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Spotting..(how fun would this sim be with multi-player??!) Corsair II... :thumbsup: BeachAV8R

Spad! BeachAV8R

Haha.. I was just making a (poorly written) joke.. I was trying to channel my inner-Jedi sort of tongue in cheek. My smoke effects are fine.. <g> BeachAV8R

Waves hand aside and says... "These are not the smoke effects you were seeking..." BeachAV8R

So I got paged out last night to fly a trip at 3AM.. Pretty tired and as we are flying eastbound toward RDU the sun starts coming up and my FO says - "what is that?" I look on the horizon and there is this odd shadow line that is being projected from the horizon line up into the sky. All I could think of in my mind was: "LOD problem with our King Air..gonna have to turn off the shadows.." BeachAV8R

My wife will actually think that means something... Oh dear..

Did you know that at position 9202591 in Pi you'll find Jenny, Jenny's number (867-5309eiein..).. Your interesting fact of the day. BeachAV8R

Yeah - that one is pretty useful actually... Would just like to see some slight movement in that panning view so it doesn't look so much like the aircraft is on rails.. We'll just add it to the Wish List.. <g>

Feet dry.. Snake eye! For those interested: Strike Fighters 2 - Vietnam Green Hell 3.5 + Trees - Stary SF2V Air/Ground War Expansion - eBurger68 CVA-63 Kitty Hawk - MigBuster RAZBAM A-6A - Payware Formations.ini - SixGun/PureBlue A-6 SuperPack - Homefries Unified Effects 1.2 - Stary SARCASM 1.5 - Stary A-6 DIANE CCIP - MigBuster ..and a whole lot of help from the kind people at Combat Ace... BeachAV8R

Great pics.. Sad to see the Big E being broken down. What history with that ship...

Dude..a somewhat functional IFLOLS would be epic. What would also be really cool would be some sort of inset camera view of it..but that is really stretching the wishlist...<g> * Can I add the ability to taxi back the catapult and launch to the list too! * <G> ** Apologies for the thread-hijack hrc - I hope you can get your workaround implemented. <S> BeachAV8R

Would be neat to see a FCLP (Field Carrier Landing Practice) too.. From what I gather though visual landing aids aren't possible in Strike Fighters huh? This one is from FSX: BeachAV8R

Ah..OK. That makes things a bit more complicated then. I suppose it's not as easy as just moving the saved games data, installing the update, and then moving the saved game data back. I'd assume that wouldn't work since I'd be overwrting the new North Atlantic changes to the saved games folder. Hmm.. LOL..I look at my modded game as sort of a house of cards. Right now I have it set just right..and prior to each mod I back up the whole saved game folder in case I screw something up and need to revert. Kind of a hassle, but better than having to rebuild the tower of cards each time I make a change. I guess now is a good time to ask the question if there is a utility that can install then roll back a mod if one doesn't like it? BeachAV8R

That makes sense. But if I extracted Thirdwire .ini files to my /USER/SAVEGAME directory to mod them, then I don't really need to worry about NA reverting those CAT files right..since the mod folder preempt the Thirdwire files? (I think that's right right?) As for the RAZBAM A-6's..yes, I'd could just re-install those. Guess I should have just done the whole install first, then started modding..but I'm obtuse that way.. BeachAV8R

Yeah..that's exactly what it was..an over the horizon contrail that had a shadow being projected to our horizon line. Pretty cool to think that plane was probably 4 or 5 hundred miles away likely to cast that kind of shadow...

Ah! OK - so that I don't send anyone down the wrong path I deleted the files I had attached to my post. Thanks for the updated file..! BeachAV8R

I would buy that A-1E if it comes up for sale... BeachAV8R

Yeah..the INI file is calling for: ExhaustEmitterName=AV-8LEngineEmitter Look good! Thanks for the pointers (better to teach to fish than give me the fish..<g>...hopefully the questions will taper off..!) BeachAV8R

Overall I'm very happy with the A-6 cockpit and 3D model. I paid the full price of $16 and I see some history posts that show they once had a sale for $5 for all the titles on their site - and that would have been a really good deal. I sent TK an e-mail yesterday telling him that he should release an A-6 DLC...he'd make a killing on it. BeachAV8R

Well that's cool.. Just tried it and indeed the tractor beam is gone. So I'm only losing the shadow cast on the ground correct (that's what it appears to be anyway..)..? Thanks! BeachAV8R

Curious if there has been update on this - I purchased the RAZBAM A-6 the other day and am definitely seeing the "tractor beam" shadow issue. Would love to see an updated LOD that eliminates it.. Until then - is there a workaround for getting rid of the tractor beam or is it something we just have to live with? ...because besides that little shadow artifact..the model is beautiful..! BeachAV8R

Ah..I seem to have found my smoke. I don't know why though.. Messed around with adding some weapons pack and changing the dates for the availability of the TIALD and went to fly and I have black smoke. Better to be lucky than good I guess..<G> BeachAV8R

Hmm..no, I don't think it was anything related to the afterburner effect.. I swear it was some sort of particle effect file or something..but I'll be darned if I can figure it out. I was hoping it was the file attachment mentioned in THIS POST..but I've put it in my EFFECTS folder but it doesn't appear to be working. Perhaps something with the Thirdwire updates over the past couple of years has changed something that made in ineffective... BeachAV8R

