Eviscerator

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (the_unknown_one @ April 06 2003,17:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">what do the abbreviations mean (SAW = squad automatic weapon but what are the other?s, PIP etc.?)<span id='postcolor'> PIP = Product Improved Program (i think, not completely sure about the last word) SPW = Special Purpose Weapon, Special forces weapon, lighter than the PARA, new barrel, no STANAG Magazine port, mounting lugs removed, several other changes including compatability with the SOPMOD program. PARA = Isnt an abbreviation AFAIK, its the parachute trooper version of the weapon, shorter barrel and telescopic stock)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (cam0flage @ April 12 2003,17:18)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think NSV would be a more modern & better choice.<span id='postcolor'> NSV is probably too modern for a Technical, even in Iraq which was supplied pretty well up till the 90's has DShK's, so some kind of rebel army with DShK's wont have much better

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Przezdzieblo @ April 11 2003,20:08)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well, I think that comparing one of the best soldier/weapons addon with incoming new M24 is natural. Without some rivalry addons would be so good as they are (hm, maybe some of them). And one more- comparing of both weapons could has some influence on addonmakers and force them to publish new, better versions of their work. Eviscerator, do you think that all parts of addon would be as good as possible, or do you think that all parts make addon and precision in modeling or configuration of it is not so important when there are many new weapons/soldiers?<span id='postcolor'> I think that the addon should be as good as possible in the time constraints, our M24 is perfectly adequate for our addon, i have seen no complaints and have actually seen many praises for it, making the Delta/Ranger pack took about 4 or so months, the author making this M24 has taken a month, and has not finished, if we went into the same detail with each weapon it would've taken us a couple of years to finish the addon!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hellfish6 @ April 12 2003,06:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Contact the SEB team and see if you can use the DsHk 12.7mm MG that they have in their Nam Pack 2. Or... use a PK.<span id='postcolor'> Contact email for asking for the DShK: [email protected]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Lt_Damage @ April 09 2003,01:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hmm, I didn't originally intend to make this a fully realistic 'technica' It was mainly for fun, it was posted in here as a technical originally but that wasn't my idea. Â I will make a second version that is more realistic as I do not wish to change the big wheels and other fun stuff with it. I'll finish this model off first and the ultra-realism version will be available shortly after. As far as the machine gun goes who made the DShK 12.7mm so I can ask permission to use it? I will have to mount the MG different so it swings on a smaller area, then make the proxy guy stand up. I can't widen the tray.<span id='postcolor'> The DShK was modelled by me and textured by ebud, however i believe only SelectThis has the final model in MLOD, so you'd have to email him ( [email protected] )

And if you read all the posts you'll notice the maker has already answered Avonlady

I'm not really sure how the Korean War would be much better...It was (mainly) Americans, who eventually 'lose' no matter how excellently you fight... OFP suits Vietnam, the helicopters used there are one of the things ofp does best, there are not many huge battles with thousands of troops among thousands of houses meaning the game would be much easier on the system, also OFP is not good with CQB which dominates modern conflicts, go much earlier in time than the vietnam war and its going to be too much walking, which can really get boring in ofp, go too far forward from vietnam and you have easily winnable situations, and, Vietnam is the new WW2 in the games industry, so why not cash in on it?

I'm not really sure how the Korean War would be much better...It was (mainly) Americans, who eventually 'lose' no matter how excellently you fight... OFP suits Vietnam, the helicopters used there are one of the things ofp does best, there are not many huge battles with thousands of troops among thousands of houses meaning the game would be much easier on the system, also OFP is not good with CQB which dominates modern conflicts, go much earlier in time than the vietnam war and its going to be too much walking, which can really get boring in ofp, go too far forward from vietnam and you have easily winnable situations, and, Vietnam is the new WW2 in the games industry, so why not cash in on it?

Why do you feel the need to compete with us? There are vast differences between the situations, we were making an addon pack, with lots and lots of weapons and soldiers, so diverting so much attention to just one weapon was not possible, if we were just making an M24 addon you would probably have a much harder time pointing out the flaws in our addons, so please, stop comparing it to our M24.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Adviss @ April 10 2003,20:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">To Tall: you dont need to do any of that stuff. If you don't belive me, go to DKM-mods website (I can't remember offhand at the moment) and search the january archives. They should have a download for a addon which adds the effect to all BIS choppers. Its actually what im using currently. I don't however know how in the hell they made the addon, however-which is why i'm asking if a smart fellow from BAS (or anyone with bas's permission) could make the same with their downwash effect.<span id='postcolor'> DKM didnt add them to the official choppers, they made new versions with the script added, by 'new' i mean they arent the helicopters used in, say, the campaigns.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Suchey @ April 10 2003,15:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Maruk @ April 09 2003,20:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Our intention is to establish a submission and evaluation process and select the best addons (solely from BIS perspective) and recommend it at our official websites.<span id='postcolor'> It would be GREAT if BIS would wrap up these files which they select as being 'best' in a single installer package (say once every month or so)...this would allow a single package of addons to be used as a (BIS) standard and make things ALOT easier on multiplay servers! Â Its alot easier to say "you need the latest update of the user addon pack from the BIS website" than to say..."you need this list of items to play". Â With a single package in place, addons may actually becomes useful for dedicated servers!<span id='postcolor'> Also if once there are quite a few addons in there how about offering them up to several PC Gaming magazines? OFP never gets much attention on their demo CD's so adding something like, say, the Nam Pack, BAS work, Kegetys work and all the other great addon makers work, we may be able to give the ofp community not able to access forums/news sites something to play with, because if a million people bought the game (and 200,000 bought res) there are a lot missing out on all the addons which greatly increase the gameplay, may just give the ofp community the boost it needs

