Thanks for posting the images!
What do you think of it?
It still is on early stages but it's working. You must see the map moving while you are flying!! It's great!
Later this evening I'll try to use your values and see if I come up with something usefull. My main goal for now is to get the right maps with the exact measurements, and also with a good resolution. As you can see the one I have as a very good resolution (4mb bmp).Tell me what you think of it.
Pedro
If you need a beta tester just let me know
if you want to post any more pictures be free to upload them to F4Iceland egroup
and post them from there http://groups.yahoo.com/group/F4Iceland
become a member and you can upload any pics you want..use the korea folder/pedro direcory
Good Luck on your project whatever it actually is or will become
Widowmaker
[This message has been edited by Widowmaker (edited April 13, 2001).]
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Widowmaker: Looks good... is it a stand alone program
ifso can I run it on a second pc to have it standby at any time
Yes it's stand alone and you can run it on a second PC, just wait for Erwin's F4Data program to send the variables over the network. Meanwhile if you 2 video cards you can puit it on a second monitor.
Thanks for the offer. As soon as I progress more I'll post some pics.
As for beta testing, let me just solve the coordinates and I'll send it a copy for you to test it.
Pedro
Ok let me get this straight: that program of yours "Moving Map" will take some feedback from Falcon 4.0 sim and move on its own screen the map according where you are flying?
That sounds pretty goddamn good, if you have second PC or somesort of dual monitor thing (not many people have that I believe).
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Snake_Man: Ok let me get this straight: that program of yours "Moving Map" will take some feedback from Falcon 4.0 sim and move on its own screen the map according where you are flying?
Yes! . Falcon provide us with info that yow can find in the zip I've sent to you (flightData.h) in a shared memmory location. So, using a modified version of debug.zip we can extract all the variables and use them.
I't important that the map used must be exactly the same used in TE or Campaing or with the same size.
The more features it as, the better.
I've notice that all the maps that are in Vietnam theater are all low resolution, can't you make a higher resolution one?
Pedro
quote:Originally posted by Pedro Ferreira: The more features it as, the better.
I've notice that all the maps that are in Vietnam theater are all low resolution, can't you make a higher resolution one?
Pedro
Well I can get you a 2048x2048 image of the vietnam map, what ever features you want in it. Just let me know what you need.
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quote:Originally posted by Snake_Man: Well I can get you a 2048x2048 image of the vietnam map, what ever features you want in it. Just let me know what you need.
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Snake Man
Thanks, that would be great!
Please include all the features (rivers, airports, roads, etc), don't include the names of the places.
Thanks,
Pedro
Thanks.
Here a link to the program so that you can betatesting. Only works for Korea, for now...
Tomorrow I'll start looking into Iceland, I've to meet my girlfriend now and only will be back tomorrow.
Stay tuned.
Pedro
the zip seams to be corrupted the *.bmp in the data dir dir doesn't seem to be willing to unpack bad CRC
got the program to run however on a TV output bmp 2048 256 yet it didn't showed the map only a black map with the right upper part white
still this will only be due to bad zip
hope..
(btw on my Voodoo3 2000 machine it killed itself on some *.dll ...I'll give more detail later)
see ya
Widowmaker
Yes, the upload went wrong.
I'll try to upload again.
In order to use it you must start Falcon4 first and then F4MM. It goes to the down left corner of the map (X=0,Y=0). Once you start a mission, falcon4 starts to feed the variables.
Pedro
yet I had to bring down the rersolution to 1024
wich is quite a loss in resolution
and I suffer quite a loss in framerates..yet I only got a 500mhz amd with 128 mb
quote:Originally posted by Widowmaker: Got it to work it is great
yet I had to bring down the rersolution to 1024
wich is quite a loss in resolution
and I suffer quite a loss in framerates..yet I only got a 500mhz amd with 128 mb
wow really great and endless posibilities
Widowmaker
I'm glad that it worked!!!
Can you upload it?
Did you test the ADI?
Now to improve it, any sugestions? It would be great if we could add waypoints to it...
Pedro
-a tab in wich you can switch theater intead of running a second exe
-the map turns now down under the f 16 cross onthe map..maybey the cross could be replaced with a fi6 painting and it would change heading instead of the map...and the map just shifting it..
- waypoints would be cool indeed
-also the section of other airplanes in the same te would be cool..dunno if this is possible
Pedro wrote:
>>>Then it wouldn't be a moving map would it? It certainly be good to FPS but I think that we loose some realism with it? don't you think?<<
The map would still move up/down..left/right
even more when zoomed in
yet it will not turnaround when changing heading..this would be done by the aircrafts symbol.
quote:Originally posted by Widowmaker: Pedro wrote:
>>>Then it wouldn't be a moving map would it? It certainly be good to FPS but I think that we loose some realism with it? don't you think?<<
The map would still move up/down..left/right
even more when zoomed in
yet it will not turnaround when changing heading..this would be done by the aircrafts symbol.
Widowmaker
Roger that!
It's easy to do .
Yes, you can add a real readme .
Pedro
...sure will make it ASAP...got stalled over the release of 1.09 I lost my mind on how to aproach the install of it in order to keep all my setups alive(multi install again) so forgot to do it this morning..
(sorry)
I will post a link ASAP
and great would be cool if you could make the map not rotating yet the (cross) aircraft cursor
"...sure will make it ASAP...got stalled over the release of 1.09 "
Me too!
So today I didn't do anything with programming, that engine startup is great!
Tomorrow I'll try not to fly and change the map to nonrotating and see if I can add a f-16 icon. BTW do you have a image that we could use?
Pedro
Hi Widowmaker, the zip file still gives me some problems. I've downloaded it and still give a header error and don't extract.
Can you check out and see if you can download it and extract it?
Pedro