posted 02-05- 06:40 AM               

The AI can land and take off with it, and you can fly it as well. Includes a REAL V-1 sound and an Africa "V-1 Kill" mission. I tried to perfect it's "suicideness" and have it crash itself but it never was reliable. So what we have here is a "bomber" type airplane that you load up for a heavy bombing mission, set waypoints VERY low (like around 20-50 ft), and when it releases it's bombs it'll blow up too in all the explosions. It's cool! Looks very neat flying w/ the sound and all.

Read the readme. Enjoy!

posted 02-05- 06:43 AM               

Actually I have been meaning to do a scene where in one SM file there is a launch site. I'll add that to my ever expanding list. Maybe make that a DOF object as well where you have X minutes before the thing blasts up onto it's course, and if you don't get to it in time, it's over... hey this could be cool! As long as I can have it blow up at the end of it's flight, upon ground impact.

posted 02-05- 07:45 AM               

Let me be the first to say YOU THE MAN.

posted 02-05- 08:12 AM               

K there either i'm doing something wrong or there is an error in the way the zip was packed. The mission ends up in the right spot but the SM. lodeout. SOund and texture folders end up in the aircraft folder all by them selves instead of in their own folder

For people trying to fix it just put the V1.sm the loadout file and the sound and texture folders in a folder called "V1"
then it worked fine

posted 02-05- 08:17 AM               

Let me look at it for a few. I just yanked it from the site. Sorry guys, let me fix this first. I thought I looked it over well enough but in my excitement... you know.

Ok, new one is uploading now. Thanks for pointing this stuff out Spanky. I've got lots of modeling stuff on my mind and it's easy to overlook the small stuff. I had just changed all the names in the SM to match the V1.sm name, and didn't realize that it killed the gear DOFs.

It's working now, and that silly "cockpit in space" is gone too. If you want to know Alt and speed, use the HUD!

posted 02-05- 08:37 AM               

Injured in a terrible RC modelling accident Pete was taken to a top secret facility, only to find it was closed for Washingtons birthday and White Sale! So, he was then taken to a doctors office, but the doctor was a vet! So, now fading quickly he was taken to Inertia. Michael Harrison , and Mighty were working hard on a game of Quake...when Pete's near lifeless body was brought in. "Can you save him" someone asked? Michael Harrison examined Pete for a few minutes and then looked up and said...."We can make him BETTER!"

Michael, and Mighty worked for hours, but when they finished they had a Super Human Modelling Machine!!!!

Or, maybe Pete just doesn't have a life...like me!

posted 02-05- 08:43 AM               

PR, learn modeling damn it! Then you'll have a life too (or lack there of) Wives tend to not be into this kinda stuff. Although she does like the Zeppelin and balloon stuff so far... and that waving flag thing.

Switching gears now, in case anyone hasn't noticed... instead of getting deep into doing a plane right now I'm gonna be cranking out some nice ground object stuff. I have a V-2 launch site in work right now and it will be a moving one, with a launching V-2, moving people, etc. Should be the best one yet! (er, that's the plan anyhow).

Michael told me I could go DOF crazy, because as long as the parts don't have inertia they don't kill the CPU cycles too badly. So that's great news!

posted 02-05- 01:15 PM               

If you go into OPS and click on the main V1 object, and then go to the main properties column on the right, you can specify how many hits it takes to kill it. I guess maybe I should tweak that a little higher huh?

posted 02-05- 03:56 PM            

We, your humble subjects thank you for your kind benevolence... and this kick-butt cool V-1!!!

May the gods of OP (and God too!) continue to smile upon you!!

posted 02-05- 07:24 PM               

I just made and got done flying a mission with 3 V1's! I was in a Spit and I missed my opportunity as it flew past. It's speed was so fast I couldn't catch up! These things are so cool!

Really adds a new dimension to missions.

Great Work Pete!

posted 02-05- 11:26 PM               

a bit of info about it...
The V2 stood over 14 m (46 ft) tall and had a diameter of 168 cm (5 ft 6in). Launch weight was 12,873 kg (28,380 lb), including a 998 kg (2,201 lb) warhead containing 730 kg (1,620 lb) of high explosive. Propellant was a noxious mixture of liquid oxygen and a 75%-25% ethyl alcohol-water mixture. The lift-off thrust was some 25,000 kg (55,116 lb), giving the V2 a velocity of about 1,585 m/sec (5,200 ft/sec) (PER SECOND!) and a maximum range of between 306 and 322 km (190 and 200 miles). Guidance was by a primitive three-axis gyropilot acting on steerable exhaust vanes and aerodynamic rudders, which gave the missile a Circular Error Probable (CEP: the diameter of a circle within which half the missiles would land) of 17 km (11 miles).

posted 02-06- 12:13 AM               

I put the V1 into one of my Dover campaign missions and set it to take off from Doullens and hit Eastbourne Field. Well- it almost got to the chalk cliffs before something "popped" when it hit just over 500 mph- the whole thing started vibrating and Fritz the pilot bailed (through the bottom of the V1 no less (was this programmed in, or was it going so fast, it just looked like he went through a bottom hatch?). Anyway, the V1 continued on it's own straight and level without a pilot and slowly nosed down. I kid you not- it landed nose down in the middle of Eastbourne without a pilot. And of course it blew the whole place to kingdom come (I changed the ordWarhead in the loadout to 1874 as that was the value I found in a book). So- it is possible to have it work like it was supposed to...you just have to hit over 500 mph near your target and eject and let it nose down at the precise moment it should! No big deal

posted 02-06- 12:40 AM               

Well, it crashed right into a bunch of crates in the middle of the airfield and, well, blew stuff up =)

For effect I put some klaxons at the airfield, and it is really cool to sit at the control tower and watch the V-1 come in, and hear the klaxons start blaring as it heads for your buildings.

posted 02-06- 12:48 AM               

Reaperman, that's way cool! I'll try that waypoint idea too. How did you get the Klaxons to go off at your airfield? And maybe could you email me that wav file (sounds cool!).

Update... Ok that worked! I set a long course across the Channel at Dover, the AI V-1 took off from Abbeville Field and climbed to 4000 feet. About midway across I had him drop his Alt like you said, halving it each time but keeping the speed a constant 400 knots the whole trip. Ensuring he could get over the cliffs, he went feet dry at about 1000 feet. The next very close waypoint was 500 feet, followed by 3 waypoints each of 0 alt 0 speed. That did it! It looked like it got confused cause it started tail waggling (best way I can describe it) and fell to earth! Now I need to set that (obExplodes) thing like you did. How do I set it so he hits the ground (or any object) and dies? Trouble with that though is you won't be able to bump his wings and make him crash.

Anyhow, this is another leap! The 3 zero waypoint rule. Thanks Reaperman!

posted 02-06- 08:08 PM               

If the V-1 hits the ground hard enough, it will explode. Problem is, we have him trying to go 0 mph so there's a chance the landing won't be hard enough. I wonder if there's a way to make it so the V-1 will explode more easily when he hits the ground.
Maybe changing the material type from cement to something else?

Anyway, I have been messing around with the V-1 all day trying to get it to take out some targets on the shores of Dover. It's tricky to get the thing to land where you want it. Then again, it was said before that they were only accurate to about 11 miles =)

Also, a question... these things weren't actually piloted, right?
And were they launched from a rail?
I've been thinking if a rail ground object had a rocket with the V-1 as the model, and the initial velocity and amount of fuel could be specified... well I guess we'll get that about the time we have delayed fuses on rockets and bombs.