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STUNT

ISLAND

THE STUNT FLYING AND FILMING SIMULATION

HANDBOOK

Introduction

Stunt Island - The Place

In the spring of 1986, one of the movie industry’s most important deals was being struck. But this deal included no actors, no screenplay, and no director. Just an island.

Stunt Island was purchased in a joint venture of the major movie studios, Located off the coast of Southern California,

the island would provide a private place specializing in the filming of high-risk stunts.

Stunt Island- The Program

Stunt Island, the program, is entertainment software that recreates the activities of Stunt Island, the place.

You’ll have the opportunity to enter the world of film production as a stunt pilot, editor, director, and/or set designer

(you can participate in as few or as many of these activities as you want). No other program has this range of activities set behind the scenes of Hollywood.

During the past decade, obtaining permits to perform stunts in public areas became an increasingly difficult task for the film studios, Because stunts had evolved into sophisticated,

extravagant, and incendiary productions tracks blowing up, airplanes crash-landing in congested areas, multiple car crashes in crowded streets - the pre-filming logistics of acquiring a location and acceptable film time were becoming just as difficult as filming the stunt itself.

Having a private place tailored to handle high-risk activities would allow the movie studios the opportunity to invest valu-

able time work - into more critical stunt production issues.

otherwise spent on pre-production administrative

entire housing

Stunt Island is the worlds first and only stunt haven. If a stunt needs to be done, the only limitations are talent, imagination, and physics.

Introduction

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: About Stunt Island

Your Career Opportunities

on Stunt Island.. ................................

About This Handbook.. About Your Mouse, Joystick,

or Keyboard

The Movie Production Process .............. .

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Chapter 2: Setting up the Program ......

Equipment You’ll Need

Installing Stunt Island ........................ .12

Changing the Setup Starting Stunt Island

Exiting Stunt Island.. ........................... .17

The Places on Stunt Island.. ................ .18

Input Devices Used in Stunt Island......2 0

Selecting an Changing Numbers

Selecting an Item From a List Joystick Users..

Joystick Calibration Screen ............ .22

Save and Load File Requesters

............................. .14

............................ .14

Onscreen

.................................

Chapter 3: Aircraft Checkout Procedures..

Aircraft vs. Airplane.. Aircraft Availability

Onscreen Gauges..

Flying Stunt Island Aircraft................

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.11

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Option .........20

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..3 0

Flight

Controls..

Neutral Position of Control Stick....3

Pitch.. .............................................. .31

Roll

................................................... 32

Yaw..

................................................. 32

Using the Rudder Using the Ailerons

Engine Power Controls..

Taking Off and Landing ...................... .34

Taking Off ....................................... .34

Using Flaps for Takeoff. ................. .34

Landing Landing on a Runway..

Ending Flight Without Landing......3 6

Autopilot.. ............................................ .36

Crashing or Ejecting.. ........................... 36

Weapons Use

Dropping Bombs..

Aircraft Views Keyboard Keys Available

During Flight .................................. .38

Tips on Successful Flying.................... .39

Recording During Flying Preferences Window

........................................... .35

Chapter 4: Stunt Pilot of the Year Contest..

The Contest Getting Stunt Assignments..

Payoffs and Penalties

on Stunt Performance..

Camera Crew

............................... 30

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Stunt Island Hall of Fame..................... 46

Competitors Leaving Stunt Island ......

The Stunt Assignments.. Stunt Assignment Clues

....................... 47

....................... 57

Chapter 5: Production: Set Creation and Filming

Creating Sets Island View Window

and It’s Options

Prop Window and Its Options .............62

How to Select Your Stunt Aircraft........6 6

How to Place a Prop How to Move a Prop How to Delete a Prop Special Prop Controls

The Adjust Window ......................

How to Fine Tune a Prop..................... 73

How to Animate a Prop

Animating a Still Prop .................... .75

Animating a Dynamic Prop

Having More Than One

Stunt Aircraft How to Set Up Cameras

The Watch (WTCH) Option ................ 79

Adjust Screen

“Programming” Options

Saving and Loading Sets

Creating New Sets

How to Film a Stunt Leaving the Production Building

Questions and Answers..

............................................ 59

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Table of Contents

Special Events

Option .............................................. 89

AND

Qualifier.. .................................... .90

THEN

Option ...................................... .92

Setting and Using Flags

Collision Windows., ...........................

Setting the Recording Features

Auto-Edited Films ............................... .99

Dissecting Stunt Sets for Success..

Chapter 7: Tutorial: Creating Sets

and Events

Contest Scene

Designing the Setting Up the Cameras.. Parked Vehicles

Collision Windows., .......................... ,112

Animating the Police Car

................................ .87

....................... .95

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.................................... ,103

Set............................... .103

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..9 6 ..9 7

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..l0

103

107

Chapter 8: Post-Production:

Chapter 6: Setting Up

Editing and Special Effects 123

Editing Film Footage 124

Source Deck vs.

Destination Deck

Marking Footage: The

Cornerstone to Editing . . . . . . . . 128

Editing “On The Fly” 129 Recording From the Source Deck to

Destination Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Marking and Copying a

Single Frame . . . . . . . 130

Inserting Footage on the

...........

126

Destination Deck ........ 131

Deleting Footage from the

Destination Deck . . . . . . . . . .

Incorporating Visual Effects . ......... 132

Incorporating Music and

Sound Effects . . . . . . .

Saving Edited Footage 136 Leaving the Editing Room Maximum Film Values Incorporating Your

Own Sound Files Previewing Films to

Other PC Owners . .

Chapter 9: Tutorial: Editing a

Loading the Highway Take Editing the Footage Inserting Audio and Visual Effects

Chapter

10:

Industry

............................ 142

History and Insight . .

Stunt Flying History . . . .

The

Film Industry

A Conversation with

Chris Howell, Stunt Coordinator 154

148

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...

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137

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Film......14 1

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132

134

136

138

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,144

147

Appendices

Appendix A: Aerodynamic Forces 157 Appendix

Appendix C: Helpful Information and

Appendix D: Disney Software

Stunt Island

Permanent Locations

Troubleshooting Guide

...........

159

160

Customer Service

Appendix E: List of Files Installed

Stunt Island 172

Appendix F: Keyboard Keys 176

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167

Index 178

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

About Stunt Island

Your Career Opportunities on Stunt Island

You can do as much or as little as you want on Stunt Island:

Be an apprentice stunt pilot. Fly stunts without entering the contest or doing film work.

Prove yourself the hottest stunt pilot by winning the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest and ha

Create films without having to fly. Take pre-shot footage and edit it any way

you like.

Design your own sets. You have dozens of locations and hundreds of props to choose from.

Become a stunt coordinator. Plan your own stunts from start to finish.

Do it all - design, fly, and film your own stunts.

ve the newly finished airfield named after you.

About This Handbook

Although reading this handbook will give you a clearer understanding of Stunt

Island, you can also learn how to use the program through the time-honored method of trial and error. Almost all the options are available by moving the pointer on them and then selecting them. If you want to get into the program and sample it on your own, read Chapter 2 for details on how to install the program and controls

you can use; then check out the island. If you get stuck, just refer to the index or

the table of contents to look up answers.

Chapter 1

About Stunt Island

If you prefer a more organized approach, read through this handbook. You’ll get the complete details on Stunt Island.

This Can Be a Complicated Program.. .

If you try to set up, film, and edit a stunt right after you’ve loaded this program for the first time, you can make this one of the hardest programs in the world to understand. The more advanced stunts just aren’t easy to create. But the more complicated aspects of Stunt Island also provide its depth, making this program one that’s endlessly playable.

Step 2. When you’re ready to enter the competition for the first time, go ahead. But we still recommend answering No to doing

your own editing. As a pilot, focus on the competition and leave

the technicalities of editing to the post-production staff.

Step 3. If you’ve done the competition, or have no plans to enter it, go on to set designing and editing (answer Yes to, “Do you want to do your own editing?“). Learn to place props and animate them. Then try flying and filming with the sets that

you’ve made. When that’s done, practice editing the film.

. . .When It Happens to Be a Simple One

If you approach Stunt Island one segment at a time, it’s simple to learn and master. The outline below is the way we recommend you familiarize yourself with Stunt Island. It will keep you from being overwhelmed by the many features of the program.

Step 1. When you start the game, you’re asked, “Are you going to be in the competition.?" Select No. Enter the competition later, after you’ve put in some flying time. You’ll take away a lot of the frustration if you can fly without contest pressures and

penalties.

Practice flying. Check out each of the planes and get a feel for

their individual flight characteristics. Learn to read the gauges

and control the points-of-view.

When you’re asked, “Do you want to do your own editing?” select No. When you select No, your films will be automatically edited for you.

Chapter 1 About Stunt Island

Step 4. The most complicated thing you can do is create your own stunts. Stunt Island gives you the tools to become a stunt coordinator, letting you build stunts just like those used in the Stunt

Pilot of the Year contest. These stunts have specific goals that you outline as “must-do” in order for this stunt to be a success.

Chapters 5 and 6 explain how you can create your own stunts.

About Your Mouse, Joystick, or Keyboard

You can use your mouse, joystick or keyboard to control the program. Because there are three devices to input information with, they’re often referred to under the generic term of “input device” or “control stick.” Wherever you see “input device” or

“control stick” in the handbook, we’re referring to your mouse,

joystick or keyboard

For added reading ease, we use “select click a mouse or joystick button, or press Enter on the keyboard to choose an option. Your

whichever you’re using.

when you need to

onscreen

pointer tturns into cross

hairs + when it’s positioned on something that can be

selected. If the pointer doesn’t turn into cross hairs, the onscreen

item can’t be selected.

Check the section called “Input Devices Used in Stunt Island”

in Chapter 2 to learn more about how each input device works

The Movie Production Process

The movie making process has three important development phases: 1) pre-production, 2) production, and 3) post-production.

Pre-production involves such aspects as scriptwriting, casting, director selection, etc.

Pre-production elements and issues need to be determined before filming can begin.

Production covers the actual movie making process. You select the plane, props, and camera angles that will be used, and then you film the stunt sequence.

Post-production includes the work that needs to be done once all the film has been shot: editing the film, adding special effects, sound and credits, viewing the edited film in the theatre, etc.

In the Stunt Island program, you’ll mainly focus on production and post-production work. The only pre-production decision

you’ll need to make is deciding whether you’ll fly, set design,

stunt coordinate, edit, or do any combination of these jobs.

Chapter 1 About Stunt Island

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CHAPTER 2

Setting Up The

Program

Equipment You’ll Need

To use the Stunt Island software, you must have: +

IBM or 100% compatible; 386SX with 16 MHz processor or better required; 386DX with 33 MHz processor or faster strongly recommended

640K of total RAM (random access memory); need 570K of free RAM;

additional RAM memory strongly recommended + VGA 256-color and color monitor + PC-DOS/MS-DOS; supports 3.3 to 5.0

3.5” high density (1.44 MB) or 5.25” high density (1.2 MB) disk drive

+ +

Hard disk drive (requires 13 MB of free disk space)

The following equipment is optional:

Joystick

Mouse with 100% Microsoft compatible driver

The Sound Source, Sound Blaster, Thunder Board, Tandy Sound (DAC) or

PS/1 Audio Card

AdLib or Roland MT32/LAPC-1 Expanded or extended memory (for details on expanded or extended

memory, see Appendix C)

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Installing Stunt Island

Stunt Island comes with an Install program that guides you through the install process.

music device and then press Enter to accept. Press Esc to

l0-key

cancel. (If you’re using a

pad, make sure the Num

Lock key is off.)

Stunt Island must be installed onto a hard disk drive. It cannot

be played from floppy disks.

Note: To use a Thunder Board or other Sound Blaster

compatible card, choose the Sound Blaster option.

In the following instructions we refer to your computer’s floppy disk drive as the A: drive and the hard disk drive as the C: drive. If your floppy or hard disk drive is something other than drive A: or C:, substitute A: or C: with the correct drive letter(s).

Insert Stunt Island Disk 1 in drive A:. Change to the A: drive by typing

and pressing Enter. Type

INSTALL

and

press Enter.

2. A screen stating “This Program installs files onto your hard disk and lets our program know about your equipment

4. The Drive Letter screen appears. If there are any partitions on

configuration” should appear. Press Enter to continue.

Note: During the install process, you can press Esc to back up a step or to abort the Install program.

3. The Setup screen appears. You will see that an input device, a sound device, and a music device have been selected this is what the Install program automatically detected.

Note: The Install program notifies you if your computer does not have enough hard disk space and/or memory to install or run Stunt Island. At this point you may want to exit the Install

If you want to change an option, press the up or down arrow keys to highlight the option and press Enter. Use the up and down arrow keys to select an input, sound, or

program and make any changes to free up memory or hard disk drive space. If this screen appears due to lack of hard disk space, you can go back to the Drive Letter screen and select

If the Install program cannot detect the option you selected, you will see a warning message. If you select the option anyway, the Stunt Island program may “freeze” when you start it, requiring you to restart your computer and go through the setup process explained in the next section.

Once you’ve selected the appropriate options for your

computer’s current configuration, select

above configuration

and press Enter.

Install with the

your hard drive, or if you have more than one hard drive,

the Install program will identify them and ask you to select the drive on which you want to install Stunt Island. If there

are no partitions on your hard drive, the program will choose

drive C and go directly to the Destination Path screen.

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Setting

Up The Program

another driver if you have other partitions. (See Appendix C for tips on handling memory problems.)

