BoonieRat

Whoops, my bad . Yep it's in 'CrossRoads' not terminators. The rest still stands(probably )...

How do you do this? I know how to make the square that buldozer shows/edits bigger/smaller (system preferences\real time veiwer\real size of one displayed square), but that only changes the size area that you edit/lower/raise/texture, ect. It does'nt make the map bigger or smaller, if you make the squares bigger, there are just less of them, no?... PS, you can change the above to edit terrain with higher 'resolution/accuracy' while in the middle of a map, apparently it messes up some objects/roads that have been placed though, so it's best to finish all terrain editing(with it) before you start laying roads and objects... I wonder if you can make trenches with it? Or ditches for road sides? Hmmm? I've got so many theories to test out, but I'm trying to learn O2/3D modeling, not improving my (basic) visitor skills! ...

Which one was SOE?, there were two, one American, one British. I thought SOE was the American one?. OSS ('Ofice of Stratigic Service' or simular?)was the British one no?.. Every organisation was riddled with Soviet moles around then, SIS(changed to from OSS/SOE after the war??) had Philby and Maclean. The Russians were the original spy masters...

The coca cola will have dried out and left the sticky syrup behind. Take your keypad apart (be careful to keep the keypad part upside down incase all the keys fall out!!. The wipe over the plastic sheet with mildly soapy water and drie it off properly... If liquid has gotten between the plastic sheets it might of shorted some keys, take the sheets apart and clean gently with soapy water and dry again!... You can repair keypad plastic sheets with 'rear windscreen heater repair paint' if any of the traces have been washed out by the cola. Just don't put too much paint on, so it's not 'proud/lumpy'... Or buy a new keypad ...

Like I said, I don't believe 'you can't live their lives for them', you can pity them, you can wish them well, but until they help themselves, you can't help them. Surely it's up to them to stop the Taliban 'walking in' again? They've got enough guns!. They have to police themselves. USA gets slammed for leaving Afghan, but gets slammed for still being in Iraq!, who can you please? Anyway it's about money, always is. If some of the oil(or hashish) revenue went into the country instead of russia's arms industry maybe?... I think they got their priorities right putting attention into Iraq, and if you don't think they had Iraq 'in the pipes' then, you won't think that they're the catalyst behind Isreals 'bloodless' removal of Arafat now?!... IMO: Cut the heads off of the people who fund and control the networks: The BinLadens, Saddams, Arafats, Ghadafis of the world BEFORE you even think about rebuilding, you usualy rebuild once the wars over no?...

I want to experiment with small islands. I'm not 100% sure how it works though, but I think if you use a 256 pixel heightmap to make a 'small' (say 128x128 visitor units) island it uses just as much memory as a 256x256(visitor units) sized map would (to memory map the terrain), and will suffer from the same amount of 'object lag' regardless of it's smaller size. It just means the terrain will have a higher 'resolution/detail' per visitor unit... I'll experiment with some 64x64 pixel h/maps and see if I can cram a load of stuff into a 64x64unit map without it lagging, or whether it's just loads of highface count objects close together that causes it...

My humble opinion [TM]... A lot of people think America is obliged to turn thirdworld terror states into instant thriving mini stable metropolis's, and accuse them of failure if they don't(when it'll take generations for the fear, hate and division to be forgotton). You can't live the Afghanis lives for them, suddenly make them peacable, unclanish, unwarlike people(I bet there are more AK's than farming implements!). Only they can turn their society around. Throwing money at a country does'nt make a society, and until there is a society (as oppossed to a collection of warring clans) there will never be a nation to build... Kudos to them for at least facing up to the problem at last (it's a shame it takes such a tragedy as a catalyst though) and doing something to curb Islamic terrorism at it's roots. And for at least attemting an impossible job of rebuilding a 'nation' that had divided and ripped itself to peices before the Americans ever set foot in it... You can't just 'rebuild' a nation into something it never was, and probably is'nt even capable of becoming without alot of time passing ...

I used to be a nVidia fan, but brought a 9700 cause it was cheap and powerful, the visual quality makes my old Ti500 look like mip~map legoland!, the 9700 will run any game out at highest mipmap level with no decernable 'line' between gradiants, most will run with high framerate with 16x anisotropic filtering as well!... When ATi was still adolescent, and fumbling with poor drivers I could understand being an nVidia zealot (I was one!) because they constantly delivered a superior product(in pure speed/power, visual quality has always been ATi's domain), but now it's a diffent game alltogether, people who are still blindly praising nVidia really need to look into the matter. You don't buy PC componants by brand name only!, they are'nt that constant a quality!. You have to research each and every item before buying, they are'nt like cars, motorcycles or even most other electrical item manufacturers. They are just to volitile. To likely to be a flop or the next best thing. You can't gaurentee their quality performance because they cover unknown ground each release, in such huge leaps!... At the present time, IMO, the best rig is a 2500Barton, AbitNF7S (rev 2.0), radion9700 upwards (depending on £$% available) and 512MB of 3500Twinmoss DDR to run the rig at 400MHZ~DDR/FSB... Intel has'nt a performance increase to qualify the price increase over AMD. nVidia delivered a pi$$poor product(price, power and quality) with the FX (I was as disapointed as any other nVidiot out there , but I'm not going to flog a dead horse just because it's named nvidia!) when compared to the 9700, let alone the 9800's. Being a mindless fan of manufacturers is the dumbest thing you can do IMO, you should judge them on their product NOW, each product. Not past products, past products only prove they can make good stuff, not that they will!... I don't mean any of the above to be inflamatory!, it's just my opinion, not an attack on anyone elses reasoning ... Peace out! ...

