Its not "skips" that cause the problem in SH3. Its the "Bunny jumps" that units do when they move around at high TC. If you can half the planes cruise speed with out changing the attack speed then you more than double the chance of seeing the plane at high TC because each bunny hop is only half as long.

Maybe
But that wont work for 99% aircraft as thay are not scripted
They are randomly sent out from airbases

1st weapons/sensors test done.:up:
What would you think of hitting a V&W at 10 knots 150 meters off the deck?:o
Range about 100 Meters!

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...-12-2006_1.jpg
Well, it put a whoopin' on the V&W and sailed away!:up:
I don't want it comin' after me!!!!!:o
Tomorrow, it gets tweaked abit, changes sides to guard a convoy, and I'm goin'
in!!!:nope:
I got a BAD feelin' this ain't gonna be good!!!:roll:

Could you fire up Fraps while testing so we can see it in action? Pretty please with U-boat special coctail on top:p?

This is just looking better and better. Only perhaps it should be given Level Bomber code so it doesn't dive when dropping bombs?

Will you be doing barrage/artillery spotter balloons next, as Locations.cfg objects or environmental units? Would make the GWX Normandie beach scenes with all the landing craft look even better, to have a cluster of balloons hang there from their wires over the beaches.

It low leveled on purpose as I wanted to see if it could take a whoopin!
And other areas I need to mod.
There are not too many parts on an Air Ship that you could hurt much.
Alot of work needs done as far as how it takes and handles damage.
Need to do more research on the Air Ships to get it as close to real as I can.

Fraps? Will do in the next few days.:up:

Spent today doing model work on the Air Ship and a few other
models.
Plus some other areas I'm working on.

But I did get to see 6 New Model Air Ships covering a Convoy!:o



http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...06/Sub/OMG.jpg

This is coming on incredibly well priater....salute :up:

working on the model has cut it way down in size now.
In fact a fighter has a bigger dat file size.
I noticed hardly any lose in FSP with the 7 Air Ships in the convoy.
And no, I ain't went up against them yet.
I know this though, the surfaced AI Subs ain't gonna get along
well with the Air Ships!!!

Now an 88mm HE shell in oneof those would blow it up, right? :smug:

I am very VERY impressed, Excellent work there :up: :up:

If they are supposed to be blimps escorting convoys, you might want to make them look more like this:
http://www.americanheritage.com/arti...006_1_12.shtml


Wrong. US blimps were filled with nonflammable helium, and they had no rigid structure. At best you would make a 3.46" hole through it, causing it to eventually float down and land. At least one blimp was shot down by a u-boat, but for the most part they never got that close to the water. They would stay high up and guide the destroyers in, since the blimp could see the u-boat when it was far beneath the surface.

Not one ship was lost from convoys protected by blimps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship

Okay now this has to be about the coolest thing I've seen today, and today's been a pretty good day thus far for cool thing seeing.

I can't wait to see what happens with this. :up:

The test model was used to see if it was possible to get it to fly at very
low speeds.

For some reason, a plane mimicing an Air Ship just didn't cut it!:nope:

I am working on a new model from scratch that will more accurately
portray the WWII model.:up:

I've nearly got a Barrage Balloon model finished also.:|\\
Although I doubt I'll do anything other then model it.

We'll see where it goes after that.

Great job! One of my favorite scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" was seeing the huge convoy with all the barrage balloons over it - now maybe we can relive that in Silent Hunter 3.