Busy weekend

Sunday night, this weekend we're we're back at full three man team strength. I can tell Fred's working hard on the physics as my DropBox folder is constantly getting updated. Inspired by a Microsoft blog of how a remote team collaborated on a project we used a combination of Skype, TeamViewer and Dropbox to edit and test live across countries.

AD has been fine-tuning his graphic pipeline and performance. As always Combat-Helo is a work in progress. After release the intent is to continue to fine-tune and improve for as long as we can pay the bills for it. As always AD kicks it up a notch, always finding new ways to makes things work that bit better.

Recent shots published at SimHQ of the US Firing Range / training area.

His work makes my screen-shots look crap in comparison :) Most of today was spent adding blast radius damage effects, wind and replacing the potentially seizure inducing 30mm cannon muzzle flash with a non-flashing gas expelling effect which is almost there but needs some artistic love to get the materials just right.

I am very pleased with the explosion and secondary effects and I think all the functions are in place that we can throw in some good vehicle data to make it behave. It's starting to play like a Longbow game of the 21st century.

I can't thank the team enough for their hard work and giving up their free-time over the weekend. The Milky Bars are on me chaps.

Plumes at approx 1,800m

Plumes at approx 1,000m

Took 3 passes to bag 6 targets, first two in the middle, then the left two followed by the right in a final overhead pass.

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Modified cannon impact code to do AOE damage to emulate exploding shells. Anything in a 10 meter radius of each impacting round is subject to damage checks. Each 30mm round is said to be like a grenade going off so small amounts of frag damage are applied.

This greatly improves effectiveness and gunnery.

Realistic delay of explosion sounds I've kept in for now. Coming up next up is the HUD update for weapons.