Pope Air Force Base

delta b · Post by **delta b** » 24 Feb 2007, 15:55

Yes, kudzu is rather fast growing. In the Southern US, it's common to see entire stands of trees and power poles covered in kudzu. It will also eat buildings (and hangars) if you let it. One joke states the best fertilizer for it is motor oil--it's the only way to keep the leaves from burning during the friction of growing. While most trees and plants are modeled as static scenery, maybe kudzu would be better modeled as AI to better simulate the growth.

Dan

ronniegj · Post by **ronniegj** » 24 Feb 2007, 16:21

BTW Kudzu not only covers the land, it get into the water and chokes of the flow of canals, streams etc. It is a curse!

Ron

Post by **BadPvtDan** » 24 Feb 2007, 18:15

OK...any pictures, though?

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 24 Feb 2007, 18:20

Check out this link:

http://www.alabamatv.org/kudzu/

It's so invasive, it's taken over my Pope scenery thread............

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 25 Mar 2007, 01:11

Some more progress on Pope. These are some airborne staging buildings. No direct pictures to go off of other than from straight overhead so again some artistic license is required.

Click to enlarge:

flyboy · Post by **flyboy** » 25 Mar 2007, 09:33

Kudzu was introduced to help prevent soil erosion back in the early days. The only problem was they had no idea how to control it or kill it. Here in North Alabama, it cost millions of dollars in damage to power poles, lines and trees. I have seen a few bad areas where nothing exist except the kudzu. They have came up with a herbicide that will kill it now, but it is still in a testing phase. Hopefully it can be brought under control.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 26 Mar 2007, 02:38

Some images of the lights that Kevin has modified.

Kevin here are the three different versions you created next to one another for comparison. Obviously the third one would be great since it actually produces a light cone. But I noticed all three versions stay on during the day. Any way to change that so they only light up at night?

Click to enlarge:

Anyhow here's how version number three looks on the main Pope ramp.

Post by **Weescotty** » 26 Mar 2007, 05:48

MIKE JG wrote:Some images of the lights that Kevin has modified.

Kevin here are the three different versions you created next to one another for comparison. Obviously the third one would be great since it actually produces a light cone. But I noticed all three versions stay on during the day. Any way to change that so they only light up at night?

Noticed that today also, will look into it.

Kev

mikewmac · Post by **mikewmac** » 26 Mar 2007, 10:16

MIKE JG wrote:Some images of the lights that Kevin has modified.

Kevin here are the three different versions you created next to one another for comparison. Obviously the third one would be great since it actually produces a light cone. But I noticed all three versions stay on during the day. Any way to change that so they only light up at night?

Mike & Kev,

All the Light Objects for Rwy12 and EZ-Scenery that I have seen also stay on 24/7. It sure would be nice to have some that don't.

Mike

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 26 Mar 2007, 16:42

Landing lights are always on when on, I think taxi lights work only when its dark...

Well, after all - we don't have to pay more for electricity when all lights are on during the day?

Post by **Weescotty** » 26 Mar 2007, 20:00

OK found the fix, and it is required for taxi lights also.

Here goes -

1) Goto your FSDS main folder and rename
MakeMdlSceneryParms.txt
to
MakeMdlSceneryParms.org.txt

This is needed to get the dialogue box.

2) In your model in FSDS make them lights nav_light (NOT TAXI), and a material NAV_LIGHT assigned to it, same as if you were doing an aircraft nav light.
Set it to white.

3) Compile the model -
Make sure Keep Files is checked
Uncheck Crash and has damage map

4) Goto your main FSDS folder and find the _temp.asm and _temp_0.asm files. These are the ones you will be modifying.

5) Edit the _temp.asm as follows -

Copy these lines over the appropriate section (they add a ; to comment them out)

;db 'D','I','C','T'
;param_extension_dictionary label dword
;dd 28
;dict_0_g_lightStates equ 152
;dd 2,152,4, 057F0E99Dh, 04E9C0523h, 0BB12B6BCh, 0063FE72Fh
;param_extension_dictionary_end label dword

Copy these lines over the bounding box entries (needed to increase the size of the bounding box)

bounding_box_riff_start label word
db 'B','B','O','X'
dd bounding_box_riff_end - $ - 4
real4 -100.000, -100.000, -100.000
real4 100.000, 100.000, 100.000
bounding_box_riff_end label word

Thats it for the _temp.asm file so save it.

