gospadin Beta Tester

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Community A-4E: October 2017 Update Community A-4E: October 2017 Update



Trick or Treat!



Slow month from the team, so first the trick... While the PBR conversion continues in the background and our cockpit slowly improves, the major 3D improvements we are working on spent a month on hold while our lead 3D artist was traveling in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean....







We do have a tiny treat though, think of it as a single M&M or something... In the last month, we did get a bit of time to play with some visual effects with the radar. While the AN/APG-53A circuitry requires several minutes to warm up properly, it's possible to enable the display before all the circuitry is operating properly. Since users will inevitably turn on the radar circuitry at first opportunity or forget to warm it up properly, we wanted to model what one "might" see on the display as it warms up.



This video demonstrates one of the effects we've been trying out... it starts off displaying static, then about 45 seconds in, the return begins to come into focus. Eventually, there's a slight analog "wobble" on the input data, which looks nice, though is probably over modeled. Anyway, here's the video:







The rest of the code changes this past month have been internal plumbing and debug improvements for some future changes, but nothing really visible to the pilot. Oh, and I got my instrument rating.



Thanks again for everyone's support!

--gos Trick or Treat!Slow month from the team, so first the trick... While the PBR conversion continues in the background and our cockpit slowly improves, the major 3D improvements we are working on spent a month on hold while our lead 3D artist was traveling in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean....We do have a tiny treat though, think of it as a single M&M or something... In the last month, we did get a bit of time to play with some visual effects with the radar. While the AN/APG-53A circuitry requires several minutes to warm up properly, it's possible to enable the display before all the circuitry is operating properly. Since users will inevitably turn on the radar circuitry at first opportunity or forget to warm it up properly, we wanted to model what one "might" see on the display as it warms up.This video demonstrates one of the effects we've been trying out... it starts off displaying static, then about 45 seconds in, the return begins to come into focus. Eventually, there's a slight analog "wobble" on the input data, which looks nice, though is probably over modeled. Anyway, here's the video:The rest of the code changes this past month have been internal plumbing and debug improvements for some future changes, but nothing really visible to the pilot. Oh, and I got my instrument rating.Thanks again for everyone's support!--gos

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