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CGI is the only way. Sci-fi has proven models are best replaced by CGI. Another way of looking at this, is that Lucas is super-sizing his Dora and 262 manuevers, while JMS in making Babylon~5 bent over backwards to make "realistic" manuevers for his space ships and space fighters. However, I will say that even he faked a close visual range and slow relative speeds in space combat so the audience could easily *see* slow moving ships and fighters and their enemy at the same time. The most realistic space combat sci-fi footage yet is the new BattleStar Galacita series. Very fast relative speeds over longer distances than your average sci-fi CGI, and so very short poor visual observing of the fights -- and with no sound in space -- which to me is exciting to see this for the first time, but to most it probably is not "engaging." Best way to think about CGI is its central role in science fiction. If there is anything in history that looked science fiction, its was SAC under LeMay. A photo of the unreal suits they wore while flying B-47s proves the sci-fi Buck Rogers connection. 8th AAF had the same mission. So call it sci fi too, and CGI rules sci-fi. That's weird thinking but it all fits somehow. Where you gonna find flying Me-262s? Oops, we didn't think of that. Flying B-17s are crashing and not flying anymore as we poast. Okay after the war they could roundup a dozen Spanish He-111s for that BoB movie, or 6 Corsairs for that 70's show. Today? No.

From what I've read of science fiction movie and TV making, 3d models are significantly more expensive than CGI. Babylon~5 is a great example of CGI from the 1990s. Good points there mac, but start the inexperienced audience out slow; just the basics. Anyways, the core detail to watch for is the story of men inside the cockpits and on the airfield. The aircraft and dogfight scenes are fluff. A realistic movie would show almost all air warfare is waiting, looking, stalking, then a 2 second Pounce -- a nice quickie -- and a long fly home hopefully. That's 2 seconds of air combat in maybe 4 hours of air warfare. I'm guessing that kind of air warfare might not engage movie audiences, because I've long known that it has NO chance of engaging hardcore combat flight TheSims players who have read a thousand airplane books but never paid attention to them. TheSims players must have their super-size dose of Dogfight in their games. Let the RedTail audience have their super-sized CGI Dora manuevers as long as the story inside the cockpits and on the ground is done well.

Its made to introduce real life guys and gals to an airplane story, souls who never really *looked* at an airplane before. Hopefully, the visual Posh sells these souls into a lifetime of reading up airplanes where there is enough realism for all. "Hey this airplane thing is cool I want to read more." Razor:: There is a NEED. Most of the souls in the audience DON'T KNOW what YOU know <citation needed> as a hard core TheSims player. The idea is to sell an airplane story, and if they get into it, they might read the airplane books you read, or the airplane internets sites you visit. Think about the audience as "crew" in first day of training -- never having really *looked* at an airplane before. You make things a bit too obvious, too dramatic, over done. You make things clear. Cool. FUN You probably forgot: They are paying money. Unless you are a government, you have to make folks happy if you want them to PAY MONEY to you. For realistic detail, they can read airplane books (or airplanes on teh internets) if the movie can invite them them to.

harry:: We used SPI's AIR WAR. Man that was intense detail. Too much probably. Mee and buddy. He and I had long builded model planes and stuff. I always flew Red. But one time I challenged him: I flew MiG-21 and he F-104. I turned, he turned (sorta). I win. The Deal was, we swap planes. Me BLUE in F-104. I zoomed. He zoomed (kinda). I win again. I knew how to look at the numbers, and play accordingly. That's how it goes. I knew how to fly F-104 against, well anything. I knew how NOT to fly against F-104. Now...how to fly AGAINST F-104, I don't think anybody ever figured a way to do that.

Don't have sound, but just watching THAT was AwSim! ...thanks

Oh yea, and recall that quick scene out of EMPIRE ... JEDI(?) where Lucas puts maybe a hundred ships and space fighters darting through the screen? I'm stoked to see all these planes on screen here. --- Now if only WW2 8th AAF or BoB combat flight TheSims developers would think of this without killing frames.

Whoa....that looks GREAT!!!! That review link -- complaining about Me-262 and Split-S. All I saw was an inverted dive entry. Granted, I'd just push the nose down to gain speed (no carb), but I saw no evidence of a pull through to a Split-S, unless I missed it in that trailer. And for those of you who STUDY air combat, you know a pilot in a big fight like that can panic and do something dumb, and lots of 262 pilots DID JUST THAT and turned when they shouldn't have and got shot down. So There! Now granted, they could mess up things like the ability to tell a captivating story, or mess up the acting direction, or the script. I don't have sound on my computer, but what I saw looked dam good. We'll see. Definitely going to this one.

