Author Topic: Lightning's Tools & Downloads all in one place (Read 10020 times)

lightning · « **on:** February 17, 2008, 02:03:52 AM »

Lightning's Tools & Utilities has a new home! Everything's been moved to my new project space on Assembla, at:

http://www.assembla.com/spaces/lightningstools

AiRdAncE · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2008, 07:13:09 AM »

Golden post ! Stickied !

thebeev · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:31:17 AM »

bnepethomas · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2008, 07:27:27 AM »

magic, ta muchly

mathwasp2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 04, 2009, 11:22:41 PM »

Superb work and so cool to have everything on the site. Problem is I get asked a user name and password? Any help?

magoo · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2009, 02:29:10 AM »

Thank you very much Lightning, a mine of usefull tools, indeed !

rimi · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2009, 05:24:14 AM »

Lightning you're the man

lightning · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2009, 05:32:34 AM »

Quote from: mathwasp2 on February 04, 2009, 11:22:41 PM

Superb work and so cool to have everything on the site. Problem is I get asked a user name and password? Any help?

None of the content is password protected for downloading anyway. Is anyone else having this problem?? It does not ask me for a password from anywhere I've ever tried it from and I just verified again that it does not ask for one. What URL are you accessing that's asking for a password?

white-eagle · « **Reply #8 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:52:14 PM »

David,

I get asked for loginID and password now. Didn't have the problem before.

ANy ideas

lightning · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:57:40 PM »

I ran out of my free 200MB of space on my account on Assembla, just upgraded to a paid account this morning. Looks like it reset the permissions to private at that point but didn't reset them to public afterward. I'll manually update the permissions back to public.

lightning · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2009, 03:30:20 PM »

Site is live again.

Nigel · « **Reply #11 on:** May 20, 2009, 08:47:52 PM »

Dave please let us know what it costs to keep that account and I will be happy to donate.
Nigel

lightning · « **Reply #12 on:** May 20, 2009, 10:34:28 PM »

Oh, it's a whopping $3 per month now for the Pro account...I'm pretty sure that beer funds are sufficient to cover the costs of hosting

white-eagle · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2009, 01:10:27 PM »

Thanks Dave.

TOR · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2009, 01:47:53 PM »

... beer it is then... good efforts mate

GUN

Kukki · « **Reply #15 on:** May 23, 2009, 03:41:50 PM »

As GUN said....Beer inbound

Good work Lightning.

Kukki

Flareless · « **Reply #16 on:** May 24, 2009, 05:31:39 AM »

Great work Lightning! Definitely worth a Frosty!

Feathers · « **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2009, 10:50:55 AM »

Absolutely incredible work. You know if all you guys lived in the same area we could have built a really nice professional simulation company.

Jim

Rabbit · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2010, 02:56:46 AM »

Quote from: lightning on February 17, 2008, 02:03:52 AM

Lightning's Tools & Utilities has a new home! Everything's been moved to my new project space on Assembla, at:

http://www.assembla.com/spaces/lightningstools

Hello the mfd extraxtion rocks but my mfd's wil not work they stay blank, all other instruments work perfectly exept the mfd's
what could be the problem.

?

Taipan · « **Reply #19 on:** April 08, 2010, 03:50:42 AM »

Rabbit
Whats your OS & video card and Falcon version ? Some versions of falcon and some video cards don't do the extraction properly - thats not a limitation of MFDe.
Are the MFD screens placed to the left of the main screen - ie when you look at the display properties, how are the screens arranged ?

Also, are you MFD's running in client only or client server mode ?
t

Rabbit · « **Reply #20 on:** April 08, 2010, 04:34:55 AM »

Quote from: Taipan on April 08, 2010, 03:50:42 AM

Rabbit
Whats your OS & video card and Falcon version ? Some versions of falcon and some video cards don't do the extraction properly - thats not a limitation of MFDe.
Are the MFD screens placed to the left of the main screen - ie when you look at the display properties, how are the screens arranged ?

