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Jaguar Pilot	posted 02-26- 01:57 AM Hold onto your britches!!!There is a new map available!! A Pacific map!! The map includes scaled down Hawaiian islands and Midway. But.................... you know it was coming right? This is still a beta. -There are NO airports on this map. If you wish to have a plane start at midway, simply zoom in, and place the plane at the end of the runway. Set the direction on the plane in it's waypoint window. 0 degrees to have the plane point to the top of the map, 180 to point to the bottom. Start japanese planes on the carriers. -ALL the terrain is seen as land, and you ARE able to land on it. -The terrain is still that of the tundra terrain (created by Michael Harrison. You can download this map at www.openplane.com), so there are hills in the map. -This map is NOT to any scale, and is NOT geographicaly correct. The arrangements and sizes of the islands have been adjusted to better suit this game. -The install is kinda tricky, but the trade off, is that the download is only 8.7MB. Now the GOOD news! - The map shows up as a new map (not dover or africa) - The map shows up properly in the mission editor - The clipboard map, and the briefing room map both show up correctly - It works online! - It looks cool! - IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!! This is what I have planned for it in the near future (hopefully be the end of the contest). Flatten the map. Make island SMs, and place them on the map. Turn the whole map into water. I also want to have Perl Harbor modeled. Myself, Razer, Razor747, and jeeves tested it online tonight, and here are the results: That was a blast!!!! You can download the beta here: http://www.fightersquadron.com/flightline/pacific.htm ------------------ Cheers! Jaguar The FS Hangar IP: Logged
Zoycite JAG	posted 02-26- 02:02 AM Nice work guys! Sad ending to the animation though. ------------------ Zoycite {GS} GUNSLINGERS visit The War Paint Factory IP: Logged
mposis Pilot	posted 02-26- 07:19 AM Jaguar, Excellent idea! I used to live in Hawaii and thought of doing an Oahu terrain. The island of Oahu will just fit inside the current map size. It is a great I idea to make the scale smaller to fit all those Islands. Are you planning to model all the mountains too? I am looking forward to using it. IP: Logged
bakunin Pilot	posted 02-26- 07:38 AM Great work ! If we now have the new pacific planes, there we have our Pacific theater, everyone is screaming about Regards Bakunin IP: Logged
Ronin Pilot	posted 02-26- 08:14 AM Terrific work guys! And the new Dauntlis is a beaut! The ocean texture/color with SDOE's great clouds works wonderfully! Ronin IP: Logged
Smitty Pilot	posted 02-26- 10:32 AM Excellent work!!!!!! Looks very nice. maybe a future screen will have the Corsair in it. =0) Smitty IP: Logged
jedi Pilot	posted 02-26- 11:34 AM Very pretty! Might have to delay the Corsair beta by a few hours. Those practice missions would look pretty cool over the islands... ------------------ --jedi-- IP: Logged
Smitty Pilot	posted 02-26- 11:50 AM Might have to delay the Corsair beta by a few hours. jedi?.... where you planning a beta release this weekend? Smitty IP: Logged
Spanky the Mad Dog Pilot	posted 02-26- 12:11 PM Spanky here.. Great work guys. Is the FPS better since theres not much to draw? Can't wait until the water is real water. Love the color of the water but i think it should be darker and only that color around the islands to simulate the continetal cliff. Jedi- Are you betaing the corsair today? PLEASE PLEASE let us play with it. IP: Logged
Jeeves Pilot	posted 02-26- 01:41 PM The frame rates were a bit higher but not much...although the terrain sure does load quicker Once you have them in the cache, it's pretty quick. IP: Logged
graymon Pilot	posted 02-26- 04:03 PM So who do I have to kill for you to get the dauntlass beta??????? IP: Logged
AE71_INFERNO Pilot	posted 02-26- 08:36 PM I was going to ask the same question the Pacific map looks great cant wait to try it, almost finished downloading it. and Jedi I cant wait to get my hands on your F4U!! ------------------ Watch For Falling Focke-Wulf's IP: Logged
AE71_INFERNO Pilot	posted 02-26- 09:03 PM Ok i finished Downloading it and i installed it but all i get is this Black terrain no texture in it at all, whats wrong? ------------------ Watch For Falling Focke-Wulf's IP: Logged
Jeeves Pilot	posted 02-26- 11:56 PM Inferno- This may seem like a foolish question- but did you follow the read me instructions for install? They were very specific as to how to get the terrain to work right. Past that- I don't know. IP: Logged
Acehalcrow Cadet	posted 02-27- 12:37 AM I noticed that the rear gun has a gunner, that actually seems to hold the gun! This is something I always felt the other bombers lacked. They seem somewhat lonelier. On the case of people; what happened to all my pilots? Whenever flying they are not visible, and you can not eject. what is wrong? Also I noticed that in some new aircraft there are two pilots joined together. Why is that? [This message has been edited by Acehalcrow (edited 02-27-2000).] IP: Logged
Whirlwind Pilot	posted 02-27- 10:57 AM It appears that he added a second pilot.sm file ref and placed the gunner on the yaw axis in just the right position. It might just be his upper torso, but that is just a theory. IP: Logged
Jerry Pilot	posted 02-27- 12:28 PM Acehalcrow, Review the Help threads from two weeks or so ago. Several of us had the same missing pilots problem. It had to do with a pilot.sm from the HE 162 and Go 229. Several attempts were made to fix it. We got our pilots back but I still have two pilots in each of these planes when the pilot bails. I never heard back on a fix for that. IP: Logged
Jaguar Pilot	posted 02-27- 02:11 PM woah! Thanks for the nice words guys . I almost didn't post it. But I'm glad I did now.... BTW, I love screen shots, so if you have any good ones (or even bad ones ) of the Pacific, send them to me. jaguar@fshangar.com Spanky I kinda like this water color. It may not be what the real pacific looks like, but it does look great!.. what do you guys think? change the color? mposis Ever been to electric beach? I went scuba diving there, and it was AMAZING! Yes, I'm going to model the mountains. Each island will be it's own SM. This way, the map will have alot less hit to your FPS. graymon Nobody AE71_INFERNO hhhmmm, I'm not sure. Try doing the whole install process again. There are ALOT of steps in there, and it's too easy to mess one of them up. You better ICQ me, and we'll see if we can get it working. I will be on for the better part of today 17219346. Acehalcrow He even moves with the gun Whirlwind More or less....He isn't a SM though. And his legs ARE there. ------------------ Cheers! Jaguar The FS Hangar IP: Logged
graymon Pilot	posted 02-28- 01:02 AM I now have the F4U beta {works great}.This is all lonely...,HINT HINT.How about a beta dauntless release???? IP: Logged
Hawk JAG	posted 02-28- 07:06 AM Hey, I really like the water colors. This is so cool. IP: Logged
Private Roger Pilot	posted 02-28- 07:30 AM I love that we are seeing a Pacific map, great work! I agree with Sp@nky however, the water may be a shade or two, to light. Overall though it's great! PR=FC= IP: Logged
Jaguar Pilot	posted 02-29- 06:08 PM A Dauntless beta?!?!? how much do you want from me?! LOL. Well, I'm not going to set a date for a Dauntless beta (since I'll miss it anyways), but I'm hoping it will be soon. IP: Logged
Hawker Pilot	posted 02-29- 07:18 PM can i get the main dauntless paint tiff for the skin as a blank? please oh preety please i wanna wanna try to do a skin for it IP: Logged

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