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It's still going, and will do for at least another 24 hours. Missions are being run on the 104th (US-based) and stallturn (New Zealand-based) servers. Also jump on the 104th or SimHq Teamspeak channels, it is a great way to meet fellow enthusiasts. Here's an in-mission screenshot. The Roki Tunnel, bomb this to stop the 58th Army from invading Georgia in Operation Rampant Bear (the 2008 South Ossetian War).

Can also use 104th Teamspeak without registering if you are unable to get access to the SimHQ TS3. Connection details on right side of 104th home page (http://www.104thphoenix.com/) - sorry, I'm too lazy to re-post the details here.

All of the 'stallturn' missions have the majority of aircraft set for ramp start and a minority already started and in the air near a friendly airbase (so you can join up formation with your ramp-starting friends). The 104th missions are all ramp start AFAIK. If you are interesting in performing ramp starts I would suggest looking at the excellent in-game tutorial or YouTube videos several times before you want to fly (also take notes, they help a great deal). In a large mission (Operation Rampant Bear has over 80 aircraft slots, with 16 in-air) there are so many players in game and so much carnage going on that it is not a very conducive learning environment for the basics. We will all try to help where we can, but we'll also be busy doing coordinated attacks on targets and dodging missiles (be warned: fighting the Russian Army is never a milk run) as a first priority.

10 years of 'marriage' is traditionally a 'tin' anniversary (which necessitates a tin gift - or diamonds these days). Well done. I'd especially like to thank 59th Jack for all the work he's done with skins over the years, and then graciously donating them to the community (VNAO is very grateful for your work).

If you complete an A4 I'll definitely put it in the VNAO mod (with your permission). I might even get motivated and do an RNZAF skin one day too.

Very nice. If you'd like to share the skin I'd be happy to add it to the VNAO mod next time I update it (a few weeks away at the earliest for the next one; have some other updates from Presing and others to integrate as well).

Yeah, thanks Crunch, I see that. Nice to have ED encouraging this event too :)

The 104th is hosting a DCS:A-10C weekend starting 2011-09-24 UTC in conjunction with SimHQ. All A-10C pilots are welcome to attend. The weekend will involve a series of missions (specific missions to be announced) and is designed to get as many A-10C players together flying together at the same time. Pilots can drop in or drop out as time permits - this is a more casual event than the highly structured tournaments such as OPFOR/REDFLAG/Georgian Incident. The emphasis this time is on flying with two dozen (or more) other Hog pilots, which is something most of us have not done before. No matter what level a Hog pilot you are this weekend is for you. More experienced Hog pilots will be encouraged to create flights and show us how it is done (external views will be on). Refer to the SimHQ forum thread for information and further discussions: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3378586/A_10C_Fly_In_September_24th.html#Post3378586 Mission suggestions and comments are welcome either in this thread or directly in the the 104th forums in the following thread: http://www.104thphoenix.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3261 Let's fly!

Go easy on the raw eggs EtherealN. You can get sick from these (I hope you never have).

The Beta program was a great idea and experience. Certainly there was some flaming going on but the enthusiast-end of the customer base ended up with a much better idea of what was coming out, and perhaps ED got some useful feedback on all the weird and wonderful hardware configs out in user-land. I very much hope ED have enough aspirin stockpiled do it again next time.

I think the Kirov-class battlecruiser "Peter the Great" (Piotyr Veliky) is missing from the list. I was delighted to see this in the game. IIRC, I don't think it is in the default mission editor but there is a small patch someone made that allows it to be placed in-game. Edit: I'm wrong, it is in my list but is grouped as a captial ship rather than a warship.

Here is the dump of the in-game objects that I have in the dynamicscore scoring system. Some objects have one name in the game/game database and one name reported in the logs (which is why I have two name properties, 'displayname' and 'name'). There are possibly other objects that are missing (but are not used in any mission I've seen) - so please don't take this list as exhaustive. 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When I was younger and fitter I once did 4.25 in a CT-4B prop trainer without a G-suit, during aerobatics. Started to grey out at the edges so had to ease back on the maneuvers. Mentioned this one time and some turkey on the forums says that pilots can pull 12 G instantaneous and the 9G for F-16 pilot selection is sustainable pretty much indefinitely. Whateverz. I'm totally with you on this one Cali (and the quote in your sig is awesome), even moderate Gs are harder than some people seem to realize.

