GUIDED WEAPONS AND PAINTING
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:04 amOK 2 QUESTIONS DOES CFS3 SUPPORT GUIDED WEAPONS CAUSE CFS2 DIDNOT AND IS THERE ANOTHER REPINT TUTORIAL FOR THE STUPID PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO HAVE MADE WEAPONS BUT DONT KNOW HOW TO PAINT
mm (that stands for mikemike... well, it also stands for millimeter, so I'm just going to call you "88mm" from now on. I hope that's all right?),
I feel a certain kinship with you. We both have a double name.
I hear you... guided weapons would be nice. I miss the timed anti-aircraft rockets of CFS1.
I'm taking a guess that by "guided weapons" you mean air-to-air or air-to-surface missles that "lock" on to a target, either moving or stationary, and fly directly to that target. Am I guessing correctly?
If this is the case, my own personal opinion is that if this were possible, it would be a pretty tough nut to crack. I think it would involve tinkering with the very dynamics of the graphics engine. I wouldn't expect to see any Sidewinders or Exocets on your P-47 very soon.
That being said, a more likely possibility might be timed weapons, as I already mentioned. Rockets that explode after a set number of seconds, or bombs that can be dropped into a formation of bombers, then exploded for an airburst... these might be more likely possibilities.
You should check out this site for some of the wacky weapons that the Luftwaffe used: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/missles.html
I'm a little confused by your second question, 88mm. Have you made a weapon for CFS3 in GMax that you want to apply a texture to? Or are you trying to repaint an existing weapon? I don't know if there are any tutorials specifically for repainting in CFS3... in fact I don't think there are. You should check out the Aircraft Repainting forum right here on this site: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... oard=repnt
Maybe you can find what you're looking for there.
Take care, and happy landings.