VTOL Earth is canonical flat.
Don't think it's really necessary, but making it curved would add interesting interaction with radar and visual horizon distances, particularly with antiship attacks.
#Unflatified Earth
proper rock
This would probably be hard to implement, i dont know of any flight sims that actually do curved earth stuff. Also some missions dont have 1:1 scale, so this would screw that up.
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plain oracle
It would be an incredibly minor change gameplay wise with how small maps are, but the best way to implement it imo is just a check in the radar that calculates if the target would be behind the radar horizon on a "spherical" map
I dont think it would have any major gameplay impact though so its kinda unnecessary
narrow creek
forest hazel
This would probably be hard to implement, i dont know of any flight sims that ac...
iirc DCS does it for the radar, but not visually
proper rock
iirc DCS does it for the radar, but not visually
yea i see that now. it would be cool visually though - seeing a ship pop up on TGP over the horizon while flying low alt
slate field
This would definitely help with sead missions if SAM sites are made a bit more deadly and actually a threat to consider
Make SAM sites more dangerous and add this as an actually useful practice to cope
forest hazel
Make SAM sites more dangerous and add this as an actually useful practice to cop...
https://discord.com/channels/319915885575798785/1254408045702680647 i suggested this a while back and i think it’s misunderstood, it’s a realistic way to make some SAMs more lethal
slate field
It's also an excuse to make SAMs more lethal
"unless ur stealth don't cruise towards a SAM site at 40,000ft"
short shore
you have equations
Isn't this the same as dynamic horizon?
(((6,371,008m+(Altitude in Meters))^2)-((6,371,008m)^2)) = d
d: distance to Horizon
6,371,008m is the Radius of earth roughly
https://discord.com/channels/319915885575798785/1243815879041482763
proper rock
Isn't this the same as dynamic horizon?
in practice i would assume so?
runic vale
higher elevation lets you see farther
and lower elevation hides you from radars
i really want that
proper rock
but there would be more consequences to actual round earth vtol i would assume
runic vale
i think rendering it would be really difficult with the current state of the game
proper rock
(((6,371,008m+(Altitude in Meters))^2)-((6,371,008m)^2)) = d
d: distance to Hori...
yea
oh oops
runic vale
but doing something like DCS where it limits your range of radar/tgp/whatever else without actually changing the geometry would work well
mint tundra
but doing something like DCS where it limits your range of radar/tgp/whatever el...
Don’t we artificially do that with the fog?
runic vale
yeah, but its a flat rate
mint tundra
yea
runic vale
~25NMs
runic vale
(((6,371,008m+(Altitude in Meters))^2)-((6,371,008m)^2)) = d
d: distance to Hori...
this would make it according to this formula
runic vale
23!
i think it varies from each aircraft, i remember locking something further than that in the F-45
proper rock
that's the tgp range, you can see a little bit further than that
runic vale
idk, whatever it is
proper rock
regardless this suggestion is mainly for horizon effects at low alt, not boosting visibility at high alt.
proper rock
increased render distance would be sick as hell but that's a whole nother enchilada
runic vale
nothing in the game matters beyond 25NMs besides radars
the big thing im looking for though, is flying low enough to be below the horizon of a radar
especially near water
lowering the ranges would be equally important
mint tundra
the big thing im looking for though, is flying low enough to be below the horizo...
I’d love this
runic vale
sneak up on ships at 50 feet off the water
mint tundra
Would make doing DEAD shit would be more fun
runic vale
yup