Krishty’s Sim Forums

mikew wrote: ↑2024-Mar-26, 22:38Took a while to notice that...

So sorry … I ran into this issue myself once 🤦‍♂️

I work too much cross-platform I guess …

This one is extremly minor but creeps me out. I treat all 747s the same, except for rendering different shapes based on their nationality. So they should all look the same except for a few color differences. Most 747s look correctly like this: image.png (Note contrails starting behind engines) But t...

mikew wrote: ↑2024-Mar-26, 17:07I'm not seeing any 'colours\xxx.pal files at all. Do you have an example of one that definitely exists?

No “definitely” for me since all my experiments were hacks … but this post lists some. Note that they have .col counterparts, but not all of them.

there are only 8 more files of exactly 40000 bytes, so only 4 worlds left. The other suffixes, _st etc don't seem to work. I almost forgot: Please also try the new level names with .col , .pal , and .lbm ! I’m especially interested in finding the correct palettes for the five(!) Angola/Korea levels...

Tim This world is fantastic! It does have a few polygon glitches, but the terrain design is just amazing. So lovely to look at. Almost Norway quality here. image.png Note that there are very few towns, and absolutely no airfields. So this map may have been created early during development, when air...

Kore_d/Kore_n Load well; some tiles damaged. Moving map korea.lbm matches perfectly. Probably identical to korea.lev ? I will have to check. Ango_d/Ango_n Load well, but many damaged tiles. Moving map angola.lbm matches perfectly. Probably identical to angola.lev ? I will have to check. World1…4 Al...

I found another world called 'tim' (lev\tim.lev .le2 .asc .dat) Worlds with longer filenames will take longer... EDIT: found 'lev\ango_d.lev' etc lev\world1.lev etc lev\world2.lev lev\world3.lev lev\world4.lev lev\kore_d.lev lev\kore_n.lev lev\ango_n.lev Oh wow. On it … Please also try the postfixe...

One interesting file is 'iff\256\main.pmm' which is best opened in Wordpad. It comes from the Pegasus Mail sytem. This is stunning 😲 I’ll quote a mail to “EVERYONE” : To: #EVERYONE From: "██████████." <SERVER/██████> Date: 31 Jul 95 01:39:00 Subject: ef2000 development X-pmrqc: 1 X-mailer...

Makes sense, great! 👍

This is escalating. Whenever I fix a bug, another one pops up. Much of the affected code is from 2012, designed for rendering landscape instead of doing flight simulation. I wanted to throw it away for a long time, but I try to delay it until after we have stable version to release. Unfortunately, I...

I tried spreading the traffic, but this yields to pseudo-random crashes. It seems like Sometimes a tile creates contrails for its planes even though the plane already has contrails. There must be an odd problem at play, like planes moving from visible tiles to non-visible tiles and not properly rele...

Can’t do negative values now – too complex. Coordinates are compressed into UAW_GlobalPoint (which I want to replace altogether some day) and it’s not a trivial change to make it hold signed values instead of unsigned ones. That’s also the reason the terrain “disappears”: The coordinate wraps around...

Will be fixed to an acceptable level in the next build.

Not very important for TAW, since all runways are always in the middle of a tile. But very important for Ace Combat with small tiles: If you roll over the edge between two tiles, strange things happen. The plane might slow down drastically. You may lose steering. Control surfaces start moving. It is...

Found it, fixed it. A Tale About Quick Hacks I just reached Mach 6 in my F-22 by artificially increasing thrust tenfold: image.png This is something special because in ADF/TAW, you cannot reach Mach 6 by messing with thrust. At Mach 4, severe oscillations start. Your plane moves up and down several ...

Will be removed in the next version.

While at it, I also removed the Glide/Direct3D string because this had no use for a decade, too.

Looks so unfamiliar now:

Quick observation: DID fixed this for Typhoon. The EF2000 flight model there feels much more natural in every regard, even though it simulates an F-22 internally.

I should compare the pitch handling routines in the disassembly.

Right! We should handle this somehow.

But how?

Invisible wall?

At the same time, I should remove the You are leaving UN airspace string – I only realized from looking at damson’s TFX video that this string is from TFX and DID forgot to change it for EF2000/F22.

We added a snapshot function in 2012. It’s not a normal snapshot but a noisy black-and-white recon image because at that time, TFXplorer was used as a tool to assist planning of multi-player missions. I feel like we’re a decade past this and all it is now is a burden on the renderer. It should be re...

mikew wrote: ↑2024-Mar-17, 17:23Hmmn, and 0x7f14b536 is a standalone exe to depack RA and JR files. I should have looked at this earlier...

😲

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if you also found the legendary VIEW3D.EXE!