BoonieRat

What about player models? Like parachuting from a striken plane...

What OS are you running? What (if anything) has been changed/added recently? Has the temps risen lately where you live? How long has your PC been running fine?... Have you tried reinstalling DX and Explorer?(repair option for explorer)...

What OS are you running? What (if anything) has been changed/added recently? Has the temps risen lately where you live? How long has your PC been running fine?... Have you tried reinstalling DX and Explorer?(repair option for explorer)...

You sure it was'nt the interface that comes before the keypad that was crappy?! ...Did all the AI have the same faces in H&D originaly? When I played H&D delux (they have lightmaps/shadows now! w00t!!) I noticed they all had the same face. I can't remember if this was always so, or I just never noticed it at the time cause it was the 'norm'...

Can't remember the name of the game!(Apocalypse??) It was an Amiga classic though. It had a black woman singing and went: "War!, s'never been so much fun!" I got right down and boogied ... I actualy like the BF1942 intro music as well, and the guitar solo from VietCongs intro... Kingpin had some good tracks as well. A Cypress hill track that was later used in Matrix??...

NOOB question!: can characters be animated with this proggie? New Safe walks, crouches and other stances be made? Or is it more of a 'static object' animation tool? Sorry if the answer is glaringly obvious to the initiated! ...

I agree about the anims. You can high poly and high res OFP no problems, but the animations are always going to make OFP look like a turd (or like the AI is taking one at the least! )... New higher poly character models and animations would make this a 'born again' game! There would be no limits to what it could be made to look like... I wonder if any could be 'imported' in from another game?, as opposed to making them all from scratch...

Sorry I asumed you were placing them with the editor. In the island config somewhere I'd imagine? I don't know for sure how though...

How about when you started a new project in visitor?. You get the choice of which 'Dimension settings' you pick(256 x 256 is default) If you did'nt put in 128 x 128 there it will fugg up the terrain detail settings. Visitor needs one terrain height point (pixel) for every visitor unit(dimension setting). Do they match?... You have to choose 128 x128 pixels in photoshop instead of 256 x 256, is this what you mean by pixels, or the 'units' in visitor?...

I'm not insinuating anything. If you brought it before DX9 came out that is . If you buy a DX8 card NOW, when you can get faster DX9 cards for the same price range then yes, you're a moron ...I got my 9700Gold(basicly an overclocked 9700) from Aria.co.uk 3 or 4 months ago. I don't know how much Pro's go for... The overall quality was no different than any other manu's, ALL drivers had issues. It was the fact that ATi were slow (or did'nt even bother!) releasing new drivers/fixes that was an issue. But as you've said, they have improved the speed of support... Yes they are!. You're confusing quantity with quality. Just cause nVidia spews out a det a day does'nt mean they're all top knotch. Why make so many if the last one was good?...ATi were terrible a few years back for support, that's a given. But you should really judge their present cards on their present performance, which is outstanding. Past performance bears no direct relevance to present performance in PC componants. 'PC years' make 'doggy years' look like decades!. It's like saying "I won't buy a new Ford cause the Model~T had poor support!" ...

Something like 'THIS inflame true' in it's config maybe?. This should'nt really be posted in the visitor forum...

I owned an ATi rage 128pro AGP card (and an onboard/intergrated one as well, also 2xGf2MX's, Gf2pro, Gf3Ti500) and never had a problem with it. I played Halflife, Kingpin, Hidden & Dangerous, Deltaforce, and I don't know how many other games on it, like I said, without problem. ATi driver support has come a very long way since then. They used to be piss poor at releasing updates, but those days are gone. Get with the program! Evaluate them on there present day performance and support, not a 5year old product (which was faster than the 'then current' 3DFX card ) Healthy scepticism is good, but 5year old doubts is paranoia ... I'd of stayed with nVidia if they had'nt 'dropped the ball' so badly with the FX, I was considering a 'budget' Ti4#00 card, but instead of dropping the price(to Å100 & less) to encourage buyers they released a BS~4800 AGP 8x POS, and bumped the price UP!!(to Å150+!). Their forward planners need lining up against a wall! . Ati on the other hand dropped the price of the 9700 to below Å200 (mine was 9700 'Gold' for Å170, 3+ months ago) while their 9500 range was on par with the Ti4#00's anyway(price & performance! plus could be modded to a 9700) and mopped up the game enthusiast market!. nVidia were still leading in the big OEM market when I last saw, but then again (judging on their recent f##kups) they could of lost that by now with ATi pumping out their rebadged 8500's as Radion 9000/9100's ... I value reliability as well. The 9700 delivers it with flying colours. DX9 will be wanted for hardware processing in DX9 games, any card that has to do it by software is loosing precious FPS before it even steps up to the blocks!. I agree that DX9 is NOT a reason in itself to upgrade. But if you're buying a new card anyway, you'd be a moron NOT to take advantage of the new hardware processes...

You have to bump the brightness up with photo shop or such before you post screenshots. The gamma is different ingame or something... Those pics are like at november 3:00AM it's so dark! ... Damn good idea!, it's nice to see there are still inovative ideas waiting to be discovered ...

I would'nt buy any of those three! Get yourself a 9700, they are coming down in price and a good make can be picked up for about Å150. Mine was Å170 three+ months ago... The 9600 range has half the texture pipelines of the 9700/9800 range. The FX has half the amount as well, and is a rubbish card when compared to Radions. I'm not anti nVidia, my last three cards before my current 9700 were nVidia. The FX is just crap, loud, hot and comparitivly slow. Hell!, it does'nt even beat the 9700/9800 series, and that's a generation older made to 'spar with' the Ti4200/400/600 range!!...