Hello again Folks.. I've once again been bitten by the bug and have spent the past 24 hours diving into mods to get up and running. I'm <-> this close to having a perfect install, but I'm running up against a little bugger of a problem that I can't figure out. I'm using the RAZBAM A-6 (payware) in my SF2V install and have built up my mods to include Green Hell, SFV2 Air/Ground War Expansion, and a few others. Everything is working perfectly except for a single file that seems to be corrupting the RAZBAM A-6 cockpit graphics. Yes - the dreaded FLIGHTENGINE.INI file. I'm guessing it is one that was included with one of the mods or something, but it is definitely the culprit. If I delete the file I get a crystal clear A-6 cockpit, but if I put it back in I get a blurry mess. So I'm wondering if I need it - and if I do, if anyone has an idea of what I need to change to get it to work properly. Here is the file contents: ------------------------------ [Debug] SkipFlight=FALSE [FlightEngine] HUDDLL=HUD.dll HUDDataFilename=HUDData.ini CommDLL=Comm.dll CommDataFilename=CommData.ini ObjectList=ObjectList.ini SoundList=SoundList.ini ViewList=ViewList.ini ParticleSystem=ParticleSystem.ini EnvironmentSystem=EnvironmentSystem.ini MessageSystem=MessageSystem.ini SpeechSystem=SpeechSystem.ini ForceFeedback=FlightEffect.ifr ForceFeedbackControl=PITCH_CONTROL DeltaT=0.016667 MaxDeltaT=0.200 RefreshTime=0.016667 ChangeTimeAmount=15 MaxTimeCompression=8.0 StartTimeCompression=1 StartPaused=FALSE ShowCockpit=TRUE TextFilename=FlightText.str EjectView=EjectView [LoadingScreen] BackgroundImage=LoadingScreen1.bmp BackgroundImageSize=1024,768 TextFontName=Arial TextSize=12 TextFontColor=250,250,250 TextFile=LoadingText.str LoadingTextStringID=TXT_FLT_LOADING PercentTextStringID=TXT_FLT_LOADING_PERCENT ProgressBarRange=100 ProgressBarRect=204,733,820,753 StreamAudio=loading.wav FadeTime=0.2 //x4 [GraphicsSettings] ZBufferDepth=24 MaxVertexCount=16384 MaxIndexCount=32768 MaxTextureCount=16384 MaxModelType=4096 MaxMeshPerScene=2048 MaxModelPerScene=2048 MaxLightPerScene=512 AspectRatio=1.333333 MinPixelSize=1.0 [FarSceneClip] FarClipDistance=80000.0 NearClipDistance=3000.0 [NormalSceneClip] FarClipDistance=20000.0 NearClipDistance=249.9 [NearSceneClip] FarClipDistance=250.0 NearClipDistance=1.2 [LowDetailOption] HorizonDistance=45000.0 DetailMeshSize=4 DetailLevel=0 WaterEffect=0 NoiseTexture=0 MaxTextureRes=128 [MedDetailOption] HorizonDistance=60000.0 DetailMeshSize=5 DetailLevel=0 WaterEffect=1 NoiseTexture=0 MaxTextureRes=256 [HighDetailOption] HorizonDistance=75000.0 DetailMeshSize=6 DetailLevel=1 WaterEffect=2 NoiseTexture=1 MaxTextureRes=-1 [soundSettings] SampleFrequency=11025 BitsPerSample=16 DopplerFactor=1.0 [WorldSettings] SectorWidth=20 SectorHeight=20 SectorMaxObject=256 Border=80000.0 MinHeight=2.0 MaxHeight=35000.0 [MapSettings] MapMaxSize=200000 MapMinSize=20000 MapInitSize=100000 MapScaleRate=5.0 ZoomControl=CAMERA_ZOOM_CONTROL [screenShot] FilenameFormat=img%05d.bmp MaxScreenShot=99999 SoundEffect=shutter.wav [TextStrings] GamePaused=TXT_FLT_GAME_PAUSED GameUnpaused=TXT_FLT_GAME_UNPAUSED TimeCompress=TXT_FLT_TIME_COMPRESS NormalTime=TXT_FLT_NORMAL_TIME TimeSet=TXT_FLT_TIME_SET StartFlight=TXT_FLT_START_FLIGHT WaitJoin=TXT_FLT_WAIT_JOIN [skipToNext] Timer=3.0 FadeTimer=1.0 SkipToNextView=FlybyView AutoPilotCommand=AUTO_PILOT [startView] StartView000=ShoulderView StartView001=CockpitFront [inFlightChat] TargetText=ChatTarget.str RepeatDelay=0.5 RepeatRate=0.1 CursorFlashTime=0.4 CursorString=| --------------------------------- So any suggestions? This was the only problem I've run into that I couldn't hammer through...so some expert advice would be appreciated. (I also have to figure out how to get that DIANE CCIP display working, but I haven't even started on that yet..) On another note - Green Hell 3.5 + Trees looks awesome! Regards, BeachAV8R

Coming up on Thud Ridge... BeachAV8R