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Hi There I was working on creating an identical picture of Apache gun cam by just using Lockon and Photoshop. Here are the results! Now if you have any ideas hos to make it look evan more realistic just tell me what to do or just PM and i'll send the Photoshop file!

GG, you've never shied away from stating how poorly modelled the missiles are in 1.12. Yet you now consider it acceptable for ED to ignore it because it doesn't fit your definition of a bug?

Has anyone here ever attempted to change coding for a game or a program? Its a major pain the the butt. A lot of the times parts of the code depend on each other. So if you make a change to part A of the code, it will have a ripple effect all the way down to part Z. This means that sometimes you have to change each bit of code that each part is dependent on. Another thing is that a lot of the people who did the coding for lockon are not part of ED anymore. This means that the current coders have to go back and learn how the previous guys did the coding. I personally am content with the game now, sure it has room for improvements, but what game doesnt

Are we gonna get any news and updates on A-10 or is this topic redirected totally to http://www.sim-mod.com ?!!

it looks real... nice job.

EB, sorry to contradict, but WAFM is a direct result of the various issues for missiles in LO - its has been discussed as such for a number of years. It may now be part of a different product, but it came from LO. I've done enough programming to know that developers usually carry forward ideas and methods they've spent years developing in one product into the next. I'm sure the 2 products have a lot in common under the hood - even if the all code is new. Its all possible in code! However, I'm sure you know the code better than me! It would just seem like a good way forward - WAFM (and associated seeker updates) could be tested and ED could get paid for doing it. I'm actually surprised with the result of this poll - given the amount of money most of us spend on graphics cards, PCs, pedals, Track IR, HOTAS etc and time, the cost of an updat/ fix would seem small. However, I guess I too have under estamated the level of feeling of the majority of LO simmers here.

Actually, I appreciate the question. I took on my current role in large part to try and bridge the communication divide between ED and the English community. I feel there is an undeserved and misplaced lack of trust toward ED and I hope to be able to help that, because I know ED and I know the goals of the company and many of its employees are one and the same as ours - high fidelity military flight simulation. That unity is lost in the arguments continually raging on this and other forums or maybe it's never realized in the first place, but in any case I think it would do us all good to look at things not as Lock On costumers, but as ED costumers - ED being the company that is working hard and against odds to make the next military flight simulator the best one ever. I know that some may find that a leap of faith without much to go on today, but seriously, that's the truth. My personal opinion is that today ED is in the strongest position it's been since the original team of 1995. I think, given some time, some luck and some benefit of the doubt from the community, their work will develop into the closest thing to the holy grail we've all been dreaming about since the early 90s. There are no guarantees and it's possible none of this will happen or that only parts of it do or that ED dumps DCS for something else in the future, but I still wouldn't hold it against them, because I know the guys love their work and are trying to actually make what we are only wishing about. To me, that's all that really counts and everything else is just details. I think we've made it clear that ED would like to do another patch, so the desire to address community needs is there. For those that still have doubts, we also mentioned that it was ED themselves who initiated a thread asking for fix candidates for a possible patch on the beta forum. The question is simply one of practical limitations and sacrifice - should the company stop work on other projects - of which DCS is only one - to make a patch? I think we can agree the answer is no. Can they plan ahead and maybe squeeze it in between future projects? Maybe, we just don't know right now. That's why for now we say what we do - at this point, right now, there are no free hands. We hope there will be later, in which case we'd like to do a patch. This is only the description of what's actually happening - nothing more, nothing less. Does it leave open the possibility that no patch ever comes out? Yes, that's possible as well. Everyone can then decide what that means for their relationship with the company. While it wouldn't matter much to me personally, I understand that it would to others and for that I hope ED can release one. When it comes to questions about ED's business management, I always go back to one undeniable fact: ED has not only survived, but grew in a market where every competitor either failed or quit. That can't be because of bad business management. There may be various internal problems, miscalculations and mistakes, but at the end of the day, they're here and don't look like they're going. In fact, they're starting their own product line, one that boasts of confidence. Even though this may upset some people and will probably be misconstrued all over the place, I'll finish with this, because I think the community needs to realize it to retain perspective. The often use of "customer base", or "loyal customers" as you mentioned above is in reality a big stretch. As recently mentioned elsewhere, this is something that has been pointed out by LP when all hell broke loose about F4:AF and is confirmed in ED's experience - the online community believes it is far more numerically important than it really is. It's loud, sure, but it's only a fraction of the market. The cold truth is that whatever numbers ED loses in "alienating" people by not releasing a patch, they will, in all likelihood, more than make up in the new product line. Does that mean they don't care? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Regardless of market realities, ED still wants to serve its costumers beyond the cold numbers and address the issues raised by the community. However, patches don't grow on trees, we don't do magic and we won't make promises we may not be able to keep. I think I'm done. :drunk:

EB, I hate to direct this question at you because it's not your decision and you may not be in a position to answer, but... Do you think ED realizes that it will likely lose loyal customers if these major problems with its product aren't addressed? As was mentioned previously, people don't generally go back to a brand of product if the maker has failed to support its product to the satisfaction of its customers in the past. And I do realize that that statement can be countered with stating that patches have been made for LOMAC and FC and so it was supported. And with this type of product, the customers always want more. Be it better graphics or higher fidelity avionics or whatever. But the missiles are part of what defines a modern combat sim. We've been waiting about a year and a half since the last patch hoping to hear something from ED saying that a fix is coming. Hearing that ED may not have time to fix the missiles because they are too busy building a new product that they want us to buy is a bit ironic. I understand that it's the company line and it's all you can say unless ED says different. I have very much enjoyed ED's products and have seen how talented they can be at creating flight sims. I would really, really hate to be faced with the decision to continue to support them because they have decided not to support LO at it's final stage.

So was the Advanced Flight Model just a 'patch' to the Simple Flight Model? I think most of you dont even realize there is currently nothing broke with the weapon model. It is similar to complaining about Ace Combat, and how its flight model/weapons model/avionics model is broke. Its not, its just not as high fidelity as YOU WISH it was. Heck, we can even compare LOMAC weapons model to Falcon 4 weapons model. And F4 is supposed to be the best sim out there right? Yet their weapons sensor model sucks just as bad or worse. Also if people havent realized yet, is an Advanced Weapons Flight Model what you really want? Or an Advanced Weapons Seeker Model?

I have Multiple Installations - all you do is Mod with Modman your original install with whatever Mods you want, copy the LockOn Folder and re-name it LockOn ADA Mod, for example, or rename it to whatever Mod that you are testing and installed via Modman. Then re-name the .exe file in your LockOn ADA Mod Folder to LockOn ADA.exe and send that to Desktop. Uninstall the Mods via Modman from the original LockOn and you'll now have two independant LockOn Installs with 2 Independant Desktop shortcuts/.exe's At start choose whichever and that'll be you. This way I have seperate installs for the T-Frog, A10 and Jets with seperate Mods and each attendant seperately named .exe file on the desktop so I do not have to change Pitch and Roll/Key Input settings when I fancy flying a different Airframe.

Потом он выходит, :phone: в :matrix: приезжают :gun_smilie: и :police: :police: для острастки :gun_rifle: в воздух, и все :surrender: после чего всех :worthy: на пол, отдельных :wallbash: и даже :punch: после чего :photo:, компы :crash: а всех :banned: и пишут :vertag: чтоб другим не повадно было. Оставшиеся, кто по смелее будут :ranting: остальные :cry_2: :inv: .