The Destination Path screen appears. The default subdirec-

tory selected for Stunt Island is \STUNTISL. To change the subdirectory name, press the Delete key to delete

STUNTISL; then type the new subdirectory name you want to use (up to 8 characters). Be sure to include the \ (backslash) at the beginning of the subdirectory name.

The other box on the screen, System Information, shows hard disk space and memory usage. You’re shown the amount currently used, the amount used by the Stunt

Island program, and what is left of both after installation. The amount of conventional memory used is only during the use of Stunt Island.

Press Enter to accept the subdirectory name and begin the

copying process. You will see a Copy Status screen which visually tracks the copying progress. You will be prompted to insert new disks when necessary.

The Installation Complete screen appears when the instal-

lation process is finished. Press Enter at this screen and you’ll go to the directory where you installed the program; you can then type STUNT to start the program.

(See the section “Starting Stunt Island for complete details.)

Put your original disks in a safe, clean place in case you ever need to reinstall the program.

A-lO Thunderbolt

Manufacturer: ........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed:

Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

......................................

Retractable landing gear:

........................

............................

...................

.................

........ Yes

.Grumman Corporation

138 m.p.h. ,115 m.p.h. .439 m.p.h. ,45,000 feet

Yes

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Changing The Setup

Once you’ve performed the initial installation, you can change the setup at any time. Maybe you’ve just purchased The Sound Source to use with your computer, or maybe you just want to make sure the PC speaker sounds are off.

Starting Stunt Island

1. To start the program, go to the Stunt Island subdirectory.

For instance, if you used the default STUNTISL subdirectory in the Install program, you would type

press Enter.

CD\

STUNTISL

and

To change the setup, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Stunt Island subdirectory. For instance, if you accepted the default \STUNTISL subdirectory when you installed the program, you would type and press Enter. Then type You must type the question mark (preceded by a space) after STUNT or you will not get the screen that lets you make changes.

2. The Setup screen appears. To change the input, sound, or music option, press the up or down arrow keys to highlight the option you want and press Enter. Using the up and down arrow keys, select a different input, sound, or music option and then press Enter to accept. Press Esc to cancel. (If you’re using a 10-key pad, make sure the Num Lock key is off.)

3. Once you’ve made the changes you want, select

with the above configuration

program will save the new configuration. The Setup process is complete and the game will start with the new

options.

STUNT

and press Enter. The Setup

CD \STUNTISL

? and press Enter.

Install

2. Type STUNT and press Enter.

If your screen goes blank, reboot the computer and run the Setup program as explained in the previous section, making sure to select the correct input, sound, and music options for your computer setup. If you still have problems with loading the program, please see Appendix C.

3. As the program loads you may see “Caching data extended [or expanded] memory.” The program is setting up available extended or expanded memory for use with Stunt Island. You will only see this screen if you have extended or expanded memory. Stunt Island works equally well with both of (but not both).

4. The Introduction film appears. If you want to bypass this film, click the mouse or joystick button or press any key.

it will use whichever you have the most

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Welcome to Stunt Island!

When you first arrive at Stunt Island, you’re dropped off in front of the production building.

Joystick users:

Island and you’re using a joystick, the first thing you see is the

Joystick Calibration screen. Follow the

If you need details on this screen, see page 22.

Next, you may be asked to answer a question about a particular aircraft. Locate the aircraft in this handbook by using the index. Go to the page indicated to find the answer. Type in the answer and press Enter. If you answer the question correctly, the game will begin. If you answer it incorrectly, you’re

returned to the DOS prompt. Type

try again.

You’re asked, “Do you want to be in the competition?”

NO:

If you select No, a pilot will not be set up for you. Also,

If this is the first time you’ve loaded Stunt

onscreen

STUNT

instructions.

and press Enter to

A-E

lntruder

Manufacturer* Take-off Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . .

...... .......

speed:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,400 feet

. . ........................

Retractable landing gear:

. .

..Grumman Corporation

m.p.h. m.p.h.

Yes

. . . . . .

..Yes

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the competition standing screens will not appear in the game.

YES: Selecting Yes lets you see the competition standings in

the game. All stunts you fly (those offered by the stunt coordinator) count towards your total pilot score.

When you select Yes, you’re asked, “Is this your first time here or are you an old timer?”

Next, you’re asked, “Are you going to do your own editing?”

If you’re new, use your input device and select “I’m new to

the island.” Type in your name and press Enter. Then choose a nickname by positioning the cursor on the down

arrow next to Nickname and then clicking the mouse or

joystick button or pressing the Enter key. Highlight a

nickname and then click a button or press the Enter key

to select it.

If the nickname is currently being used, you’re asked if you want to replace the current pilot, Up to 17 separate characters can be tracked by the program (one for each nickname).

NO: If you select No, after you complete a stunt you’ll go to

the theatre to view the automatically edited film. If you’re new to Stunt Island, we recommend you select No so the films will

-,-.

If you’re

been here before.” Then select your name from the list and then select OK. You’re then asked to confirm your nickname. If your name isn’t on the list, select “I’m Not Listed” so you can enter your name.

old timer, use your input device to select “I’ve

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be edited for you.

Selecting No does not mean you will be barred from the editing room. The program will just bypass the editing room after you’ve flown your stunt since the program assumes you won’t want to edit. You can still go to the editing room if you want. (You can change this option at any time by bringing up the Preferences window. See page 40 for details,)

YES: If you select Yes, the films you create will not be auto-

matically edited for you. You can go to the editing room at any time to put your own films together.

Exiting Stunt Island

To exit the program, select the signs that say Ferry or Leave On Ferry.

If you’re not in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest, you can press

Ctrl-Esc at any time to go immediately to DOS. Make sure you don’t press Ctrl-Esc before you’ve had a chance to save the files you’re working on (like sets, takes, or films), otherwise you will lose your current work.

Competitors who entered the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest should leave on the ferry or else their accomplishments will not

be saved. When you’re leaving on the ferry, you’re asked, “Do

you want to end this game?” Select Yes or No. If you choose Yes, you’re then asked, “Do you want to save your Pilot?” Be sure to select Yes so your achievements are recorded. If you

B-2 Stealth Bomber

Manufacturer: Take-off speed:

Stall speed: ..........................

Maximum speed: ................... ,627 m.p.h.

Maximum altitude: .................

Flaps: ......................................

Retractable landing gear:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Northrop

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

m.p.h.

...11 7 m.p.h.

.50,290

feet

Yes

........

Yes

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select No, everything you’ve done in this last session of play will

Airfield - All the planes are kept here. You can select the

not be recorded. Finally, you’re asked, “Do you want to start a

new game?” Select Yes to start a new game or No to see the Exit

screens and return to DOS.

plane in the hangar to get a list of planes to scout locations

with.

If you want to start a new game with a new character, answer Yes to

“Do

you want to start a new game?” You’ll go to the start of the program where you can enter a new name and choose a new nickname.

The Places on Stunt Island

Stunt Island has five important places:

Housing or Cabin 273 - This is the place you’ll call home

during your stay. The housing sign takes you to the outside of your cabin, while the Cabin 273 sign takes you inside.

Production Building - This is where you’ll go to get stunt

assignments, or design sets and create stunts of your own.

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Post-Production Building - This houses all the equipment

needed to edit a film.

Ferry Harbor - This is the departure point for all Stunt

Island guests and employees.

All the Stunt Island locations are clearly marked with the following signs. Select the sign to go to that location.

Housing or Cabin 273 - Come here to check your ledger,

phone messages, and the daily standings. Select Housing to get

to the outside of your cabin and select Cabin 273 to go inside.

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Beechcraft

Bonanza V-35

Manufacturer.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beech Aircraft Corp.

Take-off

speed:.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Stall speed: Maximum speed, Maximum altitude, Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

.., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,858 feet

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Retractable landing gear:

m.p.h. m.p.h.

....

Yes

. . . . . . . . Yes

The Ledger and Daily Standings only open if you’ve entered the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest. The Ledger shows the money you received for the stunts you’ve done, and how many takes it took to complete each stunt. The Daily Standing shows the the point standings of the pilots in the contest. There will also be phone messages on your answering machine to listen to.

To exit the cabin, select the keys on the desk.

AIRFIELD - Takes you to the airfield where you can fly a variety of aircraft.

PRODUCTION or PROD - Takes you to the production

building where you can get assignments from the stunt

coordinator or go to Set Design where you can select a film

location and set up props and cameras.

STUNT COORD - Takes you directly to the stunt coordinator’s office in the production building.

POST-PROD - Takes you to the post-production building where you can edit and view film footage.

When outside the post-production building, you have immediate access to these areas:

EDITING - Takes you directly to the editing room in the post production building.

THEATRE - Takes you directly to the theatre in post production so you can view film footage.

FERRY Stunt Island. Select Leave On Ferry to exit. If you entered

the Pilot of the Year competition, you must exit on the ferry or all that you’ve done in this game play session will not be saved.

EXIT room, building, etc.

Input Devices Used in Stunt Island

You can use a mouse, joystick, or the keyboard to control the

game.

Takes you back to the ferry so you can leave

Select Exit anytime you want to exit a screen,

When outside the production building, you have immediate access to these offices:

SET DESIGN

the production building.

Takes you directly to the set design room in

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Selecting an Onscreen Option

onscreen

Your

it’s positioned on something that can be selected. If the pointer doesn’t turn into cross hairs, the onscreen item cannot be selected.

pointer tturns into cross hairs + when

To select an option: Mouse users - Roll the mouse until the pointer is on the option

you want and then click either mouse button to select it.

Joystick users - Move the joystick until the pointer is on the

option you want and then click either joystick button to select it. Keyboard users - Press the up, down, left or right arrow keys

until the pointer is on the option you want and then press Enter to select it.

As you’re reading the instructions throughout the handbook, you’ll

notice that there are many references to Mouse users - Button 1 is the left button. Button 2 is the right

button.

Keyboard users - Button 1 is the Enter key. Button 2 is the (forward slash) key.

Joystick users - Because joystick designs vary greatly, we can’t

tell you exactly which button is button 1 and which is button 2.

Some joysticks even have three or four buttons. If you’re a

joystick user, you’ll have to do some testing to determine which

buttons act as button 1 and 2.

Changing Numbers

In options that have values that can be changed, there are two ways to change the values:

You can select the - (minus) or + (plus) button next to the number to decrease or increase the value. Each selection with button 1 changes the value by one, while each

button 1

and

button 2.

Boeing

Manufacturer... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boeing

727

Commercial

Airplane Group Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

.............

,............................

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,000 feet

Retractable landing gear:

150 m.p.h.

125 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . Yes

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selection with button 2 changes the value in larger increments of 5 or 30.

You can also press any letter to jump to that letter in the list. If nothing in the list starts with that letter, nothing will happen.

You can select the value itself and then enter a new number. Use the Backspace or Delete key to delete the current value. Mouse users can highlight the entire field and then

type a number to replace the highlighted number.

Selecting an Item From a List

A requester (a window you can interact with) appears when you need to select an item from a list. To choose an item from a requester:

Mouse users

Roll the mouse up or down to position the

Joystick Users

Your joystick will be active if it was detected and selected in the Install or Setup program. (Simulated flight yokes like the Flight Yoke 2000 will be treated like a joystick.) If a joystick is detected by the program, you must use it as the flight input

device flight. To use an input device other than a joystick, be sure to select a different input device option through the Install or Setup program.

cross hair on an item, click either mouse button to highlight it, and then click on OK. You can also double-click on an option to select it.

Joystick users

Push the joystick forward or pull the joystick

Joystick Calibration Screen

The Joystick Calibration screen automatically appears the first

time you load the program if a joystick is detected.

back to position the cross hair on an item and then click either

joystick button to highlight it. Click on OK to select the high-

lighted option. You can also double-click on an option to select it.

Keyboard users

Press the up or down arrow keys to highlight the option you want and then press Enter to highlight it. Move the cursor to OK and then press Enter to accept the option. Or you can position the cursor on an option and then quickly press Enter twice to select it.

you will not be able to use the keyboard to control

Shortcuts for Selecting Items

The Pg Up and Pg Dn keys move up and down a list one

screenful at a time.

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When you see the black dot in the upper left corner of the

Joystick Calibration screen, hold the joystick in the upper left

position and then click a button. When the dot is in the center, leave your joystick in neutral position (by not touching it) and then click a button. Finally, when the dot is in the lower right corner, hold the joystick in the lower right position and click a button. The joystick should now be calibrated.

The dead zone is an area in the center of the joystick that

indicates your joystick’s sensitivity. The lower the number, the more sensitive the joystick control will be. For instance, at the default value of 20%, the cursor will move pretty much in direct response to your joystick movement. If you changed the value

to 75%, your joystick will probably have the room to move quite a bit before the onscreen cursor moves in response. You can change the number by clicking on the up or down arrow.

After the joystick is calibrated, move the joystick around to

see if the cursor on the screen responds to the joystick’s movement. If it doesn’t, press C to recalibrate the joystick.

You can press Alt-J to open the Joystick Calibration screen at any time to recalibrate your joystick.

Keyboard Users

If you need to regain control of your cursor (e.g., the cursor is

“trapped” in a text field) press the Tab key.

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Boeing 737

Manufacturer...... .....

. . . . . . . . . Boeing

Group

Take-off speed:

Stall speed...........

Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

Retractable landing gear:

................

. . . .

..........

............

......... I ......

145

m.p.h.

