Lexx_Luthor

File Name: **UPDATE 1.3** 300t -- 30Mt Nuclear Weapon Effects File Submitter: Lexx_Luthor File Submitted: 19 September 2007 File Category: Effect Mods Update 1.3 fixes a titanic blunder in 300kt late cloud effects -- the flat clouds spread across the map at weapon detonation, which is badly wrong. More in the update details section below. The B-47 screenshot shows 300kt late cloud effect as it should be. Updates 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are listed at the bottom of this page. Included are nuclear weapon grafix effects from the initial double peak pulse to simplified late cloud development, and most major things in between, spanning a time of about 1/20 second to several hours, depending on yield. No weapons are included, but only visual grafix to be set up for use by your weapons. Surface targeted warhead effects (for bombs, ASMs) are modelled for 3kt, 30kt, 300kt, 3Mt, and 30Mt. Low airburst only -- see the weapondata "Add To" file. AAM and SAM airburst effects are modelled for 300t, 3kt, 30kt, 300kt, and 3Mt. ** The latest Bunyap Weapons Pack is required for the use of two grafix files contained in that pack -- the SMOKE3 and SMOKE4 tga files . This pack is found here at the CombatAce. As the sim does not yet support physical nuclear explosive effects, use conventional high explosives and experiment with very high warhead powers. The Weapon Editor can use exponential notation, and 1E+11 is a good start for experimenting with physical yields. PROJECT USE PRE-REQUISITES: (1) Know how to work the sim's conventional weapons and the Weapon Editor. This editor and some basic tutorials are found here at the CombatAce. (2) Know how to work the Cat Extractor to extract several encrypted text files for editing. This extractor is found here at the CombatAce. This project is designed and optimized for gameplay of hypothetical early Cold War era strategic strike and air defence operations on a massive scale, and will require a few simple, but very profound, adjustments to the sim to work well. One example why: Visible ranges to grafix effects can approach 1000 kilometers, and in one effect, far beyond. This project works with the stock original game fully patched. However, this project was designed with the author's personal Environmentsystem file and a CRT monitor. I have no clue what this project's effects look like on LCD monitors during day or night missions. Possible future tweaks, possible bugg fixxes, discussion of modeling methods, answers to questions, improving the effects and their ease of use for others, and discussion of what is being modelled can be found at the ThirdWire webboard at the link below. ThirdWire thread ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3970 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *UPDATE 1.1 CONTENTS* Fixed some faults in the KT/MT FireBall to HighCloud-1 transitions, especially for KT030. All Pulse and SkyGlow emitters are set to 50% larger in the effects text files (no changes were made to any tga grafix files). Tweaked some Visibility Distances. Tweaked some later HighClouds for KT/MT effects. Made FireBall particles turn a more deep red near the end of their lifetime. Too red? Tell at the ThirdWire thread. Set the FlightEngine.ini's FarClipDistance to 5000000.0. This fixes bad flickering of large yield SkyGlows seen from very long distances. Doubled the rate of GroundCloud emission. And, a few other minor tweaks I don't recall right now. Additional modding tips in the Install text file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **UPDATE 1.2 CONTENTS** Removed all files for my personal Enviro mods, as the New Sun effect did not seem to work properly when I recently patched up to the latest Patch (new sun caused black hole in the sky for example). Enviro mod and *new* new sun and star effects will have to be offered seperately for better download support. This has taught me a lesson to be fully Patched with everybody else before releacing any mods. I seemed to have found that the sim's custom Effects Details grafix option must be set to MEDIUM or HIGH. At the LOW setting, some important nucular effects will not show. Fixed a minor but potentially confusing Flight Engine file instruction regarding FarClip distances. ------------------------------------------------------- **UPDATE 1.3 CONTENTS** Fixed a devastating error in the KT300 flat clouds that I failed to catch. I had it working fine, but used the KT300 flatclouds to "experiment" with the flat layers as general weather clouds spread wide across the map, and becoming visible just after weapon detonation. I "forgot" to change it back to normal before uploading at CombatAce. This was sloppy. It works correctly now...I think. Click here to download this file

Dave = JKU ? ?? madness. ... the girls must love that. I just got a really clean YJ. No time to mess with it yet, moving. New landlord says... "You need to get round headlight covers if you want to park that thing here." grrrrh

Water taps yanked from new Bunde spy agency building. Lots of water damage. Totally "gets it" with title ~> http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150305/1019099118.html BBC somewhat also, but *lots* more info ~> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31746602

Not related (um I think) but the city had a massive leak last month. Major Water Leak in Berlin ~> http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150215/NEWS07/150219374

nah, alot of simple tricks and nonsense. He had a good blaster at his side here. ... blasting or flying, good skills.

ssshhh not give TK any ideas here. Freaking ~loved~ them snakes and how they look around though. Massive props compressor blades for that.

