Strange contrails 2.5.6.50979 OB

Guys I don't know since when this startet to happen but I just noticed that after some minutes of play-time AI planes, especially Tankers and AWACS, starts to contrail pretty weird.

I do have dynamic weather in the mission and my guess is that this has some effect to the contrailing.

Haven't checked the mission without dynamic weather so far but I will ASAP.

Sorry if this has already been reported...

Caucasus_std_mis_contrail_bug.trk

Bump.

Nobody else has seen this? Maybe reported ages ago? :music_whistling:

i see it quite a bit on multiplayer servers. seems to be a bug with contrails and when people have smoke turned on flying low in the acrobatics server.

You might want to check your connection to the multiplayer server. It looks like a desync issue.

Thanks for your hints guys but it happens in single player missions

I've tried to run your track but a it needs a mod to work (USN-crew or something like that).

Could you make another track with vanilla DCS?

I've seen something similar in single player, no mods used.

I believe when contrails are rendered far from the player camera, they are simplified, sometimes in odd ways. When I F2 view to the AI, they will have odd contrails, but they start emitting them normally as soon as the camera is looking at them.

I've tried to run your track but a it needs a mod to work (USN-crew or something like that).

 

Could you make another track with vanilla DCS?

Thanks for trying! I already deleted the mod (it contained Deckcrew which is obsolete with the Supercarrier anyways) but didn't have time to replay the mission yet.

As said I'll try again soon but I bet it had to do with a bug which was adressed with the last update. "The AI was breaking the rules of physics..."

My guess is that the AWACS or Tanker was set to orbit with the wrong speed. I see them often performing turns or orbits with turnrates that doesn't meet with their angle of bank.

Anyways I'll try to dig deeper and provide another track without the mod.

@Exorcet: I noticed this also but in the given case it was different as I zoomed and panned all around

Thanks for your help and ideas so far

Update: disregard that physics-idea. It's still there but just after a while of playing. I let the mission run on it's own, I was just a spectator. What I did was a bit of time acceleration here and there and there it was again. Maybe that is the reason.

It's not a big thing to me so...and I forgot to save the track...:music_whistling: