Print view
Board index ‹ Current Flight Simulator Series ‹ FS 2004 - A Century of Flight

What are those things?

Forum dedicated to Microsoft FS2004 - "A Century of Flight".
Post a reply

What are those things?

Postby homebrewer » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:21 pm

Downloaded and installed the Orion spaceship from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" from fsimzone.com or something like that. I get these crazy "panel" thingies flyin' along with the ship. What are they? The ones on the sides show up in the Create a Flight graphic (as dark bands) where the airplane rotates on its axis...

Image
Last edited by homebrewer on Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 8
User avatar
homebrewer
Captain
Captain
 
Posts: 623
Joined: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:36 am
Location: United States of Good Beer
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Wii » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:39 pm

Shields 8-)
User avatar
Wii
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2727
Joined: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:33 pm
Location: Space
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:41 pm

Those appear to be Monoliths.  Are their dimensions 1 x 4 x 9?
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby WebbPA » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:22 pm

It isn't 1 x 4 x 9, it's 1
Last edited by WebbPA on Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
WebbPA
Ground hog
Ground hog
 
Posts: 0
Joined: Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:01 pm
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby ShaneG_old » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:02 pm

[quote]Those appear to be Monoliths.
ShaneG_old
Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
 
Posts: 9700
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:52 am
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:15 pm

[quote]It isn't 1 x 4 x 9, it's 1
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:46 pm

[quote][quote]Those appear to be Monoliths.
Last edited by Boikat on Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby ShaneG_old » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:13 pm

[quote]
Isn't that like those pesky alien intelligences?
ShaneG_old
Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
 
Posts: 9700
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:52 am
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:18 pm

[quote][quote]
Isn't that like those pesky alien intelligences?
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby homebrewer » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:09 pm

What Hammerhead? Link, please?
My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 8
User avatar
homebrewer
Captain
Captain
 
Posts: 623
Joined: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:36 am
Location: United States of Good Beer
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:50 pm

Well, since nobody got douced in boiling marmalade for the Tupolov
Last edited by Boikat on Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby homebrewer » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:07 am

Hammerhead is an incomplete FS2002 model. I don't do 2002 models anymore. The landing gear never shows up. I hate that...
My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 8
User avatar
homebrewer
Captain
Captain
 
Posts: 623
Joined: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:36 am
Location: United States of Good Beer
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Hagar » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:04 am

Hammerhead is an incomplete FS2002 model. I don't do 2002 models anymore. The landing gear never shows up. I hate that...

This one works fine.
Image

For some earlier FS2002 aircraft you will get this message on selecting the aircraft in FS9.
Image

Click the No option for animations like retractable gear to display. If you already clicked Yes that will involve a simple edit of fs9.cfg to put right. This is a typical example. The name of the aircraft is twncom. Change the 0 to 1.

[FrameCallNoWarn]
twncom=0
Last edited by Hagar on Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:05 am, edited 1 time in total.
Image

Founder & Sole Member - Grumpy's Over the Hill Club for Veteran Virtual Aviators
Member of the Fox Four Group
My Google Photos albums
My Flickr albums
User avatar
Hagar
Colonel
Colonel
 
Posts: 30868
Joined: Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:15 am
Location: Costa Geriatrica
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby Boikat » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:19 am

Hammerhead is an incomplete FS2002 model. I don't do 2002 models anymore. The landing gear never shows up. I hate that...


Well, yes, it needed work, but it works for me in FS9 and FSX.  I had to add a few things, like sound and gauges, and effects, and it still needs some tweaks in the .cfg (it kind of floats: after you land, and it uses the Jupiter 2 .air file, which probably accounts for some of the "floatyness", and makes it difficult to land (Especially in the hanger bay of the Galactica!  Wee-ooou!!)

On the other hand, it'll zip along a close to 1800+ IAS at tree-top level.  What's not to love?  :D

Image
Image
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
User avatar
Boikat
Major
Major
 
Posts: 2974
Joined: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:23 pm
Location: NW Loueezianner
Top

Re: What are those things?

Postby homebrewer » Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:29 pm

You guys are much, much better at manipulating these things than I am. I am so askeered to do things to the .cfg files, that If the airplane doesn't go in smooth as silk, I delete it and move on...
My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 8
User avatar
homebrewer
Captain
Captain
 
Posts: 623
Joined: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:36 am
Location: United States of Good Beer
Top
Post a reply

Return to FS 2004 - A Century of Flight

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 614 guests