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Yeah, Goon, what were you thinking? :D

**2012 EDIT: This was written in early 2007, so some of the things explained here works differently in our current DCS versions** Hi guys. This text is from my other thread "after effects test clips", and thought that others might benefit from this info, especially if you're interested in making your own movies :) _ _ _ Oh and the "secret" to movie making? Well... First of all.... Think about "what kind of movie do i want to create?". Next, find a good music track (or more) and imagine scenes while listening to it. Just picture something in your head as you're listening to the music. Once you've found something you like, fire up lockon while fraps is loaded (i actually recommend fraps over the in-game .AVI tool if your pc is strong enough). Start LOMAC. Go in the mission editor. Now start making SCENES for the movie. Don't make "missions", as this will NOT be shown in the movie anyway, no matter what you're making. You should build your movie up by creating scenes. Sometimes, i just go random and create the end parts first. But it really doesn't matter what order you make the scenes, as the final result of the movie will be put together in the editing software. So, let's make a simple example here. Let's make a "dogfight" movie, with a beginning - middle - and end. You want a nice intro for the movie with slow scenes and nice music. Time of day should be early dawn, or at sunset (optional, of course). Find a suitable airfield and create lots of jets parked around, some jets flying overhead at low alt (for this, just create 1 waypoint for them, so that when your other jest on the ground are taxiing, these jets will fly overhead at, hopefully, the right time. This just adds "immersion" and makes you think the world is "alive"). Also create some trucks moving around here and there. Don't overdo it though, just make sure that they are there in your scene when recording. This will basically be AI jets, so just hit "FLY", and go into the game and just start recording from good angles, using ZOOM quite often. Just think about how this stuff is shown in the real world, either in movies, or how you've seen it on the discovery channel. Where are the cameras placed? Are they shaking? Are they zoomed in? Are they far away? Are they BENEATH the jets? Are they attached to the jets? Maybe there are helicopters flying high above filming down? Just use your imagination and make the shots look as convincing as possible. And also, for fraps, slow the game down once (ALT-A slows down - CTRL-A speeds up - SHIFT-A returns to normal speed) Fiddle around with the angles and capture as many clips as you can, but make sure you use variation in your clips so we dont see the same thing over and over. This will just bore the viewer. And another important thing, use SMOOTH mouse panning. And let me just say this now, for very slow moving jets taxiing, avoid at all costs to try to follow them with the mouse. Even I have trouble panning when things move so slow. So to avoid this, find the jet you want to "pan after" using F2. Next, when you've found the jet, hit CTRL-F11 to unlock the camera in time and space so you can now move it wherever the heck you want. Find a good spot somewhere a little far away from the jet, place the camera VERY close to the ground. For this to work, you have to make sure that "CameraTerrainRestriction = true" is set to "CameraTerrainRestriction = false". You can find this little line in the "server.lua" file located here: "..Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\Config\View". Now hit CTRL-F3 and the view should now work as the default Flyby-view for your selected jet. Ok, let's move on. Record some take offs, some flying and so on. If there is time and the music fits, you can also show the same thing for the enemy jets. Now let's move on. Let's go for the dogfight scenes. Let me use my last dogfight movie "SPEED" as an example. After the text "let the fight begin", you see the jets pass by each other REALLY close and fast. Now, how do you achieve this? Simple. In the mission editor, select your time of day, season and weather. Next, place your jets somewhere on the map, maybe not TOO high, as you want to capture the feeling of "speed" and movement, and this is very difficult to achieve at very high altitudes. Create your flight (yes, you have to be one of the jets in this case, at least that's what i recommend). Doesn't matter what jet you're flying, this is up to you. Create your wingmen as well. Now, to get a shot like i had in "SPEED", make the speed of your flight around 900-1000 or so. Create your enemy jets as well, but place them flying DIRECTLY at you, same alt, and very close to your flight. This basically means that when the mission starts, you'll either fly into them crashing, or, if you're lucky (as i was :P ) the jets will fly between you, or right next to you. Also, make your own jet immortal. Now, why would you do this? Well, this is