July 20th, 2003

Hi there,

This modification is intended for online gaming using OAW's limited cockpit views but will work in any configuration. It will give better visabillity for distant planes by replacing the distant wire model with a flatsurfaced one using a blocked skin which will give the illusion of sunreflections. For such a distant object the hardware will not know which colour to draw and therefore will switch between the two colours in the skin depending on which colour is the most dominant which results in a realistic irregular shimmer.
The effect can be varied by changing the colour and blocksize in the DISTVIEW.TPC but the file is allready set to maximum effect and works against dark and light backgrounds.
This mod should be compattible with all custom planes because the wiremodel is generally not edited. In OAW this mod must however allways be loaded last to prevent custom planes to overwrite these file.

To install in OAW:
Just extract to your OAW folder when OAW is not running
for EAW just extract the files within the folder G DistantView into your EAW folder
Beware these files will overwrite any files with the same filename so make backups first.

Good hunting,

VonBeerhofen

E-mail: se023166@12move.nl

http://www.sandbaggeruk.com/vbadd.html