Hudson

LOL if you guys saw me draw a stick figure you would understand why the textures look the way they do. I am no artist by far and textures are in my opinion the only down side of this addon. Im really suprised they turned out even half way decent. Maybe after I have time to read up and do marffys new texturing tutorial I will be able to make better textures for the sukhoi. We are all done working on the F18 right now. Its sitting packed up waiting to be posted. No more addon work for at least 1 good month. I Need to play some OFP again Chomps about the setObjectTexture thing. No not on this addon, to much time spent on other things. The sukhoi I am working on does use this though.

7--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (uiox @ Mar. 21 2003,087)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And if you need a file description.ext it's not a real stand alone addon.<span id='postcolor'> Oh come on now, your just making excuses . You know that most of all quality missions out there have a description.ext file. Its used for alot of things you need in a mission. Sounds, Score, Mission parameters, Respawn, dialogs all need a description.ext file. Its very hard to find a completed quality mission out there without one. I dont see this as any serious drawback to an addon. Anyone can add the required code, its not rocket science   Your not going to find another way to get the popups in your addon. Its either pack a .hpp file with the addon and add 1 line of code to a desc.ext file. Or you can add all the dialog code to every missions description.ext file you  plan on using the popups in. The soultion is a no brainer to me. 1 line of code and a hpp file packed with the addon. Easiest on the addon maker and anyone that wants to use the dialog in their mission.

Dialogs ARE possible in addons, we used one for the cluster bomb setup in the F18. There are a couple things you have to do though. Setup the dialogs in a txt file and name it YourFile.hpp. Then any mission you want to use the dialogs on add the code #include <YourAddonName\YourFile.hpp> Â in a description.ext file. This can also be done with materials.hpp and others. Havnt tried resource.hpp but I imagine it works just the same.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FoNeKiLL @ Mar. 17 2003,03:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ive read so much shit about how people are gonna make 'more soviet weapons' or 'better soviet units' but ive never seen ALOT of it released, i guess you all think there isnt enough shit for west already. when maybe some of it comes out (doubtfull), ill take it seriously.<span id='postcolor'> Where did you come from? About 6-8 months ago when certain developments in OFP came about none of us knew a thing about making addons for OFP. How long do you expect it to take the editing community to figure out all this stuff? Theres alot to learn and when you start out not having a clue what your doing it takes time. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">and i never said i wanted to make it myself, your the guys who are showing off the work, maybe YOU should be the one working on it instead of telling everyone else to.<span id='postcolor'> You could just do like the rest of us and learn something. That is if your not to ignorant to read the very easy to follow tutorials put out by many of the better addon makers around here. I challange you to not be such an arrogant ass and sit down for 1 day and try to learn how to do something as simple as installing o2 and looking at some of the demo models. Look at how much work has to be done just to create a simple basic addon like was used in the OFP demo. Its alot of work. Give us a break. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">yeah they dont owe ME anything, but theres more people then just ME who want to see some stuff actually released for east/soviets. like i said earlier... they chose to make this stuff for free for us, and then wave it around for months and dont do anything else. <span id='postcolor'> Ok, once again it takes TIME! Do you expect everyone that is making an addon to quit their jobs and put their lives, family, friends on hold just to make a addon for you? If this is the case then wow, to bad. Go get a cookie and watch TV, you got a long wait. I just wanted to get my 2 cents in before this was locked down and burried with the rest of them....

Damn, I didnt even notice the wheels fold up like that at the end. Your not really animating the same part twice, your using hidden selections to mimic animating the same selection twice. You sneaky dog you! I wouldnt know this if I didnt have to do the same thing after splitting the wings on my F18 and then having to fix the ailerons. Good Job! Keep up the good work.

