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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, JSF_Aggie said:

    I put out 1,000 smaller pine trees and then one large redwood. 

    All were set to 100% chance.

    The redwood was there, So I assume the previous 1000 were there. I placed them all in sections, not randomly around the tile, and there were no blank areas.

    The terrain editor had no problem with 1600 objects, but that's when I started to get blank spots in game.  The blank spots are 100% in the sections that I did last, when I was over 1,000 objects.  They were completely blank, so it appears the game places the objects in order, not randomly.

    The .TOD generated with 1600 objects, was significantly larger in size, than one where I stopped at 1,000, but I didn't look at it with hex editor, or anything like that.

    Have you tested the TOD/terrain with the TargetAreaEditor? Are the TOD objects showing up in the TargetAreaEditor? Just to be sure that the TOD file is valid. Alternatively you can send me the TOD file and I will check it.

  2. Posted

    7 hours ago, JSF_Aggie said:

    I haven't had any TE aborts, I just don't get objects much beyond 1,000 showing up in game.

    How do you determined that limit number. Have you counted the objects manually that show up in the game?

    Do you know if the first 1000 objects of the TOD are shown and the later are discarded, or does the game pick 1000 objects that are shown randomly from the TOD file?

    I wonder, if it's a limitation of the TE or the game? Are the TOD objects showing up in the TargetAreaEditor?

  5. Posted

    14 hours ago, Wrench said:

    I agree, in part. I fully understand the need for smoothness, but for decaling and damaging (tga/dds) it is kind of important that there are enough divisions. I can imagine the issues in smoothing, especially on something like the Mossi, which is known for it's smooth shape. Mind you, we ARE dealing with a lod  in this case, from 2005, when a lot of what we now know, simply wasn't known!

    below, promised decal bleed screenie

    if you remove the decal in the decals ini, obviously the issue goes away.  but, the serial numbers and/or "plane-in-squadron' letter/number may cause it to return.

    The problem here is, that the model was exported without setting the option AllowDecals=True.
    With the option AllowDecals=True, your mesh can be as smooth as you like without getting decal bleeding problems.

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  8. Posted

    45 minutes ago, Gepard said:

    The main difference between me and you is the side of the iron curtain on which we grew up.

    I didn't know you grew up in west germany. I always thought you grew up in east germany. :biggrin:

     

    46 minutes ago, Gepard said:

    30, 40 years ago so called experts and scientists agreed, that the socialism will be victorious. For the main stream in my country the statement "the socialism will be victorious" had had the status of a law. It was written in books. It was proofed by scientists.

    I don't understand, what east german propaganda has to do with climate change?

     

    46 minutes ago, Gepard said:

    Again doubts are not allowed. Again people with non mainstream opions are shouted down.

    That's straw man fallacy. Of course you are allowed to say that 2+2=5. But if scientist then say that's incorrect because 2+2=4, that's not shouting down!

  9. Posted · Edited by mue
    added additional link

    @Gepard you sound like the typical climate change sceptic :lol:. All of your climate myths are already debunked. e.g. here: https://skepticalscience.com/

    11 hours ago, Gepard said:

    Is carbondioxyd CO² really that "big" problem? Its a problem, of course, but ...

    To say it clearly CO² is a fertiliser for plants. Without CO² no plant can survive. Without plants we cant survive. As more CO² as better plants can grow up.

    And who can really say, that the climate change is caused by CO².

    Maybe the climate experts? 97% of climate experts agree humans are causing global warming. Source: https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm and https://skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm

    11 hours ago, Gepard said:

    Where i live, in the middle of Germany we have very thick layers of sand. This sand came with the iceage from Skandinavia to Germany. 10.000 years ago we had an ice glacier which was more than 100m thick. In a relativly short time the ice melts away and formed the landscape we have here in north and central Germany. The climate change came very fast. In less than 30 years the temperature climbed by 6°. And surely it does not climbed, because our ancestors made to much Mammoth BBQ.

    https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm

     

    11 hours ago, Gepard said:

    But what you cant see is the reason, why it became hotter.

