Lexx_Luthor

Interesing quote, but I'm not so sure now. It sounds true. Perhaps as important as nucs is if a non-nuc nation's citizens are responsible and fully armed personally. I keep thinking back to how the nucs dropped on Japan didn't do anything new, except for being novelty bombs which I'm guessing gave the hardcore a way out to surrender. Limited fallout from high airbursts not withstanding. Also of importance is if non-nuc states have friends, and together can economically isolate a bully nuc state.

That's an F-4E panel though. I need the RWR as soon as SAC starts flying F-4C's over Siberia roundabouts 1964 or so. The high altitude stratospheric clarity of sky is another reason I need the sunset/sunrise moddability of early SF versions. There is a purpose behind my psychosis.

No, its something else. Bear me out. The sun does not have to shine through the atmosphere at a more oblique angle because when the sun is on the horizon, the sun is on the horizon. Same altitude -- an angle measurement here. You may be thinking of the lower altitude angle of the sun for any given time of day in general during winter. In the case here, when the sun is on the horizon, its at the same altitude angle no matter the season. Time of day will differ however, as will sun azimuth angle. Now, the cirrus clouds can turn blood red after a clear winter sunset (or before sunrise), but that is the sun shining through a very long distance, through lower altitude "over the horizon" atmosphere -- er -- so to speak. We can't get near that in the TK Sim. Note kout's Switchblade shot has a little bit of sunset red reflecting off the cirrus clouds. This seems to be the time between red cirrus, where the sun shines through extensive atmosphere to get to the cirrus, and dark cirrus, where the sun has set as seen by the cirrus, so the unlit cirrus goes dark against the still sunlit air above and beyond. Had the photo been taken a few minutes earlier, assuming sunset, the cirrus would have been a much brighter red. But, carrier ops wait for no one. That colour variation of clouds during sunset would be like a pot of gold at the end of the JetSims evolution (or PropSims too). As always I forget THANKS kout for that photo...! One of my fave "winter" looking shots. There does need to be a slim strip of more reddish colour along the horizon, but we can't do that in the game. F-4C stargetic pit. The open canopy does not leave much frame.

An old example, B-57, stargetic pit. Reading between the clouds, the sky to the left is blue, and gets brighter toward the setting sun near the right edge. This is with camera lens effects taken out. These show the sun centered sky glow fairly well. Very olde colours though, I need to take new shots.

Yea, the river of blood. In 2008, TK went bananas going for a red "camera lens" look, flooding terrain and objects with red. I tried to mod into something useful, but the newer Enviro system handling this is a mess. Notice nobody tries to mod this. The game is now restricted in visual appearance to very low altitude, and to humid summer days; not even low altitude clear winter skies are available now, unless the red river can be modded away. I did make some limited progress, but gave up on it eventually. Maybe I should try again so I CANNOT complain just have to dedicate the time.

That cirrus sky I'd like to do, but I can't get the dark look against bright sunset/sunrise sky until I do some experiments with alternative tga files. Never got around to doing that. I need to. btw...note the blue sky to the left, getting brighter above the sun to the right. That sun centered sky glow effect was in SF from the beginning up to 2008 when it was eliminated. That's the sole reason keeping me from upgrading from SF 2006. Man I so want to upgrade but it just won't happen until TK brings this correct effect back. Who knows he might so I'm hanging in there.

Hellyea all contributions are wellcome, especially for the Cold War. I find this F4D cockpit intriguing as it sports a simple style one-piece airspeed indicator, thus making it useful for conversion to same era Soviet panels.

Awsim stuff mighty. Something I noticed: Every nation that got nucs suddenly developed responsible behavior with their new toys. Is this Correct Thinking? I'd like to share a thought bubble: The nucs did nothing new to Japan that conventional bombing hadn't already done, so I can see the nucs as offering a "way out" so to speak for hardcore Japan to surrender and so stop the war. Also, an interesting thesis I had heard some time ago is the nucs were also hoped to demonstrate to all of Asia not to resist domination. Sam Cohen recalls that the nuc designers were hoping to use the bombs on Germany, but they were too late, and Japan had to do. Fascinating stuff all around. Have you read Admiral Theobald's book Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor? I had faintly heard of this but never paid attention until I ran across the book's Foreword on the internet, which claimed I was required to read the book. So of course I ordered it immediately but I have not yet read. I already know FDR was *used* in the 1933 Emergency Banking Act to cause, with a flick of his pen, infinitely greater physical destruction to USA than the Wehrmacht and Combined Fleet together ever could do militarily in a thousand years. Given that FDR was used like this, I can very easily make space for Theobald's ideas.