Found an utterly fascinating recent item through ticker forum. MS-Magazine. Recall that's Gloria Steinem's publication... (14 July 2011) > A Feminist Economist Speaks Out: Deficits are a Grrrl’s Best Friend by Susan Feiner. Scroll down and see the humorous Old Macdonald paraquote ... We/I We/I owe...a quick click here... czech it out. Interestingly, the initial comments show that souls know what is going on. However, my take -- neither raising taxes, nor cutting spending, nor even both together, can fix the problem, because its not about the Quantity of money taxed or not spent -- a click here, a click there -- but the Quality of money.

I'm thinking of the nations and how they ALL seem to have fallen into endless debt. What happens to the individual souls in these nations is related however. FC:: Don't forget electric power! When you run out of storage space for 1,000 tons of food, 200 AR-15s, 500 years of medicine for *each* individual in your circle, etc... Then what...? For the wealthy enough, after spending a mere 5% of their wealth on a weapons arsenal, private farm with hospital and pharma warehouse, then gold may be a compact way of securing the other 95% of their wealth. To Paraquote Tolstoy: How many AR-15s does a man need? Most are not that wealthy. I am not, but as an American I "get" the concept of wealth and freedom for all. Local community is an equally important "investment" as the things you mentioned. But how to do that when so much community has broken apart over the decades? Then the image of feuds and warlords come to mind lol. Everybody here is specially lucky. If I had that much wealth muscle, I would have bought out Thudwire years ago and paid TK a fortune to re-program StrikeFighters, optimizing the game sim completely around classical stratospheric SAC-vs-PVO, LeMay vs Saivitsky, and that's what we'd all be playing here today. :good: ---- ..love this...I found this on the SF (stratofortess) forum last night... Thread..."Cold War alert" river rat::

Woa, that's nice!!!! Thanks for this MB streak LOL spot on man-dude. The worst part is the light reduction in probably ALL of TheSim's canopy static tint/smoke/grease. I estimate that in extreme cases (the Planes and Sims all differ) the outside brightness is reduced by up to 90%. This nonsense is completely unacceptable for low light level or night missions. In the short time I parried with the Su-27 Flaker 2 game, I loved the dynamic canopy scratches glistening bright in the sun. These dynamic scratches did not reduce outside light levels, and as they were dynamic, I think they modeled the real thing well, without getting between the player and his/her game (a very important thing devs forget about). And best, the Flaker-2 dynamic canopy scratches in sunlight were actually very pretty.

This is a slip up. How does this work? Razor:: Who is "we?" Political parties raise taxes -- the parties that caused the problem in the first place? How does paying *the same* organization more taxes fix anything that organization caused? No, its not a "banking problem." Its a money Quality problem. Banks are great, as long as men and women have the freedom, independence, and liberty to avoid banks when banks do really, bad, bad things, and so men and women are never forced to live under the rule of banks. Its not caused by political parties, although both ALL political parties enable the debt backed money Racket. ----- I don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole thread because of a single slip up, so otherwise, yall fellas are doing really good here?

Only Chuck Norris can kick this can down the road. ooops, wrong thread, but Norris Theory can be applied to everything so...

Shrike:: Yall fellas+fellattes are doing fine. eww... My fave analogy to the central bank owned "dollar" debt backed system is pouring sand on a sand pile -- a chaotic or non~equilibrium dynamical system. Advance search Google the exact phrase fingers of instability if yall wish.

I figure she sawed to see what it was, hoping for copper maybe. You go girl. Ever see screenshots of copper thieves who got caught by Andre-Marie Ampere? That is one tough law man.

Start:: Google is your friend sometimes. This is not one of those times. Let it go. Club 27? The best break out running at 27. Ray Manzarak was 27 when The~DOORS started up. Mark Foster (Foster The People) delivered pizza and at best did TV/commercial music until the AGE OF 27 he went from total unknown to No.1 (at least on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart) with just one title.

Woman who cut internet to Georgia and Armenia 'had never heard of web' aussum, Awsim, AUWSSOM picture That was on 11 April, when Japan got hit as well. I found this through arstechnica hardware site in an article about various reasons and amounts of internets outage. Interesting. Ars article ~> State of the 'Net 2011: earthquakes, revolutions, scrap metal snafus

Yea the whole idea was for nuke carrying aircraft. F-84G for example. I figure you could setup the way points so you line up between them, and start pull up at the right distance from the way point sitting on the target. But yea the nav is a bit "automatic" certain but at least its something.

