Author Topic: Bomb Range/Tank Gunnery Range Released (Read 3227 times)

HawkerMKII · « **Reply #30 on:** March 19, 2012, 07:54:45 PM »

WTG Ranger.............wow looks great, will use it alot.......THANKS Ranger

Drano · « **Reply #31 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:52:12 PM »

I might have to try these GV thingies out now

. Thanks for putting in the time Ranger.

USRanger · « **Reply #32 on:** March 19, 2012, 08:55:35 PM »

fellas. Thanks for trying it out.

Peacemaker · « **Reply #33 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:34:12 PM »

looks pretty good, i like flying the stukas and the SBD, maybe i'll give this a shot

USRanger · « **Reply #34 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:39:00 PM »

The dive bombing targets are smaller than a hanger but larger than a GV, i.e. a happy medium. Takes about 30 seconds from the air spawn to be diving on the range. Drop, end flight, and be back over the range in a fresh plane in 30 seconds.

On the tank range, there are fuel trucks scattered about. They explode, burn & smoke nicely. Gives the range a nice chaotic effect.

Peacemaker · « **Reply #35 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:40:09 PM »

Quote from: USRanger on March 19, 2012, 09:39:00 PM

The dive bombing targets are smaller than a hanger but larger than a GV, i.e. a happy medium. Takes about 30 seconds from the air spawn to be diving on the range. Drop, end flight, and be back over the range in a fresh plane in 30 seconds.

On the tank range, there are fuel trucks scattered about. The explode,burn & smoke nicely. Gives the range a nice chaotic effect.

yeah i noticed that in the divebombing range, the targets are fuel tanks. hit them and i get the message "fuel tanks destroyed"

camo. i like it

USRanger · « **Reply #36 on:** March 19, 2012, 10:01:55 PM »

Correctomundo! I wanted to use something that would burn when destroyed. I just slapped a big target texture on top of it.

Still waiting on some cool screenshots folks!

SkullAce · « **Reply #37 on:** March 19, 2012, 10:39:10 PM »

WTG Ranger! very nice

icepac · « **Reply #38 on:** March 20, 2012, 09:25:12 AM »

That is a cool terrain and I will gladly fly/drive it.

USRanger · « **Reply #39 on:** March 20, 2012, 11:46:47 PM »

***Attention players, Important Update!***

I have a new version of the terrain I want you to download & use, replacing the first version:

http://www.mediafire.com/?3szm5ka955ad3zc

New features:
-A better looking clipboard map

-The correct "look" via the custom textures. When bump mapping terrains came out a couple updates ago, it started placing a bumpy texture overlay on all the terrain textures.
If using custom textures, the bump mapping hides the details of the texture. Skuzzy showed me today how to override it so that the textures now look as they are supposed to.

Simply download & unzip, then place the bombrang.res & bombrang.dod files into your AH2->AHIITERR folder. Overwrite the previous version if you have it.
This is the version I want everybody to have, because it now looks the way it was meant to. Enjoy!

NrRaven's example of original vs. bump mapping:

Original:

With bump mapping:

As you can see, when Bump Map Terrain is turned on, the details in the custom texture(s) is/are lost.

Cheese · « **Reply #40 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:36:04 AM »

Quote from: USRanger on March 16, 2012, 09:41:33 PM

Due to the way HTC coded the tank objects, you can get explosive hits with tanks' AP rounds, but only HE rounds will make the tanks disappear.

Ranger,

Awesome work and thank you! The dive bombing targets and air spawns are perfect.

Is there any way you can make the tanks 'tanks' and not 'tank objects' so we can use AP rounds? The AP (esp the HVAP) and HE rounds have very different trajectories. If one of the tank objects is near a tree and you get an 'explosive hit' you can't tell if you hit the tree or the tank. Not a big deal - That is my only suggestion. I can practice with AP rounds on more 'open' targets.

Again, this is fantastic and will help the community in a big way!

Cheese

USRanger · « **Reply #41 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:30:29 PM »

Quote from: Cheese on March 21, 2012, 09:36:04 AM

Ranger,

Awesome work and thank you! The dive bombing targets and air spawns are perfect.

Is there any way you can make the tanks 'tanks' and not 'tank objects' so we can use AP rounds? The AP (esp the HVAP) and HE rounds have very different trajectories. If one of the tank objects is near a tree and you get an 'explosive hit' you can't tell if you hit the tree or the tank. Not a big deal - That is my only suggestion. I can practice with AP rounds on more 'open' targets.

Again, this is fantastic and will help the community in a big way!

Cheese

At this time it's not possible. Believe me, I tried everything. Then came to find out that that's how they are coded & there's no workaround at this time.

Teerex · « **Reply #42 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:22:00 PM »

Totally awesome Ranger

Many thanks for you time and hard work.

...Tee...

ebfd11 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 22, 2012, 11:51:46 PM »

Ranger

I d/l it and all I can say is ------- wholly chit---- I got a uple of screenues at home on my computer so as soon as I can I will post them-. I took out the V1 rockets with a stuka in 1 swipe... too bad the auto ack got me too.

Ohhh Btw SHEEP!!!!!!!!!!

LawnDart

USRanger · « **Reply #44 on:** July 17, 2012, 08:55:16 PM »

Found out the link was now expired so I've reloaded this. The online version for the terrain is coming very soon so squads can use it in the custom arenas.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xml7foeetwclm8b

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