Also, are you MFD's running in client only or client server mode ?
t

Hello Taipan First, thank you for the quiq respons.
My falcon version is falcon 4.0 allied forces
The pc is a pentium 4 2.3 ghz and 3 gig ext. mem.
The video card is a specialy game card for 3d optics with 2 gig onboard mem.
I had at first the mfd'running in client mode that didnt work but all other istrument did work perfectly
than i tried to run the instuments in server mode bude the problem stayd the same. i alsow tried to let al other instruments run in client mode on the secons pc and the mfd's in servermode onde the server pc alsow the same problem.
Both pc's are exactly the same and in aal options everithing works perfectly except the mfd's thy stay blank.

??

Rabbit · « **Reply #21 on:** April 08, 2010, 04:38:20 AM »

Quote from: Rabbit on April 08, 2010, 04:34:55 AM

Quote from: Taipan on April 08, 2010, 03:50:42 AM
Rabbit
Whats your OS & video card and Falcon version ? Some versions of falcon and some video cards don't do the extraction properly - thats not a limitation of MFDe.
Are the MFD screens placed to the left of the main screen - ie when you look at the display properties, how are the screens arranged ?

Also, are you MFD's running in client only or client server mode ?
t
Hello Taipan First, thank you for the quiq respons.
My falcon version is falcon 4.0 allied forces
The pc is a pentium 4 2.3 ghz and 3 gig ext. mem.
The video card is a specialy game card for 3d optics with 2 gig onboard mem.
I had at first the mfd'running in client mode that didnt work but all other istrument did work perfectly
than i tried to run the instuments in server mode bude the problem stayd the same. i alsow tried to let al other instruments run in client mode on the secons pc and the mfd's in servermode onde the server pc alsow the same problem.
Both pc's are exactly the same and in aal options everithing works perfectly except the mfd's thy stay blank.??
The screens are in 1024x768
What do you meen by the left of the main screen??
Both pc's are with two screens!!

Taipan · « **Reply #22 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:08:00 AM »

ok, do you know if you're running MFDe in 2D or 3D mode ?

I don't believe Allied Force will support 3D mode because it does not provide access to the exported textures that the MFD's use in 3D mode.

Also, some video cards, regardless of the amount of vide ram they claim to have, will steal/shadow conventional RAM. I think you can check this by right clicking on your desktop and selecting properties, display & advanced settings. Sorry I don't have XP so I can't recall the sequence. Somewhere in the advanced properties you can find available ram and onboard ram - please be careful because there may be a difference.

Regarding "the left of screen".... When you go into your display properties, you will see your default screen displayed, that is the one you run falcon on, but you should also see the one you run MFDe on. They should be moved over to the left of the main game screen... ( actually you need to play with this because I can't remember if the MFDe screens go to the left or right )

There is a long thread about mfd extractor, and I have heaps of posts in there - well worth a read
thanks
t

lightning · « **Reply #23 on:** April 08, 2010, 03:23:00 PM »

Can a moderator move this latest stuff over to the MFDE thread, please?

Rabbit,

In MFDE's 2D capture mode (which works with all F4 versions), you have to provide MFDE with the screen coordinates of the rectangles that you want MFDE to capture and use as the MFD images. Sounds like you have not configured these.

To use MFDE's 3D extraction mode, you have to be using OpenFalcon, and you have to have a video card that supports rendering to textures in non-local video memory. Not all cards support this. You also will need to copy the Direct3D proxy DLLs that ship with MFDE (they're installed in the MFDE installation folder) into your OpenFalcon folder. As Taipan said, 3D extraction mode does not work with Allied Force.

Rabbit · « **Reply #24 on:** April 13, 2010, 02:12:23 AM »

Quote from: lightning on April 08, 2010, 03:23:00 PM

Can a moderator move this latest stuff over to the MFDE thread, please?

Rabbit,

In MFDE's 2D capture mode (which works with all F4 versions), you have to provide MFDE with the screen coordinates of the rectangles that you want MFDE to capture and use as the MFD images. Sounds like you have not configured these.

To use MFDE's 3D extraction mode, you have to be using OpenFalcon, and you have to have a video card that supports rendering to textures in non-local video memory. Not all cards support this. You also will need to copy the Direct3D proxy DLLs that ship with MFDE (they're installed in the MFDE installation folder) into your OpenFalcon folder. As Taipan said, 3D extraction mode does not work with Allied Force.

Thanks if got it working it was the network connection that made the problem.
Thank you for the respons

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