OxPecker

A quick Google of Mr Erik Kirschbaum seems to reveal a decidedly anti-German flavour to many of his articles - personal prejudices perhaps?

Yes, I've had the same frustrating experience trying to log into this site. Try west.flashpoint.ru/ instead.

And this is OFP related because your'e going to use the camera to take pictures to use as textures for addons - just so this thread doesnt get closed for being too offtopic

I don't check through any number of pages, I generally just click the "new posts" link and see what has been posted since last time I was here.

Yes, it would be great if you could have an addon manager that let you look at a PBO and could somehow notify you what units it contained (i.e. West > Men > CIA Agent (Uzi)) or something like that. For weapons it would be nice if it gave you weapon and ammo names.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ExtracTioN @ April 15 2003,08:01)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OxPecker is now insane cause the link was there but he have not looked   <span id='postcolor'> I plead temporary insanity! Sorry if I got a bit hot under the collar, I thought I'd missed out. So is the map now at ofp.info the same as the one that was initially up, or is it a modified version?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Major Fubar @ April 15 2003,11:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> Nice. Which town in that archway in?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Leone @ April 15 2003,06:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yep...it's looking good. Nice land textures BTW Â <span id='postcolor'> Wow, it's great, it's marvellous.....wait, no it isn't CAUSE I CAN'T FUCKING DOWNLOAD IT!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USMC Sniper @ April 15 2003,02:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Apollo @ April 15 2003,02:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">the map is available at http://www.flashpoint.ru/ It's a russian site ,you can find it by scrolling somewhat down on the news screen (main of site) to where the picture's are posted and click the the words below of that news message for there are the links in.<span id='postcolor'> Christ, I can't believe some of you people haven't discovered this.<span id='postcolor'> Quote from http://west.flashpoint.ru/ </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">P.S. CAT_SHIT_ONE_MM asked us to remove the file just the time the Nomad forums comes back online! <span id='postcolor'> So that site is no good for a download.......... Anyone still got it up for download? Fair enough if the author didn't want it released, but it pisses me right off that some people were allowed to get it while the rest of us can't............

Before this gets locked, the animations are (mostly) gifs. You need an animated gif, hosted on a site that allows direct image linking. You could use Flash animations as well.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tigershark_BAS @ April 15 2003,04:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OxPecker @ April 15 2003,04:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Tigershark, I have to disagree. Yes, I know this initiative would have been better much sooner, but that's no reason not to go ahead with it now. We are still looking at another 9+months before we get OFP2, so any addon management would be welcomed in the meantime. Besides, the lesson learned by implementing AAE could help with a similar scheme for OFP2.<span id='postcolor'> I expect this will be the reply from many in this thread. Fair enough...I can respect that. Your reply, however, did not rebutt the contention that this is all curing the symptoms and not the disease. Which was fundamentally my point....there would less need for complicated addon management if we could put our heads together and figure out how to better handle addons in future game engines. Furthermore...let me ask....what is it exactly BIS is bringing to this process? What value add are they providing after the community has been self-regulating (poorly but slowly improving) for the past 2+ years? As far as I can tell the value add is advertising on their site for the addon maker (not sure exactly how this helps now with the few excellent news and hosting sites we have out there), official recognition of the OFPEC tagging system and possibly a installer tool. Perhaps it's just me....but I fail to see the value add here. It's not hard to draw a commercial link between this "initiative" and the rapidly approaching release of the X-Box version of OFP. Not suggesting BIS plans to make money off us addon makers.....but you can't help but see there is a factor of self-interest here in providing an easy method for X-Box users to easily access community addons. Someone in the OFPEC forums asked this about AAE: "Isn't this like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted" I would like to suggest that devoting time to this rather than addressing addons in future editions of OFP is like devoting energy into making a complicated GPS device to track the horse when he runs away rather than taking a hammer and nails and fixing the damn barn door  <span id='postcolor'> Agreed, the emphasis should be on easier integration of addons for OFP2. I understand your point better now. But also, regardless of the format or timing, it is good to see BIS giving a stamp of approval to good addons. This is something seperate from the implementation of how addons are installed, and definitely a step in the right direction.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tigershark_BAS @ April 15 2003,04:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (OxPecker @ April 15 2003,04:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Tigershark, I have to disagree. Yes, I know this initiative would have been better much sooner, but that's no reason not to go ahead with it now. We are still looking at another 9+months before we get OFP2, so any addon management would be welcomed in the meantime. Besides, the lesson learned by implementing AAE could help with a similar scheme for OFP2.<span id='postcolor'> I expect this will be the reply from many in this thread. Fair enough...I can respect that. Your reply, however, did not rebutt the contention that this is all curing the symptoms and not the disease. Which was fundamentally my point....there would less need for complicated addon management if we could put our heads together and figure out how to better handle addons in future game engines. Furthermore...let me ask....what is it exactly BIS is bringing to this process? What value add are they providing after the community has been self-regulating (poorly but slowly improving) for the past 2+ years? As far as I can tell the value add is advertising on their site for the addon maker (not sure exactly how this helps now with the few excellent news and hosting sites we have out there), official recognition of the OFPEC tagging system and possibly a installer tool. Perhaps it's just me....but I fail to see the value add here. It's not hard to draw a commercial link between this "initiative" and the rapidly approaching release of the X-Box version of OFP. Not suggesting BIS plans to make money off us addon makers.....but you can't help but see there is a factor of self-interest here in providing an easy method for X-Box users to easily access community addons. Someone in the OFPEC forums asked this about AAE: "Isn't this like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted" I would like to suggest that devoting time to this rather than addressing addons in future editions of OFP is like devoting energy into making a complicated GPS device to track the horse when he runs away rather than taking a hammer and nails and fixing the damn barn door  <span id='postcolor'> Agreed, the emphasis should be on easier integration of addons for OFP2. I understand your point better now. But also, regardless of the format or timing, it is good to see BIS giving a stamp of approval to good addons. This is something seperate from the implementation of how addons are installed, and definitely a step in the right direction.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (|iCeMaN| @ April 15 2003,02:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Someone mind posting a download link to PrintScreen? thnx -iCe-<span id='postcolor'> On your keybaord, just East of F12 and West of Scroll Lock.