125 m.p.h.

532

m.p.h.

45,000 feet

. . . . . Yes

Commerci

al Airplane

Save and load File Requesters

You’ll see Save and Load requesters throughout your work.

Save File Requesters

Save requesters lets you enter names for your work to be saved under and determine where you want to save them.

The default locations for saving files are in the \STUNTISL subdirectories. You can select [ ..] to “back out” of the current subdirectory. Subdirectories have brackets [ ] around them. The name of the current directory is shown after DIR (e.g.,

Dir:C:\STUNTISL\SETS).

To access drives greater than F:, type that driver letter in the Filename field and then press Enter. The subdirectories and

files in that drive should appear. For example, if you want to access the J: drive, type

To save a file, select the field after Filename. Use the Backspace or Delete key to erase any characters in the field and then type in a name. You have a limit of 8 characters in a name (not including the file extension). Invalid characters such as hyphens or slashes will not be accepted in the Filename field.

All Stunt Island files have file extensions that help identify the

type of file. For instance, all files that are sets have the file extension of .SET. All films have the file extension of .FLM.

Here’s a list of all the file extensions you’ll want to know:

and press Enter.

You’re not required to enter a file extension when you save a

The program uses the drive that you loaded Stunt Island onto as the default drive, although it is capable of recognizing drives

A: through F:. If you want to load from or save to a different

drive, select that drive letter. Drives that you can’t select are “ghosted” (in a lighter color). You can also type in the drive

letter before the filename to access the file (e.g.,

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file

when you select Save to save a set, you’ll see the default name

of TEMP.SET (which represents “Temporary Set”). You could

delete TEMP.SET and enter a new name like GUNBOAT. The

file will be saved as GUNBOAT.SET.

.FLM .SET .TKE .voc

the program automatically does it for you. For example,

Films Sets Takes Sound Files (only applicable to Sound Blaster and Thunder Board owners)

Load File Requesters

The Load requesters basically have the same options as the Save requesters.

Notice that when you load a file, you always see an asterisk followed by a file extension name in the field after Filename. The asterisk is a “wild card” that represents everything, while the file extension is specific to the type of file. This tells the program to show all filenames that end with that specific extension.

For example, if you were loading takes in the editing room, you’d see *.TKE after Filename. This tells the program to show all files that end with .TKE. If you want to load a take that you

didn’t save with the .TKE extension, you won’t see it in this

list. You’d have to enter *.* or

[and the extension you used]

after Filename to tell the program to show you other files. You’ll find using extensions is a good way to keep common

files grouped together, making them easy to locate.

To open a file or subdirectory, highlight the name and then select OK. You can also double-click on a filename to open it.

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CHAPTER 3

Aircraft Checkout Procedures

Most stunt production veterans know how hard it is to get planes for high risk

stunt scenes probably be easier. But because you come to Stunt Island with high recommendations from others in the industry, and because your flight experience

has been exceptional, we wanted to create an atmosphere where your hard work is rewarded. Specifically, we want to make it easy for you to fly whenever you get the urge to practice your talent.

Aircraft vs. Airplane

Aircraft is the term for a structure or machine that travels through the air, regardless of whether the object is lighter or heavier than air and regardless of whether it’s propelled by an engine or not. A balloon is just as much an aircraft as a Boeing 747.

An airplane is more specific in definition. Airplanes are fixed-wing aircrafts that are heavier than air. Airplanes are held aloft by the aerodynamic forces of

air as it is driven forward by propeller(s) or jet propulsion.

“borrowing” a B-2 Stealth Bomber from the government would

Because the things you can fly in Stunt Island are not necessarily airplanes like the duck, pterodactyl, hang glider, and paraglider used in this handbook.

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the term aircraft is

Aircraft Availability

All of the aircraft are available for use by Stunt Island pilots. You are not required to be working on a film project to check out an aircraft. To check out an aircraft for flight practice, follow these procedures:

Go to the airfield by selecting Airfield.

Select the hangar (building) to view the inventory of available aircraft.

You’ll see a list of the aircraft you can fly:

Select an aircraft and then select OK. The names of all the aircraft available will not be visible in the window at the same time. You can scroll through the aircraft inventory by selecting the down arrow to the right of the window, by selecting an area on the scroll bar (vertical bar), or by selecting the button in the scroll bar and dragging it down until the name of the desired aircraft appears.

When you select an aircraft, you start in the forward view

through the cockpit. You can press the F1 through F7 keys to change the pilot’s view. When you’re in the forward view

(Fl),

you can press the F9 key to toggle the cockpit on or off.

Onscreen Gauges

When Forward view is selected (press

Fl),

you see your air-

craft’s gauges laid out in the cockpit (if you don’t see the cock-

pit, press F9 after pressing

Fl).

There are five different types of

cockpits. Below is one example with the gauges highlighted.

Stealth Bomber

Boemg

727

Boemg

737 Boeing 747 Bristol

Bulldog

Cessna 172

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B C

EF G

A - Engine power: The position of the throttle lever

sponds to the engine power you selected by pressing keys 1 through 0 on the main keyboard. If your joystick has a throttle, use that to control engine power.

corre-

B - Horizon gauge: Shows the artificial horizon. Notice that when you bank or pitch, the artificial horizon line changes to

represent that movement.

C - Speed indicator: This indicates the speed at which you are traveling.

D - Vertical climb indicator: This gauge shows the change in

feet per minute. Each number represents 100 feet. When the

needle is in the upper half of the gauge, the aircraft is climb-

ing. When the needle is in the lower half of the gauge, the aircraft is descending.

E - Altimeter: The altimeter shows the aircraft’s altitude.

Each revolution of the small hand represents one thousand feet. Each revolution of the large hand represents one

hundred feet.

F - Clock: This is the time elapsed since you got into your

aircraft.

G - Compass: This shows your north, south, east, and west

direction heading.

If the cockpit view is off, or if you are in any other view, you’ll

Bristol Bulldog (Mk IIA)

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed:

Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

.......................

............................

....................

.................

......................................

Retractable landing gear:

Bristol Aeroplane

.65 m.p.h.

.55 m.p.h.

135 m.p.h.

.25,000 feet

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Co.

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see the necessary in-flight readouts along the bottom of the screen.

ALTITUDE: The altitude of the aircraft above sea level, expressed in feet.

SPEED: The speed of the aircraft expressed in miles per hour.

DIR: The direction the aircraft is flying measured in degrees. Due north is 0 degrees, due east 90, due south 180, and due

west 270.

The red dot on the stick schematic indicates the position of your flight control stick. (See “Flight Controls” for details on how the stick schematic feature works.)

The white dot along the right side of the stick schematic indicates engine power setting.

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Flying Stunt Island Aircraft

Some of you more advanced pilots may get into our aircraft and

get fidgety

automated many of the controls that the pilot normally would adjust because as a stunt pilot, your primary concern is to Suc-

cessfully execute a high risk stunt.

not enough controls for you to manipulate. We’ve

Although not necessary, pilots who really want to can work on

their aileron and rudder skills. The use of independent rudder

control is explained in “Using the Rudder.”

This section does not go into the aerodynamic forces that affect flying, nor does it cover the dynamics of stalling, which is referred to. If you know little about flying and would like to learn more about the technical details, please see Appendix A.

Flight Controls

Stunt Island planes can be controlled using a keyboard, a mouse, or a joystick. As the pilot, you control the aircraft’s pitch, roll, and yaw.

A control stick schematic is always displayed on the lower right corner of the information display bar, except in the cockpit view (Fl). When the dot is in the center of the schematic, your control stick is in the “neutral position.”

Neutral Position of Control Stick

you were in the real cockpit of an aircraft, you would be con-

trolling the aircraft by using a “yoke” or a “flight stick.” The yoke (shaped somewhat like a bull’s horns) and the flight stick move three dimensionally. Both controls have a ‘neutral posi-

tion,” which is a point of rest the control will return to when you let go of it.

Joysticks also have neutral positions. If you’re using a joystick,

notice how it always returns to the upright position when you let go of it. The dot in the stick schematic represents the position of your stick. When you release your joystick, the dot always returns to the center of the schematic.

Although there’s no “stick” on a mouse or keyboard, you can

treat it as if it had one because of the Control Centering option.

When Control Centering is on, the mouse or keyboard behaves like a yoke or flight stick and automatically returns to the neutral position when you stop moving it. This allows you to make subtle adjustments during flight.

Control Centering’s default setting is On. To turn it off, press

Alt-P to open the Preferences window and select Off.

Pitch

Moving the aircraft along its lateral axis results in a change in pitch. When pitch changes, the nose of the aircraft rises or falls. To change the pitch of an aircraft, move your control device forward or backward.

Cessna Model 172 (Skyhawk)

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed:

Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

...................................... Yes

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

............................ .45

...................

.................

Cessna Aircraft Co.

.55 m.p.h.

m.p.h. ,138 m.p.h. .12,000 feet

........

c >

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Roll

Moving the aircraft along its longitudinal axis results in roll. To roll an aircraft, move the control device left or right.

Using the Rudder

You can use button 2 to actuate the rudder. When button 2 is pressed and the control device is moved to either the left or

right, the aircraft will yaw in that direction without rolling.

The rudder, located on the back edge of the aircraft’s vertical

Yaw

Moving the aircraft along its vertical axis results in yaw. Imagine putting your foot on the ground and grinding it. The toe of your shoe, as it moves left and right, illustrates the movement of yaw.

Yaw occurs in two ways: 1) It’s a natural by-product of working the pitch and roll, or 2) You can induce yaw by specifically using the rudder.

Yaw will be at its greatest influence when the control device is moved diagonally. (Keyboard users need to alternate up or down arrow keys with left or right arrow keys to achieve yaw.)

tail, controls the aircraft’s yaw. When the rudder is to the right, airflow will react against it and push the tail of the aircraft to the left causing the nose to yaw to the right, When the rudder is to

the left, the opposite will occur, and the nose will yaw to the left.

Rudder

area

The Independent Rudder option is available in the Preferences

window by pressing Alt-P. The default option is On.

Using the Ailerons

The Independent Aileron control option is available in the Preferences window by pressing Alt-P and selecting Off next to

Independent Rudder control. when you have

control, you do not have independent rudder control; you must choose one or the other.

independent aileron

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You can use button 2 to actuate the ailerons. When button 2 is pressed and the control device is moved to either the left or

right, the aircraft will roll in that direction without yawing.

The ailerons, located on the back edge of the aircraft’s wings,

help control the aircraft’s roll. When the right aileron is up and

the left is down (button 2 is pressed and the control stick is

moved to the right), airflow will react against the ailerons

causing the aircraft to roll to the right. When the left aileron is up and the right is down (button 2 is pressed and the control stick is moved to the left), the aircraft will roll to the left.

III

Aileron

area

Using the ailerons lets you keep yaw to a minimum as you roll the aircraft. This is particularly useful if you need to fly sideways through a narrow corridor like a canyon or between buildings.

Curtiss JN “Jenny”

Manufacturer,.. . . . . . Curtiss Aeroplane and

Motors Corp. Take-off speed: Stall speed: 30 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 m.p.h.

Maximum speed: 75m.p.h.

Maximum altitude: . . . . . . 14,000 feet

Flaps: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No

Retractable landing gear: . . No Note: The other Jenny airplanes are simply color variations of this one.

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Engine Power Controls

The keyboard controls the power settings for the aircraft’s engine(s). Press a key from 1 to 0 on the main keyboard (not the keypad) to select a power setting. The (+) and allow you to gradually adjust the power.

Key

2 3 4

7 8 9 0

Backspace

If you are flying with the cockpit view on, the aircraft’s power setting will be displayed on the cockpit panel by the position of the throttle lever. The higher up the throttle lever, the more engine power you have.

For those of you flying with the cockpit view off, the white dot along the right side of the stick schematic will indicate

the aircraft’s power setting. When the dot is at the top of the cross hair, the aircraft is at full throttle. The lower the white dot is on the stick schematic, the lower the engine power.

10% of available engine power 20% of available engine power 30% of available engine power

40% of available engine power

50% of available engine power 60% of available engine power 70% of available engine power

80% of available engine power 90% of available engine power

100% of available engine power

Increase engine power by 2% Decrease engine power by 2%

Cut engine power to 0%

Function

(-)

keys

Taking Off and landing

Taking Off

Press 0 to open the engine to full throttle and start the aircraft rolling down the runway. The miles per hour will increase on the airspeed indicator. When the aircraft reaches its take off speed, pull back on the control stick to lift the aircraft into the air. Remember the type of aircraft you are flying; modern jet aircrafts can take off and climb at greater angles, while older aircrafts and propeller aircraft will stall if you pull back too far on the stick.

If you’re flying with Control Centering on, you need to keep

rolling the mouse back or keep pressing the down arrow key

on the keyboard to simulate pulling back on the flight stick; otherwise, the stick moves back to the neutral position when you stop rolling the mouse.

Once you are established in a stabilized climb (not descending or turning) press G to raise your landing gear (if applicable). Flying with your landing gear down increases drag, which slows the aircraft.

After you level off at the desired altitude, be sure to reduce engine power to somewhere between 60% and 70% for jets and 80% to 90% for propeller aircrafts. Flying at full throttle makes the aircraft much more responsive to the slightest stick movement, which may make it seem harder to control.

Using Flaps for Takeoff

If you want to get your aircraft airborne quickly or if you need

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to take off in a very short distance, you can do so by using flaps if your aircraft has them.

