shinRaiden
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Hey, real information and not wild rumors for once.
The core engine is arbitrarily limited to 512 textures per map.
The standard map size is 256x256 cells with 50m spacing. (65536 cells.)
Maps are made with one texture per cell. This means that only 8 tenths of one percent of the entire map can be covered without duplicating textures.
The largest square area then possible without duplication is 22x22 cells. That equals 1.1km * 1.1km. Standard map size is 12.8km * 12.8km.
The super-high resolution images such as the 2048px are not practical for applications other than national-asset level classified projects. Commercial imagery from SPOT or DigitalGlobe is available at up to 2.5m in full color, or 60cm in single-channel greyscale. That is equivelent to 20px or 84px textures, resampled to 32px or 128px would be more optimized for the GPU processes.
512px textures, the standard for Nogova, sit about 171kb each. If the textures are resampled and processed to that resolution (~9.75cm) then 10.9gigabytes of data streamed in realtime from the hard disk to the video card would be required to cover a standard sized map.
In regards to VBS1 TP3, GIS elevation and entity data was used for terrain modeling and object placement, but satellite imaging was not used for textureing.
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IF you own a full copy of OFP and VBS AND the OFP mod makers have expressly approved, there are unapproved and unsupported methods documented for how to add the OFP content in as Mod folders to your VBS1 installation, detailed in the registered members section of VBS Resources. (meriting a useless thread lock here)
Attempting to port stuff back to OFP is a rather pointless exercise for several reasons. The critical content such as models and configs and maps are always encrypted, and that functionality is not in OFP.
Secondly, the advanced functionality is based off of hundreds of changes and updates to the engine in commands, scripting, and configs. Nearly all of these can not be emulated without modifying the original engine source code.
If the technical reasons still don't phase you, then the legal prohibitions won't either, in which case you haven't learned the lessons of past locked discussions on these forums about the abuse/misuse of community contributions, and this useless thread will merit a lock for flamebaiting or warez.
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I think every addon maker wishes for it, but so far the only animation that has been found is rotation. Sliding can be mimicked by setting the axis points far away from the rest of the model, and then only animating the parts a few degrees.-Pilot
And that apparently causes ODOL Explorer to crash attempting to load the model.
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OFPwatch does something like this right now for OFP. What's missing is a detached addon sync'er that is not hooked into the servers or missions. bn880's suggested ideas for a great project to manage that over in the Addons At Ease board.
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The problem with all these threads that get locked is that they're yes-no questions to the developers, instead of 'why' discussions with the community. Seeing as how the developers are better busied with making answers rather than posting answers, it would logically follow that an absence of answers would over-stress the lack of balance in the 'discussion', resulting in locks for bad behavior, instead of preemptive locks for uselessness.
Instead, what would be more appropiate would be to point out the limited int/float operations capability, the relatively low resolution of six significant digit floats, why those things are a problem, what specificly needs to be fixed, and *cough*cough* a little hint that ASL commands are apart of the extended VBS1 functions library complementing the shared altitude-over-land functions.
Now that would be a useful thread. At the most, your wording can only get a yes/no, then a lock for question answered, and more bloat to the database.
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*sigh* Searching is your friend. In nearly every case, the "code change required" error is triggered by only one scenario, and that's running a larger than normal map at a higher than appropiate terraingrid setting.
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that's strictly a client-side browser hax, troll your own %systemroot%/fonts folder to see what you have. There's no guarantee that another client running something like <span style='font-family:impact'><span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'>linu<span style='color:orange'>x</span></span></span> is going to be able to render it.
Additionally, you'll want to stuff as much as possible into .css headers to clean up and optimize the HTML code. The more code you put into the HTML, the less manageable it will be, and the more laggy it will be.
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Yes and no is the rule of course.
The defense attorney has a theoretically valid legal challenge in place, ie due to the current cartoon situation the prosecution and sentancing was not isolated to the case at hand, but was biased and excessive due to the present political implications.
Now playing devil's advocate here, that's a very rational arguement, and not one that the prosecution could easily demand a summary dismissal of the appeal solely on the ample evidence convicting the defendent. If you're going to play games, then seeing as how there's thousands of organized foreign nationals willfully attacking embassies and agents of the respective governments, and using seditiously theocratic arguements for their justification, there should be some sort of obscure gitmo loophole to fast-track the process as the defendent is giving aid and comfort to armed enemies of the state. Of course if you start down that road there's all the pesky human rights and transparency issues and cultural nigglies.
