Julhelm

When it works, it works on groundobjects, too:

Nvm, I got it working now for some reason.

Yes on all counts. It's wierd because in FE2 it's working, the exporter says the bumpmaps are there but I get nothing ingame.

I can't get it to load my normalmap for the life of it. I'm using the default settings in max but no go :(

Are those unedited pics, Wretched?

Yes, the judges here have a tendency to view acts of violence totally out of context. So a shooting is a shooting whether it's an assassination or someone defending his house. Also we have a 'duty to retreat' which pretty much outlaws any form of self defence. Then again there is pretty much zero police presence around here so I'm quite certain one could get away with capping an intruder and then disposing of his body.

Does it have specular mapping too?

Yes but they're worthless at high AOA which is why all subsequent designs have been compromises optimized for maneuverability.

Those fairings under the wing probably house the hydraulic actuators for the movable LERX. Also, as far as RCS goes, it's been stated that it should have the RCS of a 2-rubel coin. The .5m2 figure comes from an old indian news article and cannot be trusted. As for the burner cans, the F-35 has one too.

The whole nose and cockpit area is really reminiscent of the YF-23.

It's not a demonstrator - it's a prototype. Big difference. Meanwhile the Berkut was never intended as anything other than an FSW demonstrator.

Sideview screencap.

And it's a beauty! Video @ BBC Pictars:

He's stubborn as hell and never strays from his vision of the game.

Well unless this update also gives us some proper bump/specular mapping I won't bother with it. Not having anything other than simple diffuse maps is what makes this engine look dated.

What kind of obsolete rig are you running? It's not like it costs a fortune to upgrade, you know.

It's a generalization for the proverbial 'man on the street'.

When I talk about Joe Sixpack or Average Joe I mean the average guy on the street. Over here the term for that is 'Svensson'. Also, like I said the crux with integration is that you almost have to expect that most of the 1st generation immigrants will likely be lost causes as far as adapting goes. You can't teach old dogs to sit and all that (well actually you can but it requires knowledge on how to properly motivate and reward the dog). Generally immigrants adapt better if they have a chance to interact with the indigenous population and the best way of course is by having a job. But you can't expect an adult to simply become american or become swedish (whatever being american or swedish actually means) and not try to cling to their heritage and culture. If you were to emigrate to somewhere else, surely you would seek the comfort of your fellow countrymen where you can speak english and watch football? Doesn't that seem easier than trying to approach people who not only have totally different norms and values than you may have, but in many cases may also be suspicious of you or downright hostile? The thing is, you as an adult have the means to make the choice of isolating yourself with your peers and not interact with society as a whole, but your kids will be forced to be part of and interact with society whether you or they want it or not, and there's our chance to shape and integrate new people into loyal citizens who adher to values of democracy and equality. But it's not their responsibility to integrate. You and I have a responsibility as well to help them do so, and if we don't, then they won't integrate and it becomes a problem for society. Of course a lot of 1st gen immigrants want to become that too (my partner, for instance) but there are always those who don't, and the correct way to handle things is to make sure their influence on the 2nd generation is as diminished as possible.

Actually I was not aware of it referring to a certain group of americans. I always thought it was synonymous with 'average joe'.

Who are "they"? Is it the Taliban or is it all muslims? If the latter you're dead wrong. In fact most muslims here come from places like Turkey or the Balkans, and they are more than happy to integrate and they're really no more religious than average Joe Sixpack. With the arabs they come from areas less developed and so are more likely to be backwards fundies, but at any rate their kids do try to integrate and what's really needed is more help from the government to reach that goal. You have to realize that those who come here as adults from say Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia are likely to be lost causes as far as de-fundamentalising goes, but their kids are not and if we can reduce whatever backwards influence the family can excert then half the battle is won. I suppose you're talking about the Taliban but it really does come across as treating all muslims as a homogenous group. There are extremists but the best way to combat them is to expose their lies for what they are.

Stopping the taliban in afghanistan will not hurt anyone because they'll just continue operating as before. Extremism is not like fighting COBRA where if you just kill Cobra Commander the whole thing comes crashing down and everything will go back to normal. The world doesn't work like that. You fight extremists with enlightenment and social integration. The best way to fight backwards people is to educate their kids, which is why homeschooling and private religious schools should be illegal. Also the scaremongers always talk about how them thar muslims will take over Europe by 2050 or so by breeding more prodigiously than we do which is absolute bollocks. All research thus far into social/cultural science indicates that once people become integrated into a well-educated society with a high standard of living, they will have less children compared to those who stay behind in backwards s**tholes.

You don't get it. The taliban and al-quaida aren't some local phenomena that can be defeated through conventional means. They're ideological causes and you cannot defeat them with military means. Has it ever occured to you that any Joe Sixpack can form his own little local terror cell that is a part of Al Quaida? Just like destroying Nazi Germany didn't kill off the nazi ideology, defeating the local taliban in Afghanistan won't put an end to fundamentalist islamist and terrorism. Look at the troubles. That didn't end through any military means, but rather because in the end people grew tired of the whole thing. The same will happen with islam, and what we see now are a few bad apples refusing to accept leaving the middle ages behind. And there are local terrorist training camps everywhere from here in Sweden to the US and they're all the same regardless of if they refer to themselves as anarchists, neo-nazis, jihadis or fundamentalist christians. They're symptoms of the same illness and the way to cure the illness is with integration, jobs and better social safety net. Hell, anytime someone loses his job and gets stuck in the unemployment trap you get a potential terrorist trainee. It's not an 'us vs them' situation that can be solved by bombs or ever more intrusive legislation and we're shooting ourselves in the foot if we fall for that kind of lies. Sure it makes politicians look good and manly when they talk about getting 'tough on terror' but it doesn't actually produce any results other than getting good guys killed for naught.

Sunk investment is a bad argument for keeping on beating a dead horse. Results are what matter and until there is a dedicated offensive on both sides of the afghani/pakistani border along with dedicated nationbuilding there won't be any viable results. And even with that once the taliban is gone they'll keeping training new batches of jihadists in some other place, and frankly the reason they're doing that is because they know islam as a religion is evolving just as christianity did from backwards fundamentalism towards moderate secularism, and these guys are adamant to stop this. This is why there are religious controllers running around in muslim neighbourhoods in our countries, just like there used to be in northern Ireland during the troubles. Instead of pouring more fuel on the fire we should be encouraging the move towards moderate secularism and instead fight the spread of fundamentalist wahabism that's exported from Saudi Arabia. Dropping bombs won't work because it's not total war against individual nation states.

Sure go for it. Tell him he can have better Vigis as well compared to what he has.