how it works really. You want to entertain your viewers. And for this, using realistic tactics and BWR fighting, and maybe a couple of quick and boring sidewinders kills at close range just wont cut it. Players see this kind of stuff 24/7 in-game. Why show them something they're already used to seeing? You're making a movie now. Not a lesson in dogfighting. But hey, this is just how i see it. Unless you're making a historical and accurate (realistic) movie, this is how you should do it. (*my opinion back in 2007*) Ok, i mentioned that YOU were supposed to be one of the jets. Well, this is kinda optional, but the reason why i want to participate in my own dogfights is because i can do stuff that the AI never does. When you're DIRECTLY behind an enemy jet, dont just fire the missle at it as soon as you get lock. No no, dont do that. Do some crazy manouvers as you're following it. Try maybe to miss with your guns at purpose. Roll your jet and such. He turns right, you do a roll to the left, and stop the roll when you're alligned with his jet, and THEN you start making your turn. And try to roll with your jet at times when firing the sidewinders. It just kinda looks cool seeing your jet do this from the external view.. ;) Now, do these dogfight scenes a couple of times, maybe randomize the number of jets, what weapons you're using and so on and so on. Remember to save these tracks (oh right, for gods sake, before starting any of these dogfights, you HAVE TO HIT CTRL-R, and NOT push the FLY button!) Ok, name your track whatever you want. Next, hit "edit track" or something like that from the pulldown menu in the mission editor. Now, remove the ugly bar at the bottom by pressing "Y" twice. Also, in the options menu, make sure you have turned OFF "subtitles". It kinda ruins the immersion if you see the text "maximum G" pop up now and then. And since your jets will literally pass eachother within the first 2 seconds of the track, slow time down 3 times or so BEFORE YOU UNPAUSE. Now, hit CTRL-F11 and move your camera RIGHT between all the jets, either looking at the enemy jets, or your own jets. Zoom in a little (pretty optional here imo). Now, fire up fraps, and UNPAUSE. Things will move VEEERY slow now, but thats a good thing. You wont miss a single frame at these speeds. :P And after you successfully captured this shot, move on. Unpause EVERY time you're looking for a different shot. Now from here on out, all you need to do is slow the game down 1 time. So, hit SHIFT-A to return the game to normal speed, and now press ALT-A. Your only worries from here on out is coming up with good angles and zooms to make the shots look appealing. Do this a few times and just use your imagination for different scenes. Use real movies as reference as well. ---- Ok, the dogfight part is over. Now the ending. Depending on the music, you have to somehow find a way to make the ending of your movie fit the music theme and mood. So if the music is slow, or sad, show lots of burning wrecks on the ground, maybe some damaged jets returning to base. Maybe the weather has changed, and also time of day? Is it raining now? Just play around with some ideas. There really is no easy way to explain how you should end your movie, but just end it in a way you think is suitable. --- Ok there you have it. You've just created a dogfight movie. Of course, this "movie" is just tons of clips in your FRAPS folder. If you're using VEGAS to edit your movie, import every fraps footage into vegas. Oh and i strongly recommend you use REAL jet sounds. The in-game sounds are so weak that they will kill the immersion by 80% or more. Players already know how the game sounds. So you want to give them something new and fresh in the sound department. I am fortunate enough to have gathered hundreds and hundreds of sound files over the years, either from other games, airshow movies found on the net, or recordings from different movies. But, as you may have noticed, in my last "speed 2 teaser", i didnt include any sound at ALL. This is because the music really fitted better without any sound. Plus, its nice to make a movie now and then that really doesn't have any sound at all, but this really depends on the type of movie that you're making. Now for Vegas editing, things are a little more complicated. But in general: Play around with contrast, and make the colors a little darker. For shots that are "dead still in the air" (as in the CTRL-F11 views), if you're camera is just standing still in mid air, add some movement to it using "crop/pan". Also add blur to the shots that are very fast paced, such as when jets fly by your camera really close as you're panning after them. This adds realism and the feeling of speed. --- Well, i really hope this gives you some insight in how i make my movies. :) There are plenty of others methods to make movies, but this is just a simple example really. So play around with ideas, camera angles, music, sounds, anything. When it all comes together, it might be pretty good. Good luck!

