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Title: Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Cheo on 27 Jul 2005, 16:11:28

Hi all.
It would be great to make an addon involving paragliding and hang gliding units. The thing is, it should be actually a mod since real physics is needed. But the possibilities would be huge:

- New Special Operations mission (I'm not in the military, but I know some countries use them).

- Championships: Based on real (CrossCountry, Routes with Beacons, etc.) In MP.

- Free Roam: Just for fun.

It needs real physics: paraglider fall rate, heading and speed; wind direction and speed; angle, length and height of hills and cliffs for take off and soaring purposes; different surface temperatures depending on terrain type (grass, forest, towns, sown fields, etc) for thermals purposes; air humidity and temperature for thermals purposes.

I'm just starting scripting (not coding), so for me it's quite overwhelming. If anyone is interested and want to work on it, let me know.

May the thermals be with you.  :)

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: oyman on 27 Jul 2005, 19:15:23

i think i remember a paragliding unit for download from ofp.info a long time ago ;)

so search around ofp.info

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: greg147 on 27 Jul 2005, 20:32:51

There is one there, but the download link is broken  :P

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Blanco on 31 Jul 2005, 09:41:59

http://users.telenet.be/blanco/deltaplane.rar (7days only)

Here you go, a deltaplane.
I love that addon, it even has it's own animations.

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- Championships: Based on real (CrossCountry, Routes with Beacons, etc.

I always wanted to make one, but I couldn't find the beacons.

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Cheo on 01 Aug 2005, 00:52:52

For an unknown reason I can't use your link (waiting forever while connecting).
Anyway I appreciate your interest.

 :)

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Blanco on 01 Aug 2005, 01:45:44

Yeah, there some probs with my provider atm
Try it tommorow

*edit*
It should work now

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: greg147 on 01 Aug 2005, 09:29:51

Worked for me yesterday.  ;)
Its a pretty cool hanglider. Anamations are a nice touch. I'm suprised I hadn't seen this before.

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Cheo on 01 Aug 2005, 12:55:20

Got it.  :D
First impression was good (excitement). After trying under different conditions i found out that:

1. You can fly like a plane as long as you have fuel  ??? (I want to glide :'()

2. In order to glide you need the fuel to run out, which takes quite a while)

3. If you start with no fuel, you can't take off  >:(

4. When no fuel, flight feelings are more realistic  :D

Let's try and find out things.

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: frazbo on 13 Aug 2005, 23:36:02

why not just set the unit special to flying with no fuel

Title: Re:Hang glinding and Paragliding
Post by: Che on 16 Aug 2005, 09:42:03

Quote from: frazbo on 13 Aug 2005, 23:36:02

why not just set the unit special to flying with no fuel

How is that?