posted 02-07- 10:09 AM               

5 pics in there.

This is really neat. The flames are animated and look like a rocket should (at least as much as possible in this sim). Now I'm deciding what I should have it do. For now it blasts straight up for about 50 seconds pretty quickly, and rides it's flame back down to the pad, pauses, and does it again. Implementing any kind of flight path to target is very tough with this. When Spanky asked me about this last night I told him that you could have missions where you have X amount of time to get to a site and blow up the V-2 before it lifts off. Only trouble is is that if it gets away from you, it'll be back shortly

Give me some ideas and I'll see what I can come up with. The toughest part of this job was figuring what texture went where. This is my first time not using one TIF for everything. I finally got the hang of it though, complete with the transparencies.

OH, BIGGEST DOF rule of thumb! (Again, lots of time wasted trying to figure this one out).

I was trying to animate the flame which was already part of the Rocket, which also was animated (had DOFs). I kept thinking that the ROCKET was the parent of the flame. IT'S NOT! It's the launch pad everything is sitting on!! A good 2 1/2 hours again of massive frustration. But now you know for your own peace of mind.

Enjoy the pics and I'll post this as soon as I develop a good strategy for it's deployment... also let's hear some ideas from you. It COULD be a flyable object, but it'd look silly with landing gear and flying horizontally. But that way the AI could fly it similarly to the V-1.

posted 02-07- 10:14 AM               

In case you are put off by the edges of the flames, they are spinning very fast and give a very nice rocket type appearance. Unfortunately the capturing of the screenshot stopped it in it's tracks.

posted 02-07- 03:07 PM               

1. About how far away from the target do you start the altitude at zero?

2. During the zero waypoints, what are you setting for the AI function (Bomb, Normal, or Sweep?)

3. How far apart are the three zero waypoints?

posted 02-07- 03:28 PM               

I'm just using normal waypoints, and the drop in alt starts a little after the halfway point, then drop the alt by half each waypoint, and then the last three are 0,0 0,0 0,0 for alt and speed.