GwynO

Happy Birthday!! Now blow out those candles before the curtains catch light

Thank you for this brilliant pack! I was confused why I was having a ctd after the loadout screen when I press to fly, no loading screen or anything, I was sure I was following the instructions to the letter. Topcat mentioned on here about the options file being involved so I opened the stock option file up and copied over each block of text from the one included with the pack and saw that the problem for me was the graphics options; it seems that it was configured to run on a higher rez screen than I have and also the entry for hotas config was not relevent to my setup, just something for people to be aware of if they have the same symptoms. Thanks once again for the hard work, it kicks ass!

The plans of mice and men.. just got over the shame reflex and thought to admit defeat, real life got very much in the way of all gaming for me in Jan, gf needed help with a massive project of her own so I didn't even come online for almost 3 months then just when I came back to using the laptop for fun my gaming was once again ruined by a particularly nasty virus, one so resilient to all forms of cleaning, fixing, repairing that it kept me awake for 48 hours solid in the end before I just couldn't take it any more!!!!!!!! trying the "shake wildly and hit across the desk while screaming ala Basil Fawlty" method cost me £140 for a new screen and still had to restore Windows as all fixes for those three viruses wouldn't work. Anyway.. so a few days ago with my gf's workload easing off a bit, I thought to restart my Thirdwire hobby from scratch. So far i have reinstalled sfp1, wov, woe, fully patched all to latest versions, bought, installed and patched up woi; but now comes the hard part of deciding what is really most necessary to have for each install, the last setup I had was an organic growth over about 3 years and gynormous but pleasing and am missing all those little things which I forgot how or when they came to be... nevermind I spose this is a great time to get back to the process of learning to make a terrain/campaign at long last and to read up on all the developments since Xmas!

Very nice indeeeed

"If your going to shoot, shoot, don't talk" - The Ugly (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)

kh-25mt karen guided missile, it was just a test to see if firing a guided missile in a climb would give it further range, reasoning being that it seems logical a guided missile could use kinetic energy to coast to a target same as a guided bomb provided the guidance system can "see" the target and has power to drive the servoes. I just tried again and got some mixed results, all the successes from the range with this missile from the Susi so far have been from 46nm to 44 nm max ranges, mach 1.03 to 1.07 (info from debug) at release, altitude 12,300ft to 12,500ft pitch up between estimated 3 and 7 degrees, anything close to 10 degrees and the missile climbs too high and appears to loose aspect on target and lands way off. Altitudes above 20,000ft also don't seem to work as the missile seems like it can't make the turn required to hit and overshoots, also could not get a hit from below 5000ft. I will test other release parameters at some point but right now sleep beckons. I would be interested to learn if these missiles or similar where ever tested from that kind of distance in real life, seems a bit too hit and miss of an approach for a guided missile but interesting non the less as I for one would far rather drop my load from a safe distance than get into range of bad things. If ever i develop a knack of building things im going to figure out a standoff delivery for the toilet. Just add some fins here and there etc etc and tada a fully EO guided Toilet Ultimately Rocket Delivered or T.U.R.D hmm definitely time for sleep

Gocad and Gepard, thank you very much! That fixed it I just wrecked a good proportion of the red range with a mix of ordanance, just out of curiosity i tried lobbing a guided missile from 44 miles and followed it with weapon view, it hit the target!

I manually installed the weapons that come with the Susi, all the weapon files where already in there and now the weapondata.ini definitely has the weapons as they are referenced in the loadout ini but still no weapons appear in the loadout

Awssim plane, unfortunately I only get droptanks in the loadout screen, I tried every single mission type on every map I have installed and in a range of years from service entry to now. Im using fully patched up WOE with Nato fighters 1 and 2 and the last weapons pack, any idea what might be the problem?

lol our hearing seems to be working ok again now, the same cannot be said for the patio which now contains a respectable scorch mark

Happy New Year!! I almost blew up my girlfriend already tonight.. thought I'd test some rather large bottle rockets so she could see what to expect at midnight, just as the fuse was lit im calling her from 5 metres away to come closer to get a better view as the porch would obscure the view unless she came right out to the tube... oops! the rocket got stuck in the tube so come closer turns to RUN LIKE HE..BANG!! She just laughed it off like a marine lol

<S> Is that a single seat F-4?