Open the _temp_0.asm file and locate the BGL_LIGHT entries.
Do the following -

Delete lines starting with AFMSK

Delete lines starting with nolgt_x (x will be a number)

Change the BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV to BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_TAXI

Add IFIN1 nolight, tod, 2, 4 to the start of the block of the code
Add nolight label word to the end before the BGL_RETURN statement

Save the file.

Drag both to your BGCL_9 folder

Run from the command line -
bglc_9.exe _temp.asm mymodel.mdl

There ya go.

If your not bothered about lights on during the day you can use
MdlTweaker II from
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/local_ ... hp?catid=2

Post by **Weescotty** » 26 Mar 2007, 20:04

Example of tweaked _temp_0.asm file

Orig
_temp_RotateAroundX_2 label BGLCODE

; Node 30 - light_nav transform:

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 27

IFMSK nolgt_1, dict_0_g_lightStates, LIGHT_NAV_MASK
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 231
nolgt_1 label BGLCODE

; Node 31 - light_nav transform:

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 28

IFMSK nolgt_2, dict_0_g_lightStates, LIGHT_NAV_MASK
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 232
nolgt_2 label BGLCODE

; Node 32 - light_nav transform:

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 29

IFMSK nolgt_3, dict_0_g_lightStates, LIGHT_NAV_MASK
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 233
nolgt_3 label BGLCODE

; Node 33 - light_nav transform:

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 30

IFMSK nolgt_4, dict_0_g_lightStates, LIGHT_NAV_MASK
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 234
nolgt_4 label BGLCODE
BGL_RETURN

Fixed for lights off during day -
_temp_RotateAroundX_2 label BGLCODE

IFIN1 nolight, tod, 2, 4
BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 27
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_TAXI, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 231

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 28
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_TAXI, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 232

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 29
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_TAXI, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 233

BGL_SET_MATRIX_INDIRECT 30
BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_TAXI, 0.000, -0.000, -0.000, 20, 0.60, 0.40, 0FFFFFFFFh, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 ; source poly num = 234

nolight label word
BGL_RETURN

I am not sure if this works with "Optimize" option checked when you compile the model in FSDS in the earlier step.

Also note - in place of LIGHT_TAXI you can use LIGHT_LAND, LIGHT_NAV, LIGHT_BEACON.
Depends on what you want, I wanted a light cone on the ground.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:13

The control tower at Pope. Complete with guard.

click to enlarge:

Wait a minute, who's that guarding the tower, he looks really familiar?

Post by **btaylo24** » 01 Apr 2007, 05:57

lol

I would recognise those legs anywhere!!!

Barry

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 01 Apr 2007, 07:42

Hey, shouldn't Danny do some MAIW work instead of guarding a tower ?!

Post by **BadPvtDan** » 01 Apr 2007, 12:36

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 01 Apr 2007, 15:34

well, I don't know about have Danny in his skivies gaurding the tower

but the scenery is coming together really nice, nice job guys

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 03 Apr 2007, 05:04

Working on a large C-130 maintenance hangar.

hmi100 · Post by **hmi100** » 06 May 2007, 13:42

Love your work in progress guys!!!!!

Any chance the new Pope C-130 fin flash skin could be added to the package?

I'm unable to upload the jpg for some reason but goto this url to see the new AFRC tail:

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=260146

I'm a retired C-130 nav and currently work at Pope. If I can be of any help, let me know. I can also QC/beta test in FS2004 or FSX.

Cheers,

Hercules Magellan

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 06 May 2007, 16:18

Ahh.....why'd they have to go off and change that on us. Guess a few more skins for Graham to paint.

Check your PM's.

Pope Air Force Base

New Pope C-130 Fin Flash!