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In the AircraftObject.DLL file

New discovery...LOLOLOLOL There you go, once again taking credit for "discovering" features that have been common knowledge among the old hands here for several years. Look at the FMs of the F-86 Sabres and MiG-15s dated back to 2010-2012, or the third-party Yak-38's FM, or any of baffmeister's FMs.

All one needs to do is to create "virtual" objects, and use the same "engine method" to illuminate an area that MiGbuster and myself did with the deck, flood, and navigation lights on carriers, and that was also used on Julhelm's Handymax tanker and container ships. One then strategically places those virtual objects on a given terrain, and you now have illumination. Conversely, one can create actual terrain objects, such as street lights, radio masts, etc, and add flood and even red anti-collision lights to the taller ones, with all of them using engine illumination.

Out at sea, on a calm day aboard a drifting boat, one can faintly hear civilian airliners flying at contrail altitude, or about 28k feet or so.

Even with realistic fuel quantities and consumption values, it's still quite easy to run out of fuel during a mission. Try flying a bombing mission from any airfield in Thailand to Hanoi in an F-105, and see how far you get, 60% scale and all.

Skyviper, Your second contender is the way to go. It appears to offer a lot of bang for the buck. As for the others, the R7 is a bit dated, you'll not get a substantial boost with more than 8 GB of RAM at present (you can always add more), and you'll probably never see any increase in performance with more than 4 physical cores in just about any title that I can see you running.

Michael, you've missed your calling as a comedian. Notice where BMW, Mercedes, and VW land on the chart below. And please don't try arguing with me, as I have been turning wrenches on cars and motor-coaches professionally on and off since the mid-1970s. The power-trains on the current crop of US-built cars are good for between 300,000 and 1,000,000 KM. They don't eat expensive ($4,800.00) fuel injection pumps every 120K km like VW diesels are prone to do. BMW and Mercedes were industry leaders when it came to reliability 20+ years ago, but that is no longer true, as modern Mercedes are known for being money pits after just a few years, and BMWs are infamous for causing their owners to have to shell out $3000 US at a dealer for the most routine of services, once they are off lease or warranty.

That is strange, is that waterway is normally teaming with water fowl, such as egrets, herons, geese, etc. http://www.njaudubon.org/SectionIBBA/IBBASiteGuide.aspx?sk=3138

Here's another video, this one taken from a drone. This is a graveyard of abandoned ships that sits in the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway that lies between NY's Staten Island to the east, and the NJ towns of Sewaren and Perth Amboy, to the west. There are wrecks here that date back to WW I, such as NYC ferry boats that were plying the waters between Staten Island and Manhattan just prior to WW I. http://video-embed.nj.com/services/player/bcpid1950981419001?bctid=4824796305001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMILBk~,Vn8u6tPOf8Us2eD8W1ez5Zw-Ss_6Anfe

I saw this while surfing through the day's video on a local news site. http://video-embed.nj.com/services/player/bcpid1950981419001?bctid=4821530480001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMILBk~,Vn8u6tPOf8Us2eD8W1ez5Zw-Ss_6Anfe

Marcelo is quite talented. I still correspond with him from time to time.

Like this? https://www.microsoft.com/Products/Games/FSInsider/developers/Pages/GlobalTerrain.aspx

My modder friends and I would say, we would say: Ni!

Interesting....this has been hashed over several times over the years. I was using tables that were available on NASA's website for my calculations. The big issue is with Missiles like the MIM-14 and the SA-5, which in RL fly different profiles depending on the range of the target. If the target is at the short end of the missile's engagement envelope, they basically fly a direct intercept profile, like any medium-range SAM would. If the target is at the outside edge of the envelope, they both use a "loft" profile, and the final engagement involves the missile descending into it's target (or ahead of the target's flight path, as would the case with the nuclear-tipped variants of both birds). If one were to set the weapon data entries up with a loft altitude, it would more than likely affect their ability to effectively engage most targets in-game. Damned if you, Damned if you don't

Piecemeal, judging from the image, yo may want to bump up your anisotropic filtering setting up to at least 8x or so.

Kevin, Weights are in kilograms. 464 gallons of jet fuel@6.8 lbs per gallon = 3155 lbs, which in turn translates to 1431.17 kg. Summing up the values of all those tanks comes out to 1201.94, which is simply bad math (or using the wrong weight value for JP-5, which comes out to 6.8 lbs per gallon at 59 degrees Fahrenheit). If we convert gallons directly to liters, we arrive at 1756.43, so it's not a value in liters.

Stupid is as stupid does.

WBS, we were working on those models during the Summer of 2005; that's 11 years ago! So yes, they are quite long in tooth, and are due for a replacement that sports all the trimmings (specular & bump mapping, hi-poly model, etc.).

We seem to be losing an artist from the hey-day of progressive rock every few months now. Keith Emerson Dead From Gunshot To Head In Apparent Suicide

Interesting.....

To answer part of your first question, you can use a hex-editor to open any dll files, and use the search feature of that editor to search through the various parameters. There are several good free hex-editors out there, just keep in mind that most files in this series (SF2) are in Unicode format. Also, remember not to save any changes you may have accidentally made, or you will have hosed that dll.

Increasing acceleration rate does alter the speed at the end of the cat shot, often enough to snap landing gear right off a model.

Having a nose cap "fall off" is a somewhat different animal than having doors open, missiles rails extend, and then retract the rails and close the doors when the missiles have been launched. The latter is an animation that includes player controllable rotation, and that limits it to the actual aircraft model itself. I wish that we could have that level of animation (rotation) on all objects. It would be particularly useful on ship-models, where we could animate missile bay doors on those models that sport VLS, and also have realistic missile reloading animations on those with launch rails.

If I recall correctly, they can only be animated that way if they are part of the model.

Paging Major Kong......