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Credit goes to manilov.ap, I just reduced polycount a bit and modified uv maps.
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That is quite some work by you anyway
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Thanks for the hint! I might fiddle with plane's rudders to make it less maneuverable (simulating cautious handling by crew aware of their plane's fragility - though I'd have to test if AI can handle it without crashing into sea)
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Nice idea. On a more general note I wonder whether - within reasonable limits - wing/rudder drag coefficients can be used to simulate in game the general improvement in aircraft handling from interwar planes to late-war designs. Far from being an expert of aerodynamics, in the past I have tried to investigate which property, off the ones that are commonly listed in aircraft specs, can be used as a measure of their "agility", and I have found wing loading (i.e. the total mass / wing area ratio) to be a good compromise.
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and maybe add low hp/critical damage zone somewhere in fuselage for occasional critical hit.
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A while back I have had more or less the same idea. I wanted to place a critical hit damage zones in aircraft cockpit, to simulate the killing of their pilot(s) by a lucky shot. I never tested its feasibility though. In the forst place, are critical zones going to work for air units/gun shots?
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Meanwhile, it's getting awful crowded in my sky with 5 new and 2 remodeled/repainted aircraft already in the pipeline, in various stages of completion.
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Good!
Besides the planes that you have mentioned to me in one of your last emails, there is a bunch of other aircraft, missing from SH5, which had some importance in the ASW / anti-shipping / coastal patrol role both as embarked and land-based planes. Most of them are very popular and have been modelled many times, but a few of them - mostly interwar and early-war ones - despite their extensive usage early in the war, had a limited operational success and they are almost unknown to the videogaminig / 3D modelling world.
P.S: have you read my last e-amils to you?