posted 01-09- 09:31 AM               

I would like much more community feedback before it is considered to be added as online standard. I am pretty sure a few changes will be needed/requested by the community. Get it and read the readme please. It is a 3.98 meg zip file.

Post requests here or email them to me.

Thanks and have fun!

PS:

Lil'b,
I am not sure condensation trails are possible on the wings with the current game engine. If it is possible, it is above my skill level now and maybe someone else better qualified could look into it. It would be a nice feature though.

Yardstick,

I would like to wait(1 or 2 weeks) and fix any problems the community finds with this engine damage first and then I agree we should move this into a plane pack update.
This pack does also include the modified FM's for all the bf109s. An offical update to pp6.0 would require coordination to make sure for example that Jedi's F4U's would override the versions in my engine damage pack... and so on. This would be true for any other planes being worked on currently as well. I know alot has been done and I would really like to see an update pack soon.
In the mean time, I hope this engine damage pack will bridge the time until then.

Tailslide,

All fighters in sdoe are updated.
The readme has all the details.

Raider,
Thanks, I am doing better now.
Can I assume you are actively working on
a new version of the P51D? This would be
wonderful in my opinnion. I think most of my gaming time will be on engine damage for while longer anyway. Just let me know.

Spin,

I agree totally. We just need to coordinate things a bit as Yardstick and others have pointed out.

Everyone else,

Thanks for all the words of encouragement.

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posted 01-09- 10:07 AM               

It will use most of the engine damage model, but some of it has significant modification (oil leak instead of coolant damage, for instance), and of course it has a bunch of other stuff in there as well (control surface, flap, and landing gear damage, engine damage reflected on guages, and a couple of cockpit tweaks)+ some flight model fixes.

However, the "general" engine and obHits damage will follow Condor's model, with just a few tweaks specific to the Corsair.

Who knows, maybe it'll even be finished by Spring?

posted 01-09- 11:53 AM               

Is there instructions for me to add this to the Do-17?

posted 01-09- 12:18 PM               

I sent you an email regarding the Yak-3.

With the do-17, I can add similar code for you or try my best to create some directions
for you. Some of it is a bit subjective, but
you should get hang of it I hope from any directions I create. I owe you that at least. The subjective parts are, how much power loss happens each time, how fast should the fuel leak be, how strong should the engine explosion be, where should the various smoke trails start from and how long should they last. etc.

posted 01-09- 05:31 PM               

Keep up the good work.

STef

posted 01-09- 06:49 PM               

I tried these out over the course of about an hour, so it's hardly an exhaustive test. But, my initial impressions are that this is a very encouraging development for the game. I think the real value will come on-line where the 'damage bug' limits the amount of hits that are registered to facilitate structural damage. The possibility of engine dame is therefore a welcome addition.

I did however notice that the canopies of the 3 Fw190s made by myself and MPosis are missing (Fw190A-3, A-8 and D-9). This is caused when the .sm files are opened in OPS and I believe can easily be remedied by manually repositioning the canopy before saving (you'll gather I 'aint the modeller).

posted 01-10- 09:36 AM               

Thanks, I missed those new canopies with the final zip file. I have an update already made that should fix that. I will wait till tonight to see if anyone else finds other problems which can be included in the fix as well.

Thanks again,

posted 01-10- 11:14 AM               

If so, Condor, I would like to add my mod to your work. Does that sound reasonable?

posted 01-10- 01:31 PM               

Sorry for the ingnorance, but I am not sure exactly what your MG fix is.

If you download my engine damage zip file, you can take a look and let me know if you think your MG fix could and should be combined with it, and then in the same post let me know what the MG fix is.
It does sound interesting.

Thanks,

posted 01-10- 04:08 PM               

This is exactly the type of questions I need answers to. I was a bit stronger before but I got comments it was too strong so I weakend it a bit more. It still should be a tiny bit stronger than the pp6.0 version. I will check into it and let you know.

Thanks,

posted 01-10- 04:17 PM               

going back to test!!!!

VROOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUMMMMM!!!!

posted 01-11- 01:30 PM               

Pachy,
Are you able to get this ctd to repeat on the bf109?

Lil'b,
I checked up the zero and actually most of the plane parts have been made slightly stronger except for the wing tips which have been made sligtly weaker.

The fuel leak color is one of those things that can be easily changed, if everyone wants it white or "just barely violet" as opposed to the true violet color it currently is, that can be done.

I will have to try out the MG/canopy flipping thing tonight and let you know.

Thanks for the input guys.

posted 01-15- 12:03 PM               

I have been unable to reproduce the strange effect you are refering too. Can you get it to repeat on your pc?

Thanks,

posted 01-15- 02:37 PM               

Commando said it perfectly. The only thing I changed on both your P47d and the Pe2 was the obhits values a little bit. The obhits changes allows for the engine to take damage sometimes instead of the wings,tail, etc always falling off first. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me via email or post them here. Also, please keep in mind, this engine damage is not "online standard". It maybe if the community wants it, but the individual plane builders wishes, such as yourself, I feel, override anything in this engine damage pack. In other words, if you want the p47d from pp6.0 not modified in any way, then that is the way it will be with no problems at all. Especially since the p47 already has an outstanding engine damage model. My goal was to have engine damage for all ww2 fighters released at the same time so it would be more "fair", for lack of a better term.

posted 01-15- 04:25 PM            

Anyway, I was downloading this file 3.98 megs and It got to 100percent and I heard it starting to write to disk, then the whole village, I could see from the window, lost Electricity and darkness and silence showed it's dark featureless face, Good news : resume download function worked!

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posted 01-15- 04:56 PM            

Sods law!

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posted 01-21- 02:54 PM               

Yes, there is an fix already released and one more just about ready to go.

Corrected 109 canopies were included the engine damage release zip file. Did you unzip all the files at the same time. If you did and there is a canopy file in the 109 directory, then, try renaming the canopy file and see if that works. There are all new 109 files coming in the next update shortly as well.

Jeeves,

Yes, the fw190 canopies were not included in the first engine damage release but are in the fix I released. Just look through the posts for the "engine damage update/fix" thread and follow the link.

Let me know if you have any further problems or questions.

Thanks for the input guys.