christian:: I think the instructions tell how to vary the destructive effects, although something in weapon effects may have changed in SF2 I dunno. Use exponential notation its Aussom intuitive that way. Woah, thanks Julhelm!! I was eventually gonna do that but to be honest my SF molding has been on low simmer on the back burner for some time. I can ramp the effects indeed. I did run into a limit of 16 emitters per effect on the largest nucs however, but I hit that limit by making multiple emitters for one type of visual theme seen at varying distances to save frames. I can back off doing that now.

ezlead:: Finally been reading up on Tura Satana. She spent time in the camps. There's one amazing lady. I never saw Pussycat movie but I'm ordering it now. Another nuc would have been available for use by late August. Nuc Archive has some ideas on this...

I think it was added as a weapon or fake pilot, probably fake pilot. You need a skin for the object, the skin being the picture. I never used it but, have added stuff to a cockpit like an upside down folding fin rocket so the fin~less base is like a gunsight pad for WW2 Yaks (for rotations, you have to use the fake weapon method).

Yea FUBAR that's it you made my day. I loved the horizontal escalator(?) one, cave guy riding the...what do you call those things...? Thanks!!

5-Foot Sand Shark Forces Closure of Seaside Beach Cops arrested Snooki for disorderly conduct... Knowing nothing of today's Tele shows, I read that as arresting the shark. Snooki-the-Shark

He's a sad case shooting that thing off around neighbors. That's something you take out to the country where noboby is around.

Falcon, Caveman = Geico?? I don't remember that.

Some American volunteers flew Polikarpovs, the biplanes and I-16 I think. One or more downed a -109Bertha, the first of many US pilots to down Messers in later years. One was later a Tuskeegee fella, another, ex-NAVY, committed suicide the story goes he was depressed over lack of US support for the Republicans. I forgot the site with all the SCW pilots.

What's in your wallet? -- hide it and run for the hills hehe The Caveman ads I liked, but I totally forgot what they were advertising though which means the method was more memorable than the product for me apparently. What did the Caveman ads try to sell? Gekko insurance ads are always fun. Some years back, Wallgreens had great music in their commercials, and some of the smoothest flowing commercials were Pantene hair spray ads.

How widespread are these smolder fires? Peat is everywhere over there right, and not so deep the smoke gets out? CV:: hehe

FC:: Use the Force FC. Reminds me of my physics sub who worked Oxcart long ago as engineer. After class I said, you did all that with slide rules? He said he never thought about it like that but yes he did hehe.

Thanks, big new site for me ~> http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk/0_Contents.html I'm looking for info on the proposed supersonic Bucc. Any ideas?

P-26 and B~10 are two very cool planes, although possibly because I never studied this era much. If I did, I would almost certainly have lesser known planes as my period faves. As it stands now, until I study this era, these two are exciting planes indeed. Stratos, I suggest an idea I've always had in the back of my mind: Some kind of intervention in North Africa desert, with other Euro powers involved. This era gives possibility of Zeppelins, as well as some Spanish Civil War stuff. Bf-109B and Ju-86 comes to mind.

Something like Factory Smoke. I got semi-active volcano smoke working okay, the next step is fully active red hot lava blowouts, should work like expanding tga and fall to gravity while fade. I was supposed to make volcanos for Charles' Timor campaign but I got derailed after the basic smoke, and I'll need these for RingOfFire map to keep B-47 crews something to look at to keep them awake. Rabaul was said to be going off alot during the Japanese use of that spot. Its going to require ramping up some FlightEngine.ini far clip distance though so you can see smoke beyond the stock 20km Dogfight Bubble typically found in all TheSims.

Please do not feed the Supermodels I saw a girl once with that on her t-shirt, always remembered it.

LOA = Lightnings Over Airfield That's about it hehe. On a more sincere, serious, and even severe note, back when TK releaced the HUNTER for WoE, he told us he had to make a choice between Hunter and Lightning, but not both because of lack of Dev resources. He went Hunter at the time.