Meerchi wrote:edit: as you can see in the picture f5's have a small air intake that closes its shutters at 140mph. would be a nice little feature to add
Ye it would be possible to do that with the landing gear code, same way we do the sweep back wings on the Tornado, although I can't say I like the idea of so many moving parts/draw calls but its still possible. Looks like 7 flaps a side? I don't think we can have that many moving parts when also counting the landing gear and other things... Might be a way of having the flaps open and close without so many moving parts but can't think of any right now.
Another way of doing it (although not as good as having it done via the landing gear method) would be to have the jets lod0 and lod1 possibly too have the shutters open, but having lod2 up having them closed. This would mean when your close to the jet (like on the ground) the shutters would be open but when its far up flying about in the sky they would be closed. Although it would still have them open in close up shot pics when its flying about at high speeds...
EDIT: I think its not worth having that feature unless we can think of a way of having it work with only 1 or 2 moving parts max as otherwise its just too much and the LOD method is pretty crappy.
Need to speak to Mosquill to see if he has any ideas but you can only have landing gear parts rotating around a pivot and I can't say how we can get 14 flaps to open and close with only using 1 or two pivot points...
