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by Snake Man
2002-03-20 21:47:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by Rahotep: last time i had to run "eF4PTinstall". Do i need to run it again? No. The single exe installer is shipped with SPTinstall.exe which should be run IF and ONLY IF the installer do not run the lenghty terrain rebuild phase (some people have reported this). So if you...
by Snake Man
2002-03-20 10:16:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by Rahotep: What do i need to do to remove the older beta or do i install the preview4 over the existing one? Good guestion! Delete the following: artdesstorm Campaign\DesStorm terrdata\desstorm terrdata\theaterdefinition\desstorm.* Those are directories, except theaterdefin...
by Snake Man
2002-03-20 07:23:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by Spyder: After running the installer, I had to run eF4PTinstall.exe by hand to generate the terrain. Hmm works ok for me here. If not too much trouble, can you try few uninstall - reboot - install procedures please. Also note that eF4PTinstall.exe is NOT used, it should in...
by Snake Man
2002-03-19 23:26:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

Sorry forgot to mention!

Download size 61mb

If you do not like to try beta stage software, please do not download this piece of crap :)

But if you choose to go for it, I'm very eager to hear your comments on anything you find, be it good or bad.

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-19 22:52:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

ODS latest build has been compiled to single exe installshield installer. Beta testers are emailed about the download. Instructions: click the exe and click few next buttons, its easy as that. Changes in this BETA v0.2 preview 4 - All airbases background tiled & leveled. - JSTARS map. known "bugs" i...
by Snake Man
2002-03-19 18:29:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: I had another idea. (Not sure if its a good one or not....) Any way to have CATE load the texture.zip and .bin so we can look at the textures as we're deciding how to arrange them within CATE? Sorry to be blunt here but... bad idea. quote: I s'pose we could open TV...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 23:20:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Post your questions about CATE here
Replies: 65
Views: 40951

Re: Post your questions about CATE here

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex:
When I load the conf file, should the list of rules appear in the little window?
Yes, active rules are listed in the window.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 23:17:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Campaigns
Replies: 20
Views: 25311

Re: Campaigns

quote:Originally posted by icebrain: where the USSR and US get involved in a full-blown conflict? I'm all for the full blown campaign. quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: having a pseudo-EF, where the US got a little more help from the neighboring countries and were allowed to position strike aircraf...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 23:11:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: SP2
Replies: 18
Views: 19696

Re: SP2

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: How precise with squadrons do you need the info to be? Just roughly like "fighters there and bombers over here" type :) Of course some amount of squadrons would be ok, but not necessary. quote: Also, as far as tiles, right now the ODS tiles are best IMHO. Okay so g...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 13:05:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: OT sorta... MS FS2002 terrain DEM resolution
Replies: 2
Views: 2679

OT sorta... MS FS2002 terrain DEM resolution

Off Topic... sort off

Do you guys know the MS FS2002 terrain DEM data resolution?

Our user edited f4 maps are 1km DEM datas so I was wondering what might msfs2 be.

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 11:36:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Re: Europe Theater is alive

quote:Originally posted by Red Dog: All I need is a list of country implemented in the terrain. From there I can pinpoint all the airbases. All is still open, but its safe to start working on the countries you see fully included in that 64 segment map image above. quote:Originally posted by Oliver:...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 10:41:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: can you confirm what WidowMaker says in the above post (about river mess) ? Yes and no. I'd say the river mess is mostly just because rivers get messy with road, if we leave roads out then the rivers are mostly OK. But yes its true that there are some lakes whi...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 10:18:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

I'm alive at least. Been playing with the latest builds and the campaign here. It has decent activity so far. The new CATE processed terrain has better desert type quality than before, not so foggy anymore. CATE is also currently chewing those airbase backgrounds and if everything works well, we hav...
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 10:04:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Cate test terrain
Replies: 4
Views: 4446

Re: Cate test terrain

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76:
Good luck ... :D
As I said to Widowmaker in the IRC while ago...

