What about a parachute re-skin/design?

[cobra@pulse 0]

So, what I was thinking of is if you have ever played Americas Army, i was thinking that some tallented addon maker could consider re-skining or er-desiging the BIS parachute. Such as the one in AA. Just so its more detailed, i.e. you dont just see a blur where the wires are and it is a proper rig etc. Being stearable to an extent would be good, so a round one with limited movement, mainly turning.

What would be good aswell is if the parachute had an animation when you land, such as the one in AA. (Sorry to all you who haven't played AA, ots confusing to you I know, lol)

So what do you think everyone?

[UsMarine408 0]

I think you should get someone to just convert the parachute its not that hard really

[Crowley 0]

There is a steerable parachute addon. I don't recally where I last saw it, but some checks around the larger addon sites should turn it up. It was blue though, and not round, unlike a regular army paradrop type parachute.

[cobra@pulse 0]

Really. Coverting is a very good option. Any one want to have ago?

[scfan42 0]

Converting something made by the Army isn't the greatest of ideas.

Though I do think it is possible to have an animated parachute, and for the PLF you could just have the unit play an anim when it lands under the getout event handler. You could also possibly drop the weapon where you landed, since rolling around on a rifle wouldn't be comfortable. Steerable should also be able to be accurate by having a max speed of 5-15 kph, and have some slow turning in there as well.

[cobra@pulse 0]

Well, what would be wrong about importing it? Any problems?

[NZXSHADOWS 0]

A Law suit maybe?j/k,

[ebns72 0]

Dunno about importing, but this whole parachutes thing can be done pretty simply. Just retexture/remake a parachute, add some steerable options (I know its possible) and for the "getout" anim (in the bis chute the anim is like a jump almost) make it a roll.

[scfan42 0]

A Law suit maybe?j/k,

The Army will send a Abrams up to your house, and they won't be too happy

[cobra@pulse 0]

Well thats what a garage full of AT4's are for

Just out of interest, how hard would it be to do, and what would you need to do it?

[USA 4 Ever 0]

There is a steerable parachute addon.  I don't recally where I last saw it, but some checks around the larger addon sites should turn it up.  It was blue though, and not round, unlike a regular army paradrop type parachute.

There is one in the FDF mod I know that.

[C4P741N 0]

FDF mod has the best chutes I've seen. There are round and square ones, they're steerable, repackable and it (FDF) also has a new free fall animation. FDF members have already said they won't/can't release a standalone version of these chutes because it needs things added to OFPs' config.bin. I have removed (what I believe to be) all the bits (.p3d/textures/.rtm/scripts/config) to implement it into an ECP config but to no success yet.

Cap.