Cant the damage be removed in the script?(to stop it expolding?). The geometry LOD would have to be removed in O2 then, or there would be an invisible spitfire laying around that you could'nt walk through!... Why not just model a box with a pilot space (proxy?) in it?, with no gemetry LOD, and use a planes (modified) config so it has the actions of a plane? You could add weight to it so it does'nt glide up and down so much, just prevents the rate of decent a bit?. The possibilities are there, it's a damn good idea!...

Add them to the road you are using's 'Terminators' Then rightclick(might be left!, whichevr one does'nt 'autolay' the road ) on the road section you are making, an 'Edit terminator' type window should pop up, select 'add terminator' to the part you are wanting to put a Tee on (A,B or even C & D). You have to make the dirt road FIRST before you go back and carry on the mainroad (in my experience). If I made new sections of mainroad the 'auto road laying tool' did'nt work on the dirtpath, you'd have to use the 'edit terminator' option(after clicking on it) to carry it on. Hope this makes sense!! ...

Explain what? ... Powerslide!, can you explain your problem a bit more?, in depth?. Do you want the textures to not blend at the edges?, or is your whole texture blending?...

By adjusting how many pixels you make a heightmap out of? Like making a 2096x2096 (visitor unit) size map with a 512x512 (pixel) heightmap?...

How about giving him some time ...

The limit on mapsize is the amount of RAM your rig has, 1024x1024 is the largest size that can be run(just) on a 512MB(seems to be the average game rig amount) system IIRC. Theoreticly, if your rig could run it, visitor could make it, whatever the size... You can 'reset' the scale in O2 can't you?. the handling would be the same if you reduced the weight in ratio I recon, though I don't see the point as you'd have the worst looking ground textures of all time!! ...

I'd prefer a few riot vehicles (for those who like 'tossers' ) a LAV with a dozer blade on the front (reminicent of DieHard Nakawotsit plaza) a bus with grilled and meshed screen/windows and a riotvan (with animated/drop~down front anti~petrol~bomb skirt) for 'arrests'. Could make some police with riot shields then...

A humvee icecream van?, will it play 'pop eye the sailorman' as a jingle? ... Tis true about the humvees in BHD, they took alot of shit, people took hits in them, but they kept rolling (or grinding as the case may be ) It would be good to portray them as such in at least one humvee mod...

Mine was not having the Data3D unPBO'd, what are you 'system preferences' in visitor pointing to?...

That bow~wave anim' looks crap , what's it like when moving?...

Seems pretty pointless, apart from the 'bling~bling' factor! ... You'd have your missus glaring at you through it from the other side while you're watching Britany Spears do tricks with a candle and a cumquat [snigger]... I wonder how much 'water vapour' it produces...

Flat which way?, A flat circle(most likely) or a flat rectangle? Did you put in a 'Z' depth for the cylinder?(if you get a flat circle)... I had the 'make sphere' option crashing O2 until I entered a number higher than 1 in 'segmentX' and 'segmentsY'. The initial entries are'nt always pertinant ...

Can any other programs models/formats be imported into Oxygen?... There are a few I've seen being given away complete with magazines and I'm wondering if they're worth getting?... How much does 3Dmax cost? I thought it was an astronomical amount? Is the full version needed?... Thanks!...

Thanx for the links dude! ... Is'nt Zmodeller a program written by a russian dude? Really big on car games? Need for Speed, Midtown Madness, ect. Is it well supported? lot's of people use it and are willing to help out I mean?. Has it got a good easy interface? What file formats does it use?, I could'nt find any listing in Deep Exploration for it.(because it's not comercial I 'spose?)... I like the initial look of G~Max the most for some reason, it's free, complete, does'nt have to be reinstalled(or have the registry wiped) every 30days!, I don't have to apply for a trial, and it probably has a good strong comunity for help/tutorials, ect. Do you know what file format it uses?, I 'spose it's 3ds seeing as it's a 'child' of that program/company?... Which of these two would you peeps recomend the most?, does either have any really usefull plugins that the other does'nt have?... What do you think of Cinema4D? I noticed the 'Deep Exploration' will import C4D files, but won't export to them, I wonder if Cine4D will import any other formats?... Is there anywhere I can download Deep Exploration? Without having to apply for a demo and wait for a reply, ect... Thanks again for the help peeps and sorry for the torrent of questions! ...

Runway textures don't turn off transition, they just don't work properly if placed on any other surface other than grass or sand/stone/whateveritis, and then only if they are put in as a variant of the 'parent' texture... I don't know that you can stop visitor from creating transitionals, it does it automaticaly. Why do you want it to NOT make transitionals anyway?... What is the '2 digit name system'?...

Two Days!! ... Oh well!, I'm looking forward to this! , my fettish for wheeled LAV's will be asuaged!! ... Is that 'Fox' an ongoing project blackdog?...

Thanx!, there's a freebee (full AFAIK!) called Cine4D (or something very simular) that's being given away with a 'PC Art' magazine. Another is called 'TurboCAD6.1', are CAD proggies 3D proggies or are they 'different'?... The Cine4D looks to be good, but I don't know what to look for in a proggie (what are good/convertable file formats, ect) , if you could have a look at it I'd be grateful ...