Visibility and Scratches in the Canopy

[CAFulcrum]

I'm must wondering how realistic the effect of canopy scratches are when you're looking for contacts. 

 

Since the new visibility system makes distance planes flash when at proper angles, I'm always looking for white specs that look exactly the same as the scratches on the canopy, so I'm constantly rolling the aircraft to check for parallax.  Was this a problem encountered by real pilots?  Considering that in real life with binocular vision and focus, your eyes would be able to discern between near scratches and a flashing plane in the distance, are they overstated?  Or is this not a problem with VR or better systems?  I'm running at 1680X1050 on a low end system so it could be a resolution issue as well.

 

Or are scratches on the glass that problematic to spotting?

[40plus]

This has come up before and you will find little agreement about it. I play in VR and am constantly chasing contacts that end up being scratches on my acrylic canopy.

 

From previous threads accuracy boils down to the historic quality of materials used to make the canopies and depends on the faction and plane.

 

I personally don't mind it. I think the effect looks great but again, I do get duped from time to time.

 

 

[JG300_Egon]

DCS scratches are well done, IL2 not so...?

[CountZero]

Scraches here are terible, hope they make them less pronounced, fix for me is just fly with open canopy when ever airplane alowes, 20-40kmh speed loss is well worth it to keep my eys healthy.

[itsbillyfrazier]

I agree - i think the effect is slightly over done.

 

I'm using the scratch-less canopy mod for SP which does exactly as described.

 

It helps to make spotting that little bit easier.

 

I don't mind some scratch effects but the current version could be less intrusive.

[SCG_motoadve]

For me its not a problem in VR.

Yes sometimes a scratch looks like a contact, but funny enough that also happens in real life, a scratch, bug, or dirt  looks like another far away plane.

 I think the effect looks great 

[SharpeXB]

CloD had no canopy glass modeled or so it seemed. It looked silly. 

[RedKestrel]

30 minutes ago, SCG_motoadve said:

For me its not a problem in VR.

Yes sometimes a scratch looks like a contact, but funny enough that also happens in real life, a scratch, bug, or dirt  looks like another far away plane.

 I think the effect looks great 

I have a single dead pixel in my screen and at least once per flight I think its a contact. Glad to know that this is further contributing to my realism!

 

[SCG_motoadve]

6 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

CloD had no canopy glass modeled or so it seemed. It looked silly. 

Exactly which it is a huge turn off.

[ST_Catchov]

 

So I'm sitting here in the newly delivered Se5 cockpit see, idly cleaning my goggles and wondering where the hell are the prop-swingers and assorted ack emmas? Bloody NCO's. Lazy blaggards. There's a war on you know! I shout to no-one in particular. And I'm thinking what [edited] is that thing surrounding me. Bloody glasshouse it is with scratches and [edited] all over it. What was the Factory thinking? Bloody Ball's idea I suppose. Surprised there's no special cabinet for his bleedin' violin.

 

Anyway, when the mechanics finally turned up, I told 'em to rip the bloody thing off. NOW!

 

No canopy. No problem.

 

 

Edited January 21, 2020 by SYN_Haashashin
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[migmadmarine]

I more often find myself seeing a scratch flicker as I roll and thinking it is a tracer going by. 

[falle96]

I have floaters in my vision (eye condition) and the occasional fleck on my monitor.

 

Lemme tell you, running down distant contacts is an often disappointing experience.

[[DBS]TH0R]

Turn off SSAO, it will remove most of the ugly scratches as well and make them look more "DCS like".

Edited January 21, 2020 by [DBS]TH0R

[Stoopy]

46 minutes ago, FarflungWanderer said:

I have floaters in my vision (eye condition) and the occasional fleck on my monitor.

 

Lemme tell you, running down distant contacts is an often disappointing experience.

 

Same here!  An active lifestyle replete with too many hits to the head and bright sunlight when young (football and surfing) comes back to bite HARD in the late 50's!!!    On the upside, heavy floaters combined with poor low-light vision from macular degeneration really helps sustain high adrenaline levels when carving up a twisty canyon road on a motorcyle... heck I can get my fix now just running to the store!  ?

 

In the meantime, listening to teammates on Discord report contacts they're spotting is an exercise in continual amazement and surprise...

 

[falle96]

Just now, =[TIA]=Stoopy said:

 

Same here!  An active lifestyle replete with too many hits to the head and bright sunlight when young (football and surfing) comes back to bite HARD in the late 50's!!!    On the upside, heavy floaters combined with poor low-light vision from macular degeneration really helps sustain high adrenaline levels when carving up a twisty canyon road on a motorcyle... heck I can get my fix now just running to the store!  ?

 

In the meantime, listening to teammates on Discord report contacts they're spotting is an exercise in continual amazement and surprise...

 

I wish I could blame my vision on age, but sad to say I'm just a very unfortunate 24-year-old. Genetics can be unkind...

 

It's not all bad, though, I mostly tune them out of my vision when going about day-to-day. It's just, er, when you're trying really hard to see something, you tend to stop tuning things out...