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Eagle...we stand in awe...I havent had a chance yet today to fool with this anymore, but will try this in a little while and see what it does. Do you think there is a way to make the smoke thinner? Maybe something to do with the particle size under emitter type? Also, I see there is a color code. Is there a way to change the colors say to red and green? I dont know squat about those codes showing under particle color. Again...WOW! :shock: :D

LOL! That had to look funny, ya oughta post a screenie of that, hehehe. I was wondering while I tinker with this, would it be possible to make a new EmitterType for the particlesystem.ini file for our smoke and keep the ship wake Emitter intact?

Snapple, as time passes after you quit, you will find your lung capacity improving again, and it wont take very long. The body has an amazing ability to heal itself. If you are going to exercise, that will go far in improving the lungs. It will just be a little tough at first so go easy. Dont expect to be superman right off the bat.

So far fellas, no joy. As per your article in the Skunkworks forum, I changed the particlesystem.ini file in the flight folder to reflect the new values for EmitterType094. I then edited the A4-E data file in the objects directory to reflect the lines you stated in your post for the VortexEmitter. Both files reside in their respective directories. I'd save the files after editing, close them, and restart the game to make sure the changes took effect. I tried Dueces suggestion too. I even experimented with ingame resolutions to name one different experiment that might somehow have an effect. All the i's are dotted and t's crossed. Made sure the caps are where they should be, etc. I did not however try the regular engine setup you mentioned in your skunkworks test as it is late and I have to hit the hay. Will try that tommorrow just to make sure the smoke emitter setup in the particlesystem file is correct. Ill let you know how it goes. Thanks again fellas.

Thanks guys for the answers and help. I am trying Sal's suggestions now and will let you all know how they turn out. I expect I will have some questions soon...

Is there a way to enable wingtip smoke? Would love to do some movies on BFM's.

Snapple, Here is what I wrote to Dagger when he said he was quitting. Dont know if it made any sense to him or not, he never said. Maybe it will to you. You are fortunate my freind, you think it is tough to quit now, wait till you smoked or chewed for 20 years. Take a look at some of the cancer patients' pics in the links on the following website link. It scared the hell outta me to look at them. Bottom line dude, you got to be tough, nothin in this life is easy thats worth a damn. "Hey Dagger, chewed copenhagen for 22 years. Quit 7 years ago, and except for a few short relapses, finally quit for good 4 years ago. Still wouldnt mind a chew. Its a bit tough when your doing something you associate with it but it can be done. Ya just grit yur teeth and do it. I also learned not to bash myself if I relapsed, it happens. I would just quit again, which of course meant going thru withdrawals again. It was that realization that helped me to finally put a kibosh to the chewin. I also started chewing non tabbacco mint chew which helped some as a placebo. You might check out this webpage...http://www.quittobacco.com/. They sell the mint chew and have some quit smoking programs. And whatever you do, DONT replace smoking with eating! Exercise instead. One last thing...asking the Good Lord for a little help never hurt either, I KNOW he walked with me thru all the ups and downs... I hope I helped. I am real glad I quit. I still find myself grinning from time to time. Feels good not to be a slave to no one or nothing." Godspeed buddy...

Hehehe, I was born in Florida, shoulda heard my Grandparents and cousins down near Ocala... :roll: :D

Check here... http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/boards/bbs/Forum55/HTML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html ://http://www.simhq.com/simhq3/sims/bo...ML/001893.html I know its on this forum but I cant find it for the life of me. This is handy becuase I was looking at my second video just when I thought it was done and I was all twitterpated with it when I noticed that my airplane had different callsigns because I used different scenes from different missions. One scene he is Rambler11, the next Cowboy...AAAAAAAAA! I had to remove the info display and start all over again. :evil: As for transitions, in movie maker, at the bottom where you drag and drop in the video clips, on the left side, there is a icon that changes the video panel to "Timeline" from "Storyboard". Timeline will allow you to edit the time of each clip to overlap each other thus making a smooth transition instaed of an ubrupt one. Either transition is useful but better in some circumstances than others depending on what you want the clips to convey to the viewer. You will also notice that when the timeline icon is enabled, the zoom in/out icons are enabled also. try zooming in for more precise placement of transitions, music, sound effects, etc. Now that you know where to look, go to the help section in movie maker for an explanation of how exactly to do the transitions. It involves clicking on the timeline and moving sliders. For an EXCELLENT example of timeline manipulation, take a look at Tim Canada's video "Radar Rider". The best I've seen. The record and framerate numbers that you see while capturing video or watching the clips, even while in Movie Maker, is because FRAPS is on. Once you turn it off, they will go away and you wont see them anymore in the clips. Dang! Almost sound like I know what Im doin...hehe.

How did you convert it to mpg, that sounds like a good idea?