Now take for example the case against the Aryan Nations a few years back. A woman and her son - rather n00bish - were off on a holiday drive in the boonies. Their car broke down right in front of the Aryan Nations compound in Northern Idaho, so they went up to the guard shack to ask for some help. The thugs there jumped them and beat the crap out of them. Standard criminal charges were filed against those involved.
Where the real legal problems started was when the minority rights groups hooked up with them to trump up a civil court complaint. The Southern Poverty Law Center said that their intent and purpose was to bankrupt AN under the guise of compensatory and punative damages to the two people. Now of course Aryan Nations is a bunch of evil idiots. But neither being evil or an idiot is democratic justification for legal subversion.
So the case proceeded with two claims : a relatively small amount of compensatory damages for the victims's medical costs, and a silly amount of punative damages for who Aryan Nations is, not what they the organization, or a few of their members had done. The massive punative jackpot award resulted in AN's bankruptcy and asset liquidation.
Now granted, the Holocaust is a unique event, in which nations that claimed to be civilized practiced or deliberately ignored systematic targeted dehumanization and genocide. The fact that the reactionary laws have had to become so draconian shows the extent to which the underlying moral decay leading to such perversions has continued to ridiculed and ignored.
Now supposing I play Jinn's Advocate for a second, here you have a case of someone being tossed into jail for a good long while for nothing more than exercising a restricted freedom of speech. Why aren't the Jydllan's Post cartoonists his cellmates is the question that will never die. In a strictly rational tin-foil hat world, you can argue that every which way you please.
But the difficulty here is that democratic theory is oriented towards the libertization and enablement of the society at large. The problems come in when you have deliberately malignant individuals who exploit the system for their perverse designs. I'm sure you could take this guy to Auschwitz and he'd swear up and down to his dying breath that there was nobody there other than the Roswell Greys, and your attempts to reform and enlighten him would be futile. Or you could toss him into solitary for the rest of his life, but that sets a scaled precedent for the ignorant offenders that is argueablely unjust.
Now the really easy out is to outsource your really cranky people to Gitmo et al, and pay some one else to do your dirty work and not tell you about it. And finishing up my rambling, one of the core problems is due to the naive or insidiously subversive philosophical notion in western thought that mercy requires an absence of justice.
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The canyons pics are the Virgin River Gorge part of I-15 going through the NW corner of Arizona between St. George, UT and Las Vegas, NV.
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The Walmart pic is a few miles north of St. George, and the last pic of the boonies is still further north. The photo-taken timestamp properties are all accurate.
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If you've gone to Zions or Bryce or 'other' spots on up the road coming from SoCal, you should have had to go through that canyon just after Mesquite, NV.
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There was a KC-10 on final approach into Nellis AFB from the north as I was heading home this afternoon. It was a beautiful floating approach and I was right by the speedway. I didn't think to grab a picture though, which really sucks. This morning though there was a couple odd jets circling over the Strip as I was coming into town. Clearly swing wing jets, too acrobatic / public for B-1B, but what would an F-111 or F-14 be doing flipping over downtown Las Vegas? I was going to get a panorama from Apex, but the smog was a bit bad.
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About 1/3rd of one side of Walmart's main western state's distribution center. So that's where that traffic jam on I-82/84 comes from...
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Went to Las Vegas (~1400km round trip, down yesterday, back today) for a childhood friend's funeral. 8 hours in a car today + 2 bottles of Mt. Dew, I'll be up all night. Still trying to figure out photography 4 n00bs with my Canon SD400. The funeral pics didn't turn out so hot, but the canyons came out marginally ok. I still get mixed up on the ISO speeds, at least I had remembered to leave it set at the long-range focus auto-setting.
-edit- Only thing changed about these posted pics is that they were scaled from 2592x1944 down to 800x600 to fit the filesize rule. Otherwise the extended properties should all be the original specs.
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HijackThis + SpyBot
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Iirc, there's a An-124 that semi-regularly air flights in engines for 777 production in Seattle. There's also a beautiful matched pair of prop bush planes hidden away by some private outfiter at a local airstrip about 45min south of Seattle, tucked behind a truck rebuild shop.
-edit- A matched pair of AN-2's iirc.
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And I do the same thing with my mobo Soundstorm and Audigy2. That's an arguement for multiple audio cards, not for USB sets.