Thanks for the fantastic work Speed. This is a great tool. I haven't looked at the gizzards of the script yet so I'll be lazy and ask the question, does it have the event export useful for stats? It is great to hear it works with Servman, as would be nice to have stats and Servman play together.

LuckyBob, what is the exact binary format of this file. Is it: 1) ObjectID ( or type or what?) 2) LockOn x (meters) 3) LockOn z (meters) 4) heading (degrees) If I get the format then I can quickly write a table-based GUI that will let you edit and add stuff. But I need to know the format of the binary data within the file and what the 'fields' mean.

Very sorry to hear. Especially the very brave statement from his wife.

Used to be great in Falcon 3 where you would do a 'milk run' to protect your resupply aircraft. Sometimes nothing would happen and you've have a nice flight. Sometimes if you didn't pay attention (too busy chasing bandits) your supply aircraft would get smoked - then on later missions you'd wonder why you started running out of stuff. Was a really nice aspect of the game (even the less action-oriented missions made a difference).

Frostie I don't believe you are correct in thinking industrial production would be a factor in a 'WWIII' type situation. Basically the forces you have are only those on hand when the balloon goes up. Either the Soviets would reach their objective very quickly (Rhine and Channel Ports) since Western Europe is actually relatively small, or NATO would hold them and within a month the Soviets would start to run out of supplies (their units did not appeared geared for a prolonged war as NATOs were) which would get worse as time went on. By a second month of such a war the Soviet Cat II divisions may have made their way across Poland but this would be outweighed by the effect of US moving divisions across the Atlantic to the POMCUS sites and slower-moving divisions coming by sea (assuming the GIUK gap held and the Battle of the Atlantic was won by NATO [very likely]). As far as the air war goes, it takes far too long to train a modern pilot for anyone except the existing pilots to affect the outcome. In the case of a stalemate it would be too temping to use tactical nukes to break the deadlock and things would be resolved quickly one way of the other. Historical Notes: NATO publicly declared it would only use nukes if it had to, but wanted to avoid using them to prevent Germany from being devastated. The Warsaw Pact publicly declared it would not use nukes first but actually planned to use tac nukes in massive numbers, calculating that using them against NATO up to the Rhine would result in NATO using them along the Vistula against the second echelon forces crossing Poland. Needless to say, when the archives were discovered a few years back the Poles were not happy at all at what their 'ally' had planned. Very fortunately none of this came to pass. Also, in the 1960s it is likely the Warsaw Pact would have won a conventional war (primarily using sheer numbers). By the 1980s the balance had swung in NATOs favor with the UK and US units increasing in relative quality and the proliferation of large numbers of good ATGMs, which would have made armoured assaults against prepared defences pretty hard. Even without ATGMs do some research on Lt Zvika Greengold and what he was able to do against 5 Syrian Armoured divisions (the actual number was around 188 IDF tanks vs around 2000 Syrian tanks, 10:1 odds but guess who held out long enough to win - which is all NATO needed to do in Europe).

The export rate is connected to your frame rate. You can use RIGHT CTRL + PAUSE to see the frame rate information. For each frame the export functions can be called. Usually exporting data for every frame is meaningless (the data for instruments does not change much over a timescale of milliseconds) so time-based exports are usually done (eg. export at approximately 10Hz no matter what your frame rate is). This is the strategy employed by TacView. To discover how exports can be used I suggest you look at the customized export scripts of the following third-party addons to LockOn: TacView Yoda's LEAVU2 Yoda's GEAR (the successor to LEAVU2). This is designed to handle the exports for you so you can hook custom instruments up to it. It is a work-in-progress at the moment. If you search these forums you'll find the threads (particularly in the modding thread) that describe these.

Most video cards can store textures compressed in memory and uncompress when rendering. OpenGL supports this. Depending on the OpenGL version you are using this may require use of extensions or not. See: http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Image_Format#Compressed_formats http://www.opengl.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression (I've not tried these extensions personally).

Great initiative Speed. For stats purposes it would be helpful to have: 1) A method that maps between client ID and the initiator ID (eg. 16842497). Perhaps also ensure this ID is not re-used within the same game session (these IDs do get reused sometimes for different players). 2) A method that obtains callsign (or unit name for AI) from initiator ID. 3) Update the documentation for the net.get_unit_property() function to match the actual returned values (Speed has pointed out the differences in another thread). 4) Log events for when chaff and flares are used. 5) Provide a function to get position information (x,y,z ASL, z AGL) of an object (eg. useful for determining where someone ejected so it can be marked on a map). 6) Ability to read events table in real-time. Thanks for listening c0ff and the rest of the ED team, even if you have other priorities at the moment (so can't get around to our requests) it's nice to know you are still listening.