I don't need luck, I have CATE!

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-18 09:59:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

Airbase Tiling & Leveling is reality in CATE v3.20 ! Check out these screenshots, the airbases are done with CATE - no human work needed. :) All we need to do is to export airbases from Tacedit into the CSV file, then CATE reads the L2 and this airbase CSV file and by the user configured airbase lis...
by Snake Man
2002-03-17 15:54:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Re: Europe Theater is alive

quote:Originally posted by KBMIL: do you want me to raise the Netherlands terrain ?? And what are you, some messiah that will rise Widowmaker from the water? ;) quote: btw i volunteer for tiling and object placement !!! Initial object placement will be handled with my village util, it creates villa...
by Snake Man
2002-03-17 04:04:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Re: Europe Theater is alive

quote:Originally posted by icebrain: What if you shifted the 128 further north? Or would polar distortion start causing problems? Actually I downloaded the 40 by 40 (or was it 39.5 by 39.5 DEM datas tonight, then used the one and only DEM2L2 spherical converter to make that map. The highest point I...
by Snake Man
2002-03-17 02:13:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Re: Europe Theater is alive

Here is the map sizes of European Theater First the 64 map I received: http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/screenshots/europe64.jpg And then there is the possible 128 map http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/screenshots/europe128.jpg I think that in this case the 128 map is not feasible as it overlaps Balkans. B...
by Snake Man
2002-03-17 00:08:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Post your questions about CATE here
Replies: 65
Views: 40951

Re: Post your questions about CATE here

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin:
How well is it working on large theatres?
CATE works great on 128 theaters.

Takes couple of minutes to process ODS terrain file.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 23:54:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Re: Europe Theater is alive

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: Is Europe a 128 theatre? The files I got now are 64 segments. Dunno if the 128 theater would be good as it would overlap much of Balkans and not sure... but it might slice piece of Nordic too. Its no use to have more overlapping theaters I think. Any thought...
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 23:48:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: SP2
Replies: 18
Views: 19696

Re: SP2

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin:
there are F-16s to the west of Afganistan, is Diego Garcia in the theatre?
I have no idea where Diego Garcia is, isn't that some island?

Only thing "west of afghanistan" is Iran that I know of :)

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 18:07:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: SP2
Replies: 18
Views: 19696

Re: SP2

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: Oh ok, Can we hae Op EF anyway though? Sure I'll make Enduring Freedom for you in the terms of possibility from Falcon 4 engine and our terrain. First can you provide any info on how much Pakistan has let US forces to use its bases. Because in my current pre...
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 18:03:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe Theater is alive
Replies: 90
Views: 78430

Europe Theater is alive

Europe Theater is alive. I have just received the terrain files from Javanree and the project is back alive again. Next thing would be to apply my CATE into the terrain and then create campaign objectives with my Village util. So if anyone have good info on european landscape where we should see for...
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 17:52:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe theater cancelled ?
Replies: 7
Views: 10433

Re: Europe theater cancelled ?

quote:Originally posted by ccc: I do worry about the hi-intensity/density of combat events in this theater..can 128 map handle it? We find out when we test it. But I believe the campaign 2d engine never had any problems and in 3d game we have the bubble, so it should not have any problems. quote: t...
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 11:37:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Post your questions about CATE here
Replies: 65
Views: 40951

Re: Post your questions about CATE here

quote:Originally posted by Quicksilver: I then get another weird error message. Okie dokie... well I haven't knowingly installed Visual Basic 6 and it runs nicely on my system. There is no vb6fr.dll in my windows at all btw :) You will get confirmation from Skyfire next week. PMC TFW Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-16 01:29:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Post your questions about CATE here
Replies: 65
Views: 40951

Re: Post your questions about CATE here

quote:Originally posted by Quicksilver:
You think we'll be soon able to have a version of CATE that doesn't require VBasic to run?
It does not require Visual Basic, not sure if it needs the one 137kb comdlg32.ocx file but that you can download from many places I hear.

