We have had wonderful 3D airports in Infinite Flight for nearly 4 years. They have been fantastic,
they look good and are realistic, they have animated jetways, stand guidance, and ground
service vehicles at over 1600 airports around the world. There is just one thing missing for me
though. And that is: Why are the terminals not solid? If you crash into a building you just go
straight through it. This request is to for the devs to make the buildings solid just like in RFS
and Aerofly. This would prevent users who are lazy and taxi through buildings to get to the
runway quicker. It is really irking to see people go through a building on multiplayer just to
skip a longer taxi. This would help professionalism and make the sim more realistic. All I’m
asking for is to make it whenever someone collides into a building for the crash screen to
appear. This does not need to be done for light poles or ground service vehicles as most planes
(not GA) would just go through them just making the buildings detected as solid ground is enough
We would have to believe that people have common sense, but essentially this would probably only be an issue for the Casual Server. (or maybe the training server) Would be a great feature, though
I could see how solid buildings can lead to some complaints/ problems.
Solid buildings + equipment means hundreds of hit boxes at any given airport. This has the potential to interfere with aircraft hit boxes, resulting in stuck users, fake crashes, etc.
I can see this opening quite a large can of worms if it were to be implemented.
All I’m asking for is when you go into a building for the “crash” image to pop up and not to go
through them. It is really that simple
What about hangars? Not all of them are open, sometimes you simply need to drive through them to get to your spot inside lol. Though, for casual server I understand the annoyance.
I mean terminal buildings
I agree, though I also think that 100’s even 1000’s of hitboxes at 1 airport can lead to sevre lag, especially to those on lower-end devices such as phones. Places such as Hong Kong (more specifically Kai Tak) can be the places that cause the most lag/ fake crashes as you have to get close too the buildings. Sorry if that was what you were saying.
All that necessary is that when you go through a building for the “crash” screen to appear
at terminals. The buildings don’t actually have to be solid but just detected as ground when
impacted against so the “crash” screen appears
Yeah, would be quite the load on the people who make the terminal buildings. All airport terminals are different, it also depends on what counts as a terminal. Like for example, what would happen with hangers, if you hit a gate, would that count as a crash, etc.
I’m specifically requesting the buildings cause most planes would just knock a gate or a
light pole or a GSE down. Only the buildings are detected as crashes just like RFS where
you go through poles and gates but not buildings
Ah, ok. That does seem like a good idea. Though even if the staff agree, it would take a few years to implement it.
I’ve played RFS too and while it is worse than IF on physics at least there are no unprofessional players taxing through the terminal
No offence but I don’t know what you’re complaining about, I’ve never seen anyone taxi through buildings. Do you play on Casual Servers?
No mostly expert and it’s not always on purpose but I’ve seen people hit jetways and the nose hit the terminal when parking