Release: Better AIM-7 and AIM-120 with clipped fins

[Pilotasso]

The forums are bugged, I cant give reps to anybody....grrrr

[walmis]

main model almost finished, just need to tweak the textures a little.

[Pilotasso]

Excellent! never too soon to squash that R-77 bug. Awsome work.

[Hawkeye]

Hmm noticed a lighting bug with your AIM120 Rockets and the new Fueltank for the MIG 29

( The MIG wears the AIM's because i conversed the buggy R-77 modell with the one from AIM120 )

 

Here i made a shot:

[walmis]

i think it's not a model bug, more though a game bug. All models with per pixel specular material have this problem. Remember the original aim-120 and aim-7? They were dark too.

[Hawkeye]

Ah ok thats possible .. i really can't await the new R-77 your really fast in modeling basic modell in 1 -2 days .. i think you can get a job by ED ;)

[walmis]

Time for some ingame shots :)

 

Made a unique feature for r-77. It's the engine nozzle, it "burns up"

 

Here, take a look at these screens.

 

Notice that the missile nozzles are redish, with a metal in the middle.

 

Now take a look here:

now it's burnt up, and turned black ;) How cool is that :happy:

 

Few more pics:

[Hawkeye]

Jeah thats really cool can you make this on all Rockets in LockOn:megalol:

 

 

But really a nice feature now ED must give you a jop :P

[Pilotasso]

Thats interesting walmis, what other efects are possible to give to missiles aside from burned out motor?

[walmis]

Thats interesting walmis, what other efects are possible to give to missiles aside from burned out motor?

 

You can change texture by argument. For burned out motor i used argument 2 (which is folding wings) and used that to change the texture.

 

So basically that's what you can do with textures.

Also you can make boosters and folding wings. Thats all i know of currently.

[Ukr_Alex]

Looks great but have the the modders figured out a away to make the installations easier?

 

Sitting there editing config files such a pita.

 

 

The mig-29 fuel tank needs texture editing.

 

The Aim 120 needs cfg editing...

 

Just askin if there are fixed modman files or I have to go through the install myself?

[Pilotasso]

you could offer yourself to do that. After all walmis did all the had work, what more could you ask for?

[Hawkeye]

What's exactly the problem with the config by the AIM 120 ? it's only a new model there was nothing changed in a Configfile when i think right

 

Hmm what's wrong with the textures of the Fueltank ?

[MiGMadness]

Short answer........ no.

 

If Aim-120 came with a graphics.cfg file already edited with the entry, it would include all the settings (vis range, ram precache, scenery, water, resolution etc) that the author used.

The user would have to change all these settings back to the settings that they used (also changing the graphics.cfg file again if you ran in a widescreen aspect).

It would also clash with other skin mods that edit the config.cfg file (e.g. ED's black/USAF skin mods) when installed together via the likes of modman.

 

Having the user move a few files and add 1 line to their graphics.cfg file is much more flexible for general use and much more kind.

 

 

 

Walmis.... you are a godsend to the FC modding community. respect. :thumbup:

[Ukr_Alex]

Short answer........ no.

 

If Aim-120 came with a graphics.cfg file already edited with the entry, it would include all the settings (vis range, ram precache, scenery, water, resolution etc) that the author used.

The user would have to change all these settings back to the settings that they used (also changing the graphics.cfg file again if you ran in a widescreen aspect).

It would also clash with other skin mods that edit the config.cfg file (e.g. ED's black/USAF skin mods) when installed together via the likes of modman.

 

Having the user move a few files and add 1 line to their graphics.cfg file is much more flexible for general use and much more kind.

 

 

 

Walmis.... you are a godsend to the FC modding community. respect. :thumbup:

 

Thanks for the quick answer and a great explantion unlike Pilotasso who instead of point out the issue tries to play a smart@ss :)

 

 

P.S If all these mods can be turned into smooth sailing addons then they will be much more popular. Youd be shocked how many people would have a hard time editing the cfg and would simply give up on a great mod :(

[zaelu]

There could be build a new ModMan that could have features of LOCFG (like easy config files editing for mod install purpose) build in it.

 

This way if you want to install a new skin (like those of the Su-25T) it will add the modifications to the files needed to be edited. If you want to add a new CDDS... then almost same route.

 

We have Modman... We have LOCFG and GUI configurator for Lock On...

 

 

We also have good guys with programing knowledge that could do the trick maybe if they have time :smartass: .

[walmis]

wrote a small utility, you run it, you point it to lockon.exe, and voila, graphics.cfg is updated.

[Hawkeye]

Really nice .. what does it exactly do with the graphics.cfg ?

[walmis]

adds

common = ".\\Bazar\\World\\walmisWeapons.cdds";

to an appropriate location.

[Hawkeye]

Ah ok yes that was a problem for my too :D but then i saw that you made a new .cdds file

[walmis]

release thread here: http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=19016