http://www.defence.gov.au/pitchblack08/gallery/20080613/index.htm Some of you might be interested in what is going on right now and for the next two weeks Down Under. The RAAF is conducting once again a large-scale live flying exercise out of the bases at Darwin and Tindal. Unfortunatelly I have to stay with the CAOC at Glenbrook Base near Sydney, planning the show. Hope you enjoy the pictures, I think there will be more available on the web as the exercise moves on. BTW: It's wintertime in Australia, frickin cold with wind and rainshowers here in Sydney.

I found this tread. Wat you think mates FreeFalcon 5.0 Preview Thread

OMG OMG OMG GO TURKEY!

I think there has to be something done to how RVs engine thrust works as its not as good as OF or AFs engine modes particularly for formation and inflight refuelling. BTW there are some cool vids of some features getting made including JHCMs and some new ground handling effects. Pity that OF and RV aren't merged together as OFs radio and data link is very cool to use in MP.:thumbup:

No the launch warning sounds like a pig with his ***** caught in a vise

I don't know if they'll be of much help, but YouTube has a crapload of videos with the Kuznetsov, if you can stand the lame music. :P

Yea,,, darn you goon.. how could you.. and those F15's,, must be fake cos it could'nt be F15's could it.. no.. its prob those darn russkie planes with fake skin.. yeay.. :megalol: anyway's me still thinks u did a darn good job! :thumbup:

Ну если это авария по вине группы, то я Бенедикт XVI :megalol: Может стоит спросить "шахида" на предмет террактов?:huh: Смотрим тут (7 метров)

I suggest you take a look at SP3,4 and OFs patches all contain lists of improvements made for the mod and most of them also contain information on specific systems that have been improved. As for avionics download the MLU tapes and compare those to OFs Dash34 and you'll see alot of effort has gone into making it as close as possible to the real deal F-16 and in fact its modeled a level well beyond anything currently modelled in Lockon. With BS in development its in the same league as OF IMO and so don't be surprised if when the DCS F16 is made there are similarities between both sims although because its next generation it'll most likely contain extra features not yet modeled in a sim. (but you'll still most likely be pushing the same buttons to drop bombs and fire missiles)

she is simply stunning D. Awesome job on this template. cheers mate,

Theoretically, the publisher is an English company: http://www.fighter-collection.com . So I wonder they would have a lot of troubles if they decided to go for a British airplane? Regards!!

The timeframe answer is a bad one - the Ka50 and Su34, for example, still haven't entered service . . . . Lock On's timeframe is pretty much fictional. There's a bit of 80's, but there's also some stuff before, after, and yet to come. Information isn't freely available for a lot of these aircraft, so that's a factor. There are an awful lot of factors in choosing which aircraft to have as a flyable, though.

BMP-3 Here is BMP-3 footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RReAI3M1_K0 MINI GUN 7.62mm TRACER FIRE Goalkeeper CIWS Gun System CIWS PAC Fire Aboard USS Kitty Hawk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH5RVTS4QxA&feature=related

It might be simpler if you made a list ...

nice TuT GA. i still impressive about your mig in "superiour fighter" 1.13 m, look real that is my favorite scene in all yer movies ;) i still looking about real quality like dat now. the movie WE did with =RvE= was to line up a team comunication during a fight, but i would like to do another one with more screeshot quality in action. TY For sharing your great experience bro. nice link dart TX

WOW! that was an excelent toutorial. Too bad I dont have the registerd version of FRAPS to record it. and a good enough computer to make the sceens look good. :cry: This is actually one of the things I do every time I listen to music, and it definitaly sparcks Ideas for movies, which i occationally make with Flash and such. I did make an A-10 movie once, but it ended up being too large in file size to share. (:cry:again.) But thanks, that was excelent. Maybe I should get Vagas my self... oh, and one last question, whare did you get the jet sounds? Is there a place where we could download them? :music_whistling:

Скоро будет готова текстура на Миг-31 :")

БМПТ, БТР-Т, ТОС-1: http://www.t-72.de/html/bmp-t.html http://www.rbs.ru/vttv/99/Firms/KBTM/efsf/btr-t-f.htm http://www.t-72.de/html/tos-1.html -SK

Собственно новый скин, версия 0.3. Перекрашены ПТБ. Собран валидный архив. Сменён хост. :) ТОЛЬКО для установленного Agressor_skin_pack!!!!! Брать тут: http://tqs.front.ru/LockOn/HighlanderSkin.rar Не забудте сохранить ME.init и graphic.cfg!!! Переписать все файлы, кроме graphic.cfg из архива, поверх имеющегося в ЛО. в graphic.cfg после строки highFolder = ".\\Bazar\\TempTextures\\"; Вставить это: common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\SU-25T_snow.cdds"; Критика и прочее - преветствуется.