[chasez]

QUOTE ([Delta ²k5)

,May 9 2011, 14:21] QUOTE (chasez @ May 9 2011, 01:05) headlights doesn't work on IV helis. I may have to correct this statement Do you remember the "Sparrow Hilator" made by smokey8808? It has working "headlights" at the front go on and test it by yourself http://www.gtainside.com/download.php?do=c...=25030&orderBy= I also hadn't think that this would be possible, but it shows, that it can be. If you use this chopper ingame, you could press "L" and the Headlight will illuminate people, buildings and everything like the normal car's headlight... I think it's better than just a self-illuminating texture, isn't it? By the way, I could hand out you some source files I partly converted from open sourcefiles of some FS2004 Helicopters to you if you are interested... I would work on them by myself, but real life is hard atm.

Oh...well...headlight works but... I don't like two things
1. It doesn't look like searchlight (way too wide)
2. It's too dim. Almost can't see the illuminated area, my version is better.

I can leave it because you can switch it on and off in day time

EDIT:

@Eiswolfi

What can I say. I have remapped rotors on the new version and I just checked - they're solid

@Costar

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BTW, the pilot needs a an actual *stick* to ctrl this thing not that imaginary one I also noticed, not that its an *issue* but the spotlight stays on at night (apparently it comes on @ night even if u dint get in it) when u get out of the heli, or is that like new cars headlights, they stay on for a time to light your path to the house

Well there's no options to make it to turn on/off. It's a spotlight created in Zmod and game doesn't have a control over it.

About the stick:


I've pushed the driver as far back as I could. I will try to move the control stick into his hands

This post has been edited by chasez on Monday, May 9 2011, 20:03

[XTREME0235]

Great mod nonetheless for aviation supporters such as myself who love seeing more aircraft enter the GTA IV world.
Is it possible you could post more screens of the interior as I am interested to see more. Unfortunately I can't download the beauty at this time which is why I am asking.

I can see that you have the cyclic installed and I certainly hope you included the other components such as the the collective leaver and the anti-torque pedals.
These would add great detail and I don't see why you wouldn't have them.

This post has been edited by XTREME0235 on Monday, May 9 2011, 21:54

[Costar]

Ok, but ofcourse it loox this way from inside camera view

So loox like there is none at all, wondered if the stick could be repositioned forward a lil ...

XTREME0235, I dont think he intended to do much w/ the int yet as this is still beta .. but u see the pedals are there and i think that lever for lift/lower

I noticed whilst in the inside view, looking back this is the view through your heli
See how stuff is *see-through* .. I wonder if this has something to do w/ camera position tho, as the reg Maverick, its int view does not show the interior at all like yours does


Whereas in the reg Maverick

[[Delta ²k5]]

QUOTE (Costar @ May 10 2011, 03:58)

I noticed whilst in the inside view, looking back this is the view through your heli See how stuff is *see-through* .. I wonder if this has something to do w/ camera position tho, as the reg Maverick, its int view does not show the interior at all like yours does

I think it is the camera position. It seems to be too high (what you "see" is the inside of the tail) But I think this isn't very important In a real Helicopter you wouldn't see anything but the backseats

I had a look again at the Bell412. I think that te searchlight is good, as it is, but a little too bright (only a personal taste problem, nothing more ) I'd also like to know how you made it with Z-Mod 2? I know that those kind of lights are possible with 3DS Max... but now you shocked me with this (could be nice for my Bell 407 police helicopter, when I start over again on it [It's really a long-time-project] as I'm "currently" working on the lighting inside and outside)

With EFLC I saw also the lights on the APC and was asking myself about the rotation beacon lights.... I think, I'll do some research...

Later.

[Firesq38]

Does your allow for replaceable skin textures? The other one that is floating around does not. It was built into the textures with everything else.

