Digital Nature/Warfare airflow "particle" visualization

[E_Davjack]

I was thinking about the FM differences in the games and I remembered this old video, that turns out to be quite hard to find (use the second link for direct download if your browser complains about Divx and you dont want to install an old plugin):

 

http://wwiaircombat.com/articles/rise-of-flight-promo-movie-8-airflow-demo

http://wwiaircombat.com/videos/kots_promo8.avi

 

Two questions:  

 

1) That video is from the beginning of the Digital Nature engine.  Is it correct and does it really apply to the finalized RoF?

 

2) Is there a similar video for the Digital Warfare engine?  I combed the Dev Diaries, but couldn't find anything like it and that is where I assume it would be.  

[LukeFF]

1. Yes, of course

 

2. No

[E_Davjack]

I'll believe the guy with 7500 posts, thanks Luke!

 

I'd be really interested to have a visual comparison of the FMs, which might explain why the Camel uses the same math as RoF and gets a different result.  I imagine the DW engine is "higher resolution" in terms of simulating atmosphere, making things more subtle?

 

Note for the devs, it would be really neat to have a visualization video for this engine.  Maybe you don't want to show what's under the hood, but back when I saw that video for RoF I was blown away because I had always assumed that no flight sim had "digital air" modeled at all, and that everything is done through the aircraft model.  Make the video with the ME-262 for good measure.

Edited November 24, 2018 by II./JG1_EmerlistDavjack

[ShamrockOneFive]

AnPetrovich, the brains behind the flight model, has been posting recently in this other thread that will probably partially answer those questions.

 

In short, they didn't mess with the flight models much coming over from RoF to FC but it does sound like they made a few decisions and did tweak things a tad.

 

 

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

You should find this also very interesting

BTW I would like to see something similar about their ww2 evolution

 

 

and YT for easy watch

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2018 by 307_Tomcat

[E_Davjack]

That exploded view is why I love these games.  Gotta respect that level of detail.  It really shows in the damage model compared to other games. 

[LizLemon]

On 11/24/2018 at 1:59 AM, 307_Tomcat said:

 

Its a shame that the engine isn't actually there on the model we have in-game. The textures are present, but that is it.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

1 hour ago, LizLemon said:

Its a shame that the engine isn't actually there on the model we have in-game. The textures are present, but that is it.

What would be use of it now ? If they do someday what was planed in dd120 then yes this would have purpose.