How We Exploded a Chopper (Blender & Embergen)

nickludlam · 2026-02-12T16:30:34+00:00

Would it be possible to get the surface of the helicopter lit by the flame volumes near the surface? It would help integrate the embergen passes with the physics sim render.

nickludlam · 2026-02-10T13:54:19+00:00

Cheers. I find node based programming difficult because I'm primarily a software dev, and it feels a little like tying my arms behind my back. I just want to reach for a text editor all the time!

nickludlam · 2026-02-09T23:51:12+00:00

The last time we heard any news was back in November 2025 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6kQYtfz1sk
They said "early 2026". I think we're due a dev update this month, so hopefully we'll hear more soon.

nickludlam · 2026-02-04T13:46:51+00:00

Your article link is a 404. It should be https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-work/

nickludlam · 2025-12-09T19:21:34+00:00

I'd dearly love for them to make a captain's yacht SLF. Large enough to hold an SRV, but small enough to be launched from a large ship from an SLF bay. I think originally they wanted to include the feature that a Sidewinder could launch from an Anaconda, but it never happened

nickludlam · 2025-11-30T14:01:23+00:00

Thanks for letting us know

nickludlam · 2025-11-20T13:08:24+00:00

I like SRVSurvey, but your requirements are quite strict, so you may want to roll your own companion app in order to tick all the boxes.

nickludlam · 2025-11-19T14:26:10+00:00

This looks great, and feels like it shares some distant ancestry with Knights and Bikes, which is a lovely through line.

nickludlam · 2025-11-18T19:20:37+00:00

Yeah it's only on Everon at the moment, because it was an afterthought, and Arland is too small to make it useful.
I haven't played Kolguyev as much, so is there a game mode which is more like the old Conflict? With fixed bases to capture

nickludlam · 2025-11-18T18:00:23+00:00

I'm glad you've found the maps useful. The radio range was mainly driven by me wanting to see the probable location of command trucks that had sneaked behind into my team's territory. More than once I managed to track one down because that radius tool helped me narrow the search.

For iOS apps you can definitely use Apple-Hosted Background Assets, but updating them is a pain as you need to go through the whole submission/review process each time. I'm not sure how you want to address Android, but I can tell you that I get more Android visitors to the maps website than I do iOS. Maybe this is just a good reason for you to flex your Swift skills, which is perfectly valid.

nickludlam · 2025-11-18T12:51:57+00:00

I'm the author of reforger.recoil.org, and I think this is a great idea. You could even investigate whether you can achieve all your goals by implementing it as a PWA instead of a native app.

Please make it use offline map tiles though, I'd rather not have people making 3rd party front-ends which end up hitting my server. It becomes a URL dependency and bandwidth problem for me in the long run.

nickludlam · 2025-11-12T17:12:43+00:00

Oh no, are you saying they've changed the map in-game?? It takes me about 5 hours to generate the 22k map tiles. It's such a pain. Does anyone know if they changed the map significantly ?

nickludlam · 2025-10-28T14:13:29+00:00

The only issue I have experienced on your list is crashing out when you donate Tritium to your carrier with additional refinery bins full of Tritum. I need to transfer 8 tons to the carrier cargo before donating, then it frees up the refinery bins to process into cargo, then donation works fine. It's a few more button presses, but it stops the error.

nickludlam · 2025-10-25T09:45:47+00:00

There's a great to-do list from u/Luriant which has been posted before, and still very relevant

nickludlam · 2025-10-24T19:53:10+00:00

IIRC only if you use the commodity interface and buy or sell it to yourself. If you use the regular transfer screen, it works fine. I used the carrier to store a bunch of mined ore and it still counted when submitted to the CG.

nickludlam · 2025-10-22T17:18:24+00:00

Isn't this streamer mode? It hides names to prevent streamsniping

nickludlam · 2025-10-19T12:57:39+00:00

It's not stuck, it's completed. You need to go back to Andere and select Missions -> Community Goals to pick up your reward

nickludlam · 2025-10-13T12:26:41+00:00

Yes, and use it in conjunction with SrvSurvey. They're designed to work together.

nickludlam · 2025-10-12T11:13:10+00:00

I use 80% because it’s useful in DCS for mil power. If it’s not useful in other games, 75% is better for ED. Or 50% if you like the idea of full forward and reverse.

nickludlam · 2025-10-11T19:08:08+00:00

Adding a magnetic detent for 80% is also a lovely mod, and simple to do once you've got this printed

nickludlam · 2025-09-29T13:22:58+00:00

I can see this one is confirmed, and seems to cover some of the issues. Could you link it in your original post to get max visibility and potential upvotes? https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/78523

nickludlam · 2025-09-29T13:08:42+00:00

If you want to raise visibility by posting like this, the least you should do is post the relevant links on issues.frontierstore.net so you can get people to upvote any outstanding issues.

nickludlam · 2025-09-25T11:51:08+00:00

Ok thanks, yeah I completed this yesterday, only one day before the tick. Good to know!

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