• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Operation Chastise development thread

Reply...

Blood_Hawk23 said:
For the Eagle nest, Is the mountain already there or will one have to be added. And its the eagle nest not wolf lair correct.
Click to expand...

Blood_Hawk23,

The landclass in that area is adequate, I'm just not sure about the materials to use to make it look right.
 
Rami said:
Blood_Hawk23,

The landclass in that area is adequate, I'm just not sure about the materials to use to make it look right.
Click to expand...


I may have something. Lets see if it will convert. If it does I will have to clean it up and do someother things to it.
 
Reply...

Blood_Hawk23 said:
I may have something. Lets see if it will convert. If it does I will have to clean it up and do someother things to it.
Click to expand...

I'm used to doing it with library objects we already have in CFS2, and I'd like to avoid conversions entirely, unless they're destroyable and multi-lod. I just have to play around in mission builder and see what I can come up with.

This project isn't an overnight affair, I'm looking eight months to a year off, minimum. Right now, I'm getting some of the work done now with objects and getting some of the "tough questions" sorted.

The biggest problem / hurdle for this to be an effective freeware release is to work on the Lancasters. The only freeware set dates back from FS 2002, and is very old. I can't use my set in a freeware release, because I have the payware version Lancasters.

Plus, the La Spezia scenery set needs to be finished, and I now have to check/analyze/build scenery at Livorno, Italy.

My biggest priority right now is the 20th Fighter Group, before Shadow Wolf 07 kills me. I'm working on DamBusters two or three times a week until I get other projects sorted.
 
I have a 3ds and Gmax model for someone to look at. It is beyond me to do correctly. But if some wishes to look at it. here is a sample of it in Gmax.

Eaglenest1.jpg
 
Reply...

Allen said:
Rami, what about finding an old Lancaster model and re-building it?
Click to expand...

Allen,

Oh, baby. Now you're speaking my language.

The three I have in mind are by buddha13

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16296

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16297

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16298

For the second link, which has the "bouncing bomb," the model will need to be reworked, because the bomb currently is built into the model. Robert John is working on a bouncing bomb weapon, but can't currently test it because of this hard-coding.
 
Rami said:
Allen,

Oh, baby. Now you're speaking my language.

The three I have in mind are by buddha13

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16296

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16297

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=50&id=16298

For the second link, which has the "bouncing bomb," the model will need to be reworked, because the bomb currently is built into the model. Robert John is working on a bouncing bomb weapon, but can't currently test it because of this hard-coding.
Click to expand...

You guys are volcanoes! Do you actually sleep or take vouchers for it? :costumed-smiley-034

Cheers!
KH :ernaehrung004:
 
Rami said:
I would, but I did some experimenting, and the only buildings big enough to be "castle-like" are the large city and church blocks by wolfi, and they don't look right. I tried for a couple of hours this afternoon, and really didn't like the results, so I junked it. It would be great to have something like a "castle pack" to have the large-scale buildings to build something like that, Mont Saint-Michael, or the Monte Casino Abbey, for example.
Click to expand...

Thanks Andrew,

I have a few FS2002/2004 castles from AVSIM successfully installed in my CFS2. Chateau du Haut Koenigsbourg and Teck Castle are probably the closest in appearance to Waldeck Castle. If I can figure out how to use GMAX I might be able to use these as templates for towers, ramparts, bastions, etc.

Kevin
 
kdriver said:
Thanks Andrew,

I have a few FS2002/2004 castles from AVSIM successfully installed in my CFS2. Chateau du Haut Koenigsbourg and Teck Castle are probably the closest in appearance to Waldeck Castle. If I can figure out how to use GMAX I might be able to use these as templates for towers, ramparts, bastions, etc.

Kevin
Click to expand...

Kdriver,
do you use FSDS?
I have the model in .dae format. you can export it with modelconverterX to any type you need.
 
untitled.JPGHi as you can see the bouncing bomb is built into the Lancaster.
The blue one is the bomb I am testing.
I am thinking of keeping things simple, what about blanking the bomb out with a alpha channel texture.
Will thak a quick look but will have to be finished by a texture artist.
Robert John.
 
Bad news. The model is by David Garwood and buddha13 did the conversion to CFS2 with permission.

Copyright and Distibution:
This aircraft is released as Freeware.
Copyright (C) Dave Garwood. All rights reserved.
You may not repaint (except for private usage), modify or distribute this aircraft, without prior permission from the author.
This aircraft may not be sold or included on a CD without prior agreement.
The use of this aircraft is at your own risk, the author cannot be held responsible.
 
You can try but I'm not sure a 10+ year old email addy will be good. Listed addy dave_garwood at bigfoot.com. The listed webside is no long up.
 
I used MDLMAT to make the bomb transparent. (LOD01 part4).

If we stand by the original readme, this would still need Dave Garwood's permission (as would any repaint). Has he translated to newer sims. or has he left the hobby altogether?
 
Reply...

UncleTgt said:
I used MDLMAT to make the bomb transparent. (LOD01 part4).

If we stand by the original readme, this would still need Dave Garwood's permission (as would any repaint). Has he translated to newer sims. or has he left the hobby altogether?
Click to expand...

UncleTgt,

That was my thought, to "Alpha Out" the texture and make it invisible.

I'm not sure about contacting Dave, maybe Buddha13 would know how to contact him?
 
Do we have a "Blockbuster" bomb already? I was thinking of making one if we don't.

I already have the info on them.
 
Blood_Hawk23 said:
Do we have a "Blockbuster" bomb already? I was thinking of making one if we don't.

I already have the info on them.
Click to expand...

It seems we do have the Blockbuster bomb, Also called the "cookie" 4000lb bomb. Do we have a Grand Slam or "earthquake" bomb? or the "tallboy"?
 
Before the MOAB

There was the Earthquake bomb.

Grand Slam.jpg
The Grand Slam and Tall boy.

I have to do the textures next but the grand Slam is almost finished. I will make it Multi-LOD because of its size. Its over 8 meters long and over 1 meter across.

Let me know what you think.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top