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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Vermillion on May 10, 2002, 03:35:21 PM
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Did I miss some kind of announcement or something?
I haven't been flying much the past couple of months due to some hardware problems, which some of you found out last night as I CTD'd like 5 times with 1 spontaneous reboot in about an hour. AH is extremely unstable for me right now.
Regardless, I was offline today trying to get my problems lined out when my mouse died, so I'm switching planes with the .plane XXX command. And I end up with the P51... or so I think. I start to takeoff and it gets off the runway like a bat with its tail on fire. What the hell? So I switch to exterior view and here is what I see (see below). Cockpit views looked just like a P-51.
So what the hell is that??? A Mig25 or something? I don't know jets for crap. Was this announced and I missed it, or is it something for the Evil Con mission, or what?? Damn cool tho! I only got a few screenies before my ^%@$!#! machine crashed, and now I can't get it back. I do know its some varient of the .plane xxx command but I have no clue what I mistyped to get it.
(http://www.vermin.net/temp/eagleclaw.jpg)
(http://www.vermin.net/temp/stren.jpg)
(http://www.vermin.net/temp/zebco.jpg)
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remeber that movie where the aircraft carrier goes back in time....
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What are you talking about? That La-7 is not new at all.
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It's a MIG 21.
What did ya type ? :p
Sailor
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Great troll!
Salute!
eskimo
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From which game come the Mig-21 pics?
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theres no external view for fighters
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Originally posted by BotaBing
theres no external view for fighters
He's offline.
eskimo
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Botabing, there is offline you dip ! :p jeeeeez
DeSyls, I swear the Mig is not from some other game.
In fact, if someone can prove I took it from some other game I'll pay their Con fee this year or pay for their next Year of AH.
Eskimo, I wish I could troll that good! Teach me how to make screenshots look like that (multiple views, correct lighting, and variable distances , who do I look like? An art guy?) and I'll buy you dinner and a beer this year at the Con. :)
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Looks rather like a Mig21, a Mig21-F that I've seen at another sim site ;)
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it looks like the mig-21 addon for operation flashpoint.could we have a closer look.
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Hmmmmm looks real to me????
Pyro? HT? Whats the .planexxxx number for it?
I wanna try one out!
LLB OUT!!!!!!!!
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damn i hope HTC not wastin time on crap like this...
SKurj
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LOL, no one remembers my "Aces High: Korea!" Thread? :D
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Looks real to me too.... Damn !!!:eek:
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somthings fishy
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ZEKE will out-turn it.
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It's the fishbed
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hmm why no cockpit shot , maybe cause its ............. PHONY
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Originally posted by SunKing
hmm why no cockpit shot , maybe cause its ............. PHONY
...maybe cuz he said the cockpit was same as P51?
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I've see it to!!
sprint
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Originally posted by Vermillion
Botabing, there is offline you dip ! :p jeeeeez
DeSyls, I swear the Mig is not from some other game.
In fact, if someone can prove I took it from some other game I'll pay their Con fee this year or pay for their next Year of AH.
Eskimo, I wish I could troll that good! Teach me how to make screenshots look like that (multiple views, correct lighting, and variable distances , who do I look like? An art guy?) and I'll buy you dinner and a beer this year at the Con. :)
OK Verm, you've got me convinced! I'll go waste 2 hours trying all the .plane commands now! Too bad you can't remember the .plane command for the jet...
Perhaps I.ll try .snipehunt ?
Seriously,
A most excellent troll, I salute you and your artwork.
eskimo
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Originally posted by sprint
I've see it to!!
sprint
Are u seriouis???! what .command is it!!?? what do I type .Plane P51D ? I dont belive you but i gotta try anyway LOL!
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Nice work vermillion :)
who do I look like? An art guy?)
lol
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I found it too!
Only took about an hour of typin in the .xxx commands, never knew there were 999 of them!!!
At least I got a better picture than ole verm did....check this out!
(http://www.vermin.net/temp/test2.jpg)
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OK VERM ... They got the bait .. now s l o w l y
wind in the excess line ... be sure to let them run if they want, you can't stop em on the first run(post) anyway .. but I think they felt the hook by now, the circle hook got em good and you can release them with out any damage so you can catch them again later ... nice catch .. excellent choice trolling bait :D
Capt Sprint
:cool:
PS Remember their a limit on dweebs :p
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and the .plane number is??
I didn't think so.
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ya SS are BS for me ;) i want the plane number!!!!!!!!!!
wonder what HT thinks about THIS
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Guys, I wouldn't doubt it. I was flying along last night offline and all of a sudden off my left wing I see what appears to be a German F4 Phantom. I have no idea where it cam from or what they wanted. I was able to get in a quick screenshot before it went supersonic....
(http://www.cybrtyme.com/personal/hblair/chummingthewater.jpg)
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...alright dangit just quitit!!
