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Very small update.
New cockpit mod by finiteless and a warrning not to use Merged Weapon Mod (makes Ironhand's tracks useless). ps: (venting steam) I HATE THIS FORUMS CRAPY SOFTWARE! (relief) Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block.   My missions System specs |
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New mod: Attaining a sort of 'back-seater's' view for any of the flyable planes in Lock-On, or, for that matter, moving the cockpit anywhere relative to the airframe...
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606&m=460101985 |
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Updated yet again. Both first and second post.
 There's is a totally new paragraph about "trainer mods" + some new links.Pasted to Word it now spans 98 pages. :| :O Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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quote: You're absolutely right, it's not  There was a prototype two-seat version of the A10A - funnily enough called the A10B. It was never built, but if there's enough demand for one then I'll put one together. There's a two-seat version of the MiG29 - I think it's the MiG29UB. This jet is pretty similar to the Sukhoi series . . . . but the handling is interesting enough for me to want to do a two-seater - it should be useful to the MiG squads, if nothing else. However, IIRC the MiG29UB has a significantly longer nose than the stock MiG29 - so this could introduce some problems with the rear seat. I don't know what can be done with the Su25. I don't know if I've misunderstood the Russlish or not, but it's a bit ambiguous whether the LAN Instructor feature works with this jet. Pride of place, for me, goes to the Su30KUB. A completely fictional jet . . . . but I've put the most work in on it, and I plan still more. On the list of things I'd like to do for a v1.5: - Fix the lack of a renamed jet in the payload window. I can now do this, it's in the F15D mod. Needs a new version for the Su30KUB, though. - Add Flanker562's fantastic new Navy skin. - Tweak the skins and their names a bit more. After all the trouble I went to in adding Flanker562's Desert Splinter skin from the Su33, he pointed out that he just adapted his from the Su30 Desert Splinter skin already ingame . . . spot the muppet  - Remove the IRST ball from the rear cockpit. Already done the refuelling probe, hope to do this for that bit more immersion. - Upgrade the weapons packages  This is a fictional jet, and people have been crying out for the Su30MK . . . . . so in order to satisfy those who crave the roles they miss from F2.5, some of it will come back in . . . . with the added ability to do it with the backseater operating as a WSO working the weapons. Added will be the R77, the Kh31P, the Kh29 . . . . sadly no KAB TV-guided bomb, since nobody can get it to work in Lomac. The Kh41 will stay in the loadouts for fun value. I'm going to contact JJ_Alfa, and see if I can include the improved Su30KUB in his Lomac superpack. His mod uses several of the type of tweaks mine do, so they won't work together - and I for one want to be able to have them both installed at the same time. It's an obvious addition to Naval combat . . . . which is, after all, the focus of his mod. Hopefully, that will then come into the list as THE mod to have for Lomac . . . . I know it would be for me. So my priorities for two-seaters: Su30KUB v1.5 - new skins, visual tweaks, advanced weapons package Including the Su30KUB v1.5 in JJ_Alfa's Naval mod.  MiG29UB A10B Su25UB There may be a pause before I can get some more of this out - I do have to fit in some academic work at some point along the line. I regret that I cannot investigate the LAN Instructor mod over the net due to my appalling net connection. Come the end of September, I'm looking for broadband in my student bachelor pad . . . . so may be able to do some stuff then. Until then, I'll have to just interest myself in the theoretical side of it - if someone develops a fix that I can throw into a Loman mod, I'll do it like a shot. <BringbackHTMLtags!>  P4 2.8GHz 800FSB | Radeon 9700 PRO | 1024Mb DDR RAM | Saitek X45 | Lomac Hat, Patch, and Pen (edit - there's a How To.txt in my mods about the LAN Instructor feature - but it's geared towards the use of my mods. Might be worth a look if you want a set of instructions on how to work this feature )[This message was edited by britgliderpilot on Tue August 10 2004 at 04:17 PM.] |
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Another small update.
And I sure hope to see that 1.5 mod finished soon. BTW, Britgliderpilot, check your PM. Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Another update. It now spans 102 pages pasted to Word.
There are new links in the mods section, new adresses in the second post and a couple new tweaks in the tweaks section (see end of the second post + some comments added to various older tweaks). Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Beautiful post. I love goodies.
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." ~ Benjamin Franklin |
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quote: Yeah, but if you request something please make sure first that you have enough space on your e-mail account. I've sent you the requested files a couple of days ago and everything was thrown back at my account. Clear up your mailbox and PM me and I'll send it again. BTW, I'm writing this here, because you didn't respond to any e-mails or PM's. Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Yet another update. This time a bigger one. Two sections added (I think, it's so big now that I've lost track of what's placed where) + a couple of mods and tweaks. It now spans 122 pages pasted to Word.
