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Originally Posted by rodan54
I'm pretty sure that's a bug with the stock game in that smoke from funnels or fire flows in the exact opposite direction of the wind.
So in the Borneo convoy mission the wind is at 5 m/s heading 0, and the convoy is heading 180. Therefore the funnel smoke is going to blow ahead of the ships. This effect is also far more noticeble with ROWs longer and darker smoke trails.
As of yet I don't think anyone has attempted to rectify this.
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There's nothing to rectify here - I just loaded up this mission and the smoke is fine here. When the weather report says that "the wind is at 5 m/s direction 0", that means that the wind is blowing
from 0,
not towards 0. This is consistent with the way winds are normally reported IRL. Thus, a wind from direction 0 is actually blowing towards 180, which is the same direction that the convoy is traveling in this mission. Winds of 5m/s are blowing at about 9-10 knots, which is faster than the convoy's ships are steaming - therefore, their smoke is blown slightly ahead of their funnels, which is correct. Of course, once the destroyers put on speed and start heading for you, they'd be traveling faster than 10 knots so their smoke would start to bend "backwards" behind their funnels at that point, as you saw.
Devs got this one right - it's a feature, not a bug