Damn, I didnt even notice the wheels fold up like that at the end. Your not really animating the same part twice, your using hidden selections to mimic animating the same selection twice. You sneaky dog you! I wouldnt know this if I didnt have to do the same thing after splitting the wings on my F18 and then having to fix the ailerons. Good Job! Keep up the good work.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BratZ @ Mar. 17 2003,00:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...but has some new innovations that you may want to check out....<span id='postcolor'> Im sorry but what am I looking for here?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (BratZ @ Mar. 17 2003,00:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...but has some new innovations that you may want to check out....<span id='postcolor'> Im sorry but what am I looking for here?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wonder @ Mar. 11 2003,16:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Now that HUDs are common if not standard in fighter addons these days, how can one make a russian hud, as they don't use pitch ladders that move in relation to the horizon, but a plane symbol that moves in relation to the aircraft? Is there some way to reverse the pitch&roll axis in the horizon ball?<span id='postcolor'> You are allways making things more interesting for us wonder, this will be a fun one to try.

Maybe you should know that that addon is about 10% done there mr smartass, and the pics that were put on OFP.cz were never intended for the public. So while you go off thinking your so smart remember that you are actually assuming that you know what is going on with the addon. I had allready mention in the post above your origional one that the pics shown were using the wrong missile and the ones I plan on using are R77. So go ahead and rant and rave about all you know, I read the same webpages. I dont know about you but when I sit down to play OFP I am there to play a game. Not a FS2002 or Flanker 2 type of sim. If you want a buleprint spec aircraft from me for OFP your gonna be in for a long damn wait. I dont have the time or patience to make a addon to RL specs. Why dont you give it a try?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Shashman @ Mar. 11 2003,10:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hmm...not convinced..looks too small.Mounting ladder is in wrong place..The crew mount from beneath.There is a door underneath with a ladder.Then there is a galley and a rest area, then the cockpit.This kinda gives you an idea of the size  Also the camo is wrong...I believe the camo he has used there is the camo applied to the SU-30MKI, which is a completely different weapons system to the SU-32FN/-27IB/-34 which is primarily an MPA (hence the galley and crew rest area for long missions over the sea). I don't know, it just doesn't really look right, too small, and it definately has got the wrong armament fit. And even if it DID carry this armament it definately would not be AIM-120Cs  The SU-32FN/-34 is known as the "Platypus" perhaps  because its nose resembles the beak of a platypus (I think this is why it is called this but I definately see the resemblance) but not in this addon. (If you picture a man in the same scale as this line drawing standing next to it, then you can clearly see that the addon SU-34 is too small) This aircraft happens to be one of my favourite of all.I've read up on it a lot and have seen it in RL and nearly (damn gendarmes!   ) been inside it...So please please make it good...I beg you (Hudson). I was very impressed by your F/A-18s and hope that this aircraft turns out even better than they did.Thing is,there have been quite a few potentially excellent aircraft addons that have turned out awful because of a lack of dedication and commitment from the creator ... This not only disappoints aircraft enthusiasts like myself but also gives the wrong impression to people that are not familiar with these aircraft, as they download an aircraft that at first sight looks really interesting and exciting to use, install it and  find out that it handles like a pregnant yak or has the completely wrong armament or the completely wrong role or the wrong camo etc...These people will then be misled about this aircraft...They'll go away thinking it's a piece of crap cos they couldn't play with it when in fact had the author made a better job of it,it could have been a very useful addition to the OFP inventory. Please don't take this personally, I'm not criticising you I'm just trying to send a message to the general addon making community Well anyway, here are some pretty good pictures : SU-34@Paris Airshow '99 SU-34@Moscow - Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) 2001 SU-34@Moscow - Zhukovsky (Ramenskoye) 2001 SU-34@Paris Airshow '97 SU-34@paris Airshow '99<span id='postcolor'> Do we understand the words "Work in progress"? This is exactly why I dont like to post screenshots or even threads anymore on my work. I understand your trying to help but your pointing out the obvious. All things I allready know and things that HAVE TO BE MODIFIED either because of the game engine or the models limitation to detail. I tried sticking the ladder behind the front wheel but it wasnt happening. To complex animations to pull it off. Maybe when the day comes that I can post some screens of a work in progress that is sharing weapon proxies with another of my works in progress then I will start to share my work with others, untill then you guys are just to damn picky for me. I am planning on supplying extra logo/decal textures with the Su-34 so players can choose between Russian/Czech/Ukraine/Uzbek/Indian/Chineese logos. But I dont say things like this because I know someone all amped up to show just how much they know will come post about how this plane isnt even full scale production and only serves in the soviet airforce. All things I know but damn me for trying to make things a little more dynamic for you ingame.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (2stoned2kil| @ Mar. 11 2003,10:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Scorpio's mig-29 fulcrum doesn't lag here  <span id='postcolor'> Wow, now that model has 15,328 faces. Thats like having 10.674 Uh-60 blackhawks ingame for every 1 Mig 29. Thats enuf to make deep blue lag somewhat