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Suchey @ April 10 2003,15:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Maruk @ April 09 2003,20:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Our intention is to establish a submission and evaluation process and select the best addons (solely from BIS perspective) and recommend it at our official websites.<span id='postcolor'> It would be GREAT if BIS would wrap up these files which they select as being 'best' in a single installer package (say once every month or so)...this would allow a single package of addons to be used as a (BIS) standard and make things ALOT easier on multiplay servers! Â Its alot easier to say "you need the latest update of the user addon pack from the BIS website" than to say..."you need this list of items to play". Â With a single package in place, addons may actually becomes useful for dedicated servers!<span id='postcolor'> Also if once there are quite a few addons in there how about offering them up to several PC Gaming magazines? OFP never gets much attention on their demo CD's so adding something like, say, the Nam Pack, BAS work, Kegetys work and all the other great addon makers work, we may be able to give the ofp community not able to access forums/news sites something to play with, because if a million people bought the game (and 200,000 bought res) there are a lot missing out on all the addons which greatly increase the gameplay, may just give the ofp community the boost it needs

This is what flashes: (Took me bloody ages to capture this...)

This is what flashes: (Took me bloody ages to capture this...)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (dkraver @ April 07 2003,21:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Nice model. Isnt the rate of fire on the 30mm way to fast?? It fires faster than the vulcan. Also 2 x 1200 shots seems a bit much and also there should be a little reload time between ammo types. Now its instant. Else a great model.<span id='postcolor'> From what ive seen the Bradleys fighting in Iraq, who are using 25mm Bushmaster Cannons, they seem to have about 100-200 RPM, pretty slow. Ah, just checked GlobalSecurity.org and it seems the 25mm version has 200rpm, i cant see the 30mm version being too much more...

Or, you could always make bullest vest clad terrorists to be adversaries a la OPFOR in Americas Army, as fighting the Ruskies with modern addons doesnt really make much sense any more...

.....If this is meant to be a 'Technical' then the Kord is a very bad machinegun to choose, its the newest Russian heavy machine gun, being a new russian gun, its not very widespread being mainly the T-90's AA gun and seeing limited infantry use, something better would be either the NSV(introduced in 1960) or DShK(introduced in 1933 I believe)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (drewb99 @ April 06 2003,05:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The TH57, however, should have a back seat even if the Kiowa doesn't: And I've hit space pleanty of times and the smoke and illumination rockets don't seem to show up  <span id='postcolor'> The 'TH-57' wasnt added as a realistic interpretation of the real thing, otherwise you would have seen more model changes, what it does add is a small unarmed west chopper, so at least in MP games there is no longer the need to have the BIS OH-58 clearly showing rocket pods but having it 'unarmed'. And that must be a problem at your end, as everyone else seems to have found them, what version of ofp are you using? And to anyone else having problems, because of the large amount of scripts added and the features of those scripts only being added in the last few patches you will probably need 1.90 or 1.91 for the Kiowa's.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (drewb99 @ April 06 2003,04:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The cargo area is still innaccessable, the FFAR pods have 3 rockets when there are clearly 7 tubes, the textures are identical to Kegety's Kiowa Warrior, this addon just doesn't seem up to snuff with BAS standards.<span id='postcolor'> As far as i know the Kiowa Warrior doesnt have back seats, for the FFAR pods, press space, you will find smoke and illumination rockets, these have been added as the Kiowa is not a primary attack helicopter we have made it so that it can point out targets to attack helicopters such as the Apache, the textures are from Fliper i believe, but basically the same method was used, its just colour channel editing the textures, simple to do but the difference between this being a low-work addon that people seem to enjoy and it doesnt interfere with our other more prominent projects to it being a full blown time consuming project as we have to make new textures.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I also get the "Sound empty not found" msgbox when firing the first M439 Smoke Rocket (I know you already know about this but just wanted to mention it). <span id='postcolor'> What version of ofp are you using? As there is an abundance of scripts you may need 1.91, im using 1.91 and have no such error message

If you are looking for a contact for TJP, TJP became BAS so Tigershark would be the guy to email: [email protected]

Yes, all of our helos are getting scripts like these added to them, as deadmeat explained earlier we are slowly changing the classnames in the editor, because if we kept it as it was you would have had: BAS - Special Ops Men BAS - Special Ops Vehicles BAS - US Army Vehicles BAS - Marine Corp Vehicles Which seemed a little excessive, so over the course of the updates of our addons they will move into either: BAS - Men BAS - Vehicles They will also be given a plethora of new scripts, its really amazing what TJ is doing on some of the helicopters you havent seen in a while, you may be wanting the MH-60L soon but we felt modifying the BIS helo was not good enough (as it is...well...an ugly model), so there has been an overhaul, and believe me, it looks fantastic, you should probably expect the MH-47E next and it is very very different from the last version, maybe not in cosmetics but in scripts it is amazingly realistic. The OH-58 was a relatively minor project that we felt the public needed, it may not give the 'OH MY GOD' factor of previous addons, but as i said it was a little side project that we felt people wanted and we feel its turned out very well. Also a hint for you guys just finding out what happens when you stand in the dust as a Delta/Ranger, try lowering your goggles Finally they have a use

Nobody, or any thing, is perfect, those are tiny little nit picks, although probably fixed...

As the first of April.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Munger @ Mar. 31 2003,19:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I notice you had to edit that Evis. Spelling mistake perhaps? Â <span id='postcolor'> Nah, added the comma in after 'me'.