Excellent example of how nicely things are progressing with regards to community interaction. It just goes to show that if we can self-moderate ourselves a little bit, there's a lot of feedback to be provided and it's definitely not going to waste. This is a clear example that the developers LISTEN and do their best to please as many people as possible.
Awesome update
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Originally Posted by PeterPanPan
Very nice Oleg. So, the engines smoke if the mixture is too rich, and the flames burn bluer if too lean. Brilliant!!
PPanPan
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Exactly. In the first two pics with the Hurricane, if you watch the engine management panel at the bottom left and compare between the two screenshots, it's obvious how the only thing that's changed is the mixture. This models closely what most people had witnessed in real life and what was printed in that period manual from the Allison engines, as it shows the flames going from red to blue when the engine is leaned.
In some of the pics with German aircraft we can see that the prop and/or mixture parameters are blank (only throttle is diplayed for the Ju88, while mixture is not displayed for the 110), since they probably have automatic systems to manage those.
What really got my eye however is the 109 picture which displays the numbers for all three parameters (mixture, prop and throttle), something that probably indicates its one of the early models that didn't have the automatic engine management systems.
The only thing i could say is that it looks a bit too bright. However, these are stills captured with the sole puprose of showing off the flames, so i am inclined to believe that they are either looking brighter on purpose to make the details of each effect easily visible, or that they were snapped with a track running at 1/4 speed, pausing on the frame that the effect is most pronounced and snapping the picture.
In motion it might look totally different, for all i know it would probably be alternating between flame and no flame depending on which cylinder is firing at the time, with time between changes depending on the amount of RPM the engine is running at, just like we saw in last week's videos.
Finally, if abrupt throttle changes produce black smoke from unburnt fuel, it will be awesome to help us judge if we are spotted. Say you are bouncing another aircraft and you suddenly see a brief trail of black smoke, you instantly know that he's going full throttle so he's probably seen you and will take evasive action.
And since the importance of the details we're seeing in this update has been questioned a few posts back, let me say that it's things like that which excite people about the little details. It's not the details per se, but what these details can tell you about the aircraft.
A knowledgeable person will be able to deduce certain things about what an aircraft is doing, just by looking for the right signs. This can be used to get better performance out of your plane, or to judge the potential performance and actions of the enemy one