Flames

[C3PO]

I thought I'd bring you a few nice screenshots showing work in progress on the new animating exhausts from missiles. As you can see, they are greatly improved and in-game look gorgeous. The examples below feature the maverick and HARM exhaust. These flames may make the next official update for Allied Force ... otherwise a subsequent update. Enjoy

[Scrat]

I thought HARM, Mavs and other modern missiles were almost invisible due to high-efficiency propergols that ensure an optimal combustion.

[Cougar FFW04]

Whoua
Impressive screenshoots specially the maverick Is it so "flames" in RL ?
Thanks a lot

Edit : I do see the Ursa Major on your second screenshot. Does this mean that I must also work at home when flying Falcon

[GunMan]

Good work !!

But dont place a smoke on Amraam's

[C3PO]

I thought HARM, Mavs and other modern missiles were almost invisible due to high-efficiency propergols that ensure an optimal combustion.

Have a look at the in-game intro movie I made for Allied Force. There's a sequence in there showing a maverick launch

[Larsen]

Edit : I do see the Ursa Major on your second screenshot. Does this mean that I must also work at home when flying Falcon

:laugh: :laugh:


beautiful effects ! thanks for these screens !

[C3PO]

The animated flames only appear for the correct time that the rocket motors burn in flight, after that of course they are carried by momentum. There's no smoke for the AMRAAMs

[GunMan]

Good :P Thank you for this great job !!!

[RaZoR31]

woooow !!! very nice job... !

[goonievolant]

The animated flames only appear for the correct time that the rocket motors burn in flight, after that of course they are carried by momentum. There's no smoke for the AMRAAMs

that is really beautifull.

Could you just check the bad weather because i observed that if you go from 1000ft to 18000ft, there are some areas that are so lighter that you have the feeling to be in a sunrry day but you are still in the clouds which is not really normal.

it is really great to play in bad weather, congrats for this add-on. i love to her the rain falling

[Dax]

Thanks for pictures and infos ... nice pictures, very nice job !

[Jallie]

I love your communication...

great information...

Of course , we are waiting for the next patch .

[Markus]

Very well !!
Good job C3PO !!
It's very beautifull !!

@+Markus

[C3PO]

And here's an AMRAAM launch at dusk:

[papyvolant]

Too beautiful !
Too hard to wait any longer...
Too long for next patch !...
An issue date please ?
Many thanks and... congratulations .

[GunMan]

WOW !!!

Its... Incredible !!!


Just one question C3PO...
How to control the weather out of a campaign ???
We can adjust just the fog pourcentage and fog opacity...
But how to add rain, storm, thunders like in the second day of Rolling Fire ??

[Flanker-D]

Hello C3PO
Very nice shot and great work but I have to admit that I'm a little bit more concern by the following kind of improvement on Maverick :
It was in French when I did first report it so I don't know if it came to your knowledge.
After patching Falcon AF with 1.03, I made a first flight in a Korea 2005 Campaign as FAC for a A-10 flight. This was a new camapign ! When I saw the debriefing, I was really surprised seing Su-25 launching bomb at my airborne aircraft during the first merge. Some kind of Jettison wrongly reported ? Maybe but looking at the ACMI it happens exactly when the Su-25 add a chance to launch its self-defense R60 or R73 IR AAM.



That's why, I did look at the ACMI more carrefully and saw something lesser realistic and even impossible given the Maverick is a "Fire & Forget" AGM.
If it's not very clear on the picture and I can send you the complete ACMI, but what it shows are Mavericks launched by IA controlled A-10 doing a very low altitude pass and then starting a loop. Some finishing the loop and hiting the ground where they made the low altitude pass, some other self-destructing in the Air after 3 quarters of the loop.



I hope you'll be able to investigate why this happened and hopefully correct this.
Thanks for the great work you're doing and for making Falcon AF better and better.

Best Regards,
Flanker-D

PS: The eye candy is great but if it was only what we were looking for, Falcon would be dead since years now.

[Cougar FFW04]

PS: The eye candy is great but if it was only what we were looking for, Falcon would be dead since years now.

I second that.
It would be nice to have some feedback on the bug reported here and there... Which ones have been adressed in the forthcoming patch...
Thanks

[Wolf]

Pour DAX : Chapeau tes photos !

[C3PO]

I second that.
It would be nice to have some feedback on the bug reported here and there... Which ones have been adressed in the forthcoming patch...
Thanks

Very soon I'll be publishing a full changelog for the upcoming patch. Of course, visual treats are only a small part of these changes.

The "set-piece" change in this upcoming patch is the total overhaul of the FAC code. It is now awesome in implementation. I'll post a full comprehensive note next week on this aspect.

Very briefly, the new FAC changes will change the way you attack targets. WP munitions are implemented properly to mark targets (the smoke designation works really well). The rockets smoke in the area of the target as marked by the FAC. All CAS + BAI flights assigned to the package will use that marker as an indication of where to look for targets. The FAC (if it is AI) will launch individual markers at targets and give range and bearing relative to yourself. In the next update, the campaign has undergone changes to equip more aircraft with FAC roles.

Got a nice screenie of WP rockets being launched:

[C3PO]

@ Flanker-D: yes, we believe we have fixed the off maverick behaviour in this next patch. There were some freaky things going on, especially in MP. The patch will be out for sure by the end of November, if not sooner. It's currently at lock down and being tested hard.

[Jallie]

with this FAc upgrade ....-AF go One step beyong ! ! !

If I have a choice to don ....between IAF and New FAC upgrade...

sur that I am now, waiting the next LP patch , impatient !

[Electro]

@ Flanker-D: yes, we believe we have fixed the off maverick behaviour in this next patch. There were some freaky things going on, especially in MP. The patch will be out for sure by the end of November, if not sooner. It's currently at lock down and being tested hard.

PS : C3PO : and about a hypothetic external patch (like the hitiles) concerning mirage 2k (I know that Falcon is a Viper sim, but it would be quite a thrill if we could go to fight wings in wings with mirages) ? (it is just a question, no pressure from me ! ).

[C3PO]

Ce sera une grande patch -- et je suis beaucoup regardant en avant à son relâchement

[moi1000]

:C3PO : and about a hypothetic external patch (like the hitiles) concerning mirage 2k (I know that Falcon is a Viper sim, but it would be quite a thrill if we could go to fight wings in wings with mirages) ? (it is just a question, no pressure from me ! ).

this is probably THE question that everybody want to ask here :laugh: