.granQ. 0 Posted September 20, 2004 Just wanna inform you about this, swedish army is using diffrent COTS games (civillian of the shelf) to test if it could be used for training, already tank commanders are using Steel Beasts and now they want to use operation flashpoint for platoon leaders. They used a early version of our sfp 4.0 release that was made avaible only for them. But this is not only a thread made to show that the army uses our stuff, no I actually have something else I wanna show you. They use real photos taken from airplanes for their island and.. well check this picture and you will see how cool it looks. http://www.defencegaming.org/downloads/kvarn/OFP_UAV.jpg Also for more screens, info check their homepage: http://www.defencegaming.org/ Our homepage is at: http://swepack.game-host.org/ For mods.. I am not sure if this should be general, addons discussing or off-topic.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theavonlady 2 Posted September 20, 2004 They use real photos taken from airplanes for their island and.. well check this picture and you will see how cool it looks.www.defencegaming.org/downloads/kvarn/OFP_UAV.jpg Don't just stand there! Get that island here NOW! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stgn 39 Posted September 20, 2004 They use real photos taken from airplanes for their island and.. well check this picture and you will see how cool it looks.www.defencegaming.org/downloads/kvarn/OFP_UAV.jpg Don't just stand there! Get that island here NOW! Â Look at the pictures it only looks good at a distance. But in the right hands this could be a very nice island. STGN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theavonlady 2 Posted September 20, 2004 They use real photos taken from airplanes for their island and.. well check this picture and you will see how cool it looks.www.defencegaming.org/downloads/kvarn/OFP_UAV.jpg Don't just stand there! Get that island here NOW! Â Look at the pictures it only looks good at a distance. But in the right hands this could be a very nice island. STGN Seriously, it would be interesting to see in-game an island produced from actual photos. granQ, do you have any connections with people in the Swedish army who are involved with using OFP? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.granQ. 0 Posted September 20, 2004 actually it is very big island, (50x50 km) and only a very small part is covered with photos (so far) the area is a military training field and since the terrian height data comes from one goverment funded area, the work for the island comes from the FMV (the one that buys, modify and do stuff for the armed forces, all from computer games to tanks) and the end user is the army. The problem is really the "hush hush". Didn't know how much we could show but since they posted this screens on their page I guess thats OK. And they wanted me to sign som stuff to have the island on my computer so a public release i doubt, but how knows. Sweden has many laws that says goverment can't hide so much stuff from us, even if the army has some laws that makes them able to hide some stuff =) ohh, and belive me, the island may look worse then nogova on ground but the feeling is extreme much better, and once in air it feels so real EDIT: Quote[/b] ]granQ, do you have any connections with people in the Swedish army who are involved with using OFP? Yes. Next question ;) Infact some teammembers (me, shar and ugga) went to the army school to help them out and we been in close contact with them, and then of course there is some others using it more "unofficialy". And unlike many other ofp teams that has "military adviser", many in our team is current or ex "soldiers" =) Shar marine, me was on a brigade HQ platoon, ugga will join the army next year as a engineer and the list goes on.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hellfish6 7 Posted September 20, 2004 You guys can start a Swedish VBS team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lee_h._oswald 0 Posted September 20, 2004 VBS1 the "swedish way"! Looks very interesting. MfG Lee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shinRaiden 0 Posted September 21, 2004 Hmm... 1km x 1km area in the middle with the photographic terrain... that = 20x20 cells, so 400 of your maximum 512 textures are devoted to that area. You could also scale it larger by shifting your terraingrid and using larger textures to reduce texture count, but that reduces your terrain resolution unless you really start straining your comp. Looking at the other screenshots, I'd recommend that they go and scale up the texture resolutions, they don't appear to be very high. On the WRPtool forums we've had reports of as high as 8192x8192 instead of a measly 128x128. That should address the crummy textures when viewed up-close. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tankieboy 0 Posted September 21, 2004 Shame they do not make a BV206... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gollum1 0 Posted September 21, 2004 Hmm, the island doesn't look very beautiful but it sure does look different from anything I've seen before in OFP, interesting, wouldn't mind getting my hands on it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.granQ. 0 Posted September 21, 2004 Shame they do not make a BV206... actually the army is doing "nothing". It is our group that makes the addons, but we ain't making any bv206 so guess that doesn't matter really. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Status_cz 0 Posted September 30, 2004 It looks like they choose Battlefield 2 or they use ofp&bf2 ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spm1138 0 Posted September 30, 2004 Tell the cheap gits to buy VBS1. I want more modules Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
engen 0 Posted October 1, 2004 Status, afaik SAAB has bought the license from DI. Which isn't the military/army itself, but only a contractor. So the title is pretty missleading. SAAB will use it to build the actual simulation. If the military decides to buy it or not is another question. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cain2001 0 Posted October 1, 2004 Yeah, 4 million for the right to use the BF2 Engine, then they still need the swedish units. Will be fun to compare ofp2 with BF2+swedish army vs OFP2+SFP/OWN i know which side will kick ass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tankieboy 0 Posted October 1, 2004 Shame they do not make a BV206... actually the army is doing "nothing". It is our group that makes the addons, but we ain't making any bv206 so guess that doesn't matter really. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
