Friar

Some of my pictures Fruitbat Sleeps Waiting for the action to start, Painless and Fenrir deep in conversation discussing the properties of 50cals.........

Home now and all unpacked. Another great fantastic weekend. All the guys were brilliant, one of our more recent recruits, Blue Bear played an absolute blinder and I would hereby like to nominate him for the position of Provisions and Logistics He picked a great spot to watch the show, which I am sure will be demonstrated by the pictures Swep, Jabo and Crash took. He was able to book us into a Curry House (which for some reason emptied soon after we arrived), Find a Fish and Chip shop and order Cod and chips for 15!. Well done Sir. Saturday night was finished off back at the hotel, I gave a Priory of St Oleg meeting, We sang some songs and Rox produced some Eastern European Fire Water which finished us off (did'nt get to bed till 01:15am, and was NOT the last to leave......) I more structured report will follow.

I am not saying we abandon UP 3 as our main flying engine its just at the moment I think we need a "one size fits all" solution. One thing we do have to keep an eye on is the road map for UP3. Hades seems to be moving away from support for co-ops. As that is our main flying activity we are going to have to plan some sort of "mission factory" to convert the vast array (or build news ones) of the ones we have. Consider this. When building a co-op, the designer will generally set a balance, say 8 red and 2 blue (ok, ok, I am a little bitter), the designer will set a balance 8 v 8 in a scenario. At the moment if the player seats are not taken, AI steps in, good old AI (just in time to take your points as well!) Under the dog fight scenario, the number of planes can be limited, however, if no one wanted to fly blue, unless the designer puts AI planes in, which could in turn make the mission totally one sided, there would be no opposition to fly against at all, making it pointless. We need to watch this one.

Following tonights hosting I am of the opinion that we should stick with 4101 as our "official" version. Tonight, we had Pooka not seeing Artie but everyone else did, parafrags not working, the multi crew still does not work.. I think it is important that we have a stable game version so all players can join in and play with no worries. Friar

not at all FT, then if they cause an uproar, I can blame you.....

Any one know why "selected aircraft not created" error comes up on a coop I am looking at up3 rc3

If I can I'll be there, probably a bit later than you starting FT, perhaps I can take over a bit later. Today I have mostly been thinking about icon settings...... I am thinking of trying the following..... FRIENDLY DOT 7.000 COLOR 3.000 RANGE 1.000 TYPE 0.900 ID 0.700 NAME 2.00 FOE DOT 7.000 COLOR 3.000 RANGE 1.000 TYPE 0.900 ID 0.700 NAME 0.500

My wife had her 40th birthday present at that airfield....an hour in a Tiger Moth with the Tiger Club. She flew in G.ASKP. She went up with a pilot called Brendan O'Brien. He has done stuff on one of the satellite channels he was also the preliminary instructor for the tv series about training spitfire pilots. http://www.johnjohn.co.uk/compare-tigermothflights/html/tigermoth_bio_askp.html He did touch and go's at some fields he knew, hedge hopping and then when he came back to the airfield did an aerobatic display, doing loops and barrel rolls. Janet did have a go at flying as well but gave up as she was making them both "sea sick" as she was flying it like a roller coaster. Headcorn was really busy that day with parachutists as well. Even guys going out of helicopters!. I actually thought it would make not a bad half day out, just watching all the comings and goings. Salute Friar

@ jabo

I am more excited about finding that Greyknight is still out there....where d'you go man?

I can vouch for combofix as well. I used it to clear a machine of a friend who asked me to have a look at their machine. he had a fake anti virus as well.

Is that some kind of mid western ho-down? I'm not very good at dancing. as a teenager on holiday being forced to dance with my mum, she said it was like trying to steer a tank!, not that my mum knew about tank driving, well not that she let on...........

I have voted.....Should I get a new suit for the wedding, I will be getting an invite wont I.................or perhaps you would like me to perform the service, yes that's it. I shall perform the service. I could ask a couple of the Sisters to be Bridesmaids, they would jump at the chance to "go commando" under a sleek fitting white dress, just like Pippa, or was that me just dreaming, anyway, just let me know the date and I make the arrangements. Arrangements, thats it, perhaps you would like me to plan it as well. The wedding would take place somewhere classy, not like MacDonalds or anything, something upmarket, like Hooters perhaps...anyway just a few ideas Good luck to the happy couple, I hope they win.

All our thoughts are with you at this time Ovy, we have a few dogz going through some rough times at the moment. Just remember if you need an ear to sound off at and unload just say the word. Salute Friar

There is a special "DogFight Server" download as part of the UP 3 files. I read somewhere that you need to have installed DF server versions up to 4101? I think this is different from the normal dog fight map?

Can anyone take me through the steps required to build a UP 3RC2 dog fight server. I have seen a post by Crash that linked to a comment that said something about it performing better than running co-ops when on the same pc, thought I'd like to give it a go

That bit about the DF server looks very interesting Crash. I think I might have to investigate that. Anyone else know anything about it?

Hi Jabo, Just the 2 (received the shirt by the way)

@ Crash, No...

Salute, Does any UK Dog have the facility of converting cassettes to MP3 and who would not mind doing a bit of converting for me. I know there are players around that will do it but I was being a "tight fisted old git" and wondering if someone already has one. I have some tapes of an old radio series called "The Navy Lark" I would like to be able to listen to in the car. My car has an MP3 (NOT mp4) player via a usb port. I say NOT mp4 as I tried plugging in an ipod nano with mp4 tracks and the car player could not read them. Cheers Friar

The man in the bike shop did say that "it had the acceleration to pull the knickers off a Nun.." so I thought that I had better try it!

The lengths sheep will go to to get away from certain Dangerdogz......

So sweeeeeeet he had seconds....

Salute, One of my main issues with building maps and missions is the placement of objects. With each new version new objects are introduced and quite often the numbers change. For Up 2.1 I used to have a utility that produced an HTML page with all the objects and their numbers, well I am pleased to say that I have been able to locate an updated version of this for UP 3.0 You can get it from here.... http://www.mediafire.com/?1v5vdzzivayp50a I have created a folder within my UP 3.0 install called "Map Building" and extracted the files to there. It comes with a read me but basically all you have to is run an .exe and it creates a html file. Click on that file and bingo, all the objects with their numbers easy to see and find. As an indicator, all the new objects have been placed on water so you can identify them. This is a brilliant tool and will make my life a lot easier. Cheers Friar