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the only time real life i have seen planes flying with icon on

If you don't fly with icons than why are you posting in this thread,spamming,trolling?

BTW I'm glade that you have seen PBY with B25 cockpit in RL when you don't have a problem to fly it. And I'm even more impressed with a fact that you have saw invisible pilots flying planes from externals, you wouldn't enforce that setting on Greatergreen if it wasn't realistic, would you?

Flying with icons when you start playing this game is ok but continuing to do it after years of playing resembles of riding bicycles with the helping wheels on forever . Don't flame me... I still fly Lock On with icons (dots only) but, I am a complete n00b at it and I don't question it

Flying any setting is ok, game is here to spark the illusion but in the end illusion is created in your brain. Flying with icons can be as realistic as playing without them.

Whatever setting you use in game it's not realistic, only thing you can do is to change what is screwed up more.

In fact, when you take into account the fact that there is million differences between sitting in real cockpit and in sitting in front of PC than it's easy to conclude and prove that if you want realistic result than you have to use unrealistic methods. ( Anybody with high school education should be able to prove it with scientific method. It's easy, just a elementary math and few IF and THEN )

As far as helping wheels on bicycle are concerned my experience is that no icon setting is helping wheel for those who after years of flying realized that they lack a talent for flying so they need to game the game and use errors in graphics engine to get a kill from time to time.

Next step is to turn off their monitor and play that way.

I fly without icons too sometimes, usually when I'm to tired to fly seriously and when i want couple of easy kills before going to bed, so don't flame me :lol:

hey man so many thanks for this, been waiting for someone to do this since the original IL2 ccame out. seriously , thank you.

i love how i can customize. one question how can i make it so i dont have to type ei or fi,
I want my icons to be permanent

i tried to type it diferent ways in the rcu but didnt get it to stay on

I'll see if I can make change to default setting, in fact I'm sure i can do that and I'm thinking about user customizable default setting where you will put your favorite setting in conf.ini and it will be loaded every time you start the game.

Is it possible to mod the distances at which plane LODs change? The switch from dot to plane is WAY too close. I can be just a couple thousand feet above an H8K, a HUGE bird, and it's a dot unless I am zoomed all the way in on FOV.

At such a time, in normal "scan for contacts" mode, with my FOV set fairly wide, I could EASILY fly over a plane that shows up on my monitor as a 2 pixel "dot" when it should be an extended object that is actually about the same visual size as a range icon. (I checked). Many problems would be solved by drawing the min LOD model farther out.

I don't know, probably it's possible. Distance when LOD is rendered depends a lot on your hardware and graphics setting. I spent couple of years flying on Duron700 with 256Mb and old graphic card, when I switched to better PC what was unreckognizable speck on the screen before become fully rendered LOD on better PC.

Another factor is your Dot setting, if you use long dot distance, LOD will be rendered at bigger distance too. Keep in mind that Dot setting divided with 2 gives approximate distance when dot will be rendered.

So DOT 25 means that dot will show up at ~12-13 km, I love it when people set it to some low value on server, like 2 or 3, you have better chances to ram opponent than to see him under that setting.

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