Press F to lower the flaps before take off. Press 0 to open the

engine to full throttle, The miles per hour will increase on the airspeed indicator. Instead of waiting for take off speed to pull back on the control stick, hold the control stick back during

the entire take off process.

Once the aircraft lifts off, allow the airspeed to build well beyond the take-off speed (about 20% above it) before pressing F to retract the flaps and G to retract the landing gear.

Please note that not all planes have flaps.

Landing

To land, reduce power to about 30% in the jets and about 50% in propeller aircrafts. As the aircraft slows down, it comes closer to stalling so you must remember to pitch the nose down to maintain flying speed as well as to keep the aircraft descending.

Press F to lower the flaps (if available). Flaps lower the stall speed and help slow the aircraft. Press G to lower the landing gear (if applicable) before touching down.

When you’re about 75 feet above the ground, reduce the

power again to about 10%, pitch the aircraft to a level flight attitude and let it continue to descend (“attitude” is the positioning of the aircraft).

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At about 15 feet above the ground, gently pull back on the control stick to bleed off any excess airspeed.

Once the aircraft has touched down, press the Backspace key to cut the throttle to 0% thrust and then press B to actuate the brakes.

Landing on a Runway

The altitudes and speeds suggested previously are for landings in general. To land on a runway requires a touch more skill. You need to learn to judge the distance to the runway and how fast this particular aircraft will cover that distance. A good rule of thumb is to descend to approximately 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the ground at a distance of one to one and one-half miles from the end of the runway.

Ending Flight Without Landing

If you don’t need or want to land the aircraft, press Esc at any time to end the flight.

Autopilot

Press the A key to fly in autopilot mode. The autopilot is a two-axis gyroscopic type that only maintains altitude and heading. The autopilot is not computerized, and will not automatically fly the aircraft during stunt assignments that’s your job!

Crashing or Ejecting

During flight practice at the airfield, you can crash an aircraft

without penalty (for those of you entered in the Stunt Pilot of

the Year competition). Only when you accept assignments

through the stunt coordinator during competition will you be penalized for crashing. In the more spectacular crashes, you will awaken in the hospital and find yourself groggily peering up the nostrils of the island surgeon. Note: If you don’t want

to go to the hospital after a crash, select Alt-P to open the Preferences window; then select Off for the Hospital option.

Press E to eject. When you eject, you change to the parachutist’s point of view (you no longer have a view from the aircraft you were flying).

There is no problem with ejecting unless you’re in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest. If you’re in the contest, it will cost you a “take” to eject. The goal in the contest is to successfully complete stunts in as few takes as possible. Too many unsuccessful takes can get you fired. If this is your first take in a stunt, ejecting guarantees that you’ll miss out on the bonus for completing a stunt in the first take.

Weapons Use

In order to fire a weapon, you must first select that weapon. Press W to toggle through the available weapons (guns, missiles, or bombs). To fire the selected weapon, click button

1 or press the Enter key.

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Not all aircrafts are originally equipped with guns, missiles,

and/or bombs. The available weapon(s) will appear on the aircraft’s cockpit, You can “cheat” and have an aircraft fire a

weapon by selecting it through the Global option on the Set

Design screen in production.

Dropping Bombs

If you are dropping a bomb, you can press the F7 key to get the bomb target view. The cross hairs in this view help you line up with your target on the ground. Once the cross hair is over the ground target, press a button or the spacebar and the

bomb will fall on the target. The bomb target view is automati-

cally recalculated based on speed and altitude so that the cross hair will be accurate.

To drop a bomb, you must select Bomb as the weapon. However, use of the Bomb view is not required. In some cases where you’re flying in a tight area, like through a canyon, you may not want to risk shifting from your forward view to the bomb view. Bombing is a bit more tricky this way, but if you stay low and perform a shallow dive toward your target, the bomb should hit.

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Aircraft Views

The following are keyboard keys for all the possible vantage points during flight:

Key Fl

F2 F3 F4 F5 F6

F7 F9

View

Pilot’s cockpit view, looking out the front window Pilot’s view, looking out the left window Pilot’s view, looking out the right window

View looking out the rear of the aircraft

Spotter plane view

Adjust spotter plane view. By pressing the arrow

keys, moving the joystick, or rolling the mouse, you can adjust the view used in F5 (the spotter plane’s perspective on the stunt aircraft). Mouse

or joystick users: Button 1 changes the distance

from the aircraft while button 2 changes the

camera zoom level. You can also press both buttons simultaneously.

Bomb target view

Toggle cockpit display on/off; this key is only

applicable when used with the Fl key (forward view).

Keyboard Keys Available During Flight

In addition to the Fl through F9 aircraft views listed previously, the following keyboard keys are available to you when you take off from the airfield:

Key

A B E F

R T w

Tab

These keys are always available: ALT-D Opens the Delete file screen ALT-J ALT-P

CTRL-Esc Exits the program (Quick Exit in the Preferences

Function

Toggles the Autopilot on and off Toggles the Brakes on and off Ejects the pilot from the aircraft Raises and lowers the Flaps Raises and lowers the landing Gear Pauses the game; select OK to continue Starts and stops Recording Calls up option to change the Time of day Toggles through the available Weapons (Guns,

Bombs, or Missiles) Sets off an explosion special effect

Centers the control device (useful if the Control

Centering option is turned off)

Opens the Joystick calibration screen Opens the Preferences window

window must be on)

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Tips on Successful Flying

If you’re trying to fly level with the cockpit view off, keep

the red dot toward the center of the cross hair. (If you have Control Centering on, this should automatically occur.)

If you’re trying to fly level in the cockpit view, keep the middle of the cross hair (near the center of the screen)

just below the horizon.

Use slow movements with your controls, especially at high

speeds. Jerky movements with the input device translates into jerky movements of the aircraft, and a tendency to over-control the aircraft.

After take off, reduce power to avoid flying at abnormally high speeds. Higher speeds make the aircraft more sensitive to the input device.

Use flaps in conjunction with power when trying to slow the aircraft in shorter distances.

Recording During Flight

The R key lets you record your flight at the airfield. While flying, press the R key and an corner of the screen to indicate that the program is recording. The

“R”

will remain on the screen until you press the R key

again or end the flight and return to the airfield.

"R"

will appear in the upper left

Curtiss June Bug

Manufacturer:

Take-off speed: 48 m.p.h.

Stall speed: . . . . . . . . . . 25 m.p.h.

. . . . Curtiss Aeroplane and

Motors Corp.

Maximum speed: 65 m.p.h.

When you return to the airfield, a Save Take requester appears.

Name your file and select OK. The file is automatically saved

with the .TKE extension to the \STUNTISL\VAULT

Maximum altitude: . . . . . 14,000 feet

Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No

Retractable landing gear:

,.,,,,..

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subdirectory. After you’ve saved the file, you return to the hangar. If you choose to go to the editing room in post-production, the file will automatically be loaded into the Source deck.

say you were buzzing a field of corn. You would see fewer stalks of corn in the horizon if the detail setting were 50% instead of 100%. The detail of the corn would still be the same,

but when they would appear would be different. If you record more than one flight at the airfield, the last take saved will be the one loaded into the Source deck. When you go to the editing room, decks 1 and 2 will be loaded. Deck 1 will show the pilot’s view and deck 2 will show the spotter plane view; these are the two views that are always recorded. (For complete details on editing, see Chapters 8 and 9.)

GOURAUD SHADING appears on the aircraft (not the shadow below the aircraft). You can choose to turn it off, turn it on, or select dithered (DITH)

for the most detailed effect. Gouraud Shading involves a lot of computing; having it on or dithered will slow down most machines, some with little effect, others more radically.

Gouraud Shading is the shading that

Preferences Window

The Preferences window can be opened at almost any time by pressing Alt-P. The Preferences window contains game options that you might want to adjust during play.

BETWEEN SCREEN FADING -When you move from one screen to another, the screen fades to create a smooth visual transition. If you want to jump from screen to screen more quickly, turn this off.

QUICK EXIT press Ctrl-Esc to exit the program and return to DOS. If you’re in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest and you press Ctrl-Esc to exit, the results from the stunts you’ve done in this session of

Independent rudder Automatic

theatre

Sound

effects

zoom

play will not be incorporated into your standings. With Quick Exit off, you must exit the program by leaving on the ferry, which saves your standing in the contests.

FILM EDITING

DETAIL - The more detail you have on the screen, the slower it may make your machine run. The Detail option does not affect the rendering of any actual objects on the screen, but

how much of the art appears on the screen. For example, let’s

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asked if you wanted to do your own editing. If you selected

Yes, this option will be on. When it’s on, after you film a stunt

and save it you automatically go to the editing room. When it’s off, you automatically go to the theatre. (Chapter 6 contains a

This disables the option that allows you to

When you loaded the program, you were

section on how the Film Editing option affects recording.)

HOSPITAL -When you have especially bad crashes, you’re sent to the hospital. To expedite play you can turn this option off so you don’t have to visit the hospital screen. Turning off this option does not prevent you from getting penalized for excessive crashes.

INDEPENDENT RUDDER-When this is on, you have the option of independently controlling the aircraft’s rudder.

When it’s off, you can independently control the aircraft’s

aileron. (For details on controlling the rudder or aileron, see

page 32.) You cannot have independent control over the rudder

and aileron simultaneously.

AUTOMATIC THEATRE ZOOM - When you’re at the theatre viewing a film, the theatre screen eventually fills the full frame of the monitor. If you want to keep the theatre at its original size with the viewers in the foreground, turn this off. Having

this option off is good for slower machines.

SOUND EFFECTS - Select off to turn off sound effects that are

sent to the internal PC speaker.

CONTROL CENTERING - Although there’s no “stick” on a mouse or keyboard, you can treat it as if it had one by using the Control Centering option. When Control Centering is on, the mouse or keyboard behaves like a “flight stick” and automatically returns to the neutral position when you stop moving the mouse or pressing an arrow key. This allows you to make subtle adjustments during flight.

Douglas DC-10

Manufacturer. Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps: Retractable landing gear:

.......................... Douglas Aircraft Co.

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,155 m.p.h. ,130 m.p.h. ,564 m.p.h.

50,000 feet

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Stunt Pilot of the Year Contest

The Stunt Pilot of the Year competition is open to those who answered Yes to “Do you

want to be in the competition?” (asked right after the program loads).

You will find a complete description of each stunt assignment at the end of

this chapter.

The Contest

The Stunt Pilot of the Year contest offers 32 different stunts that you can fly. These are the stunts assigned to you by the stunt coordinator from his office in the

production building. You must complete at least 26 stunts successfully excessive takes - to be able to win the contest.

without

Your performance in these assignments will affect your standing in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest. The winner of this contest will have the new airfield named after him or her at Stunt Island’s first anniversary party.

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Because you’re paid for each successful execution of a stunt, with bonuses for completing the stunt on the first take, your success

is measured by how much money you’re earning. Each dollar

you earn equals one point in the standings. You will need to

earn an average of $2,300 per stunt to win the contest.

You can check the standings of the contest at any time by selecting Contest Standings in your cabin, or by selecting

Competition Standings in the production building.

To check the amount of money you’ve earned from your completed stunt assignments and the number of takes you’ve attempted, select the Ledger on the table in your cabin.

Getting Stunt Assignments

All stunts are overseen by the stunt coordinator.

You do not have to be entered in the contest to fly these stunts.

If you’re not in the contest, no scores will be kept for you.

SCENE #: Select

job. (You only get this option if you’re not entered in the compe-

tition.)

You only get the following three options (Previous, Next, and Risk) if you’re entered in the competition.

NEXT - Select this to see the next assignment.

RISK - CAUTION: Don’t select this unless you want a

mandatory assignment!

standings and want to try to catch up quickly. When you select Risk, you’re automatically assigned a high-risk assignment that you must accept.

ACCEPT choose this option, you’ll go to the Camera Crew screen. Select Action-Take to fly the stunt.

DECLINE - Select this to decline the assignment and close the stunt assignment box.

(-)

to see the previous job or

Select this to see the previous assignment.

Select this if you’re behind in the

Select this to accept the assignment. When you

(+)

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The difference between being in the contest and not being in the contest is the assignments you’re allowed to see. If you’re not in the contest, the Job option lets you scroll through all the assignments that are available. If you’re in the contest, you’re only allowed to see certain assignments. As your skills improve, you’re offered more difficult assignments.

You can get updates of the standings in the contest in your

cabin or in the production building.

Payoffs and Penalties on Stunt Performance

Each stunt has a base pay that you can earn. You can also get a bonus by successfully completing the stunt on the first take. Each additional take will incur a cash penalty that’s deducted from your pay after you successfully perform the stunt. The bonus pay, crash penalty, and take penalty for each stunt are listed with each assignment at the end of this chapter.

If you crash when you’re not supposed to, you will awaken at the Island hospital under the care of the eccentric physician.

It will also cost you points in your contest standings. The Hospital option can be turned off to expedite play. To do this, press Alt-P to open the Preferences window; then turn the Hospital option off. Turning off the Hospital option will not

cause you to be exempt from any hospital penalties; you will still incur hospital costs.

If you exceed the number of takes allowed on a filming, you’re

fired from that particular stunt. Choose another stunt to fly.

Camera Crew

After you accept a stunt assignment by selecting Accept from the stunt assignment window in the stunt coordinator’s office, you meet the camera crew on location.