    In the 1920th till 1950th the airport had only grass runways. In the 60th one runway and some taxiways made by concrete were built. Concrete is a heat reflector. When the sun is shining the temperature climbs much faster than over gras areas.

    In the 1990th, till today, the airport was completly rebuilt. Very big areas are covered now by concrete. Of course it is now hotter there as in the time before.

    Our big towns, our big streets, parking areas, industrial areas and so on, are all mady by concrete or similar materials. Of course they are hotter than in the natural landscape. The town grew up, became bigger and bigger. Meteorological stations, which 20 or 50 years ago were situated on meadow areas are now mid in cities.

    How is it possible to compare the datas?

    https://skepticalscience.com/surface-temperature-measurements.htm

     

    11 hours ago, Gepard said:

    My problem with the "Greta movement" is, that they have the strong believe, that they are 100% right. They believe to be infallible .

    They believe they are right, because they are backed up by most climate experts and scientist.

     

    11 hours ago, Gepard said:

    Yes we have a climate change. But we cant stop it. We must adapt our society. Darwin said "survival of the fittes", not "survival of the strongest".

    https://skepticalscience.com/mitigation-cheaper-than-adaptation.htm

  11. Posted

    6 hours ago, ChristianRG said:

    Hello, I recently downloaded and installed the addon to blender both 2.79 and 2.80 and they both don't show up on the addon section.

    Any solutions?

    The LOD exporter isn't compatible with blender 2.80. They made a lot of API changes in 2.80. I haven't found the time yet to update the LOD exporter for the newest blender version.
    But the exporter should work in 2.79. You run the exporter via File->Export->Strike Fighters 2 LOD. In the User Preferences->Add-ons section the plugin is listed under Supported Level = Testing!

  12. Posted

    On 5.11.2019 at 12:32 PM, derpface said:

    This YouTube series remind to those done by SelenicMartian at Let's play archives: https://lparchive.org/Strike-Fighters-2/

    SelenicMartian went both to highlight games behavior, mechanics, limitations and bugs as well as history and details of the stock SF2 titles war theaters and planes. 

     

    This guy is hilarious. Quite entertaining. I already had a laugh when he described the fighter generations :lol:

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    Fighter generations (sometimes applied to attack planes as well) are just marketing bullshit, like game scores in the press. The generation boundaries are not clearly defined, but the general idea is something like this:
    I. Take a very surprised WW2 airframe and shove a barely functional jet engine into it. Give it enough fuel to stay in the air for an hour, tops. You might want to give the pilot an ejection seat, but safety is optional. If you think you're badass, sweep the wing backwards.
    II. Add an afterburner to burn the fuel quicker, and give the plane enough power to go faster than the speed of rock 'n' roll. Provide hydraulic boost to the controls, so that a human pilot actually has a chance of pulling out of a supersonic dive. Install a radar, which gets startled by seeing the Earth. The guided air-to-air missile is king, we shall never need the guns again.
    III. Holy crap, put at least one gun back in! The missiles can't hit shit! But good news - ground targets can't dodge, so our TV repairman made these guided bombs and missiles to use against them. Now we can finally wreck the goddamn evil comm building with one hit, as opposed to carpet bombing the fuck out of the next door chicken house. Ah, and we've also figured out how to calculate the impact point for unguided bombs, so the pilots no longer need to bomb tents going by their gut feeling while dodging intense ground fire.
    IV. Machines don't make mistakes, right? Let's put a computer between the pilot and the control surfaces to filter stupidity. Let's also design airplanes in such a manner, that no human can actually fly them without computer aid. If only there were a way to get rid of humans...

     

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  13. Posted

    He removed the link.
    His answer to my comment to his latest SF2:Vietnam Ep 43 video:

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    @fsmue I took care of it. My preference has always been to send people directly to Thirdwire but when I wrote that boiler-plate description it seemed at the time that the store was permanently down and the game was dead. I should have changed it back earlier, but it's fixed now.

     

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  14. Posted

    It seems as he started his SF2 video series the Thirdwire store were down.

