Part of the same Helo avionics and ApacheMPD class. I had to make some tweaks to some of the re-usable elements. My prototype code can't be used, too many differences now. This is much much better and faster.
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Choo choo
Josh Klint kindly gave us permission to use the Leadwerks train model, I think AD is adding a railroad to the US range map as I write this. His last message read "choo choo".
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Oh yes, as if by magic...
From my calculations show that the 99% readers of this message think"Give me hellfire,i want blow up this train" :D
ReplyDeleteI think you're right.
ReplyDeleteNot everyone. Some people will want to smash the Apache into the tunnel.
ReplyDeleteCheers
I will repeat myself......this is the best pit Ive seen. :-o Train is great. Im the 1% of readers, who want to fly along that iron beast. :-)
ReplyDelete?! I'm shocked, you are insane :|
ReplyDeleteBe fair AD, I said I wanted to 'fly through' the tunnel, at the time I didn't know you made it too small to fit.
ReplyDeleteCan we have an empty flatbed carriage, I was thinking of saving some fuel and landing on it.
ReplyDeleteNow I think about it if you put a Dining car on it too I can jump out and pop along for lunch (No British Rail sandwiches please).
#AD -And another work, annihilated train texture
ReplyDelete#Druid-we think the same?;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_DNyGbhrsw
edit :I do not know why disappeared emote.
ReplyDelete#AD -And another work, annihilated train texture< evil smile>
You have no idea how nice it is to see that FCR again. Looking forward to that being fully functional and sending some RF Hellfires downrange.
ReplyDeleteMy smiley seemed to disappear too. :-/
ReplyDeleteA flat bed is a nice idea.
Cheers
I think smilies can be assumed.
ReplyDeleteSee what I mean though AD, you add a train and you open up a whole can of jellied whoop-ass.
You can add a mission, when You will start cold on railroad and while watching the train getting closer and clsoer, You must quickly do start-up procedure and lift off. :-)
ReplyDelete@Pavel To add to your idea, some piano music playing with the occasional cue card flashing the words "HELP"?
ReplyDeleteI have another idea-at the end of training you have to do mission-recon, shoot, or something .During the mission turn on script-
ReplyDeleteemergency landing. you have to do the full procedure RAMP start.Every half minute shows up a
view approaching speeding train ,countdown clock, and a very small amount of time to perform this procedure.
And don't forget a montage. We need to show a montage of your memories from flight-school.
ReplyDeleteAny more clichés we've forgotten?
(we're not being serious btw)
ReplyDeleteOoh a Montage! Can we use "You're the best!"?
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/VCRTbh3D_us
And at the end of any reference to A Team, or Chuck Norris, yet think how to combine.
ReplyDeleteMan- Here we do not need smileys, here they are serious people.
...and of course...picture of wife and children on shaking dashboard, hard breathing, remembering wife grabing toys from the garden in the evening and her blond hair (optional) lit by sunset, children laugh in background, flashing back to stressful situation in cockpit, CP/G yelling at You, that he cant die, not yet, not yet.....:-)
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OK.....did I tell You, that I like the cockpit? :-) Cant wait for next news.
It's a normals thing, AD is saying it's the shader, but I'm thinking it's more to do with the export. Either way it's something we'll be looking at. Those spruce trees came from a third party that had some interesting notions on how to export models. I get mixed results from some exporters.
ReplyDeleteNormal blending was brought up before. I'd be tempted to run it through UU3D as the GMF exporter tends to shit all over your normal data even if you don't want it do.
Sorry what I meant on that simhq thread was that a shader could be used to process the normals in that way. It's definitely a basic export/engine issue unrelated to shaders though. I've tried both exporters and they both remove the effect.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a process I really want to use widely because it's a hassle and it means doubling tree poly counts.
Removing directional lighting from trees is possible and it's a solution candidate.
Cheers
A normal is a defined angle for each polygon which the shader interprets as a magnitude for the diffuse colour (which in turn is multiplied by ambient and directional light).
ReplyDeleteOn that spruce model the normals are perpendicular to the surface which results in a flat appearance. I want to try a shader that adds some colour variation (but I personally think uniform colours better match the style).
It's occurring in that final image because there's a strong directional light perpendicular to the tree model. With a 15% drop in light intensity at twilight times the ugly artifact vanishes.
ReplyDeleteI managed to find a pipeline that retains the vertex normals but there's not much of a noticable improvement.
Cheers
More i see the screenshots/vids of your game, more i'm eager to prepare the cash for it. :)
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