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-15 20:59:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: SP2
Replies: 18
Views: 19696

Re: SP2

Afghanistan SP2a installer is ready.

Now we need to make some decisions on the tile-set, campaign(s) and how long wait until first beta.

Suggestions are highly welcome

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-15 20:23:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

Ok guys we have the weekend here to come up with good auto tiling algorithm/system for Skyfire.

Anything?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-15 10:55:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: roads and rivers cross and cross again, resulting in a big mess (SnakeMan, could you post your screenshot about this ?). You want mess? YOU want MESS?? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE MESS! http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/screenshots/Feature_mess_1.jpg http://www.pmctactica...
by Snake Man
2002-03-15 09:30:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by tom2: Outstanding work I'm discovering here ;-) Congratulations to all of you - simply amazing! Unfortunately, I dropped in a bit too late to help with the BMP stuff... Welcome aboard! Hey the serious stuff is just beginning now, we need all the brain power we need to fig...
by Snake Man
2002-03-14 19:31:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by BelgianTiger_5: can u explain this pls Open MS-DOS box in your windows, go to your falcon directory terrdata\desstorm\terrain and write DIR and press enter. Other option is to open windows explorer and "surf" into the falcon directory terrdata\desstorm\terrain and to see ...
by Snake Man
2002-03-14 17:56:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by BelgianTiger_5:
i made a compeltely fresh install and performed the ef4Pinstall by the mail ,but no go ;-((,
List the files in your terrdata\DesStorm\terrain and terrdata\DesStorm\texture directories with filenames + sizes.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-14 00:59:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by BelgianTiger_5:
I highlight desert storm and press ok but ctd installed it and reinstalled it but no go
Did you rebuild the terrain with eF4PTinstall?

PMC TFW
Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-14 00:55:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin:
It said F4ME instead of the brown edge and the F-16. (i think its because i was using 800x600 instead of the Hi-Res UI).
Yeah ODS supports only 1024 UI size.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-13 17:52:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

CATE does now auto tiling! Notice that bridge placement! http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/screenshots/Bridge_example1.jpg This is very good progress on CATE, it still doesn't do perfect auto tiling for example the bridges are only placed if road and river are perfectly aligned, but that shows you direc...
by Snake Man
2002-03-13 00:44:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: ODS SP2 internal beta
Replies: 142
Views: 113212

Re: ODS SP2 internal beta

Hi Schumi There seems to be multiplayer bug in ODS beta. When getting into "Receiving Units" part it just hungs there, at least the client does that. Earlier we had hung or was it CTD on the Receiving Objects part, but now its units. Could it be that my ground units/squadrons are somehow wrong? PMC ...
by Snake Man
2002-03-12 21:56:00
Forum: Europe
Topic: Europe theater cancelled ?
Replies: 7
Views: 10433

Re: Europe theater cancelled ?

I emailed him few days ago, he replied and then I asked about the dl link, but no replies since.

Lets wait a bit, or we can of course do anything from scratch like Widow suggested (should be faster hehe).

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-12 21:54:00
Forum: Balkans
Topic: Balkans News
Replies: 10
Views: 13910

Re: Balkans News

Can you list some of the data edits that come along with Balkans?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-11 09:37:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239798

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76:
let's correct the bugs (if any ;)), add some features if necessary, and then we'll move to autotiling.
We have a deal ?
Sounds good to me. Any word from xjussix?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-11 07:29:00
Forum: Falcon 4 General
Topic: Non Falcon related...about UBB
Replies: 1
Views: 2331

Re: Non Falcon related...about UBB

quote:Originally posted by Johnny the Janitor: if I'm registered in another UBB forum, can I use that same registration in another UBB forum, like this one? No. I believe our ubb is setup that you need to register before posting, like you have just done. That registration works only in PMC TFW, not...