    From the description of his first SF2:Vietnam video:

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    In these videos I am using the base Strike Fighters 2 game with the Vietnam and Europe addons. Thirdwire.com seems to no longer be selling their older games, as their store had been down forever. However, the game and all its DLC can be found free at several sites, including this one at [link to illegal copies] I have used this one with no trouble, but just be aware that downloading files from 3rd party site can be potentially dangerous and you do so at your own risk.

    I think at this time he thought the SF2 games were abondoned. But later as the Thirdwire store were up again, although he now mentions that you can purchase the games from the store, he still provides the link to the illegal copies.

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  17. Posted · Edited by mue

    9 hours ago, streakeagle said:

    ..., especially because TK changed how the flight model engine handled stalling/departure,...

    The stall modeling in SF2 (e.g. the Stall*TableData) is still a big unknown to me. The regime between -AlphaDepart and AlphaDepart I mostly understand. Currently I'm implementing  the SF2 P-51D FM in JSBSim/FlightGear. In the normal non-stall/non-departure regime it already "feels" quite similar to SF2. But I still have to run some validation tests.

     

    9 hours ago, streakeagle said:

    There were/are several SFP1/SF2 veterans that produce new flight models and/or tweak old ones. But they mostly have moved on from this game or only pursue their own pet projects.

    Yes, while sifting through the TW forum archives I noticed that back then there were several FM guys active. And according to the questions they have asked, it seems they know that they are doing.
    I think one guy was from avhistory.org and wanted to port CFS? flight models to SF.

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  21. Posted

    33 minutes ago, russouk2004 said:

    With GPL then adding models,might make people release them as Payware...if I do,i for one might consider this....if others make £££ $$$ off my free model,then why shouldnt I first ?....lol

    is this GPL obligatory for Flightgear...? maybe we could if it happens....create a group that is strictly freeware. ?

    I assume GPL means General Public License ?

    Yes GPL means General Public License.
    Only if you want your aircraft included in the official FlightGear hangar "FGAddon", then the GPLv2 is obligatory. Otherwise you can license your model as you like (assumed the whole model is your own creation and don't contain or uses GPL content) and use it in FlightGear.

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  22. Posted · Edited by mue

    44 minutes ago, swambast said:

    so under the GPL if I made this available I or anyone else can then subsequently take it and sell it?  Or am I totally misunderstanding...

    Correct! But the buyer/recipient also get the same rights as you from the GPL. He can use/modify/distribute/sell the content under the GPL. His right to modify the content also means that you have to give him the "source code" of your content. The GPL says about the source code: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." I think (maybe Richard can confirm or correct me here) that means, that if you sell the lod file then you must also include the e.g. *.3ds or equivalent file.

  23. Posted

    36 minutes ago, RichardH said:

    and remember that this model licenced under the GPL v2.

    For those who don't know the GPL: If you use GPL content for your aircraft then the derived work, i.e. your aircraft, is also automatically licenced under the GPL. That means you can not distribute your aircraft under the CombatAce Modders License Agreement, because the CombatAce Modders License Agreement forbids the sale of the content (as payware). However the GPL doesn't allow those restrictions. Under the GPL the user has the right to sell the content!

  24. Posted

    Maybe you FM gurus knew this already, but I only recently noticed that:
    Internal fuel and the pilot (and internal ammo too?) don't change the center of gravity (cog) of the aircraft. The additional weight will always be placed at the cog. Only the inertia tensor (Ix,Iy,Iz) is changed as follows:
    Ix = (mass_total/mass_empty)*Ix_empty, Iy = (mass_total/mass_empty)*Iy_empty and Iz = (mass_total/mass_empty)*Iz_empty

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  25. Posted

    25 minutes ago, RichardH said:

    Because FlightGear is so open we don't really want to publish something that could be used to cause grief /  interfere with civilian flight operations - i.e. the normal multiplayer. It would be bad for OPRF if someone put up a set of AI fighters that decided to intercept and shoot down (or just annoy) civilian traffic.

    Ok, now I understand. I forgot/haven't considered that you use the official multiplayer network with it's civilian traffic.

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