Do'h, forgot: Nightwatch 24 July ~> http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch/NightWatch_11000151.aspx x, Beck is a good example why I never watch Television, and the idea of Political Youth Camp is still scary from any side. I can visualize a Climate Change Youth Camp. What's even more scary is this guy dressing up as police, the victims armed with automatic programmed faith, and having no means for self defense. That's frightening. There's a National Outdoor Leadership School in Alaska that just had 7 kids -- alone -- unarmed defenseless -- mauled by a bear. FAIL so x ignore Beck. Apparently, a few years ago, Beck "indicated" on his FOX show that Ron Paul( ) supporters were terrorists. A year or two later, Beck was inviting Ron Paul( ) on his FOX show all the time. Weird. Weird. Weird.

Fubar:: Can we confirm this? I'm making this up, but maybe TK, not wanting work anymore with DX9, left that code not accessing the new multi~thread optimizations. Or the other way around...the new core code not accessing DX9. Is that what you are thinking? We need to ask TK how his multi~thread works on a basic level...like, is AI broken into unlimited amount of cores? If so, then in the future there would be much less limit to the number of AI units in a mission. Spreading WW2 bomber gunners into multiple cores would help solve the fps hit that gunners introduce in very large WW2 style formations.

Cool. I always thought, but never tried to, maybe use way points and the distance counters to setup and execute toss/loft bombing, having previously tested pullup and at appropriate gees, airspeed, and attitude+altitude releace, for toss bomb placement, and applying this at the correct way point distance. Is this Correct Thinking?

They can't build S-V's anymore even if they wanted to. They don't use slide rules anymore.

This is creepy. Ancient warfare -- targeting the children of political opposition? Granted, the idea of political camps for kids scares me too. Nightwatch's comment on France is interesting here. I don't know what France is doing different from the rest of Euro. Any ideas? I love the theory of unrestricted immigration, but, without .gov making a "racket" out of it, and assimilation helps. Night of 24 July 2011:: One possible reason that I can think of for .govs to run immigration rackets, at least over here, is that even "illegal" immigrants can be offered credit by banks when the native population starts tapping out on debt. According to Nightwatch-25-July, 24 killed and 24 wounded recently in political violence in Karachi (Pakistan). Outside the Nazi occupation, has Norway suffered political violence in its history at in least the last century?

FC, you seen the closeup pics of space helmets penetrated by cosmic rays? Them some rays man. Few souls know this, but the body needs the natural radiation in the environment; not too much, not too little. but just right. There are other possibilities tying man to Earth. geophagy -- the art of eating Earth -- could be a big one. Very interesting short article here.... Eating Dirt Can Be Good for the Belly, Researchers Find ~> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110602162820.htm ...at least some kinds of Earth dirt. Lunar Regolith? Probably not ... for one thing its sharp like glass shards given -- I think -- no erosion on the Moon outside collisions with other particles and cosmic rays, and its sterile of biological related substances. I tend to guess that Earth dirt has millions of years worth of biological substances that the body needs. Funny, the humoid body has more bacteria than body cells. Like natural radiation, these bacterias are required. Where do we get them?

I'm a space nut, so much so, I programmed my own spacecraft/solar system simulator in Fortran90 (for DOS but 32bit), and my take:...its about time. Either build a real system of boosters to orbit, or just forget about it. That shuttle was never the way to continue into space from day one. Now the lukewarm is gone, they either get hot about space, or go cold to it. There is an alternative however. Karl Denninger has an interesting take on this, that .gov puts phony obstacles in the way of private space enterprises while exempting itself from the same rules -- PK for passengers for example. Get phony.gov out of the way, and the first steps to vast space travel starts tomorrow. I'll add that getting the ponzi bank.gov debt system out of the way of enterprising men and women is required as well so real wealth can build the future. The only *theoretical* possible issue I see is that man biologically cannot survive indefinitely in space, no matter the conceivable tech. If so, then man's physical form is too closely tied to the Earth, and NASA and some others know this but nobody's talking, which could explain why there is no serious attempt at moving man into space long term. That's just a logical possibility however, and one I hope is totally wrong.

Folks, that takes long distance visibility. Seeing stuff like that was one thing I was goaling for in my little spacecraft sim with Fortran90 some years back. ...*Not* the cool planet skin, but just the ionized atmo-entry trail. I couldn't skin then, I can't skin now.