Aircraft carrier

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Can someone please only make it real that you can land and takeoff on this carrier and release it befor 2005.

Just takeoff and landing.....

Not minigun turrets, no lift, no rotating radar, no coffee machine, no working toilets.......

A simple static object to land on and take off from.

Then after releasing you can make that thing 100% PERFECT with 1Billion features an make OFP History.

MfG Lee

[Guest BratZ]

I've been begging that for months ! Gotten so bad I started my own. Thats what I wished for too, just something to take off/land from.But also something that we can bomb.

[-AL- 1]

That sounds good to me.

A carrier that you can select & place from the map editor menu which you can land & take off from.

Doesn't need to move, no guns, no lifts, no opening doors, no shower block, just a stationary flat top that looks the goods & can be used as a carrier.

Al

[cbfasi 4]

Good news...

Hopefully within a couple of weeks,maybe sooner ! I will have Royal Navy Carrier from 1968 at Beta Release stage.

At the moment I have the basic carrier, with some walkways missing (visually they are there, but you will fall through).

The texturing is very very very basic, with futher details being planned alongside a different version of the same ship.

Now here the BIG question...

Are you guys fussed if the arrestor/catapult scripting is mission based??

If your ok with that then I can release sooner, it will have a demo mission where you can copy the relevant sections, and paste into you own missions.

I also need permission from the guy who wrote the script I am using..

Keep your fingers crossed.  Oh yes this carrier is UNDER 800ft long, and is scaled correctly (model not done in O2 to begin with)

Oh yes some images of said carrier, under trials (actaully script under trials)

Take off..

Leaving the deck, with a plane that in reality is far too big for the carrier, she couldn't even take Phantoms, althoguh used Bucanneers, and is capable of using A4 Skyhawks, and many of the older style carrier aircraft.

Landing..

(The two guys are used as ils for long range approaches, they parrellel to landing run)

Even though theres a nice bright red line to line up on, its not that easy..

A Good view of the bow from very low level

[<>Crippler<> 0]

I'm not fussed with that arrestor stuff I think you should release it as soon as its ready, and then carry on and try to put the arrestor stuff in if people really want it

Its looking great

Crippler

[Wonder 0]

That isn't a US carrier, is it? Judging from the island it looks more like a french carrier.

[cbfasi 4]

Erm...I think you didnt read the post with those pictures...

I don't think the French have a Royal Navy......

The Carrier is British, and the original design (modfied to this form) was done during WW2.

She is based on the Late War ideas for a light fleet carrier, designed to operate in groups to perform tasks.

The Carrier is HMS Hermes from 1968, of only 744 feet length

This ship is only 3/4 the length of a Modern US Carrier.

[kevbaz 0]

A4 landing on Hermes

600k approx

[EBass 0]

Looks fantastic mate. Especially the British bit

[Shashman 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KEVBAZ @ 19 May 2003,19:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A4 landing on Hermes

600k approx<span id='postcolor'>

LOL...you managed to stop the video just on time eh?

[kevbaz 0]

i take it from that comment you dont belive me

[Shashman 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (<>Crippler<> @ 19 May 2003,18:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm not fussed with that arrestor stuff I think you should release it as soon as its ready, and then carry on and try to put the arrestor stuff in if people really want it

Its looking great

Crippler<span id='postcolor'>

Umm..how do you intend landing on the thing if it hasn't got any arrestor cables?? I would like to be able to use it for more than just a Harrier carrier or chopper carrier which is what I suppose you want to use it for seeing as it'd be impossible for anything other than a chopper or harrier to land on it if it didn't have arrestor cable script .

[cbfasi 4]

I just got permission to use the scripts... there will be a demo mission enclosed in the zip

[Wonder 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KEVBAZ @ 19 May 2003,20:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A4 landing on Hermes

600k approx<span id='postcolor'>

That A4 pilot better learn some carrier landing Did you notice how he lined up with the carrier's keel instead of the angled deck (that red stripe)?

[kevbaz 0]

hey leave my landing abilities alone, i was concentrating on just touching down with the vid capture stuff recording! hehe

[ShadowY 0]

Nice going Kev

btw. You dont mind if I parking the car myself

[kevbaz 0]

lol you should have seen the 3 attempts b4 hand, parked it in the control tower

[ShadowY 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KEVBAZ @ 19 May 2003,20:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">lol you should have seen the 3 attempts b4 hand, parked it in the control tower<span id='postcolor'>

What are you saying here Kev?

Did u delete those 3 attemps already?

[kevbaz 0]

i was gonna post em as bloopers but i thought otherwise :D

[cbfasi 4]

Actually I pointed that out before he said 'shall I post it'.

In the end it it shows it possible, also internal view landings are almost impossible due to very very very limited vision, and the lack of any ILS at all

[lpdotcom 0]

mmm...must stop drooling over keyboard...its beautiful.

[cbfasi 4]

Guys... a VERY VERY SHORT couple of weeks...

Go here for the download...

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ENJOY!!!!

[343rdBadger 0]

but what about this one?...it looked sooooooo nice?...what happened to it?...was it scraped?

[ExtracTioN 0]

CBFASI can you fix this amphibious assault ship please

I hope it does not take too much time of you so you can fix this Carrier m8

[cbfasi 4]

I would if I had the time, I suspect its in hand, its not as easy as some think.

Although Hermes took only a short time to build, I had already learnt a lot from from my initial work on HSM Invincible, which the orginal version was scrapped months ago.

Its all a matter of trial and error.

As for sizing, i use lightwave which so far has ensured that I have correct scaling, even after 2 seperate conversion processes (lightwave-3ds, 3ds-o2)

Also the main model is actaully one peice and only broken up in the final stages before conversion to 3ds.