DG3 Reentry Idea

[UAF_Lt_Brenton]

Dan,

I had an idea.  How about when you break up re-entering, instead of a bang and a message saying "Due to high
temperature" etc, why doesn't the ship actually break up?

UAF_Lt_Brenton

"Sir, we've got a smiley in the engine..."

[DanSteph]

because a relistic braking will take me a lot of time just for a visual candy.
I will rework the reentry, add the famous "random failure" and "fix failure"
feature, and perhaps one or two minor things (as the antenna download patch
for the inboard computer or a simple 3d cockpit for the next orbiter version)
than rework the doc and finally release the final version of DGIII.

Because I must end somewhere and because the DGIII took me already
6 month of my life so I feel the need to do something else.

Dan

[DocHoliday]

Agreed. Similar to collision detection, this sort of thing doesn't really add anything to the experience. You're dead...

Personally, even the damn alert and crash noises bring me to the edge. Like the first time I undocked from the ISS
with my hatch open. and BLAM!... scarred the **** out of me, I needed nothing more than that

However, similarly to FS2004 where you can get extra crash fireworks someone could make the exposion animation
and then Dan could add it to replace the DG3 with the explosion object. In this case, you would only need a big
fireball, that would cover the DG3, kill the DG3 with code then shrink and dissapear the fireball in a few seconds
wonder if it's worth the effort.

Oh Dan, how exactly would this antenna download work? I do remember there's been some discussion about it a
while back, but even then I didn't really understand, what it would do.

Cheers,

[UAF_Lt_Brenton]

well can we at least have it go black?

UAF_Lt_Brenton

"Sir, there's a smiley in the engine..."

[Krytom]

Dan I just realised, I forgot to check for the 100,000 visitors mark. 8o I feel so dissapointed with myself, I really
like reaching big numbers that mean stuff.  Ah well, yet another high point in my life missed.

Oh yeah before I forget;



Post Edited (04-09-04 02:45)

[DanSteph]

uh ? sorry ? 10'000 visitors mark ? where ?

Dan
"sleepy"

[Krytom]

Well the counter is now at 107373, and i was looking forward to seeing it at 100000. Ah well.

[DanSteph]

Your really late on this one Tom

100'000 was passed the 16 march, one month ago.

bah soon 110'000 that a good number also 110'000 ?

Dan