YSFlight Wishlist

[Flake]

Damage would be too much, but a sky fading to black as you ascend should not be too much to ask?

skycolor = (100000 - height) /100000 * skycolor components.

For example, if the sky at sea level is 90 90 240, at 50,000 feet it'd be 45 45 120, or at 90,000 feet it'd be 9 9 24.

so:

██████████████ 90000
██████████████ 60000
██████████████ 30000
██████████████ 0

if that's not ideal you could just half the altitude applicable, so it only changes above 50000...

if altitude >= 50000 {
[tab4][/tab4]skycolor = ((50000 - height-50000) /50000) * skycolor components.
}

so:

██████████████ 90000
██████████████ 75000
██████████████ 60000
██████████████ 45000
██████████████ 30000
██████████████ 15000
██████████████ 0

My2c anyway.

I hope that comes soon.

[decaff_42]

that seems like it could be done. it would have to be a function of the original color, as that is a map-maker defined variable. The white haze could remain, as it would give a more uniform feel to the color change, and give the impression that it is the atmosphere below.

[Venom]

WSO (Weapon System Officer's) Functionality, for people to fly in observer mode in the back seat and be able to operate the weapons systems upon a command which is then approved by the pilot by typing "Y or N". The observer mode cockpit glitches would need to be sorted out first. This would only apply to 1. 2-Seater Fighter Aircraft, 2. Bombers in which there is a 2nd F1 Co-Pilot view, 3. Possibly 2-Seater WW2 Aircraft.

[flyingfisch]

more ideas:

1. Enable plane switching for everyone on a server, not just the host, but make a confirmation necessary. That way there won't be trolling. Although maybe that should be a true/false option, because repo scenarios might be fun.

2. Belly landings should be possible, but you should lose health as you skid. Skid too far and you rupture a fuel line and explode.

3. Damaged planes should emit black smoke, though mabe that should be optional.

[Shiny Rice]

Black smoke should be easy.

[decaff_42]

Color of smoke could vary with the damage.

[Flake]

I''ll code this sort of feature into orb when I add the vehicle core.

[FrenchTOZT]

language support, still

[Eric]

language support, still

We sort of have this already: http://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=1567
Unicode support would be nice though.

[Dision]

I would like to see, that missiles are using Target Lead, instead of aiming on my tail.
I hope im not asking too much...

[TB1]

The ability to turn off and on engines with some kind of start-up sequence like in FlightSim.

[Eric]

Can the error messages be passive instead of us having to click on each one to continue the program? By far the biggest annoyance in YS.

[TB1]

Can the error messages be passive instead of us having to click on each one to continue the program? By far the biggest annoyance in YS.

Amen.

[Venom]

F10 View that goes all the way back down to ground level.

[jetskit]

May be too much to ask.

1. When you TailStrike you should see sorta sparks as you would do on other flight simulators meaning you either abort take off or need to return for an emergency landing.
2. (This ones for the civvies) I, out of everything would love to see an autopilot control window, showing a setting that allows you to select an altitude for the autopilot to climb to, maybe even the vertical speed also.
3. Not sure if someone already mentioned this but. I would love to see a little bit of smoke to trail from the aircraft when you touch down.

That's all i can think of at the moment

[Flake]

Negative Elevation grids, that dig into the earth. (this could be difficult?) making it possible to do troughs of -200ft etc.

Able to fly under an elevation grid that is moved above ground level.

The second change would be phenomenal*

(*I haven't actually tried this since 2010, so if it works, someone tell me!)

[NightRaven]

Not sure if this was stated before, but it would be nice to be able to select individual engines on an aircraft, provided that the number and positions of the engines are declared in the dat.

[UDDIN]

Perhaps a mini map that shows you your current position

something like this

or this

obviously without the planned route and stuff

[flyingfisch]

customizable flares, on a global basis instead of per plane.

[Eric]

customizable flares, on a global basis instead of per plane.

That's technically possible - you have a program that changes the WPNSHAPE option in the .DAT for all planes who do not have their own custom flares yet (or change it even if they have that). Only caveat is that you have to run it every time you install a new addon.