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Parabellum

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  1. it's worth noting they are currently very close to putting a vaccine into testing, as far as I'm aware.

    it's amazing how the world is always overshadowed by bad news, and never good news, it's no wonder that depression will be the number 1 cause of death and severe disability by 2020.

    anyway, that's my 2 pennies worth, I don't think ebola is anything to really get our knickers in a twist about. at risk of going perhaps too political, I'll stop here ;)

    The threat of Ebola is absolutely something about which you should be concerned and to which you should be paying attention. The potential for widespread infection is secondary to the potential for widespread panic and all that accompanies it, if and when the virus takes hold in the West.

  2. I spent 6 hours trying to fix bad weights in a custom model's arm today...

    and i'm glad to report! It's still not working.

    pardon my french, but oxygen 2 is the biggest piece of unintuitive ###### i've ever had the displeasure of using!

    half tempted to give up and tell the people on the bis forums where to stick their custom character models, i've got bigger things to worry about!

    No kidding ... sometimes, I feel that if Oxygen were a piece of hardware rather than hardware, then it'd make a great paperweight. :) But as Wombat suggested, maybe make a text document of what you've done and what you've tried.

    Then, take a break from it for a few days. :)

    Also, there are tools to import content from Maya and (possibly) 3DS Max to Oxygen. I've never used them, so take this with a grain of salt, but it may be possible to weight your models in Maya and/or Max, and export them to Oxygen, already weighted.

  3. Wait until you meet Foxhound. He's extremely helpful to new members and NEVER gets ###### off when a new guy who has trouble understanding English doesn't understand that his first post about a serious issue he has with his game has to be in forum 142 section 53 page 45 instead of page 44. lol

    I see what you did there. Your sarcasm is full of win, sir. Full of win.

  4. Looking good, Alex!

    PS - Don't let the people on the BIS forums get you down; I never go there, because the community there is dominated by self-important jackwagons who think they're God's gift to gaming, and ruled by forum nazis. Good luck over there. :)

  5. In order to change a unit's side (faction is a separate beast altogether), you need to use the 'side' entry in your config file. For instance, side = 0; will set the unit to OPFOR. Acceptable values for units and vehicles are 0, 1, 2 and 3 for OPFOR, BLUFOR, INDFOR and Civilian respectively. Also, I use Notepad ++ w/ an SQF plugin. You can find the plugin on Armaholic. It makes things much easier when editing configuration files, rvmats or scripts. BI's tools are, for me at least, the last choice.

  6. I have a pair of Presonus Eris E4.5's that I love. They sound phenomenal, and as near-field monitors, room treatment isn't as necessary as it would be for larger speakers. (That said, that my room is treated) I use them in conjunction with a subwoofer, as the Eris 4.5's frequency response rolls off below about 70 Hz. A pair of Eris E8's would be my next upgrade, but at $500/pair, I can't afford them.

  7. 85 degrees F isn't that hot at all,

    I made the mistake of going hiking this morning. It was cool and cloudy with a nice breeze, but about an hour later it was 102.9 degrees. We were exhausted by the time we made it back. When you live here, 85 degrees is nothing :P

    Dude, I thought Florida was hot, until I went to Texas a couple summers ago. Sure, it's 98 F and 90% humidity here, and it feels like a sauna, but I'll take that any day to walking around in the oven that is Texas.

  8. Surely, there must be more to this story than several young studs dying in mildly warm weather.

    As Hammer said Para, you might not think that's hot, but by U.K. standards and especially in Brecon, this July has been very hot. Great for tourism, but bad for squaddies in training and on exercise, especially selection. They carry one water bottle and puri' tab's. Not all RV's have water to hand out. Typically those that do are road level. Two man RV's on the hills won't be taking water with them. They've enough to carry. In fact, the medics/ambulance are road level too. Once you're walking, water's mainly sourced from streams and hit with a puri' tab', and that's all you need. I'm sure you know Para, heatstroke, like hypothermia, comes on quick and if you're on your own, that compounds the danger. Heatstroke, all three of them I'd say.

    One major advantage of doing the walking phase in summer, is daylight. There's lots more of it. Walking and navigating at night is a slower affair, and you're up against the clock. 3K an hour across map. Brecon's more known for temperamental and foul weather resulting in death and injury as a result of the cold. I got frost nip on some of my toes and two of my fingers. It lasted for a few years.

    If I was a civvie hiker there on the day, and some squaddie had asked me for water, I'd have shared. But I bet his directive staff would have given him more than a hard time if they'd have found out.

    Who cheats wins.

    DS

    Good points, DS. Heatstroke is a killer, for sure. Your reference to the lads carrying only a small amount of water is what makes me think their unfortunate deaths are due less to the heat itself, and more to dehydration. Pity the lads don't carry more water; that alone will kill even the bravest of men.

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