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We are knee deep at the moment, but when it's mostly together videos will be a plenty I am sure :)

Just a little bump to the thread..

OK we are just deleting all the new stuff and it will be there next week ;)

Sure who knows if we get support we can go on adding more features in a sim forever, but even what seem to be simple things can often take a tremendous amount of work (usually the simple things take the longest time ;)). Don't forget we'd like to release it some day!

I have 2 monitors and the main menu can appear on the 2nd monitor but basically OFF will usually work fine. It has not been specifically told to work that way just windows seems to push it there for some reason.

Nice one lol, sounds about right Hellshade.

You can copy everything if you make the new drive the same letter as the old (have to change the old drive's letter first and make sure you do not need anything on there) and all the paths are then the same etc. Otherwise best to install so the registry etc i correct.

Heck of a lot of reading for SSD to get the best and each type is different with different recommendations. I have some of the OCZ Vertex and Vertex II and each of those is different. I don't have any links for the Intel stuff but have a good read up is the best thing. There are general tips like don't defrag it etc as SSDs work differently of course. The good thing is Windows 7 fully patched up is pretty aware of them now so less need for some of the tools.

Yes adblock too forgot that one. Been using it for years and never think about the obvious. It's amazing how clean some websites look when you can't see the junk. If you install Spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html don't forget to update it to the latest latest malware signatures and use the immunise option to kill another load of junk websites from working (basically updates your hosts file to redirect known iffy urls and IPs to no-where.

Install http://noscript.net/ for Firefox for a start, then you chose which scripts to allow on websites (so blocks many advertising ones). Bit annoying on some but mostly you can allow temporarily or permanently (or block of course) on favourite websites. Use Spybot and clean your system, and use a decent Anti Virus.

Ouch worth a heads up for sure thanks Parky.

:) thought I was treating him but I guess it could be torture too :)

Thanks yes Dimus there are always going to be annoying things, even in some of the newer engines sims there are things that still really annoy people or don't look great in the scenery (I won't site examples not good form). We can't promise to make it all perfect in every single area but we have improved dramatically all along in many areas (and even now there is more we can do). But what we have done in P4 already - especially with the new AI and other features we can't talk about yet :) - it's re-invigorated us too so must be doing something good.

At the moment on our higher end PCs it seems to be 60 most of the time, (i.e. Vsync'd to 60, not sure how high it would go haven't tested with Vsync off) which is fab considering the extra detail in there, but we do have more features to add so very hard to say what it will be in the end or what difference it will be on lesser machines etc.

P4 DEVELOPMENT SCREENSHOTS Discussion Place for comments so we can clean up the screenshot thread !

What you said Hasse Wind ;). This screenshot thread is a tad off kilter now.

Lewie that's 25 people (more actually) who had great serious intentions, long discussions, actively learning or making models in Gmax - progressing etc. All this was very time sapping. Is learning to make models for CFS3 format a big commitment time wise? Yes, absolutely always say that. Totally agree on the learning curve - again I always stress that VERY clearly and up front when discussing with potential modellers. I know I started with nothing and learned the hard steep way too. You can also use other programs as long as you can convert. You only need GMax to export. Gmax is free, plenty of info out there. It's basically 3DStudio 4 so many basic features work the same way even as the current versions. Also you can use 3D Studio if you have it or any program that can export to .3ds. Simply import at the end and finish off in Gmax to export. I'm not having a go at Bullethead? What? He isn't making models for us. I admire his determination to learn and his Morane AI I am sure is great - not useful for WW1 and has not been offered or shown to us though? It's a fact people start then give up - just takes too much time yes. Maybe Argon does have particular models that could be used, I have not seen every model in WW1:SDOE. The few I have seen a while back were low poly in the VC but if you say some are great and if you believe modellers would like to donate them for our use? We'd have to contact each and every modeller who has them around the net to ask permission to modify / use the models to OFF and CFS3 requirements and also they would require re-mapping,relinking, renanimating, often new Virtual cockpits needed etc so most models made for other sims are fairly useless to us time wise. BTW the external LOD100 is usually the part offered but is the least of our worries.

Ah one of the we must have <insert fav plane> requests Widowmaker only took 5 years of constant badgering to get his Snipe into P4 lol. Seriously we'd love to have it and many more, just the 25+ modellers who have come offered assistance then vanished hasn't helped the cause much! But agreed it's a good workhorse and we need it and it's on the long list as many others are ...just as usual the problem is time

Well the model isn't mega high detail so some parts are approximation such as the cut out but sure the sight part is in the wrong place no idea how I got that so maybe mixed photos, but I'll move it sometime then.

Yes the compass is viable, simply eer look down with TrackIR :) or press F6 key to get to it as usual in most of the craft. Elephant noo the rifle is a MKIII 1904 - I did say that but seems to have been missed.

Unfortunately the big bucks where splashed out on a new mouse for Winder, so no car :/

It's fitting the 64 piece orchestra that will be tricky...

Yes for sure, always use a pure original where possible to resave from - just DDS is particularly bad gets noticeable worse as you go quickly.

Lol if it works you mean Parky but thanks ;)

Yes Duke. Open the DDS once, save as BMP or PSD or whatever first. Then you can tweak clarify details that you want then save as DDS. Keep the BMP or original always to do more work on later, never reimport the dds. Not a lot of people know that ;) When you save it compresses. Open, save (now you have a doubly compressed file now). Not the same for other formats but for DDS is so.