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The Mig21 screenshots are obvious fakes but that model does look nice and I wonder what game it really comes from. :
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Ha - the pilot looks way to good the up close scrrenshot...! ;) Where is the blocky cardbox guy we got now?
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Zeke may out-turn but LA7 will out-run it.
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From a sim beginning with....T
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Ok.. here we have new easter egg, should be ready for next patch...
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verm looks like he's getting the hang of lightwave (http://forums.targetware.net/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=3-D+Graphics+and+Design+Forum&number=12&DaysPrune=30&LastLogin=). :)
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DeSyls, I swear the Mig is not from some other game.
In fact, if someone can prove I took it from some other game I'll pay their Con fee this year or pay for their next Year of AH.
hmm I think I've seen those pics of MiG somewhere... Anyway model F is from 1958 so it came to operational use few years after Korean war.
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Originally posted by Dr Zhivago
Ok.. here we have new easter egg, should be ready for next patch...
Pe-3 I think... from IL-2. PE somethingoranother anyway.
Tumor
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
The Mig21 screenshots are obvious fakes but that model does look nice and I wonder what game it really comes from. :
That second shot Verm initially posted is a damn fine job... gotta admit that. Had me fooled for awhile (been working with graphix and imagery for years)
Tumor
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Originally posted by Mitsu
ZEKE will out-turn it.
Yah, and it might just CATCH it to...
( Thinks the AH Zeke is WAY to fast in level flight, on the deck...)
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LOL! I wonder how many people are up to .plane 732 by now?
AKDejaVu
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I'm amazed none of you tards caught on yet...
EVIL CON MISSION ? DUH ?
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I was playing offline just there now and out of the corner of my eye i saw something ,i went in for a closer look and it was an AH-64 apache gunship it started shooting at me so i strafed it and managed to hit it a few times, it ditched here and i managed to get a screenshot of it.
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Jeez guys, if your gonna do fakes, at least take the time to do em right !! :p
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Remind me to check any cash that I receive from Verm to see if it is real! :D
Tango, XO
412th FS Braunco Mustangs
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Originally posted by Dr Zhivago
Ok.. here we have new easter egg, should be ready for next patch...
wow nice, how did you do that?
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I gotta see it to belive it :) tell me the .plane number and then ill belive it :)
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LOL that last screenshot..
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ArceBandit LOL! :D You buy your bait from the thrift store too?!
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OMG That Apache Screenshot is the best!
-Sikboy
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WOW! I left AH running and my 2 1/2 year old daughter was banging on the keyboard. A few minutes later I saw this!
eskimo
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I played one of my films backwards in slow motion and for 1 frame I see this:
(http://users.adelphia.net/~randrew/ahss4.jpg)
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:p :D :p :D
Whhhhizzzzzzz........ Plop!
Ok, confession time.
LOL! I wonder how many of you actually sat around and typed in .plane XXX for a couple of hours trying to find the mystery Mig :D I bet its a whole lot more than would admitt too it (not even counting all the guys that read the board but don't post).
To clear up a few things.
1.) Its a Mig21F, the last Soviet Fighter ever made with out guided missles. First production was in 1958 (only a couple hundred made), and it was followed very shortly by the upgraded Mig21F-13 which included heat seeking rear quarter missles. The Mig21 is the most widely produced jet fighter ever.
2.) I was honest when I said that I didn't take that Mig from any other game or off the internet. Its my own original 3D model, and my own UV texturing. Its never been in any game, release, beta, or otherwise. I did it to see if I could learn how to do it. :) My Thanks to some of the other flight sim enthusiasts who've answered my dumb questions over the past month !! My texturing still needs some serious work though, I can't get the weathered dirty look right yet.
3.) Its about 2,500 polys which includes working gears, control surfaces, flaps, gear doors (or which it 6), and 3 speed brakes. It would easily be under 1,800 polys, but the Mig21 has more blisters and bulges than a $3 crack potato (makes it very distinctive visually). This is probably a few more than used in AH, but within what is currently being used in some games (my understanding).
4.) To get the pics I posted, I first took screenshots in AH of the P-51D and the Yak (same general coloration as my Mig) in various positions. I then keep an original copy, and then edited out the AH plane in Photoshop. Then I used the edited AH screenshot as a backdrop in the rendering software, and careful adjusted my camera distance and lighting to very precisely match the original screenshots. FYI the lighting is nearly a perfect match and from the correct easterly direction in AH (ie the sun), so if you'd take the screenshots yourself, they would look very close.
LOL! In fact if you look at the one that Edbert posted ( Bad Edbert! Bad Edbert ! Only the squad was suppose to see that one ;) ) you will actually see the Yak-9U wingtip sticking up behing the aircraft , right behind the canopy. It almost looks like the shadow of the Mig antenna mast.
5.) Didn't anyone look at the filenames of the pics? Eagle Claw, Stren, and Zebco ? Hook.... Line.... and Sinker..... hehehehehehe.
