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Topic: What do you want, objects or flyable planes?
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Pete Hawk
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posted 02-04- 10:03 AM
   
I have two German Observation balloons here that I'm getting ready to post. If the majority only want the ground object one (sits for 20 seconds on ground, goes up to 3000 feet... floats there for 5 min, then floats back down and stops), or the flyable one also let me know. The flyable one is like the Zepp flyable thing but is even more maneuverable. Personally I like it. It also has the top B-17 turret guns over the basket  I've also put the B-17 ball turret on the bottom of the Zepp cabin as well as 4 FlakPanzer guns. It works well too! You can fly near it when it's your enemy, and it's truckin' along trying to blast you out of the sky with flak and bullets! NEAT! Maybe not 100% realistic but fun anyhow. So I did that one for RoadToad but if the rest want it as well I'll post that one too. Train, still in progress. What else, oh those Navy jets. Only two people have asked me for them so far. Spanky and Mad Dog. I'm gonna work on them more after I get the balloon stuff shipped out (and I WILL do more balloons, ie Allied, maybe not right away though). If you guys DO want the jets in their very unfinished state (but still very fun to see/fly in the game), let me know. I'll need some server space as well as each one is about 1.5 megs and I have what, about 8 of them I guess. Tailslide, I did mess with the V-1 and the zero altitude waypoint stuff and it was mostly hit or miss. More miss. I'm not real happy with it yet though. I'll leave getting a V-1 going to someone else for now, unless I discover a good way to implement it. Your other ideas for it sound good but I really need to get these new "toys" out, since so far I'm the only one getting to have fun with them. I do have a B-24 and PBY-5A sitting here too saying WORK ON ME! So those have to get going as well, as well as an F-14 cockpit
(man, so much to do) For Michael, if you could ever find a way to implement "terrain following" DOFs, it'd be very easy to have vehicles travel around mock perimeters around airfields and such, could be really cool. [This message has been edited by Pete Hawk (edited 02-04-2000).] IP: Logged |
Sv
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posted 02-04- 10:13 AM
Personaly Pete, I want the the balloon as a ground vehical - that way we can place it in missions, not worry about the AI flying it, and still get the guns to shoot.The balloon makes a great WWI target, but the AI need to be able to control it and it needs to stay put (except for going up and down and bobbing, etc.) Does this make sense? This will add allot to WWI missions! Also if anyone has good detailed pics of WWI AAA send them to me! I want to make some WWI AAA to be placed around the ballon as was often the case...
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WWI in SDOE!
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Pete Hawk
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posted 02-04- 10:16 AM
Forgot the moving carrier and PT103 boats too! Gotta get them out for you guys today as well. Still doing the Akagi, but that'll be a must to get done also.IP: Logged |
Gunner
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posted 02-04- 10:21 AM
Ahh yes, a B-24 would be very nice indeed.------------------
(Kill Or Be Killed)
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roadtoad
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posted 02-04- 12:07 PM
Pete,
Anything (and I mean ANYTHING) your fertile genius can produce is highly welcome in my Media folder! It would have taken me hours to do what I saw you do in twenty minutes! You are The Man! -rtIP: Logged |
Pete Hawk
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posted 02-04- 12:17 PM
Thanks RT, but I think anyone here (given the amount of free time I'm dealing with lately) could come up with some of this stuff.My main key I think is this. If I'm driving our car, or in the shower, or whatever, I think to myself, what IMHO would look really neat in the game, would really make me think THATS INCREDIBLE!, and what would it take to make it happen? Then it's like POOF! Lightbulbs start going off. I do LOTS of brainstorming, almost constantly everyday... all geared towards this sim and OpenPlane. Today I've seen some incredible things happen in the game, like this one. Sitting in a balloon's TOWER view at 3000 feet, looking down at the airfield where I was still in control of a plane taking off. I zoomed way in and watched and man was it awesome looking! The view stayed on my plane and I flew all around, while the balloons viewpoint was moving around with the balloon's pitching and rolling. All that movement can easily make you sick if you watch it long enough [This message has been edited by Pete Hawk (edited 02-04-2000).] IP: Logged |
Mirthain
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posted 02-04- 12:24 PM
I will take everything that you finish Pete. I love the jets, the balloons.. the 24, whatever you have finished. Or close enough to make you happy.. ;}
I think that both versions should be out for the balloon. That way we have the option of making it flyable for certain missions or as a G/O for others. No such thing as too many aircraft.. Hehe
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Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 02-04- 02:19 PM
Mad Dog here... I really hate this!! I want to finish my article but every time I turn around there is something new going on that I want to include!  All these planes and balloons are nice but I still want a TRANFORMER!! ------------------
-Seperated and independant halves of a genius super-organism who believe that no game will ever satisfy them completely.
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JT
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posted 02-04- 02:21 PM
Hey, Pete... have you have a chance to make that textured sky box? I'm curious to see what that would look like.IP: Logged |
Pete Hawk
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posted 02-04- 02:24 PM
Yes, I have before but gave up, it just looked very bizzare. There's a lightwave plugin you can get that creates a beautiful seemsless sky from the box textures, but I don't have that. I've seen what it can do though and it's nice.But as for what I've seen with my tests is neat, but VERY cheesy looking. IP: Logged |
Byrd
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posted 02-04- 02:34 PM
As if Pete isn't busy enough, well ok, I'll give him my wish order too...how about people running to their planes or running for cover like in EAW and Mig Alley. What do you think Pete? Is it possible? Oh well, just a thought, I love all the other projects you're working on. Thanks for all the downloads Pete. (think running people next time you take a drive or shower ) IP: Logged |
JT
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posted 02-04- 02:41 PM
If I may, I'd like to take a look at it. Can you send it to me? [This message has been edited by JT (edited 02-04-2000).] IP: Logged |
Pete Hawk
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posted 02-04- 05:41 PM
JT, it's LONG gone, I haven't had that around in almost a year. Jt, open up and object in max that is aligned to the SDOE world. Create a box over this object (and make sure the bottom is even or a little below the ground) and make it HUGE! Then put pics of the sky on the roof and each wall... (If you can do this with a picture that'll match up with all the edges it's that much better, I never managed too). Then after you export it, just make an sm file out of it (a ground object), make a mission for it, and try it out. Very easy to do.[This message has been edited by Pete Hawk (edited 02-04-2000).] IP: Logged |
Jetlag
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posted 02-04- 06:15 PM
Hey Pete,Here's a challenge: The Sun! ------------------
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Nat
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posted 02-04- 06:20 PM
hhmmm... all these wonderful new toys.. but what was that? No SAM's yet? heheh------------------
JV~44 "Naturlich"
 If you can't beat em.... out run em! http://members.xoom.com/naturlich/ IP: Logged |
bomber
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posted 02-04- 09:05 PM
I want a moving train as a target. I think that would be cool.IP: Logged |
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