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[fly77]

Try it ! With your scenery and my mods it starts to "look like a game"..sooner or later it "will be" a game 

[bomber]

WWII front line.... Trenches , AAA, barrage balloons.... Now there's a game...

[fly77]

still some way to go, but step by step we progress 

[bomber]

What do we think we're short of ?

[fly77]

- multiplayer
- AI
- damage modelling
- user interfaces

[bomber]

Ok, what's your ideas on damage modelling.... What you mean by it, what your wishes for it are etc ?

[fly77]

an example is my crashed Heinkel model. After crashing the "intact Heinkel" is substituded with a deformed/repainted version.
Similarly bombed houses/hangars/vehicles should be substituted with damaged/buring/smoking variants
Of course as you know planes when hit should alter their flight dynamics , but also the model should be able to show graphically some damage both in terms of texture and geometry.

[bomber]

geometry swaps are relatively straight forward for major damage, if not a bit labour intensive for the 3d modeler.... minor damage on the other hand could be achieved via a texture overlay, but I'm not sure Outerra has this functionality of yet...

For plane damage my flight models have damage integrated into them, what needed is the recording of a hit on a particular hit box and the transfer of data ie kinetic energy, explosive energy, piercing energy etc into a probability engine to deliver the damage.

Does your Heinkel have this ?

regards

Simon

[fly77]

I couldn't figure out if outerra has the ability to programmatically switch textures. (texture overlay?)
Figuring out where a hit occurs (on which mesh) I think is possible as you say with hitboxes (collisionboxes = hitboxes ?) but I never did that and so at the moment I din't know how to do it.
Need to learn it. So , no my Heinkel hasn't any of this now.
swapping geometry OK but for that you need to have/make the 3D model of both intact and damaged plane. That's beyond my skills. I just used the Heinkel .pkf file and even don't have the original 3D model. I just copied the Heinkel .pk with repainted textures and applied some programmed joint moves for the damaged version
(needs to be a fbx or blender or otx file as I work in blender)