One Damn Fine Troll if I do say so myself !!! :)
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Originally posted by Vermillion
:p :D :p :D
Whhhhizzzzzzz........ Plop!
Ok, confession time.
LOL! I wonder how many of you actually sat around and typed in .plane XXX for a couple of hours trying to find the mystery Mig :D I bet its a whole lot more than would admitt too it (not even counting all the guys that read the board but don't post).
To clear up a few things.
1.) Its a Mig21F, the last Soviet Fighter ever made with out guided missles. First production was in 1958 (only a couple hundred made), and it was followed very shortly by the upgraded Mig21F-13 which included heat seeking rear quarter missles. The Mig21 is the most widely produced jet fighter ever.
2.) I was honest when I said that I didn't take that Mig from any other game or off the internet. Its my own original 3D model, and my own UV texturing. Its never been in any game, release, beta, or otherwise. I did it to see if I could learn how to do it. :) My Thanks to some of the other flight sim enthusiasts who've answered my dumb questions over the past month !! My texturing still needs some serious work though, I can't get the weathered dirty look right yet.
3.) Its about 2,500 polys which includes working gears, control surfaces, flaps, gear doors (or which it 6), and 3 speed brakes. It would easily be under 1,800 polys, but the Mig21 has more blisters and bulges than a $3 crack potato (makes it very distinctive visually). This is probably a few more than used in AH, but within what is currently being used in some games (my understanding).
4.) To get the pics I posted, I first took screenshots in AH of the P-51D and the Yak (same general coloration as my Mig) in various positions. I then keep an original copy, and then edited out the AH plane in Photoshop. Then I used the edited AH screenshot as a backdrop in the rendering software, and careful adjusted my camera distance and lighting to very precisely match the original screenshots. FYI the lighting is nearly a perfect match and from the correct easterly direction in AH (ie the sun), so if you'd take the screenshots yourself, they would look very close.
LOL! In fact if you look at the one that Edbert posted ( Bad Edbert! Bad Edbert ! Only the squad was suppose to see that one ;) ) you will actually see the Yak-9U wingtip sticking up behing the aircraft , right behind the canopy. It almost looks like the shadow of the Mig antenna mast.
5.) Didn't anyone look at the filenames of the pics? Eagle Claw, Stren, and Zebco ? Hook.... Line.... and Sinker..... hehehehehehe.
One Damn Fine Troll if I do say so myself !!! :)
I thought so, but how do you explain the dang tie fighter that my daughter found? I know that she can't do what you described above, and she's smarter then me so I sure as hell didn't make the tie fighter either...
eskimo
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One clarification: :)
The model as a whole is original. But some small bits and pieces were borrowed from models of other planes types (it is only a learning exercise), however even most of these were reworked. Some of them multiple times. ;) I wouldn't want to take credit for what isn't mine. There are some great planeshapes out there on the web, as some of the other guys have shown in this thread.
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Originally posted by Vermillion
5.) Didn't anyone look at the filenames of the pics? Eagle Claw, Stren, and Zebco ? Hook.... Line.... and Sinker..... hehehehehehe.
The first thing I did was the old right click to snoop around and see what else was lurking there. :) I named my phantom shot appropriately too. :) I did mine in windows paintbrush. :)
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A TIE!!!! YES!! FINNALLY!!! (HT said I couldnt post the pictures of the X-Wing.. and just wait until you see the Star Destroyers that will replace the the CV groups... can you say obital bombardment?)
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eskimo2, no offense bud, but that TIE Pic is wrong. That pic you used shows the TIE from the TOP, which means if that pic was true, the TIE would be flying sideways. Then again this was done by your daughter. :)
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Originally posted by ra
I played one of my films backwards in slow motion and for 1 frame I see this:
(http://users.adelphia.net/~randrew/ahss4.jpg)
Isn't that MG?
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LMAO!!!
Kanthy
Originally posted by ArceBandit at 6
I was playing offline just there now and out of the corner of my eye i saw something ,i went in for a closer look and it was an AH-64 apache gunship it started shooting at me so i strafed it and managed to hit it a few times, it ditched here and i managed to get a screenshot of it.
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Originally posted by hblair
The first thing I did was the old right click to snoop around and see what else was lurking there. :) I named my phantom shot appropriately too. :) I did mine in windows paintbrush. :)
Which version of Falcon do you run, and who made that skin? THat is a pretty skin and I would like to ahve it if its comaptable with RP5.
Booky
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:rolleyes:
looks like verm's taking sancho to the con!
lol good work! :p
box
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That came out of an actual photo of an airborne German Phantom I found on the web. I don't even know where I found it. :)
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Boxboy, read what I said.
If you can prove I took the Mig from another game I would pay their CON fee, thats impossible (and I knew it) because I built it myself :)
Now debatedly I might owe Eskimo a dinner and a beer.... ;)
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AH planes don't have pilots in them.