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Several methods in Enviro. One is AmbientColor. Study this deeply ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1447 and experiment to Taste. Unfortunately, Enviro offers no way to tweak terrain brightness alone, as the methods available also affect lighting on other things in the game. But, think of what we are needing here. Terrain is what? Terrain is tiles, which are bmp or tga. You can brighten tiles in a photopaint type program. I've done it but takes some time if you have alot of terrain tiles. Make backup copies of tiles before doing this. **EDIT** that link is for old SF1 games, as with Patch 2008 TK has eliminated the realistic sunward sky glow, replacing it with blood red camera lens glare. That's why I'm stuck with SF1 2006 until maybe the Luthier Korea (?) sim comes out (and if its moddable). Otherwise the Old Enviro is much the same as the New Enviro.

One amazing thing I once saw on CNN, in 1994, about Rwanda. After the UN troops were told to retreat from the mass slaughter, CNN showed video of guys taking their knives and cutting up there blue berets in disgust. The guys could have prevented alot of killing but were not allowed to apparently. CNN showed that only once that I noticed, and I *did* watch TV back then. Fascinating. That always stuck with me.

eewww that made me think of something. Ya'll fellas in SF2 can "save" missions right? Save and quit, change Enviro Latitude, and re-start game. The stars will be shifted I suppose. This would help if you fly a B-58 over the pole or something. Is this Correct Thinking?

Wrench:: Good. Lets stay focused here. Remember, it that "new" external thing doesn't last a week, and they sometimes don't, and your old hard drive gets something happened to it, your butt is busted. Back up your butt again.

Nice, I just downloaded Core Temp 64, google it, and you can set it to start with Windows~7 and optimize taskbar to show the current cpu temp C or F on the taskbar at all times (change colour to taste for easy vis). They have a CoreTemp32 for XP I suppose. Just wish there was some way of showing the data during gameplay instead of having to tab out. There has to be a way. Doesn't FRAPS show game framerates on screen during game? Never tried fraps.

Wrench, make another backup, DVDs whatever, at least the more important stuff. I am afraid all hard drives. I am terrified of "new" hard drives until at least a few months of heavy use, at which point I become afraid of them. I tremble in fear of external drives at all times. Wrench, you will love Win~7. I use classical look, no aero baloney. Fantastic out of box. This will be a Good Thing in the long run, as long as that "new" thing works out, and/or your old drive is still usable. Wrench, what happened to computer if you know?

Wrench:: Another joins The List. Wrench Computer "went down" No backup, but lucky hard drive survived GMagos Lost one backup DVD No further backup eraser_tr Hard drive crash No backup Bongodriver Hard drive crash No Backup 76.IAP-Blackbird Deleted game No backup Okay who's next?

Thanks Migbuster for the F-15 usage info. I also need to look at acig's articles on Iran's extensive F-4 operations. Shrike:: When the aircraft engaged in close dogfight, F-4 aircrew learned that primary role changed -- fast. Its hard for us to guage since we were not there, and we post-modern TheSims players's think of single seat fighters, because our game developers do. I'd imagine the people who were there talked alot about it. You have to know the importance of watching the skies (and below) for situational awareness, using all the eyes you have, and then some if available, and then communicate it all through Triassic Period radios. Think single seat fighter wingmen and how they depend on each other for helping to watch what's going on around them during the heat -- well at least NAVY Loose Deuce wingmen. SA among professional wingmen is everything. The quote below is from a good paragraph of an interview... George Spangenberg:: At the start of that paragraph, Spangenberg says he considered the days of single seat fighters were over. At the time, he may have been right. But today, with advances in post-modern avionics and weapons, perhaps he was not right at the time anymore, as Baugher notes in his F-15 history quoted below. I'd also add the back seat "wing man" always has good comms with his pilot, assuming the intercomm between the seats works well. Did they in Vietnam era F-4s? Baugher:: The F-15's primary concept role was an attempt to mix long range BVR engagement and close dogfighting into one box. Compare with, say, dedicated small dogfighters like F-16. Things have changed even more since then, what with avionics and weapons now allowing single seat F-16 dogfighters to perform some BVR as well. I've *never* thought of it before until C5 poasted above about USAF and F-15, but without that advance in electronics, F-15 might have been a two seater. Always remember, you heard here it at CombatAce first.

Hunger Modders can go months without eating, drinking, etc...

Yea later F-4 radars had transitors but that's my way of saying advances in electronics. Sorry for that. I'm not too familiar with F-15 use in the various US/Iraq wars, so not much on close dogfights and AIM-9 use.

