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Carlo,

i found these serials for AMI's RT-33A:

53-5222,53-5238/5239,53-5322,53-5350,53-5396,53-5430,53-5525,53-5539,53-5579,53-5587,53-5594,53-5631,53-5668,53-5795.

Auguri Alex, buon compleanno.

:drinks:

Happy Birthday Bro!

Thanks for the answer Florian.

The Buchon should be based on a G2 frame.

Are they replicas ... or real ones quite late?

Happy Birthday Stary!

:drinks:

All you love is need ...?

Dave, my best wishes for a good and speedy recovery for your Dad.

Happy Birthday, Don and Dave!

Happy birthday Kevin.

Thank you for your answer Cap Vengeur.

Good point, I dont like those mega cruise ships for your same reason also i cant understand the logic of a ship made in order to give you the feeling you are in a luxury village resort insted of on a ship.

Yes there are many guilty people for this tragedy ... who did the dangerous manouver, who did nothing to avoid this and who did place all this untrained and unprofessional people on the ship.

My question is: how deeper are verifications to test professionality of crews? How many other situations potentially dangerous like this are floating/flying around the world and simply had better fortune?

Several articles I managed to read indicate that this day could be remembered a day of infamy for Italy on many other concerns than just Captain Runaway. Many passengers, often old people, report that most of the crew were too busy saving their own lives to manage the evacuation; and many report that the only crewmen they saw take care of them were the Indonesian waiters, modern sea slaves left behind in the same way themselves had been. Another matter of shame could be the disgusting behaviour of the Inhabitants of the island of Giglio. Some frozen and traumatized survivors report that the doors and windows there closed at them; that when they tried to warm themselves, the coffee was sold for 3 euros; and that the islanders refused point-blank to serve those who had lost their money in the sinking. Those Mediterranean islanders are usually prone to attend church, but evade as soon as they have a practical occasion to behave as true Christians...

It's true , a huge infamy for Italy.

I have not heard about this bad people who asked money to the survivors or refused to help them but honestly i didnt read or heard everything about the disaster ... for sure i heard about peoples who thanked the citizens of island of Giglio and the Coastal Guard crews for the help during the passengers rescue.

Me too i am disgusted and sad for what happened and i am also disgusted when peolpe start to take easy and generic conclusions about an entire community/nation because someone (how many realy?) did something wrong.

Too many peoples are died;avoid these easy and useless sentences , please.

I agree with Jug, with a service ceiling of about 22000 meters, 30k meters seems a good scale to me ... and the little number (2221) in the lower part of the instrument could be the barometric pressure, typical of an altimeter.

E bravo Spit,

certo che IL-2 tiene ancora molto bene nonostante l'età ... bhe, considerando i difetti del suo successore si capisce anche perchè .

Un grosso in bocca al lupo (amo troppo i cetacei per farti quell'altro augurio) per i tuoi studi ... e ti anticipo scaramanticamente il benvenuto nel mondo di noi disoccupati.

Capperi ... non mi ci fate pensare.

Vi faccio vedere dov'era casa mia (da putto) rispetto alla base del 6° Stormo così vi potete fare un'idea di quanti ne ho visti passare durante la mia (lontana) giovinezza.

Thank you Dare2.

Ciao 977hobos.

Penso che un aereo con un carico eccessivo di proiettili non riuscirebbe decollare per via del peso.

Comunque supponendo che sia tu quello che se lo chiede e che tu stia parlando di strike fighter, vai nelle opzioni e setta Option -> gameplay -> simulation difficult (CUSTOMIZE) --> Ammo usage (EASY); così hai munizioni infinite per le armi fisse di bordo.

Se invece parlavi di un altro gioco ... bhe cerca qualcosa di simile nelle opzioni relative ... ah dimenticavo ... quella cosa chiamata "Manuale d'uso" a volte aiuta.

I was just wondering if this process was made by the game engine or directly by graphic card hardware.

Bwild got the point.

I didnt test but BMP extension should work too.

Funny that is sufficient to say "jpeg" that there is some DDS purist that needs to explain his point; it reminds me windows vs linux ... or explorer vs netscape ... or ... ati vs nvidia ... and so on .

For what? To change a windows file extension? I think that two clicks of the mouse are enought.

What do you mean by renamed?

I did change the extension of the file from main.dds to main.jpg.

The question is: is all this something intentionally made by TK or simply a "collateral effect" that could not survive next patches?

Another experiment ... the image shows an aircraft with a .LOD mapped to use a texture file named "main.bmp" ... but the skin you see is from a file named "main.jpg" ... but this file isnt a jpg , it is a DDS renamed as jpg. At this point you should be free to choose the format of skin you like whatever the LOD is made for.

Funny.

I dont know how it works ... stock LODs are quite different from the ones we can export ... but decrypting (partially) some one (A4E and F-4D i.e.) i finally realized that TW models are pointing to BMP as well.

Hey Kevin, what about some fish in the river?

Trying to understand how LODs work.

First experiment - Stock aircraft

i have created a new skin folder for the A-4E; it was a simple copy of the original USNGREY1 , renamed USNGREY2 and with the BMP files converted into JPG and then erased ... the new JPG skin did work without problems.

Second experiment - third party aircraft:

i did set the LOD of my new G91R in order to use BMP but i have not modified the skin folder so no BMP skins into it , jpg only ... again the program loaded the jpg skin instead the requested BMP one without problem.

Repeating the experiment with DDS skin insted the JPG it doesnt work.

Third experiment part 1 - third party aircraft with dds:

for this experiment i have used my G91Y that uses DDS skins;i have substituted the original DDS files with JPG version ... no way, aircraft was black as the night.

Third experiment part 2 - third party aircraft with dds:

with insane fantasy i have renamed JPG skin as DDS (not converted but renamed the extension only) ... this time the aircraft appeared with the jpg skin!!

Note: seems that the graphic engine loads JPG or BMP indifferently (not DDS that seems have to be well specified into LODs) ... the one he find is good to load.

All the above rules are for skin only, specular and normal maps seem to be more sensitive to file extension; experiments were made with SF2 Europe with nov2011 patch.