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Not at all stupid! Sadly, the answer is no. We have the terrain graphics and flight model, but AI and campaign logic are completely missing from it.

If you are interested in the details, feel free to check out this roadmap 🙂

Will be away until late July.

bored has moderator rights. Same advice as last time: Don’t mind the spambots unless they somehow manage to post in public 😆

Backup done, forum software and plugins updated to the latest versions; member list cleaned from bots. See you in a few weeks 👋

Everything should be back to normal. You might need to force-refresh (Ctrl+F5).

If something is wrong or different, let me know here!

Updated phpbb for several security improvements.

I see that fonts changed and the header bar layout is broken; will look into it. Please report any further problems as you see them!

Strela-10 SAM vs. Drone

Amazing catch. I think we have seen something similar in TAW (or was it Typhoon) but never figured out what it’s good for …

(Similar to ADF’s cheats !)

Activate Cheat Mode

This is required to enable any of the later cheats!
Start EF2000. Start an arbitrary mission and enter the cockpit. Press and hold the Alt key. While holding it down, press the following keys one after another: T O P S I M .
Let go of Alt . Open ...

S-400 vs. ATACMS

The complex can be seen firing missiles in multiple directions before being perforated.

SCALP missile exploding mid-air

The Japanese RSO is much smaller: Only 67 MiB on the CD-ROM instead of 400.

Most of it is concentrated in DATA1.CAB of the InstallShield installer. I cannot extract it fully, but it contains an 8.15 MiB DID1ST.DAT .

This, in turn does not contain encrypted high-entropy data like the English/French ...

Scorpion82 wrote: ↑2024-May-06, 18:35Haven't really noticed a difference.

This means I did it well! 😉

If the game fails to start due to a certain file not being found, the file name/path should be visible in Process Monitor if it were a normal process. Not sure if the accesses from Dosbox.exe show up there or if they’re too deep in emulation land …

❤️

It really was invaluable in finding bugs. TAW’s terrain is so flat and featureless in comparison. Landing on these bridges, for example, made me fix rolling resistance and gravity on slopes.

AC2 is itching me – I decoded its terrains just like AC3’s, minus the stuff for sky boxes and enemy ...

The terrain extension example is not loading for me, although the solution as downloaded from the link in the tutorial builds fine.
The earlier 'Sample Extension' example loads OK, so I think my Registry values are correct. Sorry for the late response; I had to fix up other stuff before looking at ...

New flight model has landed .

Joystick controls should be a lot more responsive now. The old flight model moved into any position infinitely quick, and its characteristic “feel” came only from some hard-coded guardrails that protected the FCS from generating more than a few dozen g. And they were ...

Fix has landed.

Note that the player plane now occludes its own wingtip vortices. This is what happens in the D3D9 world when you fix one thing – you break another. But the cockpit being actually solid now is really worth this!

Fix has landed .

Binding an HID axis to a game axis now allows to specify the ramp. I do explicitly not allow it for keys and buttons, as ramps make little sense with them and “linear” always feels best so far.

This was critical for the new flight model because the legacy TAW guardrails have been ...

We can remap controls, but only via registry – and there is absolutely zero reference on how you do this.

I must write documentation and provide an example!

Fix has landed.