd post it here. Will there be a possibility to pop the canopy and then jump out? Will this be a matter of hitting ctrl+e three times or will we have to first pop the canopy with a dedicated switch and then do something additional to actually jump out? It would definately be cool if the latter, and also it would be cool if you made the functionality to "stand up", and "jump out", as well as "sit down" after having stood up, so ejecting is a lot harder than in say the Ka-50. So if I want to bail out, I pull the canopy ejection handle, press ctrl+e to crouch on the seat, losing control of the aircraft, naturally, shift+e to sit back down, or ctrl+e to continue jumping out. Also, another ctrl+e while falling would pull the parachute cord and deploy the parachute. This would put some real immersion into bailing out, which I personally think would be appropriately realistic, seeing as how bailing out back then was a fairly big deal compared to today. Not exactly this, but a lot of other, small features and animations are currently featured in Rise of Flight, with great success, such as the pilot waving to signal others, or, just recently, being able to point and fire an actual signal flare gun, and also the M1911 pistol, all from within the cockpit. It really adds a lot of immersion to the game, and after all, this makes more sense for a second world war era aircraft, than say the A-10. Also, did the pilots back then occasionally meet the tragic consecuence of hitting the elevators after having jumped out? If so, could this possibly be modeled? Cheers, looking forward to flying this thing with a real FM, not the boring and well aged Il-2. Lost Edited January 22, 2012 by LostOblivion Nice plane on that gun... OS764 P930@4 MBUD3R M6GB G5870 SSDX25 CAntec1200 HTMHW
effte Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 LCtrl-E to pull out the pin. LAlt+E to loosen the left shoulder strap, RAlt+E for the right one. LSft+LCtl+E to undo lap belt. LSft+RCtl+E to untangle lap belt buckle from parachute harness. RCtl+G to pull down goggles, and LCtl+RCtl+AltGr+M to attempt to catch the classified map about to blow out of the cockpit. AltGr+LSft+Q to lift butt from seat. Key to kick column forward TBD. :D ----- Introduction to UTM/MGRS - Trying to get your head around what trim is, how it works and how to use it? - DCS helos vs the real world.
Kalahari Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Sounds like fun,I think I'll do the navy bit nd go down with my plane.... System Specs : Processor ; Intel®Core i7-3930 CPU@ 3.20GHz. RAM -16.0 GB Type-64bit GPU-GTX 970 Never eject over a village you've just bombed - US Marines Gen.
LostOblivion Posted January 22, 2012 Author Posted January 22, 2012 (edited) LCtrl-E to pull out the pin. LAlt+E to loosen the left shoulder strap, RAlt+E for the right one. LSft+LCtl+E to undo lap belt. LSft+RCtl+E to untangle lap belt buckle from parachute harness. RCtl+G to pull down goggles, and LCtl+RCtl+AltGr+M to attempt to catch the classified map about to blow out of the cockpit. AltGr+LSft+Q to lift butt from seat. Key to kick column forward TBD. :D Lol, had to laugh there, but really, something like that would be fun methinks. The least thing they have to do, is make a proper bail out animation, possibly also from the cockpit view of the pilot. LCtl+RCtl+AltGr+M to attempt to catch the classified map about to blow out of the cockpit. This is HARD!! :O Edited January 22, 2012 by LostOblivion Nice plane on that gun... OS764 P930@4 MBUD3R M6GB G5870 SSDX25 CAntec1200 HTMHW
effte Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 From DCS, I expect a jettisonable canopy. An animated bail-out sequence would be a nice touch, rather than the "press Ctl+E and wait for three seconds wondering if you hit the right keys or not" routine famous from The Other WW2 Simulator. :) Can't say it's a deal-breaker for me, but it'd add atmosphere to actually see your POV go tumbling down towards the trailing edge. Er, I mean, to know that others who have less skill will see that when bailing out... :joystick: ----- Introduction to UTM/MGRS - Trying to get your head around what trim is, how it works and how to use it? - DCS helos vs the real world.
LostOblivion Posted January 22, 2012 Author Posted January 22, 2012 Surely if they modeled it, you would do it anyway. :P The problem is that this means they'd have to swap out the cockpit aircraft model with the external aircraft model at some point during the animation, which I assume is fairly hard to do. Nice plane on that gun... OS764 P930@4 MBUD3R M6GB G5870 SSDX25 CAntec1200 HTMHW
weasel75 Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Lol, if such a complex bailout-sequence would make it into the game, many (most?) would map that to a scripted sequence in their controller-setup ;) But still, sweet idea :) basic for translators ...
bartleby Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 QWOP minigame to pull yourself out? DCS Wiki! :book:
Grimes Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 A Quicktime event is obviously the answer. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
Nirvi Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 An animation like it was planned in IL2: CoD would be awesome:D Serious uglies Discord 4YA - Project Overlord WW2 Server My DCS Videos
leafer Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 Nirvi, that looks very good! ED have been taking my money since 1995. :P
Frostiken Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 Looks kind of unrealistic... he stands like it's windless, and it looks like the rear stabs would decapitate him, jumping off like that. Honestly, the way the dude bailed in Duxford was probably the most practical, he basically ran along the length of the tail and jumped off the side. I imagine there really was no 'right' way to bail out anyway. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Zalifer Posted January 31, 2012 Posted January 31, 2012 The correct way to dive out of an airborne P51 is to basically launch yourself onto to the right wing, and roll off, except for when spinning, when you jump to the outside of the spin. I believe that is correct, but it comes from browsing the P51 flight manual someone posted, and I only glanced at that section.
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