219 KB on the disc.I've asked a couple of questions some time ago: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606&m=541106785&r=263102406 Nobody answered but it seems that these questions will be partially answered by a very promising mod which is being developed here: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606&m=793106216 . Questions 1-4 will be partially solved probably, although not totally. So let me just repeat a couple of questions: 1. Somebody pliz prepare a mod for complete chimney smoke removal. Meaning: create something, that will disable chimney smoke even with scenery and visibility settings set to high. Chimney smoke is pretty demanding. Many people may fly with high settings as long as there's no smoke-stack in sight. I have written down a tweak for thinning out cities, etc. but clearly a mod for chimney smoke removal is missing. 2. If it would be possible, devise something similar for overacast. Low and med overcast mods are great, but it sure would be helpful for low-end PC gamers to have the ability to thin out overcast almost to nothingness. 3. There is a knee clipboard mod for western planes. Will somebody finally make a clipboard for eastern planes!?!?!?!?!? (this is a personal request :> :P ) 4. What does the "\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\Lock On\Bazar\Graphics\rederstateparser.cfg" do? Is it an "FPS thing of interest" or nothing to waste time with? If it does something interesting, could someone post a "tweak" for this file? Feedback apprecieted. Especially concerning those questions and the FAQ. If I'm mistaken somewhere, do point it out. Goodnight. Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Damn, hold your horses people. I'm reffering to the part of the sticky instructing you how to play birtgliderpilot's mod from behind a router. It seems that it not always works as advertised.
 I just got a message from GGTharos and it reads:quote: Earlier Megile however managed to do this just using 2302 port, so don't dispair. We'll be checking what's going on. Perhaps (and hopefully) this problem is just related to GGTharos's or the other person's computer. It's just a warrning of what you might expect while trying to connect via 2302. A REQUEST: If you're trying to connect with this mod from behind a router using the ports I've mentioned, please PM me about your findings. Especially if you manage to get everything up and running. Remember, those ports are the ports you have to forward by changing the settings of your ROUTER, NOT your putter! Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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I have an update to the section:
CLOUD DISAPPEARING IN 1.02 FIX BY FINITELESS located here: http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=005856#000010 Cheers,  --2GvSAP_Chief |
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Finished updating the thread with the things I did not add the last time.
Come and get it! Maulkin: Your update will be added with the next update. Thank you for heads up. Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Ok, quick update and now the sticky is up-to-date. All interesting things posted to this hour are included. Come and get it.
Ppppffff... finally ready. ps: Most important changes: 1. LO-MAN FAQ. 2. LO-MAC FAQ. 3. Reorganized webpage links section. 4. Reroganized mod links section. 5. Added lots of new stuff to both sections. 6. Some minor aditions to the tweaks section (second post). Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System specs |
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Another update.
What can I say, I got bored today. Besides, it's all britgliderpilot's fault. I wanted to hang this thread on a peg for another week or something, but he just had to post his new mod. I know that this sticky has grown to a B-52 size and some of you might feel a bit lost while trying to find something in it. That's why I made a fresh index of contents to help you navigate through all this data (look at it and you'll see new section I've just added). Even if you're not going to venture there, read the list so that you know what's in it. This way you'll know where to look for some things when you'll start to look for them , or you'll know where to direct n00bs looking for some mods or advice. Perhaps by just looking at the list you'll get thoughts like "OMG, I didn't know that this is in that thread, I have to check it out now." Anyway, here it goes, the general list of contents and then the list of tips and tweaks:1. Introduction. 