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:surprise: Wow, I would have never been able to come up with what you just did there! I tried using flags but obvious had no clue as to how to properly use them once I saw what you were doing with them. I should be able to do that in my NTTR mission but will leave that until tomorrow. It's late, I'm on my 2nd beer and I'm tired, a definite prescription for disaster! :pilotfly: Thanks again sir.

I was just messing around with what you wrote earlier and came back to refresh my memory and saw your latest post! I can't believe you got it working and so quickly and dare I say elegantly with the tools we have at hand. Off to go check out the mission and try to replicate it. Thanks a million!

Apache600, thank you so much for taking the time to type all that out for me!!! S! So if I understand you correctly, there's no way to get the smoke to always go on in a particular zone after going off? So using an entry like "Continuous" instead of the "Once" option you mentioned won't do this? Is it because the smoke will not go off after 5 min. with this setting? In another mission I made for myself, I did the flare option that you had mentioned but I just didn't like how they were going off all the time while I was in the zone, too frequent for my taste, that's why I was hoping to be able to do something similar with the smoke... But from what I'm reading and hearing from you it's not quite possible, unless I get into scripting, right? Thanks again for your time.

Apache600, thanks for your reply as well. That explains why I could never figure out how to shut it off. I didn't realize that it would last only 5 min.! That's not bad if it will always trigger once I have a particular unit/group enter into the zone. So the smoke will stay on as long as the unit or group is within the zone? Once they leave the smoke will go off after 5 min.? That will work for what I'm trying to do if so. Will play around with it tonight some more. Thanks again for both of your replies!

Thanks for the reply, ESAc_matador, I'll give the flag part a shot. I actually tried to do this with the flag setting but not having a clue what I'm doing it didn't work out too well. With your little tip here I may be able to figure it out! Will have to wait for a break from work to try it out. Thanks again!:beer:

Well that stinks! Thanks for letting us know.

Hey guys, was wondering if anyone can give me a hand here. I tried searching fro my answer but didn't find anything helpful that I could understand. Is it possible to set up a trigger zone to have a smoke marker go on when a unit/group/part of a coalition goes into the zone and off when they leave it? I'm sure there's probably a way to do it with scripting but I'm a complete idiot when it comes to doing that sort of thing... :) I am able to figure out how to start the smoke marker to go but not how to shut it off when the unit leaves the zone. Any tips/help wold be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Thank you, Grimes, for your continued hard work and support of this very important tool! S!

Man! phant, thanks for that video link!!! I can't believe I've actually had and flown all those sims... Still have floppies, CDs for all of them laying around here... What a trip down memory lane... Thanks!

After today's patch (5/20) I loaded up the 1.5 Beta and started one of my missions I made with the previous version that has several of my modules and lets me fly around in a sandbox sort of area to do things in as I learn the ME. Well I try to fly my Mirage. When I hit fly I'm in the 3rd person external view of a different plane... Go into the editor and check the plane's settings, all look good and I try to fly it again with the same result. So I go back into the ME and delete it and put it back in at the same airfield. Same result. I try adding a 2nd one to another airfield and have the same result. I try another plane, the F-15, no problems, try the F-86 and have the same problem! I then try the A-10, no problem. The Gazelle, no problem, the Huey, no problem. Those were the only planes I had in the mission for the blue side. Adding them into the mission again wouldn't work. I found the I could fly the included missions with those modules but not in that mission I made. I tried creating a new mission with nothing in it and the mirage appeared and flew just fine...:huh: Only n the mission I created those two planes, and maybe more that I haven't tried yet, won't appear as flyable in my mission no matter what I do. Are others seeing this with their own missions? If so, anyone find a work around besides starting all over again from scratch just to get those planes included? Hadn't experienced this before in all the years of playing this games various versions. Thanks for any insight.

Well, I will purchase it tomorrow as soon as I can. I will be beside myself if I can actually fly it later that evening! Not expecting to but it would be very cool.

Hot dang! My wallet is ready gents. Is it the 20th yet?!? :D

Thanks, Chuck, been eagerly waiting for this one. Looks to be top notch as usual. Thank you again sir! S!

And is anyone surprised? Who wouldn't love it! :)

So friggin' awesome! Can't wait to get my hands on these additions.What kind of time frame are you guys hoping for to get these to us? This is definitely one of my favorite modules by far! Thanks for all the work you guys have put into this. Looking forward to more.

Hey, never apologize! I appreciate you taking the time to give that much for .02 cents! It's worth a lot more than what you'd get with my two cents, that's for sure. ;)

Really lovin' the Gazelle in 1.5... Had an old mission I made for the Huey where in the early morning hours a mix of various attack helicopters attack an enemy airbase and decided to add the Gazelle to it. Approaching the forward FARP to pickup troops: Heading toward to airfield: LZ in sight: Helping friends:

This is what I thought when I first read this earlier today. Then I just patched the game and tried it myself. It is definitely easier for me in 1.5 than it is in 2.0. I was surprised that I actually felt a difference as soon as I took off. I now have to go into both missions and make sure the weather and wind settings are close if not the same and then compare again as it seemed strange it would be like that.

Nah, most of us have that down pat by now. ;)

Same here. Would be nice if one of you kind gents could grab a couple of screen shots and share them here with us.:helpsmilie::worthy::beer:

Yup, still really enjoying this bird!!! Can still use a lot of practice landing... but the rest of it is coming along nicely!

Am I losing it or what? I used to be able to play back a track and while watching it I could change my views. Just recorded my first track on the Neveda map with my new toy, the Gazelle, and I could not switch views at all. :( Is there now an option to enable/disable this? Has senility finally set in and I'm just fantasizing here? Any help as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated. Thanks!

Oubaas, thanks for all that info! Ah yes... slowly starting to come back to this increasingly aging mind... Yeah, a bit over my simple head at the moment and too much other RL stuff going on to get into it on that level. I know, it's a very superficial level but life is that hectic right now. Just taking a break from cutting/splitting/stacking 3 chords of wood on my day off... But I can handle the simple stuff you mentioned about erasing. :D Oh yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way a few decades ago after losing important data. Backups and numerous copies are the order of the day! If you don't have a sophisticated paint program, Gimp is good and it's free. Thanks. I actually have paint/net and Gimp and they look very good and have served what little tasked I've used them for over the years. I hear you about being set in your ways, I'm not willing to admit that I'm getting old yet (58 here) as I don't want to start feeling that way! :) And so as to not derail the thread too much further...: Thanks again for your help! Really looking forward to what the skin artist come up with.

Thanks for that! Having never really played around with paint programs or the like... did you just "paint" over the emblems or is there some other trick to removing them? I've read about "layers" but am not really sure about them or how to see them...