Good points C5. That 2nd seat in 1960s fighters were not because of close dogfighting, but that 2nd seat happened to come in spankin' handy when the aircraft engaged in such combat. Thus the importance of it here. I imagine the reason for a second seat went away as transistors replaced vacume tubes by the time F-15 was designed. USAF F-15 combat use was mostly if not entirely BVR where the second seat is filled with the more effective tranistors rather than the old vacume tubes. If not for that advance in equipment design, I'll lay odds the F-15 would have been a two seater. Think about it. I'd be interested in ideas lifted from Israeli or others' use of F-15 in close dogfights with guns and advanced IRM which I'm *not* familiar with -- thanks if so. Pilot:: LoL

Man yea Yellowstone is going to PWN someday. lol

Server:: SERVER THANKS for stepping up. I was going to poast simply Sprint did what it had to do in our system, but I didn't have the balls. You explained why too. Thanks. usafmtl, the two persons probably don't have much wealth to confiscate by the system. Sprint has wealth that can be stripped. We often like to blame "corporations" but we are afraid to talk among ourselves why our system defines persons as corporations. Thats why you always see me poasting the words "men and women." The system hates that. Myself, I prefer T-Mobile all the way. Please nobody poast that T-M is part of Sprint.

Capitaine, perfect point about small French carriers: F-8 > F-0. Gepard:: Why? The one thing apparently agreed upon here is F-8 has better handling at least for high angles of attack. I don't know much about that, but I can go with it. Enough to compensate for lack of second seat and merge disadvantage? Butt, I do know in all the cars I've driven, the one I most felt comfortable in, really the only one, was big Ford F-150 truck with only the limited power assist steering and 300-6 / 4spd granny stick, no AC no nothing lol it was made for Mis-sip state purchase but was sold to public. I could do insane things with that I guess because the limits were easy to know.

What is ACM? No eyes means no manuever. More skilled eyes means more ability to confidently manuever. That 2nd seat is part of ACM. If I recall(), the merge is the most important part of general ACM. With a hardware enthusiast in back, the F-4 with big radar and Sparrows can have some advantage here, as it did over MiG-21s in merges, although one often cannot set up the fight one wants. The back seater, big radar, and Sparrows with luck can change the numbers before close manuever begins, and so are part Air Combat Manuever, although not Air Dogfight Manuever, or ADM. I just made that up. In the end, did it work to bring F-4 crews up to F-8 pilot training for close combat, turning those extra scope reading eyes into extra trained dogfight eyes? c5:: I guess it depends on the F-8 having enough superiority in turning, handling, less visibility, etc... Enough to overcome the F-4's merge advantage, bonus eyes, and larger air-air weapon load, excepting gun for gunless Phantom? How did visibility out of the cockpit compare for both planes? I can go either way here. Another interesting question -- too many already I know: In disengaging from a close fight, which would have general advantage, under what relative conditions? I have not thought about this.

Little Boomer If it sets off Big boomer... I read something like that. Every time little boomber goes off, big boomer goes off later.

Yea its all "feeling" and I share it about the trekkie aerodynamics, especially Streak's #5 point on high AoA handling. The second seat and larger missile load is the winner for me. But that comes with a cost and if all you had is a small carrier the single seat F-8 is infinitely better than F-0 nothing. The thing to do is get F-4 crews as trained as F-8 pilots in close dogfighting. server:: lol hehe :good: SUMMARY ~> F-4 pwn F-8 Don't worry he's hungover now he'll read that as F-8 pwn F-4 so everybody happy

Man well said. But for offline, and online with AI components, the AI has to be programmed to use the FM, and it never is in any of TheSims I've heard of. That's why I gut the FMs I use for my campaign development, strip out most of the variables, or the player gets game crippling advantages, as far as I've seen in the game anyways. My focus on air war environment grafix is player oriented but the AI is not programmed for it. I guess my "skyterrain" mods are a wish that developers would treat it like ground combat games treat the ground environment, programming AI to use the objects and features of terrain and buildings. Recall Saburo getting the best of a Brewster Buffalo but the Buff pilot manages to get to a cumulonimbus cloud to escape -- a 3 dimensional as in "3D" cumulonimbus cloud not just "texture."

That's a good one.

What if she uses a golf club?

Go 76 that looks great. I did some hang gliding at one time, not much but its the neatest thing. Airplane = deep sea diving Sailplane = scuba diving Hang gliding = skinny dipping, all natural We should ask Jug if, under good summer convection conditions, one could thermal with an empty U-2.

Woa Streak that's a bunch to chew on. Thanks for the time spent. Michel in Clashes does tell about crews that were proficient at Sparrow combat, and units that could maintain them. What other Vietnam air books would you recommend? Pre-thanks. Clashes is the only one I've got.

Wow, I missed this. usafmtl:: hehe I love that fractional quote.

Thanks Gocad, that makes sense. I assumed driver and gold ballast were equally "trained." ie...the Ideal air crew for TheSims forum discussion. I enjoy the way Pilot put it last page... I probably need an F8U-3 thread (apologies to Streak). I recently got US Naval Air Superiority book by Thomason, but have not got there yet. Still mired in the Demon chapter, but not complaining because that is very interesing. Need F4D vs F3H thread. It never ends.

I *think* Michel's Clashes book described a similar situation, maybe the same. The friendly pilot out front was 'OK' with it. edit -- Not sure if I recall this correctly, and could just as well have been Air Force or NAVY I don't recall.