Best posts made by CloudWallace1981
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RE: News from the frontline, 4.37.3 delayed (and explained)
@I-Hawk said in News from the frontline, 4.37.3 delayed (and explained):
and hopefully even from Blender
please guys, make it real! I am salivating as I type, this would open up SO MANY community created contents & mods not only for A/Cs but also ground units and even custom unique buildings
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RE: 4.37 Screenshots
yes, it is as fun as removing your nose hair 1 by 1 using red-hot steel pliers. You literally need to open each dds file with an image editor, clean & color correct the image and save it again with the correct compression
It is something you can definitely do if you need a specific place to be clean of clouds, or if the imagery has some localized issue (e.g. the terrain around an airport or city usual has different colour balancing w.r.t. the surroundings), but doing that systematically by hand for hundreds of thousands of sq km’s is out of the question
That’s way the true challenge is to have access to imagery which has already been “cleaned” from the get go. Several paid providers do that of course, as they have many raw satellite sources to chose from they can also guarantee a maximum % of cloud coverage for each unit of surface (0% is out of the question, unless you are taking picture of the Gobi desert there will ALWAYS be clouds). Free providers such as bing maps, google maps, ARCGIS/ESRI etc give you whatever they have available, you can check on their website if you want
there is also the non-trivial issue of image “stitching”, which many online services do when they use a mix of different sources in the same small area, resulting in pictures which clearly show patches of a few dozen square km’s with wildly different contrast and saturation all close together.
Exhibit A
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RE: Theater Homologation to basic instalation
@MaxWaldorf said in Theater Homologation to basic installation:
Theater development will reset to 0 in a couple months from now except the ones officially part of BMS team
uh-oh, I think we now know the next major update release date
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RE: Thrustmasters F16 TQS
“a bit pricy” is like saying that the sun is “a bit warm”. Even after EU import fees, Winwing is still far less expensive than 499€
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RE: 4.37 Screenshots
I suspect so, yeah. Been building sceneries like this on X-Plane 10/11 for years now, and it is pretty common to have clouds splattered on satellite imagery if you do not use the correct “clean” sources
You can easily access ZL19 orthophotos (0.3m/1ft per pixel) for free online nowadays (at least for non-commercial use), the real hassle is to find GOOD ones
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RE: all types of f-16's cockpit and sounds files mod
thanks man, I’ll upload the whole folder later his evening (CET+1) as soon as I’m at my main PC. If you could also explain to me in plain english what to do, I could help
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RE: Israel Theater of Operations for BMS 4.37
hey, first of all let me thank you all for this amazing piece of work. The idea to put the original Iron Eagle OST in the ITO80 version is simply a stroke of genius, and immediately sent me back in the 80’s when I was a kid
I have a question/bug report tho: as you may expect I’m trying to recretate THAT mission in particular from the movie by using only F-16A & B Netz with the “correct” loadout (I know, it’s hollywood, but who cares), and I noticed that neither block 15 A’s nor B’s Netz can equip multiple Mavericks with the TER, only a single AGM65A & B can be equipped. The “standard” US F-16 block 15 in the same theater can instead equip up to 3 on stations 3&7
Mk82 bombs can be correctly equipped on TER’s on all the planes
As the movie real footage of Netz’s clearly shows (https://tenor.com/bqmGF.gif), 1986’s Israeli jets could load multiple Mavericks on stations 3&7, so I was wondering whether this is an oversight as the Netz are based on the standard US planes of that time
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RE: 4.37 Screenshots
that is exactly what modern commercial image providers do. But clearly they want to be paid handsomely for their services
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RE: all types of f-16's cockpit and sounds files mod
@Magnum1964 I’ve noticed that too on a Block 40
Latest posts made by CloudWallace1981
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RE: Jan Has F-16 LV7 Update packs
extremely dumb question: why does the JanHas model(s) include a specific command for the use of the NVG’s, and why does it use the non-existing VTOL capabilities of the F-16?
I always disable it in the dat files in order to hide the “nozzle position” label in the UI without being forced to hide everything else, but ofc the “standard” NVG mode of the helmet still works so I never bothered trying it myself. What does the JanHas implementation of NVG’s does in addition to the BMS one?
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RE: Inverted throttle + idle detent not working
@airtex2019 many thanks, I’ll try this evening
I presume it is enough to overwrite the one inside the FalconBMS alternate launcher folder, right?
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RE: Inverted throttle + idle detent not working
is the new build this one?
https://github.com/chihirobelmo/FalconBMS-Alternative-Launcher/releases
or should we look elsewhere?
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RE: Error With Alt Luncher 4.37.3 Full Installer U3
@airtex2019 I’ll go for the regedit way, thanks
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RE: Error With Alt Luncher 4.37.3 Full Installer U3
@MaxWaldorf I used the new full installer, yes
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RE: Error With Alt Luncher 4.37.3 Full Installer U3
Ok, I’ve googled how to check permissions on keys. What kind of access level should my local user have?
I’m on mobile atm, I’ll verify this evening CET time
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RE: Error With Alt Luncher 4.37.3 Full Installer U3
@airtex2019 how can I check exactly?
BTW, there was no prompt during BMS installation to restrict privileges of the launcher to a specific user, or to install it only for the current user
My usual clean installation procedure is
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Install F4 from the standalone GOG installer to a “dummy” folder on a different HDD (like F:…\Falcon4)
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Launch F4 once anche check that the usual registry keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MicroProse\Falcon\4.0 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MicroProse\Falcon\4.0\MPR are there
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Install BMS in C:\FALCON BMS 4.xx
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OPTIONAL: remove everything from the dummy F:…\Falcon4 except for the game exe, to save space
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