This is the best movie I have seen, way too cool! Im an old Riggs fan, loved the movie Heavy Metal, and to see this peice was a real jazz. I actually found myself laughing enjoying it so much. Matter of fact, saw the movie at SimHQ and was coming here to tell everyone. You beat me too it hehe. Good job Tim! :D

When I first imported a avi file from fraps into the Movie maker, converted it into a movie and ran it in the MS media player, my media player automatically hooked up to MS and downloaded some codecs. I never did have a problem with films after that. If media player doesnt do that automatically, then go here... http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df...ng/codinstl.exe This should download the codecs you need. Hopefully, that will take care of your problem. If it doesnt, then I would suggest emailing Fraps with your system specs and athe error message you are recieving.

dj, are you selecting the skin in the loadout screen in Strike Fighters? For instance, say you start a single mission and choose the F4. The game then takes you to the hanger screen right? From there, you can click the loadout button which takes you to the loadout screen where you can modify your weapons loadout. Well, here you can also modify your planes' skin. In the upper right of the loadout screen, you can choose what skin your F4 will wear. if you didnt edit the F4 configuration file correctly, the skin will NOT be listed. If it isnt listed, then take a close look again at the link above in Eagle's post. make sure you follow all the directions carefully. Also, any deviations like a misspell or even whether it is a capitol letter or not will screw you up. Sorry if you already knew this but 14 years of military service tuaght me not to take anything for granted, even things that might seem obvious to me. They may not be so obvious to someone else.

DUUUUUUDE! (aint that how they say it? ) Nice skin! I like the green effect and the tail.

Ya know, that looks very nice! This may become my favorite A-1 skin. Good job Volksjager. <S> :D

Sorry Dirtybird, guess I coulda added where the video is... You can see it at MajorLee's website at http://www.major-lee.net or you can see it from my el quickie slapdash I aint got time to do a proper website here...http://www.members.cox.net/pcpilot/video/F4Topgun.WMV

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Hi Cylix, Thank you very much for your kind words about the video. I was introduced to movie making by MajorLee who told me about FRAPS, which is a software you can download from the following link for free. http://www.fraps.com This software will take screen shots, tell you your games' framerate, and capture video of the game while in progress. It is super easy to use, just read the "howto" files on the webpage. I was making movies in a few minutes. Once you have captured your video, it is automatically saved in the fraps folder on your harddrive. You then open Microsofts' Movie Maker which WinMe and XP both have, then import the files into movie maker where you can edit them for length, add sound, etc. A few weak points...The most important is that FRAPS does not capture video well at anything other than 640X480X16 resolution. You will also notice a substantial slowdown in framerates while capturing ingame videos. The F9 key is used to capture video by fraps, it is also used by the game, so there is a conflict there. However, as you can see, the video turned out pretty good. A word though, That video represents about 35 hours of work. Hopefully the next one wont take so long. It was the 3rd incarnation, I wasnt happy with it until this last version, which I might add still has some minor problems. You have an email inbound which says the same thing as this post. Hope this helps and again, thanks. pcpilot

In 1986, I was in a grocery store getting some breakfast items. I walked up to the line to wait my turn at check out. I noticed everyone staring at a TV on the wall with shocked looks. I asked what was happening and someone said the Challenger had just exploded. I honestly thought it was a joke and almost laughed when I looked at the TV and saw the challenger rise, then suddenly explode. I stood and watched that explosion over and over again before I could bring myself to really beleive it had happened. Like MJ above, I felt a tremendous sense of loss and a deep sorrow over what had happened to those brave people on that flight. Who can ever forget the brave crew of that flight... President Reagen said it best when he quoted that fine poem mentioned above with a real sorrow and warmth in his voice. We all greived with the families. Now, tragically, more brave flyers have been added to the our pantheon of heros...and the loss I feel is no less acute... Their webpage at Nasa... http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missio...on-sts-107.html ...And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. My sincerest condolences and prayers are offered to the families...

Yes! Very nice skin, love it...

LOL! Ill never look at diet pepsi without seeing this model. Man I hope I dont start flying my soda around thru the air in front of other people... :roll:

I doubt Beer will mind, he has done some other things with the sim also I beleive. I think some other ship work, dont know if he finished it or not. This is very encourageing if he can make it all work. I heard the CV in F-18 was very nice.

Hmmm, viper, you got me on this one. From the sound of it, you are doing everything right. Have you tried another sim altogether to be sure it isnt the stick or its trigger? Anyone got a suggestion?

Im kinda the same way. This sim is an era that I have always looked for. To have it come out unfinished was kinda disappointing. But TK and the community have kept at it, so I am confident things will work out in time.

Hehehe, pretty good shot. Love the damage modeling in IL2. Yeah, that pilots face is turning red...