Duck

Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

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Retractable landing gear:

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Low

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When you successfully complete a stunt, select That’s A Wrap

to save the footage. You can then select Stunt Coord to return to the stunt coordinator’s office for a new stunt assignment, or select any of the other options if you want to take a break from filming.

Stunt Island Hall of Fame

Just outside the hangar at the airport is the Stunt Island Hall

of Fame board. It contains the names of the all-time highest

Select Action-Take to start filming. If you fail to execute the stunt, press Esc to return to the Camera Crew screen. Select

Action-Take again; notice that instead of Take 1, this time it’s

Take 2. The number of takes are tracked on the Camera Crew screen. Before you go to the next take, you’re asked if you want to print the last take. If you select Yes to save it, you’ll see the Save Take requester. If you select No, you’ll begin shooting.

Not saving a take won’t fool the program into thinking that you haven’t tried a stunt. The program notes each time you’ve done a take. Whether or not you save the footage from a take is entirely unrelated to the outcome of the contest.

Keep selecting the Action-Take option until you get it right. If you crash, you may wake up in the hospital. If you crash too many times or exceed the allowed number of takes, you may

be fired. If you’re fired, you cannot retry that stunt another one.

go to

scoring pilots (pilots created by the program are not recorded here; only you and your friends are tracked). Select the board to see the names close-up.

Competitors leaving Stunt Island

Competitors who entered the contest must leave on the Ferry

(by selecting Ferry and then Leave On Ferry) or else their accomplishments will not be saved. When you’re leaving on the ferry, you’re asked, “Do you want to save your pilot?” Be sure to select Yes so your achievements are recorded.

If you’ve had an especially bad day on the set, you may not

want to save your day’s worth of piloting work; in this case you can select No when you see “Do you want to save your pilot?” The next time you return to Stunt Island, your disas-

trous day on the set will be only a memory. Then again, victory is only sweeter if you can overcome a bad day in the cockpit to

steal the whole show.

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The Stunt Assignments

These stunts are available through the stunt coordinator. You do not have to be in the contest to fly them. If you are registered to be in the contest, each attempt at a stunt will count towards your standing. The figures for bonus pay, crash

penalty, take penalty and maximum takes allowed only apply

to those in the contest.

The set’s filename is also listed so you can load the set at the Set Design screen to study or modify it. The sets you can load are duplicates of the sets used in the contest. Modifying these sets will not affect the ones used in the contest.

If you’re stuck on an assignment, see the section called “Dissecting Stunt Sets for Success” in Chapter 6. Once you

understand how sets and events are created, you’ll be able to

figure out what it takes to successfully complete each stunt.

Scene 1. Take off and shoot a Zero.

This is the final scene in the World War II epic. Taking off from the runway in your P-38 Lightning, you need to pull up

before you hit the burning Zero on the runway. Then, without going over 200 feet, you need to shoot down another Zero that’s bombing the Allies’ hangars. You have a shot limit of 40.

Set filename: TAKEOFF.SET First take bonus: 220 Crash penalty: 180 Take penalty: 90 Maximum takes allowed: 10

AWACS

Manufacturer:

. . . . . . . . Boeing Aerospace and

Electronics

Take-off speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 m.p.h.

Stall speed: . . . . . . . . . . . 140 m.p.h.

Maximum speed: .

........

530 m.p.h.

Maximum altitude: . . . . . . . 30,000 feet

Flaps: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

Retractable landing gear:

.....

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Scene 2. Land on the Golden Gate.

This stunt’s for a drama that takes place in the “City by the Bay.” In a tense moment, you’re forced to land your Cessna

172 on the Golden Gate Bridge without hitting any cars. You

should be heading north when you perform this stunt. Set filename: LNDBRDGE.SET

First take bonus: 150

ground. You must execute the pickup at a minimum of

110 m.p.h.

Set filename: First take bonus: 150

Crash penalty: 360 Take penalty: 210 Maximum takes allowed: 6

Crash penalty: 270 Take penalty: 150 Maximum takes allowed: 4

Scene 5. Catch a balloon.

There’s political trouble afloat in the hot air balloon festival. The red and white balloon is carrying an explosive cargo that

Scene 3. Barnstorm.

This is a classic barnstormer. You have to guide your Fokker

Triplane through the open doors of a barn. The added challenge is dodging the three combines passing in front of the barn as you make your entrance. Touching the ground is out, so don’t

think about landing and then driving through.

is slated to be dropped when it drifts over the governor’s mansion. A group of hot air balloons loosely dot the sky. Your job is to snag the red and white balloon with your P-38 Lightning while avoiding all other balloons. Have any part of your aircraft touch the hot air balloon by the basket only; if you hit the balloon, it will cause an explosion and end the stunt.

ALCATRAZ..SET

Set filename: BARNSTRM.SET First take bonus: 600

Crash penalty: 390 Take penalty: 240 Maximum takes allowed: 8

Scene 4. Pick up a convict on Alcatraz.

This assignment takes you to The Rock. You need to pluck a convict who’s trying to escape off a tower. The convict is holding a hook that will latch onto the wheels of your

Sopwith

Camel. Fly too high and you’ll miss him; fly too low and he’ll

Once you’ve safely secured the hot air balloon, you need to tow it over the abandoned castle, at which point it will become detached from your aircraft and slowly start to rise. You need to come back around and shoot the balloon down before it rises above 3.250 feet.

Set filename: BLNCTCH.SET First take bonus: 150 Crash penalty: 210 Take penalty: 150

Maximum takes allowed: 6

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Scene 6. Castlestonn.

In this medieval farce, you’ll start the scene positioned at the backside of a castle in your hang glider. You need to glide around to the front of the castle and go in through the castle’s

entrance. Once inside, land with your feet on the catapult.

You’re catapulted back out so be sure to hang on tight.

Set filename: CASTLE.SET First take bonus: 150

Crash penalty: 300 Take penalty: 90 Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 7. Park at the hamburger stand.

In an incredible lapse of vegetarianism, the lead character gets a pathological desire for a grilled cheeseburger. As the vexed pilot, you’re going to land your Piper Cherokee on a quiet country road, taxiing it on the road until you hit a roadblock of two police cars. Just before you hit the roadblock, you’re going to make a hard left turn down another road, where you’ll soon see a parking lot to your left. Pull into the first series of parking spaces and put the nose of your aircraft in the second row, stall 3 (it doesn’t matter how the aircraft is positioned as long as the nose is in the right stall). When you park, be sure to put on

your brakes or cut your engine so you’re stopped. Bon appetit.

Set filename: BURGER.SET First take bonus: 150 Crash penalty: 420

Take penalty: 270 Maximum takes allowed: 6

F-4E

Phantom

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

......................................

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

............................

...................

.................

........

McDonnell Douglas Corp. ,168 m.p.h. ,140

m.p.h. .1,484 m.p.h. .62,250 feet

Yes Yes

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Scene 8. Shoot planes in formation.

This director loves a tense chase scene. Your allies are being pursued by the enemy. You need to hit the five enemy planes

without striking your two allies who are in the lead. You’ll be

positioned behind all the planes in your P-51D Mustang when the action starts. There’s a time limit of 3 minutes or a shot limit of 100. whichever occurs first.

Set filename: FORMATN.SET First take bonus: 600 Crash penalty: 390 Take penalty: 180

crash this specially-made meteor into the hotel that sits at the confluence (or

expensive and time-consuming to make, only a few were created. The director and stunt coordinator are counting on first-take success. If you don’t succeed, you might consider finding a real meteor to crawl under.

Set filename: METEOR.SET First take bonus: 600

Crash penalty: 1,260 Take penalty: 600 Maximum takes allowed: 3

Maximum takes allowed: 7

Scene 11. Blast a jeep.

Scene 9. Crash into a 747’s engine.

In this mid-air collision footage, your troubled F4U Corsair is making an emergency landing at the airport. As you’re coming

in, a Boeing 747 is just taking off. You need to strike the right

outermost engine of the 747, avoiding the rest of the 747. The right wing and engine are specially reinforced for this stunt, so it’s imperative you hit the 747 in that spot.

Set filename: MIDAIRSET

This is the scene where the lead character finally tracks down

and finishes off - his nemesis. In this one-pass stunt,

you’ll chase down and shoot the escaping jeep in your Zero. Set filename: STOPJEEP.SET

First take bonus: 600

Crash penalty: 330 Take penalty: 240 Maximum takes allowed: 6

First take bonus: 450

Crash penalty: 480 Take penalty: 150 Maximum takes allowed: 9

Scene 12. Bomber duck.

In this documentary based on the shocking 1992 research revealing the criminal proclivity of birds, you reenact the events of the famous “Egg Blotter” incident. As a duck, you’ll fly over the town in search of the police car containing the

Scene 10. Crash into a hotel.

Here’s your first science fiction assignment. You’re going to

officers who supposedly chased off your flock from the town square’s water fountain. You’ll bomb the police car with your

“Y”)

of the river. Because these meteors were

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Grade A Jumbos. The eggs must hit right in front of or directly on the police car for success.

Set filename: DUCK.SET First take bonus: 300

Crash penalty: 270 Take penalty: 330 Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 13. Land on the blue building.

You’ll wish you had a helicopter for this one. Land your Pitt Special on the roof of the blue building. You must come to a complete stop without any part of the plane hanging over the edge of the building.

Set filename: LANDBLD.SET First take bonus: 300 Crash penalty: 390 Take penalty: 180 Maximum takes allowed: 8

Scene 14. Save the U.N.

The international establishment known for its attempts to make world peace is about to have its own shattered unless

F4U

you succeed in your role. From your

Corsair, you must

shoot at and hit the two leading Humvees in the convoy headed

toward the United Nations building. After you’ve struck your targets, you need to shake off the Zeros by cutting a hard right

around the United Nations building. Set filename: SAVEUN.SET

First take bonus: 450

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Crash penalty: 300 Take penalty: 210

Maximum takes allowed: 10

First take bonus: 410 Crash penalty: 360

Take penalty: 180

Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 15. Hit the renegade caterer.

The catering truck, having just stripped the gas station of all its lottery tickets, is racing to get out of town. The hero, who looks forward to his weekly stab at being a millionaire, grows incensed when he picks up the crime on his shortwave radio. He heads for the catering truck in his

Sopwith

Camel and intends to clip the fleeing truck with his plane (you must hit the right side of the catering truck). You’ve got to pull off this stunt before the catering truck passes the Stop ‘N’ Rob and goes out of view.

Set filename: HIGHWAY.SET First take bonus: 300 Crash penalty: 390 Take penalty: 180

Scene 17. Land before the armored truck.

This stunt opens the upcoming film on the autobiography of Tex S. Cooper, the World War II veteran pilot and volunteer sheriff who would chase down criminals in his plane. In this re-creation, you’re going to stop the hijacked armored truck by landing your Pitts Special in front of it without hitting any other vehicles. You must intercept the armored truck between the two freeway overpasses.

Set filename: STOPARMR.SET

First take bonus: 270

Crash penalty: 360 Take penalty: 270 Maximum takes allowed: 10

Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 18. Fly down an aqueduct.

Scene 16. Fly over a train in a tunnel.

Here’s one that’11 test your nerves. You need to fly your

Sopwith

Camel through a tunnel as a train passes through in

the opposite direction. You’ve got a very narrow flight corridor, but you wouldn’t be assigned this stunt if it couldn’t be done. Don’t drop below 4 feet, and watch your speed or you may find yourself exiting the tunnel before the train even gets there

that’s a “no go”!

Set filename: TRAINTNL.SET

An aqueduct that runs between the ocean and a dam is flanked intermittently by towers. The towers will be to the left, to the right, or on both sides of the aqueduct near overcrossings. Your goal is to fly your Pitts Special beneath any overcrossings that are flanked by a tower. Here’s the catch: The crossroads that traverse the aqueduct are each held up by two supports, dividing the flight space beneath the overcrossing into three parts.

You must fly through the section that the tower is next to. If

two towers flank an overcrossing, you must fly between supports (basically, through the center of the aqueduct).

both

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Set filename: AQUEDUCTSET First take bonus: 750 Crash penalty: 450 Take penalty: 270 Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 19. Crash through a billboard.

Zig zag your way through six big rigs and then crash through a billboard that’s beyond the line of big rigs. You must keep your Piper Cherokee within 20 feet of each truck and fly no higher than 50 feet. Start the stunt by flying to the right of the trailing truck in the convoy.

Set filename: BILLBRD.SET First take bonus: 370 Crash penalty: 240

Take penalty: 90 Maximum takes allowed: 7

Scene 20. Fly inverted past a Jenny.

This movie involves two old fighter pilots with something to prove. In this particular scene, two Jennys will fly inverted to one another. You’ll approach the other Jenny from the opposite direction and as you pass each other, you must be inverted and

above the other Jenny at no greater than the distance of 10 feet. Set filename:

First take bonus: 750 Crash penalty: 480 Take penalty: 360 Maximum takes allowed: 7

JENNYFB.SET

F4U

Corsair

Manufacturer: . . .

. . . . . . The United Aircraft Corp.,

Chance Vought Aircraft Div. Take-off speed: Stall speed:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

m.p.h. m.p.h.

Maximum speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 m.p.h.

Maximum altitude,, Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000 feet

Retractable landing gear: . . . . Yes

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Scene 21. Land on the goalpost.

The San Jose Silverbacks have just won the Superbowl and in

the most flamboyant exhibition of football fanaticism, the lead

character

a diehard fan with a flair for the outrageous

lands his paraglider right on the goalpost. Your job is to land right in the center of the goalpost nearest to you at less than 8 miles per hour. Don’t hit those uprights!

