Vanishing balloons

[HagarTheHorrible]

Balloons vanish before my eyes !

 

J5 server, sole player, VR, Settings “High”, with and without 3D mod.

 

When looking at balloons,  absolutely front and centre, or to the left of my centred view I can see the balloons, I can still see them when I zoom my view.  If they are to my right of centred view then they disappear at about the the 30-40 deg point, if I zoom in then they disappear at approximately the 10-20 degree point (well away, in both cases, from the edge of my vision in the headset).  Distance didn’t seem to be to relevant as it happened when flying down the mud, at medium distance from the Allied balloon but also when I looked across to the German balloon on the other side.  This was towards the southern part of the map, East of Warloy (?). Just to be clear, they would always be present, but  if they were to the right of my centred view, they would pop in and out of view as I turned my head, this being exaggerated by trying to zoom in on the object if it was slightly to the right of my focus point.

 

Flak bursts weren’t so affected and it didn’t seem to affect A.I aircraft either.  I’m curious if this might be linked to the disappearing aircraft ?

[RNAS10_Oliver]

Balloons are counted as aircraft on the in game stats so maybe? Have you recorded this through the in game flight recorder? Because the issue can be seen in them whether in 1st or 3rd person views and the icons also disappear on the aircrafts.

 

If the icons disappear and your balloons are not visible in 3rd person through the recordings then I would say might indeed be same issue.

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

In game score they count as air kill in parser as ground object. 

BTW they do disappear sometimes if there is cloud in foreground. Same as planes, not a bug just future hehe , seriously just tech limitations as we  know for excuse 

Edited January 20, 2020 by 1PL-Husar-1Esk

[No.23_Gaylion]

Listed as "aerostats" on J5 parser

[HagarTheHorrible]

28 minutes ago, 1PL-Husar-1Esk said:

In game score they count as air kill in parser as ground object. 

BTW they do disappear sometimes if there is cloud in foreground. Same as planes, not a bug just future hehe , seriously just tech limitations as we  know for excuse 

 

Definitely no clouds involved, made sure of that, either in front, or behind.  I don’t know, remember, how the VR headset projects images (Rift) and whether it just isn’t displaying in the left eyepiece and why that should just be the case for balloons and not other sky objects, if that is indeed the case.  I tried it both with the 3D migoto mod and then without, no other mods have been or were tried and the BoX installation is pretty fresh.

Edited January 20, 2020 by HagarTheHorrible