Did you match the pixels to the units in visitor?. Both 128 x 128 I mean... Using a 128x128 pixel heightmap with a 256x256 'visitor unit' map will result in a different terrain resolution which will mess things up...

The thing with runways is you can only have one per map that the AI will land on, and it has to be orientated a certain way, (ie north to south) for them to use it. It's a real shame that we will only ever have a static carrier that has to be made especialy included into a map if AI are to be used (which is what I hope the Falklands team are doing?) I can't even imagine the scripting for sending off a plane every 30 seconds! Or for taxying them out of the way of the next incoming (perhaps they could end at an elavator that just 'teleports' them out of the way when it goes down?) There's a lot of work in a Carrier!...

I HATE the word realistic when used 'in a game' to describe war. It's the over fucking statement of the century!! It's nothing personal with you, you just seem to have strong veiws in the other direction (go back and read your initial posp ) I prefer words like 'immersive' that describe you 'getting into' the game. I like accuracy in portrayal. I like more immersive games with more things to interact with, rather than 'photo reality' graphics. BF1942 does that as well as OFP IMO, just in a different way. With any multiplayer game, the sqad you play with sets the quality of the game. Depends how seriously they take it...When people slam a game for minor defects(that they ignore in their 'favourit'). When people pick out inacuracy in one game, like 'sniper pistols'. But ignore them in others like, 'bouncing tanks'. I tend to think they're just playing devils advocate, or really are just forum fanboys('our turf', 'back up the boys' mentality), rather than game enthusiasts, like I am. Because most all games have something to offer (exept the Barbie ones!!) if you're into it's genre. I honestly wonder if people look at 'the other game' by it's own merits, or are just perpetualy holding it up to OFP and putting it down by rote? ... ___ ALL games are simplified...

You spelt 'spearhead' wrong in your sig... It's nice to see someone concentrate on missions as opposed to addons. I'd like to see some campaigns and some single 'stand alone' missions as well, utilizing a single addon in each mission. Multiple addons put alot of people off using them I think... Please! Please! Bug test them rigorously!. So many of the 'approved' missions I've played have glaring bugs that stall the missions, or are just inapropriatly set up (super AI snipers beyond M16 range that wipe out your entire AI~squad before you can cover the 500~yard dash that brings you into range! Only to find you were suposed to go the opposite direction anyway!! {Damn AI running off after the bionic sniper!})

Then why slag them off for being unrealistic like it's the crucial factor?! (personaly I binned halflife cause the headcrabs did'nt have the blue spots on the male versions knees! Let alone Gonarchs missins sac hairs!, and Kinpin!, where were the crack pipes and 13year old prostitutes!! )... Yes that's your opinion, stating it over and over won't make it so in other peoples eyes though. That takes rational arguments (IE: Longer than one liner blurbs) What exactly is 'no good' about it?...

It might be true, even so, I get tired of hearing it!. It's aproaching 'spam' level to my poor beleaguered eyes! ... If you took every 'blah, blah, no missions...' posts and added up all the time it took to type them you'd have time to make a campaign!!(or do you 'cut and paste'?) ... If you really feel that strongly, Do something about it!...

What is/are these? Can you tell me what the latest free version of PaintshopPro is?(5?) I have 4 but it has'nt got the alpha channel options under 'selections'!...Have you got a site where you post progress and other models that are being worked on?. I'm really looking forward to this Ferret, and would like to follow it's progress! (without bumping up threads!)...

Not realy, how many animators do you know?. They're rarer than texture artists! ...

I judge each game on it's merits. Not against others I've enjoyed each and every game I've owned... H&D hooked me into war games though, it was my first love . Project IGI (the original) had something. MoHAA blew me away. Vietcong has me totaly hooked at the moment(cheese! and all ), I've never gotten so 'involved' in a firefight before, (even MoHAA!, the SP game I've replayed the most all the way through!)... OFP I actualy left a few times but come back to between other games. The sheer scope of it is what draws people to it I think. trying to master all those freakin buttons killed me more times than 'that big spider with giant bollox' in HalfLife ...

Ditto!... I'm not talking about reference, I'm talking about WHAT IT IS (which is a black and white cow by the way ), you are talking about opinion. Go sit on a battlefeild in full swing, then tell me how 'realistic' you find war games (does OFP give you a 1000yard stare?) War is a very spiritual thing, and I find the term realistic offensive(which explains my persistance )...You seem to think I need reality to think a game good?, I dont, I love most 'good' games regardless of cartoon graphics or photo 'realism'. I just hate seeing people slam perfectly good games, because they think OFP is some kind of 'war simulator' that drips reality. If OFP is what you BASE your idea of reality, then you have pretty base tastes (and yes I love OFP glaring defects and all)...

Rubbish is exactly what the companys talk!, that is why they use such far fetched terms like 'realistic'... I never said it was realistic, I said the fear involved would be... So a Cow is all black, as long as there is more black than white? Anyway!, again!, it all depends on what the individual considers realistic. What you would (from your posts) obviously swallow as 'realistic', I would scoff...You can make an ingame firefight seem authentic: "You'd take 'this' stance, that would happen, and so & so would react in such a way" but you'll never make it realistic without a few ounces of fear and lead, and serious loss of hearing. Oh yeah!, you can make it more realistic in comparison to something lesser! But 'more realistic' will still only ever be a 2% shadow of reality. Never realistic in comparison to the true event!. So saying that 'X game is realistic' is (IMO) pure BS! Saying 'It's as realistic as it gets' is as close to the truth as it'll get.. What?!, your mom agrees with you?!! . This is about as far as I'm willing to take a topic O\T when this kind of (IMO) 'lame flame bait backed up with BS' retort is the reply...Peace, and have a nice day ...