[chasez]

I did a little experiment. As you may or may not all know that firetruk and APC has rotating parts - fire extinguisher and machine-gun.
So I renamed searchlight's dummy node and replaced this heli with APC. I flew around and as I was moving mouse around the searchlight was moving too. I thought that it would be a cool feature to have that but...there's a small problem. the spotlight and headlights doesn't move with it Unless there's a mod that can create searchlight replacing the APC's machine-gun, this thing ain't gonna work all the way.

btw this gets me thinking. Is it possible to create such light in weapons data file? to make it shoot a light not the bullets

[Costar]

Chasez, have u been drinkin corn liquor ?!
I am not really sure exactly what all u did, but I THINK I remember some mods where rockets from the buzzard were attached to the annihilator using an .asi or .net script to activate.
I think EPM is script based too and is used to activate certain functions on cars under certain conditions or button presses.
I remember a turn signal mod for cars and mostly old stuff for weapons but those were just interchanging projectiles or reassigning them as objects from the game like suitcase, bricks etc and interchanging effects between weapons like damage type explosion/fire whether it has a timer like grenades, one allowed u to throw RPG rockets lol. I havent played around w/ it but it was nice they added the sticky bombs in TBOGT.

I dont quite get what u mean to have a weapon shoot *light* instead of bullets.. I mean you want the weapon to behave like a flashlight w/ a steady beam, trigger=on, release=off ?

This post has been edited by Costar on Wednesday, May 11 2011, 02:52

[Eiswolfi]

[Costar]

Chasez did u or anyone manage to get back in the heli when landing in water ?
Well I did manage to land in water and then get him to get back in, it seems it was a fluke tho ...
I wondered if it would make any diff to lengthen the landing bars, that is height wise, then put more of a sort of "platform" instead of that lil foot step, to see if we can get the player to get on the platform so he will get back in..
The downside is, water would still destroy the heli engine, as it did w/ me in it even w/ car god mode on in trainer. And ofcourse we know if the engine in a vehicle is destroyed, it wont let us get back in..
Its like the best thing would be to edit water to stop it from destroying the engine.

This post has been edited by Costar on Monday, May 30 2011, 18:12

[byankeesjeter]

Would it be possible to get a template for this helicopter?

[SkylineGTRFreak]

the heli contains 4 main templates, i could upload them...

[chasez]

Yeah, you can upload them. I was going to add templates to the archive in final release anyway.

[chasez]

I gotta ask... Who the F*ck uploaded my mod everywhere?

http://www.gtagaming.com/downloads/gta-iv/vehicle-mods/9053
http://www.gtainside.com/en/download.php?d...=36217&orderBy=

[Costar]

In both places it shows your name listed, ppl wouldnt know it wasnt u..
In both it lists fixed sinking into the ground, added new FLIR and all that other stuff, like nothing has been changed and says original by Cera, is that true ?
I'm curious why anyone would upload it tho (including you) since its post to be in beta form still ...

[chasez]

QUOTE (Costar @ Monday, Jun 13 2011, 03:35)

In both places it shows your name listed, ppl wouldnt know it wasnt u.. In both it lists fixed sinking into the ground, added new FLIR and all that other stuff, like nothing has been changed and says original by Cera, is that true ? I'm curious why anyone would upload it tho (including you) since its post to be in beta form still ...

I hate that people are posting that it has some passenger seat bug or something like that and that's because I didn't upload it myself and it clearly says BETA. I didn't even make the rotor shadows visible in these beta versions. Now most people won't download the final release. I hate when this happens.

[Costar]

hmm, i dint even think about that..
What about telling the ppl on the site, to remove it because it was not your authorized upload ?!
Well I remember when someone stole schaefft's model and I seen it, I wrote to, I think it was Tim or someone there that removed it.. That was @ gtainside..

I just wondered how someone decided to use your username to register there, maybe u should already registered, that ways they'd have to create a variant to the name.. Well anyways maybe u can write to them, even give a link to the topic here etc ... just some ideas

[SkylineGTRFreak]

on that sites it doesnt care what your username is... for example, im also registered with SKylineGTRFreak at GTAInside, but when you upload a mod, it asks you for the Author's name, so you can just type any name in there

[ilyketwortles]

are there still templates for this thing?
would love to add my own texture to this

[MajorMaclean]

the spotlight has to be brighter at night cuzz when ur high up half the time it doesn't show

[chasez]

QUOTE (MajorMaclean @ Friday, Jun 22 2012, 02:10)

the spotlight has to be brighter at night cuzz when ur high up half the time it doesn't show

lol I think it's TOO bright. What are your settings? are you using ENB or any other graphic enhancement mod?

This post has been edited by chasez on Friday, Jun 22 2012, 13:12