#2979633 - 03/20/10 08:03 AM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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Yes, you will be required to find 604k of free conventional memory, install an EMM.SYS memory manager and load DOS into HIMEM. Don't burn yourself out Flex, it seems you and AD are pushing it, props to what already seems to be a high quality product, can't wait to fly that baby! If the success of Black Shark is an indication the reward will come by itself! Keep at it! Burn-out is a definite risk, thankfully a lot of the mundane tasks are behind us and much of the fun stuff is still ahead. Cheers
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#2979647 - 03/20/10 10:25 AM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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Eeeek! I hope they're not cheap SD single siders
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#2980086 - 03/21/10 10:57 AM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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You laugh now but wait to see how many floppy disc swaps it takes to install 340mb. Damn, and I though you were going to use audio cassettes. I'm disapointed with this... We had a little chat and decided it'd be best to put it out onto 3 150MB Bernoulli removable disk drives . Recommended retail price will be in the region of $500.
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#2980452 - 03/22/10 12:37 AM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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I am following the blog, too. As a matter of fact I was going to open a thread yesterday about the blog, but here we are, Ivon beat me to it.
It is so nice to be able to follow the development, and with the frequency you guys are posting, all I gotta do is watch in awe.
I have a couple questions, what does it take to make the mirrors, really mirrors? There is the check up mirror in CPG station where you usually visually check your fellow crew, would it drop the FPS too much to have a 3D image there?
Is it possible to have depth in the boresight reticle unit?
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#2980653 - 03/22/10 10:11 AM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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Mirrors require having a second camera to render the view so while it's possible you will need a beast of a GPU. Since we don't have a rigged body for ground mode yet, there's "nobody flying the plane". So we don't want to scare you Could maybe do something about the boresight, like the TADS cameras we could recess an internal view and have a glass cap on it. Spent 36 polys of the freaking bolts holding it down, I'm sure can spare a few for the boresight (it actually bugs me a little but I keep forgetting to mention it). Also I look at it and think we could actually do something interesting with it, centre TrackIR function, along those lines. Waiting for inspiration to strike on that one. There's lots of little things to do that will get done when we're doing quality passes over game assets. Textures, colouring, object counts. The style has to match our intent. That's partly why I'm not keen on asset contributions, the work required to make things match can offset time saved. If you don't spend time doing that it ends up looking like crap. Once you accept the world as represented you get sucked in, we hope.
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#2980867 - 03/22/10 05:01 PM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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I realize this is WIP and I am glad the way it looks right now. I know there is so much to do, and you are guys are on a good track.
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#2987401 - 04/01/10 03:23 PM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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Just caught up with the blog, sorry to hear your news Flex. I know how you feel, my position is still "undefined". Looking at the blog though, it seems you at least have some relevant skills for 2010, wish I could do that stuff! Loving the dust storm video...
Foot down, head down...
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#2988333 - 04/02/10 08:04 PM
Re: Just went through Flex his blog and all I can say is...will this take us back to those golden days?
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Flex, you should set up a paypal account, we could make deposits on the finished product and get credit when you're back on your feet and done with the program.
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