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Rollus A400M now in FS2020

Wing_Z said:
Yep.
That looks promising.
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True, certainly !

But still could do with a bit more 'innovation'... https://youtu.be/njrnjKFsXJI

I think it would be possible to get rid of the 'conventional prop circle' all together and replace it with just the (very) blurry/fairly transparent images of the seperate spinning prop blades. Actually just as it looks in the video above. I have never seen a real A400M myself so i figure the spinning props may look different but i do think what we see in the video here looks pretty convincing and appealing. (check out the change of the props side view during taxi and take off..)
 
Be good to see the edge view as per clip, yes:



But the strobe effect full-on is just a result of camera shutter speed.
It's always off-putting to see a blade frozen or retreating in a video, not realistic at all! :)
A nice prop blur is what your eye would expect.
 
Yes, an updated Model with a nice propeller display would be great. I am currently working on a better one of current model. First try. But it is not easy.

A400_54+21_Prop1 by TiAr, auf Flickr

Thomas
 
Excellent.
Nice to see a bit of 3D at 1:03.
I watched another RW clip earlier, there did not seem to be so much smoke on startup.
As to the props, the disk rather depends on the camera used.

I'd love to hear from someone who has seen this beast in the flesh.
Does your eye see a blur, or multiple flickering blades?
I fancy you'd see the latter on spool up only.
 
In my POV i think it doesn't matter much how a spinning prop looks when we watch it 'life with our own eyes' so to speak, or how a photo- or film camera interpreteds it. It's just a matter of making it look like it most appeals to us in a flightsimulator on a computer monitor, right ?

In case of the subject at hand, i, for one, would be quite happy and content if i'd take a screenshot of the A400M model just after take-off and it would look like this :

m400prps.jpg


No conventional transparent 'propcircle' but just the blurry images of the individual prop blades that become more blurry towards the outside and much darker towards the center. That souldn't be too hard to accomplish just a lot of testing involved.

Once made to spin like a conventional propcircle it would then look like this : https://youtu.be/njrnjKFsXJI?t=559

That would really mean something special in the history of "FS Propcircle Appliance". I do believe the excellent external model does deserve it as well. Would make it an instant buy for me. Then again, everybodies' milage may vary, naturely. :)
 
Nice to see work happening... in the previous clip the props appeared to be running backward?
 
It’s very encouraging to see a developer responding to the sim community feedback; and in a relatively short period of time! Good work Roland L. :encouragement:
 
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