Now using a USB device is going to be cheaper than buying a 2nd card, or offloading voice comms to a 2nd pc. However there will be penalties of performance, and hunting for open ports.
I have 6 USB ports on this machine. They're all in use atm. I rotate my VBS security dongles through one port, I've got a USB stick in #2, #3 has my flash memory reader, #4 is my digicam cable, #5 is a USB worklight, and #6 is my PDA sync cable. I've got a Thrustmaster Cougar on the way, so something's got to give. And it won't be the Kitty.
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The only problem with binview is that it can't restore the original #defines. If you step through the commented configs instead, you get a much more useful overview of how the pieces fit together. Except for CfgMovesMC. Heaven have mercy on the poor suckers who wander naively in there.
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Part of the very large problem with 'CQB' BF2 etc n00bers is that they get the half-baked idea that they can just joyride up and down alleys in a T-72, and if, allah forbid, they get waxed, another tank is just a respawn away.
Those kind of scenarios would be very interesting to sit in the Instructor Interface and watch a BF2 run-and-gun group - as insurgents of course - playing against an experienced OFP group. Odds are the BF2 Flanker wouldn't have enough altitude to catch an AC-130 on loiter.
The real kick in the pants though... B-1B stand-to CAS. 'Nuf said. Just try it in BF2. It's actually theoretically reasonable on the OFP platform.
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wayback and archive.org and google all throw out various hints, as it's all before my time I can only guess.
Afaik I can tell, there was 2 original semi-official fan sites in the beginning. One leaned more towards media and the other - lp's - towards tech info. Then a third site came up about the time that OFP was to go retail and quickly shot up the ladder. The first site got parted out into BIS people and the forums here. lp claimed that he was in talks to to CM to get 'official' recognition, or sponsorship, or something to that effect, but that CM switched the 'done deal' at the last moment to the other upstart site, which ended up fading in the shadow of the official BIS site and the later premier community-run sites.
Some folks scavanged lp's abandoned work, and used it for the basis of what developed into OFPEC. That took off as the center for technical content dev. Once that was stablized, a bunch of the folks there stepped back to focus on content dev - BAS, PUKF, etc - and the regular admins took over the day-to-day stuff, carrying up to the present.
Now the one that I really liked was Johnnylump's addon directory. Poor guy took it upon himself to index out all the known released content and links to downloads. I think it hit terminal mass over a year ago, it was slowwing up then and I haven't checked it in a while. It's 404'd now. It's a real shame because it was one of the extremely few cross-site mirror lists of older content.
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I'm by no means an expert in the area, most of these ramblings are anecdotal etc.
First off is the B-47. Most of the B-47 variants were at risk in a high-speed high-altitude box. This is because the wing was designed more for a single flight profile rather than mixed profile. The result was that the airspeed margin between super-sonic concussion and stall speeds became extremely narrow.
When you move into the hyper-compressed pressure cone, the air pressure on the flight surfaces is radically different than in low-pressure lower-speed flight. Canard forward stabilizers become more common, as they're aerodynamically more effective than in the rear vortex or cavitation (?) shadow at those atmospheric profiles.
Simply put, lower speed wings are generally designed to optimally suck up as much lifting atmosphere as possible, while supersonic and hypersonic wings are generally geared more towards deflecting the pressure wave and channeling air to the engines.
Transsonic wings are far more tricky to develop, the frustrations of development and disasters of the first several decades led to the strong emphasis in the previous generation on swing-wings (F-14, F111, B-1A and B, first Boeing SST prototype, Tu-160, etc). However the complexity and costs associated with that methodology have generally been impractical for commercial usage, and even marginally justifiable in military administration.
What has happened is that there has in the military been a more honest evaluation of the true operational envelope of general military aviation being primarily sub-sonic for manueverability reasons. The pie-in-the-sky folks are responding with various unmanned concepts that could theoretically be more transsonic than current manned systems, however honest evaluations of the additional remote piloting and communications infrastructure would put that back towards the dubious practicality category.
Commercial civilian usage is even more tenuous. There is a narrow barely sub-sonic window of increased atmospheric efficency that small private executive jets can exploit, but it's been an on-going challenge to take advantage of that in larger commercial transports. Additionally, there are significantly increased costs due to low-volume, exotic materials, compensations for significant fuselage deformation inflight, absurdly extravagent fuel consumption, and environmental mitigation for the NIMBY anti-human activists.
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*) The calls were atrocious, and this is yet another blight due to the NFL's systematic market teiring strategy discriminating against 'pro-level farm-teams'.