Tigershark, I have to disagree. Yes, I know this initiative would have been better much sooner, but that's no reason not to go ahead with it now. We are still looking at another 9+months before we get OFP2, so any addon management would be welcomed in the meantime. Besides, the lesson learned by implementing AAE could help with a similar scheme for OFP2.

Tigershark, I have to disagree. Yes, I know this initiative would have been better much sooner, but that's no reason not to go ahead with it now. We are still looking at another 9+months before we get OFP2, so any addon management would be welcomed in the meantime. Besides, the lesson learned by implementing AAE could help with a similar scheme for OFP2.

Only if the manager could "look into" the pbo's and tell you what units/weapons etc. it contained.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PFC_Mike @ April 15 2003,02:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Iraq is not Afghanistan.<span id='postcolor'> Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria......it's all the same, just ask George Dubbya

Wonder why I can't see it?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (iNeo @ April 14 2003,23:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Duh, there's no link, read the subtitle </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ofp.info on friday, says fighter<span id='postcolor'> On friiiiiiiday. <span id='postcolor'> Then this shouldn't be in addons and mods complete?

Does anyone else get as pissed off as I do when you read about these addons while you are not at your home PC, and by the time you get home you can't download them any more? FFS, someone mirror this addon!

If the installers are endorsed and distributed by BIS, I think the chance of virus is almost 0%. I mean, you run the exe files that BIS distribute their patches in, right? And I bet most of you installed the BIS Camel addon?

If the installers are endorsed and distributed by BIS, I think the chance of virus is almost 0%. I mean, you run the exe files that BIS distribute their patches in, right? And I bet most of you installed the BIS Camel addon?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (PitViper @ April 14 2003,23:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/14/1050172536432.html my thoughts exactly, Mr. Howard. Â France as a permanent member of the security council is such an anachronism.<span id='postcolor'> I didn't think my opinion of John Howard could drop much further, but it has. On behalf of myself and most Australians with half-a-brain or more, I apologise for his ridiculous comments, and would like you to know that he most certainly does not speak for the average Australian. He has a persoanl agenda to ingratiate himself as much as possible with Bush and Blair. I can't wait for the next election, I hope that little weasel (Howard) gets blasted right out of the water.

Oh, and I'll reiterate my points again for those who can't seem to understand - Saddam out = good Conflict over = good America starting a war of aggression without UN approval = bad America unable to back up claims of WMD = bad Avoidable Iraqi civvy casualties = bad Coalition troops killed by US friendly fire = bad

I think it's a great idea. The journo could hold the camera (big camera) on his shoulder like an AT launcher, or hold a smaller camcorder like a pistol. Maybe you could even script the camera so that when you "fire", it takes a screencap. As for what purpose it serves - it would add great atmosphere to missions, and could even be part of the missions itself - say one of your objectives is to ensure the safety of the media crew. Other addon to go with this might be a female reporter with a microphone, sound man, a media van with a satellite dish on top......