The night shots are very sweet thanks again MB.

Needs lots of gas stations too. Could have found better alternatives, maybe. I just got a YJ, and apartment mgmt says I have to get round headlight covers to park there. like what? Anyways, I hadn't thought of modding up some drop tanks until now. Thanks!!

My fave in the series. Very inspiring to at least some young to see such honesty -- Spock-- in a dishonest world. All of them were fantastic. Although my fave trekisode was Tholian Web where, for the only time I've read, the crew had to work the problem without Kirk anywhere around. They should have done more of those.

no pics. Is it lenticularlar saucer shaped by any chance?

That's why you never store a backup plugged into your computer. I always say, keep MULTIPLE independent backups stored away from computer. I use old hard drives, slowly cycling through them, bringing each closer to up to date If used only for cold storage, they last forever. You do know of course, that if you have only one backup, and your main drive goes down, you don't have any *backup* anymore. Think about it. That's what happened to you dragon. ie... one backup is no backup, unless you are very lucky. Like me last year. I got a bit sloppy and made only one backup of my super map. My main drive went down and I had forgotten I made the backup. Went for months thinking I lost it. I found it. I got lucky, this time. I immediately made extra backups on top of backups when I stumbled across my map I thought I lost.

Keep all your old stuph. No need to zip it. Old hard drives, even 10 years old, are so giga big. Just another idea. Baltika has a http://combatace.com/files/file/10530-kamchatka-peninsula-v-10/'>Kamchatka map. Think about a campaign North Kamchatka vs South Kamchatka. Kamchatka War. Maybe 1960.

Yough interesting vid thanks Dough! I liked the apparent "gentleness" of the high altitude tracking and closing on targets. Like slow motion. I need to play more strikemfighters again.

Yea that was the Mystery Airstrikes from last year. ~> http://combatace.com/topic/61055-nightwatch/?do=findComment&comment=672852

Best thing I ever found was a USAF advertisement for B-47 pilots....about 1955 I think. 5000$ a year salary ... and that's on top of the three headed monster training where all crew members had to train for all duties on that plane. McGill's new book goes into that ...the training, didn't write about the pay. mmm

ugh . Pulling out survivors. Taxi got clipped, smashed, but occupant/s okay there...so far.

LONG Long long read and very good thanks as usual MB. I liked his no generals comment. hehe ... ie ... replace all the pilots with drones, the generals will still be there.

It was Russian software wasn't it? But, I put the blame on the cowardly game companies that used the thing. Worse, didn't the starforce help forum had a serial moderator that asked souls to pirate StarDock games, because StarDock was getting good press for not using DRM software like starforce? Man, the old days of The IL~2 and The FB.

I've stumbled into a peculiar x 3 insightful news and analysis source called NightWatch, run by, I think, Kforce Inc. ~> http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch.aspx Indeed. I noticed that style the first time, and had to keep going back ever since. Its fun to read and a fast roundup every day for those without time. Best, the NightWatch is presented in a simple text page without all the distracting flash and colours. I've always said one word is worth a thousand pictures. Today's report, NightWatch 20101208, is especially fascinating (Japan, China, NK, etc...). ...although I made the mistake of allowing auto-update to FireFox and now have to scroll right to read the full text. I hate automatic software updates. Oh well.

Update on the Wagah crossing bombing. ~> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wagah_border_suicide_attack They gunned down some suspects in Jan. Apparently the bomber had explosives to do a lot more carnage, but was forced to blow from far back because of security distance. I assume that distance has been increased.

TK didn't keep developing his SF original idea, instead tried to go "normal." Oleg made the same error. You've seen some of my weirdo visual mods. Low quality but best I could do with our particle system. Imagine those ideas done by the pros, in a game engine made for atmospheric warfare over longer ranges. It takes alot of WORK to have fun at flight simming. You have to give alot of visual feedback to reward that work. Its never happened in flight sims. Just talking about visual stuff. I had alot of immersive fun just navigating around in some sims, but I was already motivated by aviation and willing to put in the work. There's not that many of us maybe. Worse, games are cheap now. I got teh Su-27 FLAKER 1.0 for DOS in 1995 for 50$ ... with currency devaluation (ask Typhoid) that would be about (guess) 120$ now. Granted wages were stronger then, relative to the devaluation, but not exactly. If TK could get 120$ for a family size box of full grain SF.

From the too weird to make up department:: x'>For the night of 26 January 2015 Lexx's comment: I don't know any thing more than this, and I'd like to hold off judgment on a thing like this, until all the facts are in, butt.... Before or after ISIL beheaded 30 civilians? Also interesting on this nightwatch, Pakistan went almost totally dark, like NK maybe, with just one militant attack on one or two electricity towers.

Gunnies, its the wanna be fighters nato Turkey is smuggling into Syria to train with teh ISIS and AQ. Fantastic analogy thanks much for this.