2. LOMAN MINI FAQ. 3. LO-MAC MINI FAQ. 4. Sig FAQ. 5. List of interesting sites: - game, game settings, missions, MP, interesting places, - how to fight and fly&how to fly and fight, - terminology and stuff, - tutorials, how-to's, walkthroughs and other stuff, - something for you F/A-18 "Hornet" fanatics. 6. Mods: - executables, - FPS improvement mods, - immersion&graphics improvement mods, - "flyable" airplanes mods, - sound mods, - cockpit mods, - various terrain mods, - other textures and files. 7. Mitch Janssen's Corner. 8. Two seater planes mods. 9. List of tips&tweaks contained in this thread. 10. Tips&tweaks. Now the contents of no. 10 position, tips and tweaks list: FIRST POST IN THE STICKY THREAD CONTAINS: THE_MOST_IMPORTANT_TWEAK_EVER! THE ORIGINAL STICKY THREAD BY T-BONE_ (with comments from other people) TIPS ON RUNNING LOCK-ON BY ICE_169TH FLARE DROP FPS FIX BY GRYZOR22x (with comments from other people) LIFT LINES WITHOUT CANOPY SCRATCHES BY CHONMAGE WATER-RELATED BLUE SCREEN CURE BY LUBRICATEDGOAT ATI AGP SET TO 4X TWEAK BY AZRAEL_ALPHA FRAME BOOSTER FOR IN CLOSE GUN STRAFING BY GREB FIX FOR POPUP - DXRENDERER.DLL (with comments from other people) CLOUD FPS IMPROVEMENT TWEAK BY SNEAKSPOOK HIGHLY DEBATABLE FPS SOUND IMPROVEMENT TWEAK BY SNEAKSPOOK EXTREMELY MODDED GRAPHICS.CFG FOR LOW END PC'S BY UNKNOWN ZWEIBLAU.DLL REMOVAL FPS IMPROVEMENT TWEAK BY DE_GOPHER (a comment to this thread) FPS IMPROVEMENT BY "THINNING OUT CITIES" THROUGH FILE REMOVAL BY LOMACFAN 180 DEGREE VIEW IN COCKPIT TWEAK BY TEKATEKA (with other people comments) NEW HELOS CARRIER CAPABLE TWEAK BY UNKNOWN HOSTING TIP FOR PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH LAGGERS BY SLAMMIN_ INCREASING MAP DETAIL TWEAK BY TEKATEKA LABEL COLORS EXPLALANTION BY SNEAKSPOOK DISTANCE ONLY LABELS EXPLANATION BY BRUN36 LABELS FOR THE EYESIGHT IMPAIRED BY PUDDUD (with other people comments) SNAP VIEW TUTORIAL BY MOOSE.HUBBA MOVIE MAKING TIPS BY MAJ_SOLO NATURAL LIGHTING TWEAK BY FINITELESS (with comments from other people) FIX FOR POPING ROADS THROUGH GRAPHICS.CFG EXPLANATION BY TEKATEKA (with other people comments) FIX FOR POPING TREES BY TEKATEKA (with other people comments) REVIVING A DEAD PILOT BY BRUN36 SOME LOD PROPOSALS BY VARIOUS PEOPLE MAKING A SU-30 "FLYABLE" BY FANTUMFAN2003 MAKING A SU-39 "FLYABLE" BY PAPPAVIS STROBING LIGHTS BY JAMESTR234 (with other people comments) SECOND POST IN THE STICKY THREAD CONTAINS: ROTATING CAMERA TWEAK BY KATO_217 CATALYST & NVIDIA'S DIGITAL VIBRANCE BY RON533 MOUSE COCKPIT VIEW ENABLE TWEAK BY RANGERKARL CHECK-SIX VIEW TWEAK BY TEKATEKA JITTERY CAMERA MOVEMENT OFF BY DEFAULT AGAIN TWEAK BY MAPMAKERDES MP SAM&AA FRIENDLYFIRE WORKAROUND BY CALI_169TH TRANSPARENT PLANE'S TEXTURES FIX BY HOOKER_ECV56 (with comments from other people) CONNECTION SPEEDS FOR 1.02 BY JOKER ACL (with comments from other people) VOICES RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH TWEAK BY JASON_PETERS (with comments from other people) MULTIPLAYER ETIQUETTE BY TIMBO-JONES (with comments from other people) HELO'S ON NEUSTRASHMY & CH-53, AH-1 ON CVN-70 FIX BY BRIT_RADAR_DUDE (with comments from other people) SECOND HELO'S ON NEUSTRASHMY & CH-53, AH-1 ON CVN-70 FIX THREAD BY BRIT_RADAR_DUDE (with comments from other people) MISSILE LABES ONLY TWEAK BY DIGITOXIN (with comments from other people) RANDOMIZING GROUND UNITS POSITION "TWEAK" BY IRONHAND (with comments from other people) COCKPIT CD-PLAYER TWEAK BY TGRAND (with comments from other people) ENABLING SNAP VIEWS BY HABU_69 POSSIBLE FREEZE FIX THROUGH HARDWARE ACCELERATION REDUCTION BY CALI_169TH (with comments from other people) LABELS DISTANCE TWEAK BY MEMCCO "FIX" FOR PADLOCK NOT WORKING BY PRAVDA101 MULTIPLAYER SERVER SETTINGS BY SLAMMIN_ (with comments from other people) LMA (6) "SELFDEFENCE MODE" TWEAK BY ESCAR ACCIDENTAL SMOKE TRIGGERING FIX BY ESCAR NIGHT VISION "TWEAK" THROUGH DRIVER SETTING BY HAWG11 NIGHT VISION "TWEAK" BY ESCAR HOW TO INSTALL TERRAIN TEXTURES BY D-SCYTHE (based on the install of his Crimea Frosty Winter Textures Mod) CRACKLING SOUND FIX BY SEAFURY1 FIX FOR PILOTS SEATING TOO LOW BY FINITELESS (with comments from other people) TDC SPEED TWEAK BY DIRK98 (with comments from other people) SB-LIVE USERS WITH TS ISSUE WORKAROUND BY 169TH_MOOSE (with comments from other people) BIG FPS IMPROVEMENT (MEMORY RELATED) BY JEFX (with comments from other people) CLOUD DISAPPEARING IN 1.02 FIX BY FINITELESS [with comments from other people) FOV/ZOOM LOCKING IN 1.02 BY CHRISWARREN (with comments from other people) FIX FOR POP-UP IN FOG BY JASON_PETERS WATER EXPLOSION FPS FIX BY JARHEAD_VMFA (with comments from other people) PASSWORD FOR DECLASSIFYING STOCK CAMPAIGNS IN LOCK-ON SUPPLIED BY DROPZONE3K FIX FOR A-10 BLACK (NOT WORKING) TVM SCREEN BY BIGGESTPIG TWO VERSIONS OF LO-MAC ON ONE DISC BY IRONHAND HOW TO MAKE F-111 FLYABLE TWEAK BY DJH001 (with comments from other people) TIPS & TRICKS THREAD BY Razor_87FIS (with comments from other people) BTW, the contents of those two posts now span over 141 default pages in Word. 260 KB total. ps: A person asked me today "What sticky are you talking about?". I'm still in shock , but here's the link, in case you don't know what thread I'm talking about. http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606&m=247109315 Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System's specs |