The F18 is in the final stages of testing, I hope. We are currently working on a CBU-87b CEM for the plane (Which has a pop up dialog you can use to pick between 6 preset spread patterns). That should be the last addition. The Su will hopefully be ready for a public BETA at that time. These pics that someone found on my webspace are rather old and dont really show all the work I have done on the plane in the last couple weeks The Su shown in the screenshots is actually carrying R-77 missiles now. The fun part will be trying to script one of those bad boys to be launced rearward from the back of the plane :-) O OFP is great!

Im wondering how they got my screenshots, Hmm.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (2stoned2kil| @ Feb. 28 2003,12:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Nice man , but i don't like the grey version . It needs some blue/green shine  ....<span id='postcolor'> Blue green shine? Why would you want that, its supposed to be grey. Military aircraft are painted in flat colors, not luminecent pearl paintjobs like your hot rod honda.

Were working hard on it, were not setting any dates but its getting close. Running out of ideas to add. Here are a couple screenies to show off what we have been doing... Screen 1 Screen 2 Screen 3 Much thanks to pennywise for all the help he has been giving me with the scripting and cpp file. Should be finished sometime soon.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ Jan. 29 2003,07:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Anyway, back to the topic, Scorpio, will this sweet addon have a door minigun?<span id='postcolor'> Yeah, this was the one problem I had with the addon, no gun. Please Scorpio can we get one?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Adammo @ Jan. 29 2003,01:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Miles Teg, that was a nicely put non-bias answer! ------------------------------------------------ Hey guys some of the model is mine.. and some is Scorpios.. and Too Tall has now worked on it and someone elses.. (I'm not sure who) Scorpio told me it was a friend of his that worked on parts of the model .. either way I havent heard the originator complaining..maybe they should if there is a problem.. but i doubt there is.. I rewrote some of the model because it had way to many faces.. so either way.. Scorpio can't take all the credit and he hasn't.. I cant either.. i have only some parts of the models also.. its a collaberation of a bunch of people for this model.. so what the big deal? Â well there is non.. so just relax..and enjoy the game <span id='postcolor'> I also had a hand in the addon :-) did the animations on the gear and added the chaff launcher. Still trying to get around to fixing the window animations. Anyway the addon is looking great and like addammo said alot of people have worked on this addon, Scorpio has never once told me that it is "his" addon. Yes he has made some mistakes in the past but I dont think he deserves all this grief over this ch-53, its a beautiful chopper ingame. Oh yeah, when scorpio sent the chopper to me I also wanted to post screenies all over the net. But I tried my best and didnt press the submit post tab. I must confess I did have to send a screenshot to a friend :-( But I think posting the pics was a bit wrong. The addon had not even been mentioned in public as far as I was aware of. Next time too tall you should ask first.

Hmm. I see we are all 10 years old here, ill try to keep this simple for you guys. 1. I do not need or want, nor have I ever needed or wanted a "PR guy". 2. There is updated information on the hornet in the F18s Addons&Mods complete forum thread.