Set filename: GOALPOSTSET First take bonus: 750 Crash penalty: 180

you must land the particularly, on the train car that immediately precedes the caboose. The train will be traveling at 64 m.p.h. and you can’t be traveling at more than 70 m.p.h. when you land on the train car.

Set filename: TRAIN.SET First take bonus: 900

Crash penalty: 450 Take penalty: 270 Maximum takes allowed: 8

Take penalty: 120 Maximum takes allowed: 8

Scene 24. Escape from the U.N.

In this role, you’re a terrorist positioned on the roof of the

Scene 22. Hit the bullseye with your wing.

In this small town scene, you’re going to approach a tower with a bullseye at the top. Fly your Jenny inverted and then hit

the bullseye with your reinforced right wing. Your target is

about 350 feet off the ground. Set filename: TOWERBLL.SET

First take bonus: 750

Crash penalty: 420 Take penalty: 300 Maximum takes allowed: 5

United Nations building. You need to make a bold escape in a parachute. Jump from the top of the building and drift down to a boat that awaits you on the river. Don’t land around the edge of the boat more than 16 m.p.h. unless you have a lot of free time to rehabilitate two broken legs.

Set filename: UN.SET First take bonus: 750 Crash penalty: 150 Take penalty: 270

Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 23. Land on a moving train.

The spy, casually dipping into caviar and enjoying the company of a lovely frauline, thinks he’s safely on his way out of the country. You’re the only thing that stands between him and even more caviar. In your last chance to capture him,

Scene 25. Bomb the SAM site.

In this war scene, you’re going to fly over a large “X” on the ground which will signal the ground-to-air missiles to be launched. You need to dodge these missiles and head for the

Sopwith

nail it dead center - and don’t hit it at

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SAM radar station. When you’re in position, you must drop a

bomb and take out the radar station. This is a one-pass stunt.

Set filename: JUNGLE.SET First take bonus: 750

Crash penalty: 210 Take penalty: 70 Maximum takes allowed: 10

Scene 26. Land on the top of a balloon.

A wedding is taking place in a hot air balloon that the bride’s father is paying your character to stop. You must land a paraglider on the top of a hot air balloon, touching down at a maximum of 13 m.p.h. If you touch the hot air balloon at any point other than at the top, it will cost you a take.

Set filename: BALLOON.SET First take bonus: 600 Crash penalty: 150 Take penalty: 300 Maximum takes allowed: 6

F-l 5C Eagle

Scene 27. Recover from a stall.

The pilot starts out the day eating drug-laced pancakes made

by a vengeful roommate. After breakfast, the pilot is out enjoying a leisurely flight when suddenly the drug takes effect and

the pilot becomes severely disoriented. In this particular scene,

the Spitfire will be flying straight up from the inevitable stall. Hitting the ground is obviously out,

but so is any type of contact with the trees in the forest.

you’ll have to recover

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

......................................

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

............................

...................

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........

McDonnell ,168 m.p.h. ,130 m.p.h. .1,868 m.p.h. .60,000 feet

Yes Yes

Douglas Corp.

Set filename: STALL.SET

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First take bonus: 1,050

Crash penalty: 450 Take penalty: 300 Maximum takes allowed: 4

Scene 28. Slalom through the towers.

Here’s a chance to show your touch in a Bristol Bulldog. You’re going to slalom between six towers, staying as close as possible to each. Enter the slalom to the right of the first tower.

Set filename: OBSTACLE.SET First take bonus: 900 Crash penalty: 1,050 Take penalty: 1,200 Maximum takes allowed: 10

one pass in your A-6E Intruder Set filename: CITYRDAR.SET

First take bonus: 900

Crash penalty: 1,050 Take penalty: 1,200 Maximum takes allowed: 6

Scene 31. Pull out of a dive.

You start this stunt in a Pitts Special that’s pointed straight

towards the earth. You must begin to pull out of the dive at no greater than 400 feet, yet you cannot rise above the altitude of 50 feet once you begin to pull out. When you’ve pulled out of the dive, head straight and then make a hard right bank around the United Nations building. Remember, stay below that 50-foot ceiling at all times.

Scene 29. Fly under two bridges.

No twists or turns to this one. Fly your F16-C Falcon beneath the two bridges at a speed of no less than 1,000 miles per

hour. Hint: Don’t blink.

Set filename: FASTBRDG.SET

Set filename: PULLOUT.SET First take bonus: 1,130

Crash penalty: 450 Take penalty: 360 Maximum takes allowed: 8

First take bonus: 1,500

Crash penalty: 2,400 Take penalty: 1,500 Maximum takes allowed: 4

Scene 32. Fly between sky scrapers.

This one-plane Russian parade is about to take downtown Duluth by surprise. Race the MiG-29 Fulcrum down the street that splits the highrises at a minimum of 1,000 miles per hour.

Bomb

Scene 30.

the three radar sites.

This assignment takes place in the recreation of a busy Middle Eastern city. Your job is to bomb three rotating enemy radars without hitting any surrounding civilian structures. You get

The trick is that you’ll be starting perpendicular to the “urban canyon” so you’ll have to cut hard to get into position.

Set filename: FASTTURN.SET First take bonus: 1,500

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Crash penalty: 2,400 Take penalty: 1,500 Maximum takes allowed: 8

Stunt Assignment “Clues”

If you can’t seem to succeed on a stunt, you can get details on that stunt by loading a copy of it in the Set Design room and studying it. Take a look at where the collision windows are positioned and check the events list to see what exactly the pilot is allowed to do.

Chapters 5 and 6 go into detail about collision windows, the Events option, and all the other components that go into making a stunt. After you read those chapters, you should be able to dissect each of the stunts in the contest. You’ll know what triggers success and what triggers failure.

F-l 6C Falcon

Take-off speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 m.p.h.

Stall speed: Maximum speed:

Manufacturer:

Maximum altitude: . . . . . . . . . 60,000 feet

Flaps:

................

Retractable landing gear:

Note: The Silver Falcon is a color variation of the F-l 6C Falcon.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General

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Dynamics Corp.

130 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 m.p.h.

Yes

. . . . . . . . Yes

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CHAPTER 5

Production: Set Creation

and Filming

The set is every bit as important as the actor when it comes to setting the proper mood for the movie. A good set will aid the viewers’ ability to “suspend their disbelief”; that is, make the viewers forget they’re watching a movie and draw them into the

Shattering the movie illusion is simple. You could easily destroy period authenticity in an outdoor 1940s period piece by having a mercury street light with a square head in the background - something not invented until much later. You could wind up with a doubtful location by putting a telephone booth on the outskirts of a jungle. Or maybe you’ll go all out and absolutely tax the viewer’s ability to suspend disbelief by putting a pen of horses in the shadow of the Eiffel tower.

Unless the director is shooting a scene that represents someone’s imagination, rewrites history, or presents a visionary slice of the future, creating a believable set is important. that is, except in Stunt Island. You can create your sets however you like. Your audience will be you and your friends. If you want the Golden Gate Bridge to span the Washington Monument and a hay barn, you’re the director!

onscreen

world, accepting it as a real time in a real place.

Select the Production sign to enter the production building. You can also select the Set Design or Stunt Coord(inator) signs to go straight to those offices.

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STUNT COORDINATOR - Select this to receive film flying assignments from the stunt coordinator. You must complete

26 of the 32 assignments within a certain number of attempts to qualify for Stunt Pilot of the Year. (Complete details on the

Stunt Pilot of the Year contest are in Chapter 4.)

The production building is where you can go to: +

Choose the film location

Place props in the location

Select the aircraft used for the stunt

Position the aircraft for the stunt

Fly an assignment from the stunt coordinator

Check the competition standings

Inside the building you’ll see these signs:

SET DESIGN - Click on this to go to the Set Design screen, where sets are created and film is shot.

STUNT PILOT COMPETITION STANDINGS - Click on

this to find out the standings in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest. This option is only available if you’ve entered the contest; otherwise, nothing will happen when you select this option.

EXIT - Click on this to leave the production building.

Creating Sets

To create sets, select the Set Design option. You’ll see the following screen:

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Island View Window and Its Options

On the left side of the screen is an overhead view of Stunt Island. The position of the Sth/Nrth-Wst/East axis determines those values in the lower left corner; whatever point on the island is directly beneath the intersection of the Wst/East location where set work will take place.

axis (the center of the crosshairs) is the default

Sth/Nrth-

To move the islands position on the screen, move the cursor

onto the Island View window, hold down a button and then roll the mouse or move the joystick. Keyboard users can move the cursor into the island window, hold down the Enter key and

then press any of the arrow keys to move the island. Joystick and mouse users can hold down the left and right buttons to simultaneously change the orientation and tilt of the island.

The horizontal bar directly under the Island View window lets you zoom in and out on the island. Select the - (minus) button

to zoom in or select the + (plus) button to zoom out. You can also slide the box along the scroll bar to zoom in or out.

F/A-18AHornet

Manufacturer:

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The Sth/Nrth and Wst/East axis values go from 0 to 200,000 and represent distance in feet. The Sth/Nrth-Wst/East value of O-O is in the lower left comer of the screen. The center of the screen has the Sth/Nrth-Wst/East value of 100,000-100,000. The upper right comer of the screen has the value of

STH/NRTH - This represents the south/north axis. To change this, select the - (minus) or + (plus) buttons. Because the southernmost value is 0 and the northernmost value is

200,000, you will always select - (minus) to decrease the number, or move south. You will always select + (plus) to increase the value, or move north. You can also highlight the

Sth/Nrth field and enter a new number.

WST/EAST

(minus) or + (plus) buttons. Because the westernmost

the value is 0 and the easternmost value is 200,000, you will always

(minus) to decrease the number, or move west. You will

select always select + (plus) to increase the value, or move east. You can also highlight the Wst/East field and enter a new number.

An editing tip..

In options that have values that can be changed, there are two ways to change the values:

You can click on the - (minus) or + (plus) button to

decrease or increase the value. Each click with the left

mouse button changes the value by one, while each

click with the right mouse button changes the value by 30.

You can click on the value itself and then enter a new number. Use the Backspace key or Delete key to delete

the current value.

This is the west/east axis. To change this, select

200,000-200,000.

ORIENT (Orientation) - This changes the orientation of the map. Select the - (minus) button to rotate the overhead view

of the island clockwise. Select the + (plus) button to rotate the island counterclockwise. Changing the orientation will not affect the Sth/Nrth and Wst/East values. The range of values

is 0 to 359.

TILT view to a side-on view, and vice versa. The range of value is 1 to 90.

STUNT - This is a descriptive name for the loaded set. Because the filenames can only be eight characters long, the Stunt field gives you the chance to give the stunt a longer, more descriptive name. This description also appears when

you highlight the filename on the Load screen.

USER - The default stunt name is “User.” To change this, select the User field and enter a new stunt description of up to approximately 25 characters. Press Enter to accept the description.

Prop Windows and Its Options

The top right object window shows the currently selected prop. A prop can be the aircraft you’re flying, the cameras used to record the action, or any number of moving or stationary objects.

This adjusts the view of the island from an overhead

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The bar beneath the window shows the name of the aircraft or prop in the window. Select the up or down arrows to scroll through the objects. You have up to 40 slots for props, aircrafts, and cameras:

Slot 1 is always reserved for the object that you control

Slot 2 is always reserved for the spotter plane.

Slots 3 through 8 are for any objects. These objects will be given recording capabilities, no matter what they are.

Slots 9 through 40 are for any props.

PLACE - (Before you can use Place, you need to use the Add option to select an object.) Select this to place the selected object at the location where the crosshair is positioned in the Island View window. Select Place again if you want to “pick up” the object to place elsewhere. When the object is picked up, you can make adjustments to the Sth/Nrth-Wst/East settings and then select Place again to place the object.

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F-88 Sabre

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed:

Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

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Retractable landing gear:

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North American Aviation, Inc, ,122 m.p.h. ,110 m.p.h. .617 m.p.h. .50,800 feet

Yes Yes

CAUTION:

values for the object, they will be reset to 0 when you

“unplace” and replace the

any values you want to use again.

GO TO - This takes you to the location of the currently selected prop (the one displayed in the upper right window). For props 3 through 8, you can also click in the actual object

window to see that prop’s point-of-view.

ADJ (Adjust) plane or prop. Complete details on the ADJ option buttons are under “Special Prop Controls page 68.

ADD - Select this to add a prop. The props are organized by type. Select a prop category and a list of objects appears. Highlight an object from the list. Use the scroll bar to the right of the object window to scroll the list up or down. Select OK to select the highlighted prop.

DEL (Delete) slot and shown in the window. “Free” appears in the name slot to indicate that the item has been deleted and that the slot is

now unoccupied. Deleting an object from a slot does not affect

the numbering of any subsequent props.

You cannot delete an object that has been locked by the Lock button on the ADJ screen. You must select ADJ and then select Lock to unlock it; then you can delete it. Lock is used to keep

If you’ve entered any roll, pitch, or yaw

obJect.

Be sure to write down

This option lets you adjust the location of any

The Adjust Window,” on

Select this to remove the object listed in the

you from accidentally deleting or modifying a prop.

HIDE (the

you’re adjusting

GLOBAL

Ret gram will start recording when the stunt begins (when you select Action-Take from the Camera Crew screen). If you turn REC off, you will need to use the Events option to tell the program exactly when to start filming (complete details on the Events option are in Chapter 6). If REC is set to Auto,

it only begins recording when you select Action -Take if Film

Editing on the Preferences screen is off.