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I have finished reading most of this section of this forum but still have a question, you will have to excuse the fact I am VERY new to this game and forum.
I currently run: Intel 2.4Ghz Machine 512Mb DDR Ram NVidea MX 440 (68 Meg) Card Setaik (how ever you spell it?) Joystick with throttle control. I have 2 issues (I really hope you have not already answered, and sorry if you have.) I have performance issues, jumpy screen, or lagging, I have my graphics settings on MEDIUM. What can I do. Or do I need to go buy a new Video Card? (which would be ok as well). How big of a deal (performance wise) is an onboard sound card? Issue 2. I find the joystick very senstivie and have a hard time lining my targets up for rocket, gunning and guided missle shots. (I am still in training, I love the steep learning curve!) What can I do to make the stick a little less sensitive to minor movements and yet still effective for evasive manuevers? Thank you for your time! Darren NTL_Skooney |
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I missed your post a couple of times today when I visited this forum. Hardly anyone responds in this thread.
quote: Saitek. They make nice joysticks. quote: Yep. Sorry to tell you this, but your graphic card is your problem. Your CPU and amount of RAM seem adequate (although extra 256 or 512 MB wouldn't hurt). However, your card is way below the level needed to actually play LOMAC the way it's supposed to be played. There's a section in the LO-MAC MINI FAQ (first post in this thread) about real minimum and recomended specs for LO-MAC. Look it up. Basically, if you replace your graphic card, you'll see a tremendous improvement in the game. Onboard sound is not sucha a great thing too, although some people claim that they get better FPS with inboard sound. But I take these as exceptions confirming the rule. A full sound card, with its own sound processors, is always better then onboard sound which relies heavily on CPU power, thus stealing cycles that could and should be used by the game. But your sound is much lesser issue then your graphic card. I'd say that this is the first thing you should try to replace in your PC. quote: You have to go to the game's options menu and then to the "input" submenu, then choose your joystick (left top), then change from keys to axes (also top left of the screen), then choose the axis you want to correct and then you'll have access to the sensitivity settings of your joystick. You got two options, responses and test. In responses you set everything, in test you may simply test it. Try increasing dead-zones first, to filter out unwanted movement. Then set shift correctly, so that the cursor in "test" reaches all point on the test area. Then play with curve and try to set it so that it suits you. The bigger the curve, the smaller the initial response and the stepper response at the end of your joystick's axes. If you have to apply a big dead-zone, then perhaps you should return your joystick to the shop for repairs. Sam with the shift. First try recalibrating your joystick, but if this doesn't help and you still have to apply great shift changes just to make it work, return it to the shop or get a new one. Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System's specs |
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Thank you!
New video card it is! Any reccomendations? Radeon 9600XT? [This message was edited by NTL_Skooney on Mon September 13 2004 at 03:06 PM.] |
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It all really depends on how much you're able to spend on it. But I'd say that FX 5700 or R 9600 Pro are the minimum worth spending your money on. Anything less means wasting your money. XT should work ok, but if you have the money, you should think about a even more powerfull card.
Jan "Escar" Hytry Out from the shadows for a longer time.Smbd lend me some sun block. My missions System's specs |
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