I wish all my friends here at CA a wonderful Christmas regardless of religious affiliation or not, or mode of enjoyment have a blinder. In all the years I have been reading this forum from when it was biohaz even before i was a member, theres one thing that really really makes me feel proud to be part of this community beyond all other considerations and it's how homely, helpful and non arrogant we try to be with each other, i mean overall compare this site to so many other forum groups, sites and whatever else on the net and you really see the difference in terms of our abstention from flame wars and personal attacks... To all the members, moderators and administrators who make this site a daily pleasure to belong.. Thank you! Merry Christmas

but plenty of scram jet prototypes i bet with even madder weapons

I agree, fear and not knowing any different, which is why the air is the most powerful conflict zone in the battle for freedom and in this case not aircraft but airwaves that carry communication of images, ideas, lifestyles etc. The communication superhighway hopefully will be the route out of the closet for some of those youngsters trapped in ideological prison to admit to themselves and their compatriots that they to want to decide for themselves how they think, feel and behave. I also salute this girl and all those who dare to think for themselves. Socrates vive, la lucha sigue. Peace

Congratulations and may you be very sober for the morning after the day after the night of celebrating!!

To piggyback off of Column 5, there is a big difference between racism and cultural stereotyping. If we are going to deal with absolutes and say that ALL of something is bad per se, we can say that all attitudes that claim it is right to kill a daughter for disobedience are wrong, that all belief systems that blame a woman for a man having raped her are wrong, that any group who ban any of it's young born from growing up knowing each other regardless of sex and ideology is wrong, fair enough we can do that. What no one is doing here is saying all Muslims are wrong or bad, neither am I saying all Asians are bad.. I for one am saying and I think Column 5 would agree with me that it is fair to say that the majority of Islamic fundamentalists ARE wrong. Let's not get this confused with saying because most of something is bad that all of something associated with is bad also, that would be like giving up entirely on German people because of the despicable acts of the Nazis, a historical minority but one that needed to be dealt with. If we agree that there is a problem within not a small part of the worldwide Muslim population, we should not be made to feel guilty because not all Muslims are bad people, we should be allowed to call a spade a spade, it is a Muslim problem that sharia law is interpreted by SOME people to the extent it did in this tragic case, it is right that we say it in the same way it was right to say the Nazis in 1939 where a German problem. I hope honest to God that in the future, no one would ever judge the German people for the actions of a historical minority of nut jobs in the same way I hope Asians wont be judged by the actions of these nut jobs but the nut jobs are hear folks and whether we like it or not, the Nazis where German, and the fundamentalists in this case are Muslims. Some people will no doubt refuse to get any of this into their heads so once again the main point ... don't confuse absolutes with relatives no one is saying ALL Germans are bad or ALL Muslims are bad, just that when most Germans where Nazis, those Germans WHERE bad and likewise, my opinion, if fundaMENTAList attitudes prevail in a Muslim community.. that particular Muslim community IS bad, deserves to be discussed and should be helped by all means to change because you know what, ignoring issues like honour killing, incest, rape and freedom of youths to choose does not a free country make.

Scots told you that they have a problem with sheep bothering in Scotland, Scots repeatedly told you that they personally know of cases of it happening, one crazy Scot even admit to you he did it?? Scots wore skirts with no zippers in your rez??? Really using my logic, if you replaced the majority Asian with majority U.S. South in the same context, if for five years of eating, sleeping,talking, breathing, living and existing almost entirely within a U.S. South community of people here in Wolves and hearing nothing from them but constant references to how inbreeding is a major though embarrassing problem in the U.S. South, so and so married her cousin, so and so's father killed so and so for it, then yes I would think mate, that it happens a lot more than it should do in the first place but no I would not, and do not think ALL or even most participate. Besides my point was not that All Asians do things to their siblings, my point was that to some adherents of some ideologies, if and when a guy does things to his sister, it's the girl that gets the blame and linked to that is my suggestion although implied that when said ideologies deny and punish ALL contact between male and female that is not strictly familial unless married... the result is frustration, conflict and wrong things... very wrong bad things which need never happen to anyone.

