SDirickson

I've loved the Frogfoot ever since I heard of how effective it was in Afghanistan. But, I don't think its really suited for multiplay. I'd try and find one or two dedicated flight simmers and fly some coop missions.

lol, yeah, unfortunately its 2200 and I'm just gettin home

Lets see if we can get a few people flyin around tonight. I'll probably be in a helo of some sort flying around North Island NAS in San Diego.

You haven't even seen a real acronym till you go to a Navy base. CINCCOMSUBLANT. CORTRAMIDWEST. AMMARFLOLANCOM. KGHASDFHHDAFKSDAF.

When I saw the screenshots, they looked really familiar, and it wasn't until I saw the tie-in to X-Plane that I realized it. The terrain textures and some of the aircraft models look to be taken straight from X-Plane. Seems like, from the start, one of the primary complaints with F4 was the "riding on rails" feeling of the flightmodel. With X-Plane, you're definately not gonna have that anymore.

"Q: Is this another Falcon, or based on Falcon code? A: No, this is a new development. All code used has been/will be developed or purchased by G2I and GenAvSims specifically for this project including the X-Plane engine which is being used as the code base for Fighter Ops. The lessons learned from years of work on the falcon code will enable us the opportunity to design a new simulator free of all the limitations inherent in the 6 year old falcon code. " Straight from the FAQ at fighterops.com Definately enough to spark my interest.

I just got back from my freshman cruise in the Navy. Spent four weeks in San Diego, sampling the finer parts of the Navy. Aviation, Marines, SWO and subs. How many 19 year olds can boast they've slept between Trident missiles in an SSBN, flown a Seahawk or fired an M-249. Glad to be home though, and can someone fill me in on the news in the sim community for the past four weeks? And for those curious, it was deceptively easy to fly the SH-60B. Lots of computer control assistance. The T-34 was much more hands on and responsive.

A friend and I went camping a few weeks ago in Lost Maples National Park. Its a beautiful place, lots of water. Right on the Sabinal River, about 100 miles west of San Antonio.

Likewise...

Let us hope, possibly, that we faithful BioHaz members may get a chance to help with the Alpha and Beta testing. It's probably too much to ask, but it never hurt X-Plane development if you need a precedent.

Like the head-bob feature in LO-MAC, I'd definately want it as a user-controlled feature, especially for people with TrackIR. TrackIR can be disorienting in itself, without having to worry about which way your eyes are going to tilt in a turn.

Worked like a charm, GD. Thanks a bundle. Yeah, the numbers worked just fine for the skin I installed earlier, but all my original skins got bunked. Nice to know that if you ever have a corrupt file, someone can just extract the working one and fix you right up.

Lex, I'm suprised Arnold hasn't made it mandatory for CA yet.

I think its in WorldTexturesTGA.cdds I think you just run the CDDS Browser in LoMan, open that file and extract the nomera.tga from it.

Bump Just looking for a little help here, folks. It'll only take five minutes and LoMan.

Alright, how come nobody has so far mentioned the absolute Gods of Rock and Roll, to use Jack Black's phrase? Led Zeppelin Come on guys, you can't have modern heavy metal or anything else along those lines without Led Zepp. I mean, jesus. The only music I consistantly listen to is Led Zepp, CCR, the Doors, Days of the New and Radiohead. Chevelle, Moby and Modest Mouse are up there too. Seriously though, I just scanned through the whole thread again to no mention of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham's contribution to music.

Its definately a reflection of where they're from in U.S. I can't stand going to school in South Carolina, compared to my home state of Texas. Seems like the average girl in SC is about ten pounds heavier than in Texas. Everyone I call attractive is considered anorexic by the locals, haha. As for height, I've never really noticed anything profoundly different.

I installed the Su-25 skin and it messed up my original .tga file that controls insignia and numbers for the Frogfoot. Hopefully someone out there can extract their original nomera.tga and email it to me.

The .tga file that contains the lettering and insignia for the Su-25 got currupted somehow while I was installing some skins through LoMan, and unfortunately it couldn't replace them with the backups. Could someone out there extract the original nomera.tga files from the appropriate CDDS file and email it to me? I'd be much obliged.

This has always been a little bit of a pet peeve with me. I've always been impressed with sims that accurately model heat seeking weaponry. Jane's F/A-18 was good about this. A Sidewinder would lock onto aircraft, the sun and even flaming crashsites. On the other hand, Mavericks would lock onto ground targets and even aircraft. Granted, each missile had better performance against the appropriate targets. I was just thinking, how difficult would it be to assign realistic and simple heat values to every significant object in the game? It would create a very realistic systems environment, meaning aircraft mounting primative heat-seekers would have to be very careful when they launch their missiles. It would also mean, pilots running low on stores could attempt to use AGM's against slowmoving cargo aircraft or AAM's against soft targets. Its not a very high priority issue, certainly not one to spend large amounts of code on. Seems like a simple integer value for non critical objects could be used, and for more important things like aircraft and vehicles, intricate heat tables could be used. All told, it would greatly improve the immersion of the sim. You'd have to coach your plane into a chase position, below the target and not pointed towards the sun in order to gain the most succesful shot. It would also really increase the usefulness and realism of nightvision and infrared systems. It would definately be a selling point to have the first really accurate infrared systems in a sim, instead of the normal simple green tinted goggles normally used.

rofl Ever see the L337 version of Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? www.albinoblacksheep.com

You can try doing what I used to on DOD. Take a transparency pen and mark a dot on the center of your screen. It'll work, if you're really adamant about AG padlocking. I used to do this to add a crosshair to my sniper rifle, hehe.

Whoa, looking pretty good.

I still remember in Tornado, if you had a bogey trailing you rather close you could just drop a bomb and have its explosion knock him out. No worries about being to high off the deck, if youre in a Tornado and above 100ft you aren't using your radar right.

Likewise, a CS setup if I ever upgrade. I used to salivate over the Cougar, until I began to hear about all the parts failures and things. I've always wondered how much of that was true or just hype.