Alternate tin-foil hat conspiracy theories :
*) Instead of convienently covering up and closing the case, the City of Seattle and Monarchy County have been found in contempt of court repeatedly for refusing to disclose the cooked books used to promote the stadium. Until King Ron and cronies learn to toe the NFL line, Seattle must be 'punished'. Furthermore, as the citizens voted 75-25 against the new stadium - while tens of millions of dollars in outstanding debts remained on the old Kingdome - the legislature railroaded it through as an emergency project. This resulted in a team with a severely damaged market due to incompetent fan service, something than even anime trolls know how to provide.
*) Valve's publisher-independent 'arrogance' is a huge liability risk to mega-corps like EA who bet their stock price on the ability to maintain exclusive league licenses. EA probably leaned on the NFL to throw the game to send a msg to Valve.
*) Mike Holmgren's contract is up for renewal, and there's rumbles that he's going to make the owners sweat it if they want to keep him. Do you think that he'd just 'give' the owners a freebie?
*) Qwest sponsors the Seahawk's home field, and Ford the Super Bowl field, both technically viable companies run into the ground in disgrace by inept mismangement. The bad chi vibes doomed it from day one.
*) On one hand, the vast right wing conspiracy threw the game for the Stealers because it's the north-east good old boys and big-iron industry and the seattle nutzos being backed by the corrupt architects of the largest elections fraud in the nations history, and the eco-commies supported the blue-collar unions and opposed the white man's perversion of native american symbolism and free animals.
*) The conservative pundits will point out that the working class fundamentally conservative middle class clearly backed their team over the minions of liberal extremism and their hippie owner, while the christian fundamentalists will point out the vengeful hand of god against the demographically irreligious Left Coast.
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I'm pretty sure most of you have heard about Chuck Norris facts. How about a thread highlighting similar feats of Placebo or the Spanel Brothers?God originally allotted himself ten days to create the Earth, but when he created Placebo on the sixth day, Placebo PR'ed him.
Bring that rubbish on the forums, and you shall be smitten down by my unearthly mod-powers
Why's that? They're only being posted because they're actual facts...
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While viewing the Game2 suggestion forum on the BIS boards, I came across this : Speedtree
No need to dup that thread.
The M$ dev's are talking out of their exaust ports, Speedtree is used on a number of high-end professional flight sims.
Also, folks need to remember to read the fine technical print behind the pretty pictures.
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Necrophilia is not kewl bro. Zombified organ-swapping of your networking stack also brings muchos bad karma.
It *should* be available though as an MS protocol somewhere in your Network Properties.
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1) Ragdolls are normally missing trans-selectional muscles and tendons in nearly all implementations I've seen.
2) Source does not provide a destructible environment, it only supports pre-cracked objects.
3) Source uses a closed box planar model, OFP uses open world object entities.
4) Source is optimized for alley zombie shooter logic, OFP is open terrain optimized.
5) Everyone has HDR now.
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Changing Game2 to accomodate this would drasticly increase the development time, integrate in all of the bad bits of BF2 with none of the good, and in general tank the product.
Online distro like Steam on the other hand would be nice.
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TP3 for VBS1 shows that you can approach a BF2 level of density in the common engine, while retaining large scale maps. If the n00blings wish to gun and run their way into the city they're more than welcome to, me personally I prefer to stay back and send some indirect fire their way.
My hard drive’s about to fail, any advice?
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Hold on just a second here folks, there's a nasty little devil in the details. Sure, you can a WD2000JB for $92, but the fine print says it's an 'OEM' drive. No problem, that's just a 133t way to get cheap stuff right?
WRONG.
What that means is the manufacturer gives you no warranty at all. Zero. Nada. Zip. Your vendor, if you're lucky, might give you 90 days exchange for defective merchandise. (the fine print says they can get up to two years for pass-through, but that's if they buy direct, not through a channel distributor)
So if you're ok with that route, sure grab an OEM drive and take care of yourself. If you want to wave a paper in someone's face and get a free drive if the new one goes bad, buy that drive if it includes a warranty from Dell, or buy a boxed one at your local non-geek electronics store.
From past experience as a minion in the Dell technician horde, if the rest of your box is still under the standard warranty then you're best going with there recommendation. It will save more grief down the road if something else goes bad.
Me personally, I build all my own and my last three drives were from w00t. Then again, they're all plugged in a RAID to compensate for them being low-cache refurbs.