For extremely large terrain you do need a decent data structure ('database schema' if you will). Algorithms such as ROAM and variants break the structure into a hierarchy for easy rendering (in this case your 'rendering' could be a GPU shader that does collision detection with terrain to check line-of-sight).

The difference between 'LED' (aka LED/LCD) and 'LCD' is the backlight. An 'LCD' display has an LCD for 'selecting the color' of each pixel and a fluorescent light for the backlight (providing the illumination). The disadvantage of fluorecent lights is that their color changes over time and they have poor reliability as time goes on. An 'LED' LED/LCD has the same LCD front panel for 'selecting the color' of each pixel and an LED (light emitting diode) light source for the backlight. The LED does not change color over time (due to the quantum nature of LED emission) and has excellent reliability. The LED is (very!) much cheaper to manufacture than a fluoro tube, but since the LED is superior you pay a premium for it (just another way the World/Humanity is broken). There are several advantages to using a 1080p 'Full Hi-def' HDTV over a monitor: * 'economy of scale' advantage: so many TVs are being produced that their individual cost has come way down. Monitors are made in much smaller numbers, so don't benefit as much from this. * 'good enough' advantage. While monitors can have higher pixels counts they are very expensive. The TV is good enough, and the field-of-view is better than a monitor so you feel more immersed, even if the pixels aren't down to the limit of your retina. * 'fill rate' advantage. As resolution increases the 'fill rate' of the GPU/GPU memory and connections (HDMI cable) must be able to sustain the increased pixel transfer rate. At some point a lot of the GPU memory bandwidth is simply pushing pixels out to the display with little left for transferring pixels while doing operations like Anti-Aliasing (removing jagded pixels edges) and Anisotropic filtering (improving the look of textures under distance/perspective). If you find 1080p good enough then rather getting a higher-res display to that requires the GPU to push more pixels you instead are asking the GPU to do more operations to improve image quality. Fill-rate is more complicated than that, but this is an approximate description. So a 1080p HDTV has advantages of being 'lower resolution' than the ultra high res (but expensive and small) monitors.

Many thanks for the information EtherealN. Any chance that custom logging into the dcs.log might also be possible (it'd fix my stats) - not just to debrief.log ?

Besides reading aircraft state, I was hoping to be able to use Gear to access the Lua send commands, if they are available . That'd allow me to make use of my MacBook Pro (which Touch Buddy can't do) to control flaps, hook etc. For my purposes I don't need 60 fps update, so webservice access would be fine. I'm implementing a map control using igormk's fantastic TC-1 map (doesn't extend east to T'blisi unfortunately, but great for FC2), plus also has an alternative (partially working) Google Maps implementation (for off Black Sea/Georgia map areas, eg Nevada; yes, this would be handy for X-Plane, which I also like greatly). I'd like to read from Gear using a webservice rather than be bound directly to the Gear server instance (that way I can do expensive drawing operations on another machine that isn't running DCS - eg. my MacBook Pro). How are you parsing your XML, using JAXB? For my lottu tool I converted the Lua tables into XML and then parsed them with JAXB. JAXB can generated the needed classes from an XML schema, and parse an XML document of any complexity into those classes in a couple of lines of code. I also used JAXB for storing my configuration information (as you do). the nice thing is I can add properties to the class but don't have to change the parsing code at all (since JAXB cleverly/reflectively sorts out how to convert the XML to the class structure and vice versa). If you are curious about Lua to JAXB you can get example code from the lottu source (embedded into the executable JAR version of lottu), or get the [GPL v3] lottu Netbeans project from http://www.stallturn.com/wiki/en/lottu Caveat: I haven't got the associative map aspect of LUA tables working right, due to a limitation of JAXB. Have played around with it, but got distracted by something else so didn't finish. ps. System.err.println() is handy, but have a look at the java.util.logger.Logger class too. It supports changing verbosity through runtime log levels, and you can log simultaneously to a console and a file (for monitoring in real time as well as saving for post-fault forensics later). Incidentally I also wrote a Java parser that can read Tacview format exports in real time - but didn't release it due to the evil people would do with it (damn cheaters). Would be nice to get that moving map to have friendly units on it via Gear (a la 'Blue Force Tracker', or the ABRIS but for any aircraft).