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

Did a search - but didn't see the topic anywhere. I was wondering if it is possible to have a "jitter cam" view similar to what you see in DCS when you are in the external panning view. Basically the camera has a slight back and forth motion implying a slightly unstable filming platform.. An effect similar to the slight camera motion at :35 to :50 in this video: Possible? BeachAV8R

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...

Title says it all.. At some point I'm thinking of adding North Atlantic..but I've already extensively modded my current Vietnam/Israel/Europe install.. Since all those mods are (presumably) in the /USER/SAVEDGAMES/ folders - can I just install North Atlantic without any problems? Not too interested in playing anything beyond Vietnam at the moment..but I do love me that Harrier..! Regards.. BeachAV8R

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

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

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

Damn. I hate it when I do something, then can't remember how I did it. Just fiddling around with my install tonight and wanted to check out the Harrier GR7 again. I downloaded the aircraft, but for some reason I can't get the exhaust to show up like it used to when I original captured this screenshot a couple years ago. THIS THREAD references some earlier troubles I had with it..but I can't figure out why adding those files haven't put the smokey smoke back in the exhaust... This is what I was hoping to end up with again: Some video of it (damn..makes me want to fly the Harrier again...!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8BZYXk2swc#t=148 So what file or entry am I missing for the exhaust? BeachAV8R

Coming up on Thud Ridge... BeachAV8R

I know I'm preaching to the choir..but hot damn this sim looks great with all these great mods.. BeachAV8R