I have got the hornet ready for community beta testing. It is being released as version 0.9 beta. The final version will be completed after I get some feedback from the community and finish the Su-30/34 addon  (pic with temporary textures). If you would like to help out hosting the addon please do so and add any URLs to this thread, you guys are great about that ****Disclaimer so I dont get flamed like some other poor souls*** The model used is a downloaded .max model imported into O2, I did not make it and do NOT in anyway take credit for its creation. Please enjoy  (grey textures shown are not actual textures on model....) The addon can be obtained by sending an email to f18@radishville.com you will recieve an email back shortly with a download URL. Thanks and look forward to your feedback.... [Edit] Forgot to mention that because I animated the cockpit canopy, landing gear and gear bay doors, and AA missle warning with event handlers this addon only works with resistance versions 1.90 and above, sorry[/Edit]

l strela and p strela didnt work with proxies set up   the missiles fire out of the middle of the plane. If I add sidewinders on the raketa memory points then the flares look like they are firing from center of plane I guess ill put the sidewinders on the wings as L & P raketa and you guys will have to live with the chaff looking funny when launched. Hopefully BIS will add multiple proxy support in a future patch and this can be changed. 578 rounds, Hmm thats not gonna cut it in a MP game. Thats all I play. When BIS decides to change the A10 from 2000 to 1000 I will change from 2000 to 578   until then I guess we both get 2000  JDAMs, Do you just want it to be a giant laser/radar locking bomb? You sure you want plain ol rockeyes instead of a CBU or some fuel air explosives? Ill switch the AGM88 version to  mavericks. I have also asked the DKM guys for some info on the animated HUD over at their forums. Hopefully they will get with me on that and the hornet can have a working heads up display.

Slobber....Slobber....Slobber.....making a mess all over my keyboard. Amazing addon!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paladin @ Jan. 20 2003,20:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A proper realistic loadout would be nice. Â I wonder why it hasnt been done already. Â Addon makers just release several different versions I.E. one with bombs one with AGMs one with AAMs. Â Thats the most anoying thing about the thunderbolt in this game. Â It only carries mavericks when in fact it would also carry sidewinders, bombs, and an assortment of AGMs.<span id='postcolor'> Im sure if it were possible BIS would have done it. 1 proxy type per aircraft is the limit right now. You can also use r raketa and l raketa to launch "tube fired" missiles or rockets. But that still limits you to only 2 different weapon systems per vehicle. When you setup the chaff/flares on l raketa and r raketa then you see why only one type is used.

Just wanted to keep you guys updated on the progress of the final release. I have fixed most the bugs and added quite a few of your suggestions to the planes.  Currently Im working on the set of grey textures... I decided to go with a marine hornet (thanks wonder) from VMFA-251 "Thunderbolts" as the greys base. You also might notice that the AMRAAMs in the above pic have been retextured. Same goes for the AGM88 and the AiM9. I am also currently working on a CBU-87 clusterbomb to replace the Mk82 and paveway 2000lb bombs... I still have a few more fixes to make in o2 and alot of scripting that needs to be done. Its looking like 2 or 3 weeks till final version is released. I will be BETA testing final release in the next week or two, If you would like to help then please either send me an e-mail at hudson@radishville.com or send me a private message here. I can also be reached on ICQ and MSN. Thanks again for all the great feedback/suggestions you guys have made and if you have anymore than you better speak up now   final release is getting close...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Jan. 16 2003,22:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Hudson, if you have some problem with Dynamo's attitude, talk to him privately. this thread is about his model, not about him.<span id='postcolor'> I did mention an hour long ICQ conversation in my last post. And I am discussing his model, pointing out where people should look if they want update info, along with his attitude. Sorry if I came off like I was just bashing his character. Just alot of stuff that I thought should be pointed out.