Mysticpuma Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 One feature I find disappointing in most flight sims based around WW2 is the fact the textures are so clean/clinical that the airbase/airfield looks like it was put down the day you first get to fly from it. What I find very rare to see is uneven levels, vehicle tracks and routes embedded around the location, foot tracks, dust, dirt, grime scattered around, pools of water (off the airstrip), mud, grime......just any feeling that the airbase is or has been lived in. Phillipines: Tinian: Rabaul: Iwo Jima: Midway: Guadocanal: Just putting it out there for the wish list, cheers, Mysticpuma 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 I'm sure we would all like it just like real life, but wouldn't having shed fulls of objects, probably hundreds, of objects to make it more 'real' have an impact on FPS? What if many of them are active, working and moving around the airfield... could it be done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 1 hour ago, Trooper117 said: I'm sure we would all like it just like real life, but wouldn't having shed fulls of objects, probably hundreds, of objects to make it more 'real' have an impact on FPS? What if many of them are active, working and moving around the airfield... could it be done? I guess we'll find out 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Great pics Mystic. Really drives home that life for even the flyers was extremely harsh in the Pacific. Not like those pussies flying out of cushy Britain. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFM Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 I hope for more airfield life than a single truck driving around. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dburne Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 35 minutes ago, JFM said: I hope for more airfield life than a single truck driving around. Fully agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper117 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 50 minutes ago, JFM said: I hope for more airfield life than a single truck driving around. You forgot the odd human strangely wiggling about... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit21 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 “Airfield junk” has always been sorely missing. Workstations, cranes, tractors, lifts, stripped aircraft, wreckers, etc etc. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted August 3 Author Share Posted August 3 (edited) 5 hours ago, Gambit21 said: “Airfield junk” has always been sorely missing. Workstations, cranes, tractors, lifts, stripped aircraft, wreckers, etc etc. That's the thing, they are or have been so clinical. Airfields that are lived in give a much better sense of belonging and 'home'. Looking at a few stripped down aircraft, fuel trucks moving, jeeps driving around, old track marks across and to the runway, edges of runways not being in isometric perfection, crates scattered and piled, tents in multiple areas.... The thing is, this is what is needed as a beginning point for players who can't work in a QMB/FMB and spend hours creating this. This needs to be an auto generated /randomly generated feature each time the mission/game launches. The actual air strips would be untouched but the surrounding areas could be randomised to make each adventure different. Edited August 3 by Mysticpuma 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PikeStance Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 When you played the campaigns, the atmosphere is much more livelier. I don't know why this is not replicated in SP career though. My guess is this would make the game files a huge monstrosity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jade_Monkey Posted October 29 Share Posted October 29 I've been asking for this in GB for ages. I'd love this too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheelsup_cavu Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 On 7/26/2023 at 5:54 AM, JFM said: I hope for more airfield life than a single truck driving around. Let's not go crazy here. 😁🙃😇 Wheels Quote Download Missions, Skins, & Essential files for IL-2 1946 and several other game series from Mission4Today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted November 8 Author Share Posted November 8 Found another picture showing 'lived in' airfield conditions. These are from Kalaywa in the Far East after heavy rain fall. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genXgamer Posted Tuesday at 11:15 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 11:15 PM I certainly agree with Mysticpuma on having "lived in" airfields, however even more important to me are airfields that are representative of those found at that period of the war, even if this means multiple versions of a map. It's an immersion killer flying 1942 missions and having an airfield/s modelled on late war aerial photographs obtained from Pacific Wrecks. The following screenshots will probably look primitive to those of you playing current generation sims, but I think I've given players (1946) something that's at least half captures the look of that time. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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