In the more advanced stunts that you create, you won’t always want to immediately start filming when you select Take. Some stunts require time to get into position - time that you will not need to capture on film. For example, you might be filming a scene where you want to land on the top of a highrise. You could set it up so that the program only starts to record when the plane is within 20 feet of the rooftop of the highrise.

Hides all the objects whose visibility

VIS

button is not pressed in). The exception is the object

it’s always available.

Global contains a variety of settings, as follows:

To change any of the numbers in the fields on the screen, select the number, press Delete or Backspace to delete the number, type in a new number, and then press Enter.

(Record) -With REC on (the default setting), the pro-

(VIS)

is not on

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Time - You can create a set that represents any hour of the day.

Stunt Island operates on a 24 hour clock. night, 1:00 to 11:00 are the morning (a.m.) hours, 12:00 is noon, and 13:00 to 23:00 represent the afternoon/evening (p.m.) hours. To change the time of day, click on the arrows above the hours or minutes.

View flight. The forward view during flight is the default camera shot.

View lets you select the pilot’s initial view during

0:00

represents mid-

Pilot CP

Pilot no CP

Left side Looking out left side of aircraft

Right side Looking out right side of aircraft

Rear Looking out rear of aircraft Bomb Looking through bottom of aircraft Spotter

Looking out front of aircraft with cockpit;

this is the default option Looking out front of aircraft without the cockpit

Looking through spotter plane’s point-of-view

1st Take - Dollar bonus for successful first take

Crash - Dollar penalty for crash

Take Penalty - Dollar penalty for each take you require after the first one

Max Takes the stunt successfully. Exceeding this value will get you fired.

The maximum number of takes allowed to perform

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F-l 17A Stealth (Fighter)

Manufacturer:,.. . . . . . . . . Lockheed Corp.

Take-off speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 m.p.h.

Stall speed:

Maximum speed: . . . . . . . . . . 673 m.p.h.

Maximum altitude: . . . . . . . . 60,000 feet

Flaps: Retractable landing gear:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

. . . . . . . . Yes

Camera - This is the initial camera for auto-edited films. It’s the camera that you would like to use to establish your initial

How to Select Your Stunt Aircraft

shot. Prop slots 1 through 8 are slots that record film. You can set up a camera in any of these slots and have the initial camera be one of them. For those editing their own films, the ini-

+ +

tial camera is irrelevant since you will be determining exactly

what segments of film get edited into the final order.

Gear

Determines initial position for landing gear (up or

down) on the aircraft in prop slot 1. Some aircraft do not have

retractable landing gear.

Flaps - Determines initial position for flaps (up or down) on the aircraft in prop slot 1. Some aircraft do not have

moveable

flaps.

Brakes

Determines initial setting for brakes on the aircraft

in prop slot 1.

Go to slot 1 in the prop field below the Prop window. Select ADD. A window opens which shows all the prop categories.

Highlight Planes (at the bottom of the list) and select Open.

A list of aircraft appear.

Highlight the one you want to fly and then select OK.

Weapon - Lets you choose the initial weapon bomb, or no weapon (None) - for the aircraft in prop slot 1.

During flight, you can press the W key to toggle through the

weapons. Some aircrafts do not have weapons; however, you can

“cheat” and use this Weapon option to engage a weapon that this aircraft would not have under normal conditions. The aircraft will have the weapon engaged when you go to fly the stunt.

EVENTS- The EVENTS option is an option that lets you create stunt assignments for you or others to do. Because this is an option that teaches you advanced techniques, it’s covered in a separate chapter (Chapter 6).

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Choose the location where you want the aircraft placed by positioning the intersection of the hair in the Island View window over that location.

Select Place. The aircraft is placed wherever the

Wst/East is located on the map, facing due north. Be sure to select Place to place the aircraft; otherwise when you select Fly Stunt, you’ll be told, “Prop 1 needs to be placed before the stunt can be flown.” If you want to see your aircraft, select island, or slide the button on the bar to the left.

Sth/Nrth-Wst/East

cross

Sth/Nrth-

(-)

below the Island View window to zoom in on the

To move the aircraft’s starting location at any time, see “How to Move a Prop.”

You can only select one aircraft to directly control with your mouse, joystick, or keyboard. This aircraft must be placed in slot 1 in order for you to be able to control it. If you put your aircraft in slot 3, you will not be able to fly it.

Any object placed in prop 1 can be flown. However, unless it’s an object that comes from the Planes category, the object will be flown with generic flight characteristics. The aircraft in the Planes category have specific flight characteristics.

How to Place A Prop

Select a prop slot number. Slots 3 through 8 give the object recording capabilities. Objects in slots 9 through 40 do not record.

Select ADD.

Highlight a prop category and select Open.

A list of objects in that category appears. Highlight an object and then select OK to accept it. To switch to another category, select Close. To exit the window, select Cancel.

Select Place. The prop is placed wherever the Wst/East crosshair is located on the map. If a prop has not been placed when the set is saved, the prop will be placed at the location of the current crosshair.

Sth/Nrth -

Fokker Dr.1 (Triplane)

Manufacturer: .........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

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Retractable landing gear:

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How to Move a Prop

Go to the slot number that the prop is in. This prop should appear in the upper right window.

Select Place to “pick up” the prop. This removes the prop

from the Island View window. Be careful when you “unplace”

and roll values that you may have entered.

Change the position of the Sth/Nrth-Wst/East crosshair in the island window; move the intersection of the crosshair

to the prop’s new location.

Select Place again to place the prop in its new location.

an option because it will zero out all yaw, pitch,

window. Now you can select DEL to delete the prop.

Special Prop Controls - The Adjust Window

The most important thing to determine is what type of prop

you want this to be (in the Adjust window). Knowing what

type of prop this is establishes which of the other settings in the Adjust window you’ll be able to use. Props must be categorized as one of the following:

FACE SEEK FOLLOW

FREE SPOT ATTACH

Another way to move a prop is to select that prop and then select ADJ to open the Adjust window.

are the props in slot 1 and 2. Slot 1, reserved for the aircraft you fly, has the Face setting. Slot 2, reserved for the spotter plane, has the Spot setting.

On the right side of the screen you’ll see the Position options.

All props have the default setting of Free. The two exceptions

Select the - (minus) or + (plus) button to increase or decrease

the Sth/Nrth or Wst/East values. You can also highlight either

field, enter a new number, and then press Enter.

The other options and values that you see in the Adjust window

(Position, Facing, Heading, Anim, Wtch, etc.) relate to a prop’s position and animation values (optional). These options are covered in “How to Fine Tune Props” and “How To Animate Props,” later in this chapter.

How To Delete A Prop

To delete a prop, select it (it should appear in the Prop window in the upper right corner of the screen). Select the DEL option to remove it.

If the DEL option does not work, the Lock feature is on. To

turn off the Lock feature, select ADJ to open the Adjust win-

dow. Select Lock to turn it off and then select OK to close this

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Face Props

This causes an object to move in the direction it’s facing.

Prop 1, reserved for the aircraft you control, has a permanent setting of Face. Whatever direction your aircraft’s facing, it will

fly in that direction. This restricts you from being able to fly

your aircraft sideways or backwards

If you turn WTCH (Watch) on for any of the camera slots

(l-8), the Watch feature will override the Face feature. This

object will watch whatever object you assign to it. Complete

details on Watch are on page 79.

You can adjust any of the following options when you select Face:

FREE props are those that do not respond to other props. You place the prop where you want, how you want. If you want to animate this prop, you can. Free is the default setting for all props, except props 1 (the aircraft you control) and 2 (the spotter plane).

The Free and Face categories work exactly the same for inanimate objects. If you’re placing a building or a boulder or something else that won’t be moving, it really doesn’t matter

Free Props

Hang Glider

Take-off speed: Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

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Retractable landing gear:

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whether you select Free or Face (although Free will be the default setting in props 3 and

up).

For example, you could have a car positioned at one end of the

island and you could have it seek a building at the other end of

the island. You set the speed and the car will travel towards the The crucial difference between Free and Face arises if the object must move. Face objects can only move in the direction they’re facing. Free objects, on the other hand, can be facing in one

building until it reaches it. Once the prop reaches the designated object, it will continue to revolve around the object in a

tight circle.

direction and move in another. Let’s say you have a house

perched on a hill and you want it to slide down the hill

Free allows you to send the house off the hill in any direction. If the house had the setting of Face, it could only slide down the hill in the direction it’s facing (in this case, it’s in the direction of the front door).

You can adjust any of the following options when you select Free:

In order to avoid having this object keep revolving around the other object once it has reached its target, you need to either have it explode so it disappears, or use the Events option to remove the object or change its heading once it reaches its destination.

When you have an object seek another object, the Heading values of Pitch and Yaw become unavailable. An object always seeks another object in a straight line, so that imaginary straight line between the two objects determines the values

for Heading Pitch and Yaw.

You can adjust any of the following options when you select Seek:

Seek Props

Select Seek if you want this prop to seek out another prop at the speed you set. The object that this prop will seek out must be entered in the slot after Seek.

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Spot is best suited for use in any of the camera slots (3 through

8). Spot lets the camera follow the prop you define, auto-acljusting for the best viewing angle. Spot is best utilized for a camera

that’s “tracking” a moving object because of its auto-adjusting capabilities.

The slot number of the prop that’s being spotted must be entered in the box next to Spot.

You can have a non-camera prop (in

Spot setting, but keep in mind that an object without recording capabilities will not be able to take advantage of the Spot’s key feature - the auto-adjusting capability.

You can adjust any of the following options when you select

spot:

slots

9 or higher) use the

Hawk

Manufacturer:

. . . . . . . . . . British Aerospace Ltd.,

Military Aircraft Div.

Take-off speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 m.p.h.

Stall speed: 122 m.p.h.

Maximum speed: . . . . . . . . . 621

m.p.

h. Maximum altitude: 50,000 feet

Flaps: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

Follow Props

This option forces this prop to match another’s roll, pitch, yaw,

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altitude, and speed values. The slot number of the prop that is

other must face in the same direction

being followed must be entered in the box next to Follow.

Here’s an example of a use for Attach: You could attach a

Although the Follow option is most appropriate for aircrafts flying in formation, you can use it for a flock of birds, fleet of vehicles, group of missiles, and so on. For example, you could animate one UFO to slowly ascend, spinning as it rises. Then you could add four more UFOs to the set, having all of them follow - in essence, mimic - the first UFO’s actions.

camera below an aircraft and catch the action of bombs being dropped. No matter how the aircraft moves, the camera will always capture the view from directly below the aircraft. You could also do “non-camera” things like attaching a wing walker to an aircraft’s wing or attaching a covered wagon to the back of a moving horse.

The Offset Position screen lets you establish where this prop is in relation to the prop it’s following. If you leave the values at

zero, this prop will be placed directly on top of the other prop.

Although they sound alike in function, Follow and Attach behave very differently. Follow causes one prop to mimic

another’s values, while Attach causes one prop to stay in a fixed position in relation to another prop.

The following options are available when you select Follow:

In the example below, notice how the aircrafts start out in the same positions. But when the initial prop banks, the Follow

and Attach props behave differently.

Attach Props

This causes an object to remain attached to another object. The number of the prop that this prop is being attached to must be entered after Attach. Props that are attached to each

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A B

Original starting position

when Attach is selected

As with the Follow option, the Attach option requires you to

enter Offset Position values to determine where it should be in

relation to the main prop. If you don’t enter offset positions,

this prop will be placed right on top of the other prop.

The following Adjust options are available when you select Attach:

Before you begin working in depth with these prop types, select each of them to become acquainted with their possible

settings. Notice how the options in the Adjust window change

depending on which one you selected.

How to Fine Tune a Prop

Whether stationary or animated, your prop is positioned a

certain way when the cameras start rolling. If you’re content

with how the prop looks when you placed it, you don’t need

to make any of the following adjustments. But if you want to do something like tilt a prop, elevate it, turn it sideways, etc.,

do the following:

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Go to the prop slot for that object. The prop should appear in the upper right window.

Select ADJ to open the Adjust window.

For objects assigned FACE, FREE, and SEEK:

Under the Position section, select an altitude at

This is your prop’s point-of-view, which is what it will see when recording starts. As you make adjustments to the previous settings, the prop’s point-of-view should change accordingly. For example, if you change yaw, the point-ofview should move sideways. If you change pitch, the point-of-

view should move up or down.

which this prop will start and a speed at which

this prop will travel. The

Sth/Nrth settings don’t need to be adjusted unless you want this prop moved to a new location.

Under the Facing section you can adjust the Roll,

Pitch, or Yaw, if desired. These properties are the same as those of an aircraft.

For objects assigned SPOT, FOLLOW, or ATTACH:

Select the Offset Positions for Pitch, Yaw, and

and

Wst/East

You can get the point-of-view for props in slot 2 through 8 simply by clicking on it when it’s in the Prop window. This saves you from having to open the Adjust window just to check the prop’s point-of-view.

Spotter plane note: You can change the spotter plane’s prop

type to something other than Spot, but this may cause erratic results. You should leave the spotter plane setting on Spot since the spotter plane was designed to be used with this setting.

Dist(ance). This positions this object in a specific spot from the defined object.