Sharing the same toilet, shower and bath with Indian boys for 2 years, same with Pakistanis for 2 years and having a Bangladeshi girlfriend for 2 years during 5 years of university when of that time i'd say 95% of my friends in this city are Asian... I don't say in that post that ALL asians do incest, but i stick by my remark that in all my 5 years of living with and talking with Asians on a 24 x 7 basis, that the concept of brother sister incest and the fact that it happens is well known and discussed and joked about in the Asian community. If you don't live in a muti cultural city let alone in an extremely ethnic part of one as I do, then films music and books are another glimpse at a peoples culture but nowhere close to living, eating, drinking, laughing, etc with people.

Beautiful vipers video, I really appreciate the offer of help, i will let you know when I am ready to beta test the terrain if you like? Oh and Niiice signature picture

In Saudi it is, i had to study Islam for part of my degree. Saudi has a religious police and a normal police, the religious police can check your papers and if they find a woman with a man who is not related to her either as her husband, father, brother or grandfather... the punishment is decided by clerics If you grow up in Saudi you can effectively forget about dating, casually strolling or chatting with the opposite sex like in the West hence the f***ed up "mentabilities" that devolve in some parts of this world. Just chatting with any Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi or from watching Asian film, you see how very very common the idea of incest is but typically in many cases it is the girl who is punished as she is considered the one who tempts the male to lust, Eve gets the blame first all the time. Anyways, Funda-mental-ists belong in the dustbin of history along with Hitler, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Betamax and Hanson

Excellent! I will search for them now, thank you! Gwyn

It would a very nice addition and then just the voodoo to go and we have the whole century series. My schedule is totally crazy until mid January but when i eventually get more than 2 hours free time a day, the terrain is first priority. I am a total novice as all I have ever done is tweak a few ini's to smooth out problems or get things to work differently, nothing major, so anyone with the skills and time to contribute is more than welcome How about two campaigns, a historic one set in 1974 which would definitely need a Deuce, and a contemporary one set in the near future?

Happy Hanuka, Merry Christmas and "Nadolig Llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda" from Wales to all at CA

9 miles for a phoenix sounds a bit close, iirc it was well bvr. Only recently I discovered that I could actually get a lock on from huge ranges, something I completely overlooked was to press home rather than insert to aquire target. What I used to do was zoom around looking for blips on the search radar setting, press insert to aquire but obviously nothing, keep going closer and closer try search and track if it was available, insert again, nothing, try boresight mode then finally at about those ranges you describe bingo press insert to aquire target fire and hope for a kill.... what a waste of time, configuring my new joystick I read the targeting commands again and theres a much better way, set the search to the longest range, find a blip, keep going till your blip is about the middle of the radar screen because in most cases, the middle of one radar range is the maximum of the next lowest, so with the bogey half way down the radar screen hit shift pgdown to move to the next lowest radar range and you will have the ability to designate a bogey with your radar by pressing home, keep pressing home to shift between any and all bogeys on the radar screen for example if the nearest one to me is the one i want i wait for the scan line to pass near it then hit home. Next press insert to lock the radar onto that target. I have all the option settings set to hard apart from visual targeting so you get the yellow box on the target, then press end as this will place either a red box or a blue box on the target and tell you what plane it is, this is as near as we have to an IFF system (Interrogate Friend or Foe) AFAIK and this is obviously useful when your about to launch a phoenix from a bizillion feet away or an archer from 20 miles, we dont want to randomly fire at radar blips without knowing what they are which is the whole point of IFF systems in real life BVR engagements. So now you have found a blip, designated it, locked it interrogated it so you know it's friend or foe, your ready to select a radar missile, fire then depending what kind it is you will either have to keep your target painted with your radar until the missile goes terminal on it's own guidance system is has that capability (you can press f9 for weapon view and wait until the target looks like it's not very far as a guestimate for when it would be self guided) or if you have a fire and forget missile, do what you want to do i.e. find another target and fire at that one, or get in closer to use heat seekers or really close to use guns. Anyways, this is how i use the long range of missiles like the amraam, archer, hawk, phoenix (really long range) etc to best effect now rather than wait for boresight which is so close it's almost on top of them. Whether you get a kill from such bvr ranges is another thing entirely as I found out testing some hawk sams launched from Iranian F-14's. Phoenix missiles however, are devastating and sooo satisfying to take down a squadron of enemy from so far they can't even see the tomcat on their radars. Hope this is useful and sorry if it's repeating what you already knew.