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Just for a bit of extra info, the plane is called the Acrostar Mini-Jet. Looks pretty damn good, can you fold the wings?

It'd make an awesome campaign. Kinda steal the initial story of Robotech with an alien ship crashing on a remote island and then 10 years later the aliens come to get it... Or something similar to Tiberian Sun where you have to defend the alien ship that Nod wants

What'd be cool is to have it as a wreck on a new island. Kind of like the Pillar Of Autumn near the end of Halo. It'd be cool to have a cargo bay or something blown open so you can fight inside.

One thing I'd like to see a copy of visitor I could download... It's always been the OFP thing I've wanted.

So was that a fully new island?? Some of the screenshots had me thinking of Rogue Squadron...

Pretty damn nice. Doesn't the F16 have wingtip pylons for sidewinders though?

Damn fine looking model there. Is it possible to change the picture of the tank in the damage/facing display? It'll look kinda weird if it's showing a tank.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Silent_Fox @ May 13 2002,16:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ok fine since no-one else has offered to help I'll help you scorpio. ofpchicken@Hotmail.com <- that is my email address. The only thing is i can only skin them and put them into OFP but i can import them into Oxygen . My trial version of Deep Exploration ran out  . But i'll texture them for you <span id='postcolor'> Have you got a system restore point before the installation of Deep Exploration? I assume you're a fellow Lightwaver or is it another unsupported 3D prog?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (HuBBa @ May 14 2002,19:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So again, is there any possibility for us to get a import/export SDK to write obj and LWO importers/exporters?<span id='postcolor'> A-FREAKING-MEN BROTHER! I had 50% of a fairly detailed mod going before oxy refused to import the LWOs or the converted 3DS's.

Is the undercarriage in a different layer (or whatever oxygen uses in the same vein)? If so, you might be able to rotate it 180 degrees & have the gear fold backwards.

You think it's that many?? Hmmm... now there's a project for when one is incredibly bored. Try to count the polys on the desert island...

That would be pretty cool, a bunched up group of polys to make one crater/deformation and then 1-2 really huge flat polys to compensate. Oh... you don't suppose there's an upper limit to the polygon numbers for islands do you? That'd suck. Imagine haing to make an entire island in 2000 polys...

Yeah, Visitor is the thing I've wanted since the start. Cartography has always been a hobby of mine & I'd love to make a good map for OFP. Nice to hear it's probably a different interface, can't stand the one for Oxygen...

I think we really need a patch for o2 to add a few important features. 1) Support for JPGs when texturing and for use as background images 2) Support for the Lightwave LWO file format. Lightwave is still a very heavilly used 3D program and the whole point of me applying for o2 was to use as a convertor so I can use models I have already made in Operation Flashpoint. I have done the majority of the groundwork for my Command & Conquer mod (as well as a few other smaller projects) in lightwave and the lack of support for LWOs has basically killed them all. Would there be any possibility of adding these 2 features?

I've also noticed the relative difficulty in taking off. The other odd thing I noticed is that sidewinders can lock onto ground targets (but not that accurately)

Looks pretty damn good. As for the mod itself, you should have no legal ramifications provided you never make anything resembling a profit from it. I think that the intellectual property laws would protect your work in the mod and not violate the image copyright that lucasarts hold. I'd be glad to test it as long as you don't want me to theorise what happens when I hit bugs.

What we need is a bloody manual. Frankly, I can now see why OFP took so long to make, most of it was just the models & textures...

OK. I've converted the directories to exactly what you guys have recommended. I have made a dozen GIFs and corresponding PACs (Converted with TexView) and nothing IS F**ING LOADING!!!! I have tried almost every variant of the GIF format (except transparency) and in several depths of colour. With the PACs it loads without complaint but displays nothing. The GIFs just don't load with the error "Unable To Convert Texture, PAC2PAL error!" This, coupled with the lack of comprehensive tutorials and far from instinctive interface has virtually eradicated any interest in 3D modelling for OFP and has basically destroyed my C&C mod. Can anyone help avert this final surrender? EDIT: Is the texture convertor thing the error complains about supposed to be called "Pal2PacE"?

Doesn anyone know of tutorials other than the BI ones on the Breathe site? To be blunt, I can barely understand a word of it. I was hoping to use lightwave to create my models and them import them into O2 for conversion (after using Deep Exploration to change them to 3DS) but all this does is create unusable models with heaps of errors even though they work fine in LW. If anyone has a link or some good tutes (oh, in English I should add), I'd appreciate if you'd mail the UJRL to Aliasalpha@mmgn.com Thanks

Ahh, that'd be the reason I've not been able to find an option to load it... Does/Will it have a similar interface to Oxygen?

So what exactly IS the point of giving us a tool incapable of loading the only models that most of us would have? I can't speak for anyone else but shortly after I got the full game, I deleted the demo.

That letter did make for interesting reading. The description kind of reminds me of the abused child syndrome (the correct name of which escapes me for now). Suffering under brutal oppression breeding the same attitude weather they're aware of it or not. Oh, and to the guy who said that the opinions of 10 kids on the net won't change shit, if just one of those kids grows up with a burning desire to change things instead of just accepting them as they are, he/she may remember this very discussion & act on it.

Hows about this for an idea? We get every relatively major power to ship all their equipment to central Australia. The central desert is one of the biggest on the planet & has virtually NOTHING in it. We get them to set up their armies at points & have the single biggest motherfucker deathmatch in history. Whoever wins gets the planet & can do whatever the fuck they like once & for all. No rules so they can all cheat & sabotage the americans (since no-one seems to like them) and they can make all sorts of crazy alliances as long as at the end there is only one standing. Kinda like The Prize in Highlander now I come to think of it.

ahh yes but at the time of writing, the only tool I had seen confrmation of being relesed was oxygen itself. I was suggesting that BI code a relatively idiot proof mod workshop so they could not only make a bit more cash but satisfy the demands of the community whilst protecting whatever they might feel they need to about their software.

Ever since the news that there would be no SDK released, several friends and I have speculated upon the idea of a user friendly "SDK Lite" for want of a better term. Imagine an independant editing program that would allow the rapid creation and editing of the properties of a rifle coupled with a relatively detailed 3D moelling/texturing tool to create said rifle. The same goes for terrain, wouldn't it be nice to simply lower a few polygons then highlight & tell them to be covered in water, hey presto: River. Or better yet create tunnels or mines in the mountains that you could battle over. A relatively full featured editor of this nature would allow prospective modders to complete their ideas rapidly and efficiently without the risk of revealing more sourcecode than BI would like (and possibly breaking agreements depending on how much of Operation Flashpoint there is in Virtual Battlefield Systems). I've suggested the hypothetical scenario of this being released in an expansion pack style as Red Hammer was and asked if anyone would be willing to purchase it for approximately the same price. As of this date, I do not recall having heard anyone answer no. Would anyone here be willing to buy it? Please vote & show your support.