Starting Altitude and Speed

A starting altitude and speed can be given to Face and Free

When you’re adjusting props 2 through 8, you’ll see a view that

objects through the Adjust window.

has brackets around the corners and a cross hair in the center.

ALTITUDE of the object to the ground. Even if an object is resting on the ground, unless it’s perfectly flat, it will have an altitude. The object will maintain this altitude unless you change it.

An object’s altitude is measured from the center

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How to Animate a Prop

Except for your aircraft in prop slot 1, every object in the Stunt

Island inventory can be animated. It doesn’t matter what it is

automobile, building, cactus, billboard, etc.

There are two types of animated props: still and dynamic. A still prop that’s animated simply goes from one point to another, like a missile. The missile itself does not have animated characteristics like spinning.

A dynamic prop is one that not only travels from point A to point B, but also moves along its vertical, lateral, and/or longi-

tudinal axis (its yaw, roll, and/or pitch is changing). For example, let’s study a car that’s spinning out of control down a stretch of road. As the car spins, it moves along its vertical axis

its yaw is constantly changing as the car spins. It’s also

traveling down the road as it’s spinning. This is a dynamic prop. If the car wasn’t spinning, but pointing in one fixed direction while going from A to B, it would be a still prop instead of a dynamic one.

Please keep in mind that this program doesn’t animate in the

classic sense: legs don’t move, wheels don’t spin, wings don’t flap. Animate is about moving objects from A to B, and whether those objects as a whole pitch, roll, or yaw.

Animating a Still Prop

Place a prop, as outlined in “How to Place a Prop.”

Go to the slot the prop occupies

Select the ADJ option.

going from point A to point B

Junkers Ju 87D Stuka

Manufacturer:

Take-off speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Stall speed: Maximum speed:

Maximum altitude: . . . . . . . . 24,000 feet

Flaps: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

Retractable landing gear:

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Motorenwerke

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Under the Position section, select an altitude at which this

prop will start and a speed at which this prop will travel. The Sth/Nrth and Wst/East settings don’t need to be adjust-

ed unless you want this prop moved to a new location.

Under the Facing section you can adjust the Roll, Pitch, or Yaw, if desired. You do not need to enter new settings for

this prop unless you want the prop’s current roll, pitch or

yaw to be different. Free props: Under the Heading section, select the Pitch and

Yaw. Pitch determines the angle at which the prop will travel while Yaw determines which direction on the compass

the prop will head. A negative pitch value causes the prop to go down, while a positive pitch value causes it to rise.

This is all you need to do to animate a still prop. You should not have selected the

ANIM(ate)

button on the

screen. The Anim button is reserved for dynamic props. When you film the stunt, the prop will move according to

the Speed, Pitch, and Yaw settings that you entered. The prop will continue on its path indefinitely. You can stop an animated prop by having it eventually collide and explode with something or by having it disappear or change by using the Events option (details in Chapter 6).

Animating a Dynamic Prop

Place a prop, as outlined in “How to Place a Prop.”

Go to the slot the prop occupies.

Select the ADJ option.

Under the Position section, select an altitude at which this

prop will start and a speed at which this prop will travel. The Sth/Nrth and Wst/East settings don’t need to be adjusted unless you want this prop moved to a new location.

Under the Facing section you can adjust the Roll, Pitch, or

Yaw, if desired. You do not need to enter new settings for

this prop unless you want the prop’s starting roll, pitch or

yaw to be different.

Under the Heading section, select the Pitch and Yaw. Pitch

determines the angle at which the prop will move while Yaw determines which direction on the compass the prop will head. A negative pitch value causes the prop to go

down, while a positive pitch value causes it to rise.

Next, click on Anim. Notice how the numbers reset to 0.

That’s so you can now enter values for how much the prop will move for its Roll, Pitch, and/or Yaw. The higher the value, the faster it will roll, pitch, or yaw. If the value is 0

for roll, the object will not roll. If the value is 0 for pitch,

the object will not change its pitch. If the value for yaw is

0, the object will not yaw.

For example, if you want to make a car “spin out” you

would enter a value like 360 for Yaw. This tells the car to move 360 degrees per second. If you wanted a man to flip head over heels, you could enter a Pitch value of 180. This

tells the man to pitch forward, 180 degrees per seconds.

The options under the Heading section let you program the

prop to move. The prop can travel along at a certain pitch and in a certain direction.

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Anim Heading Pitch - The object, if given speed, will

move in a North/South circular pitch. A positive value will cause the object to move clockwise. A negative value will cause the object to move counter clockwise.

If you do not enter a speed, the object will not move.

Anim Heading Yaw - The object, if given speed, will move in an East/West circular pattern. A positive value will cause the object to move clockwise. A negative value will cause the object to move counter clockwise. If there is no speed, the object will not move.

Note: When using the Anim Heading Yaw or Pitch options, the prop may drift slightly.

When you go to film the stunt, the prop will move according to the various settings you established.

The prop will continue moving along its path indefinitely.

If you want to designate a specific stopping point for a prop, or if you want to “program” specific things to happen with an animated prop, you’ll need to use the Events option.

(Complete details on the Events option are in Chapter 6.)

Note: If you set a speed and/or altitude for a still animated prop and then set a different speed for a dynamic animated prop, the larger of the two speed and/or altitude values will be used.

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Junkers Ju 88A

Manufacturer: ...........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed: Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

.......................................

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

.............................

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Junkers Flugzeug

Motorenwerke ,114 m.p.h. .95 m.p.h. .295 m.p.h. .25,000

feet

Yes

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Having More Than One Stunt Aircraft

You can only control one aircraft at a time with your mouse,

joystick, or keyboard. However, you can make other aircraft

this category are “collision windows” and are explained in Chapter cosmetic. They behave the same when it comes to filming.

fly in formation with the aircraft you’re controlling through the Follow option.

Cameras don’t have to he cameras. have Camera 1 or Camera 2 in slots 3 through 8 to capture action

How to Set Up Cameras

The directory of photography (also referred to as the cinema-

record action. You could put a water fountain in one of these slots and it

tographer) works with the director to translate the screenplay into moving photographic images. The director of photography doesn’t physically operate the camera and lights; that work is carried out by the DP’s support staff consisting of people like the camera operator, the gaffer, and the key grip. In your role as DP,

you’ll decide where you want the cameras positioned to capture

the action.

Setting up a camera in Stunt Island follows the same procedures as setting up a prop. You choose the camera you want to

use, place it in a specific location, and make fine adjustments

When you select a prop for the camera slots, be sure to choose

a Face, Free, Seek, Spot, Follow, or Attach option to determine

what this camera should do. Except in the case of Face or Free

cameras, be sure to enter a prop’s slot number after the prop type (e.g., Attach 4 tells the camera to stay attached to the

prop in slot 4).

FACE camera will not track an object unless you select WTCH and turn it on.

on its positioning.

FREE - The camera will remain stationary at the location it’s

There is a total of 8 possible camera shots: one from the stunt aircraft (prop slot

l),

one from the spotter plane (prop slot 2),

placed; the camera will not track an object unless you select WTCH and turn it on.

and six from other positions that you can select (prop slots 3 through 8). The stunt and spotter plane shots are always

SEEK

automatically shot. The remaining cameras are optional.

SPOT

The two types of cameras

Camera 1 and Camera 2 - are

the object centered in its frame.

located in the Production Tools category (the other props in

6).

The only difference between these cameras is

It’s

not necessary to

any prop placed in these slots will

will

have recording capabilities.

The camera will face in the direction you set it; the

The camera will seek out a defined object

The camera will stay with a defined object and keep

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FOLLOW - The camera will mimic the moves of the defined object.

ATTACH - The camera will be attached to the defined object,

filming the action from a fixed point in relation to the defined object.

If you choose the Spot, Follow, or Attach option, use the ADJ option to set the Offset Positions of pitch, yaw, and distance. This establishes the position of the camera in relation to the object.

The cameras automatically start rolling when you select Take as long as REC in the Global option is not turned off. If you don’t want the filming to begin right when you select Action-Take, turn REC off and then use the Events option to

determine when filming should start (the Events option is covered in Chapter 6)

After you’re done filming, you can go to the post-production building to load and edit any of the footage you’ve shot.

During filming, you can press Ctrl and any of the F8

keys to switch among the camera views.

Action-

through

The Watch (WTCH) Option

The Watch (WTCH) option lets you make one prop watch another prop with a specific zoom (magnification) setting. No matter where the defined object moves, this object will

change its angle to “watch” the defined object, Watch has

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priority over all other settings.

from 0.2 to 7.99. The higher the value, the more powerful the zoom. (See the, next option, for “Auto” details on using this

The Watch option is a key feature for those props in slots 1

number.) through 8, since these are the “camera” slots. The camera slots take advantage of the zoom (magnification) capabilities of the

Watch option since these slots can record the action.

AUTO - This is associated with the Zoom value. If you select Auto, the camera will shift the Zoom value in order to keep

the object at a constant size. The size will be determined by If you select the Watch option for prop slots 9 or higher, you

will not have the zoom options; you will only be able to enter a

the level of zoom set before Autozoom is activated (the default

Zoom value is 1 number for this prop to watch. This is useful for props that you

want to film watching other props. For example, you could

capture ground missiles tracking a plane that’s passing over-

head. Or, you could film people watching a drag race, with their

If the Auto option is not selected, should the object that the

camera is focused on get closer than the Zoom value, the Zoom will not pull back to adjust.

bodies turning to follow the action as it goes down the road.

When you select WTCH (Watch), the following options are available:

Adjust Screen “Programming” Options

The options at the bottom of the Adjust window let you control certain details on how this prop should be treated by the program.

.O).

1.0 (Zoom) - The initial zoom value for this camera (only

applicable to props 1 through 8). The acceptable values range

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VIS (Visible) - This option is always automatically selected.

When selected, it keeps this object visible during filming. You may not want certain objects, like cameras or collision windows, to be visible during filming.

COLL (Collision) - If Collision is selected, then this object is

deemed as one that can be “hit.” If this isn’t selected, then this

object is “transparent” object strikes it. For example, you probably won’t want a cloud to have the Collision option on since clouds can be flown through. Or maybe you want to pretend a building is a hologram that can be flown through. Without Collision selected, the program ignores these as “strikable” objects; you can hit them without anything occurring. An object that has Collision

on does not mean it will explode whenever something hits it; in order for an object to explode when it’s struck, you must also select EXP (Explosion).

All objects used on the permanent Stunt Island locations have

Collision on.

it won’t register a collision if another

EXP (Explosion) - EXP tells this object to explode (stock explosion footage is used) whenever any other object hits it. For example, if the current prop is a car, you can select EXP to

have the car explode whenever anything

beachball or cornstalk work, Collision must also be on; otherwise, this object will not be recognized as something that can be hit.

SHD (Shadow) shadow will be cast by the prop.

When the Shadow option is selected, a

strikes it. In order for Explode to

the object is airborne, a

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be it missile, man,

Learjet 60

Manufacturer: ........................... Learjet,

Take-off speed:

Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

.......................................

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

.............................

.....................

..................

......... Yes

,146 m.p.h. ,122 m.p.h.

548 m.p.h.

.51,000

Yes

Inc.

feet

shadow will only appear when it’s close enough to the ground to cast a shadow. Objects with shadows take longer to process.

LOAD SET - Select this to load a previously saved set. Select

a name and then select OK to load the set. If you’re using a slower machine, you should consider leaving the Shadow option off.

SAVE SET - Select this to save this set. Type in a name and

select OK. You can overwrite any of the original sets, but we

OK - Select OK to accept the changes made.

recommend you save any modified sets under a new name.

LOCK

Select this to “lock” the screen so changes can’t

inadvertently be made. You must select Lock again to unlock

You can find complete details on Load and Save File requesters

in Chapter 2.

the screen before you can make any modifications. Lock also keeps you from accidentally deleting a prop through the DEL option. If you’ve made changes to a prop and then realize it’s locked, you can select Lock twice; this unlocks it, accepts the changes you’ve made, and then relocks it.

Creating New Sets

You can clear the current set by selecting the New option. If you haven’t saved the current set when you select New, you’re given the chance to save it before it’s cleared away. The New

CANCEL

Cancels any changes made.

option only clears the set; it doesn’t change your location.

Tips on Designing a Set

Saving and loading Sets

There are several dozen pre-built sets. All sets have the file extension of SET. You can personalize a pre-built set by

adding or removing props. When you save a pre-built set that

There are dozens of permanent locations on Stunt Island. Objects cannot be removed from a permanent set, but they can be added. (You’ll find a complete listing of permanent

locations in Appendix B.) you’ve modified, you can save it under its current name or give it a new name. We recommend you give it a new name so you

always have the original set intact.

There are also 32 pre-built sets. These sets are exact duplicates

of the ones used in the Stunt Pilot of the Year competition.

These pre-built sets have the cameras placed, the props set up,

Changing the pre-built sets will not affect the stunts used in

and the aircraft you control ready to go.

the contest. The contest sets use different files that you do not have access to. The sets that you do have access to are replicas of the contest sets.

You can personalize a pre-built set by loading it and making any modifications you want. When you save a pre-built set

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that you’ve modified, you should save it under a new name so the original name remains intact for future use. (You’ll find a complete list of set names under the stunt assignment descriptions at the end of Chapter 4.)

If you’re building an elaborate set from scratch, you should group set types together. For instance, let’s say you’re creating a set near a shore. Rather than simply adding props consecu-

tively, you could reserve slots 10 through 20 for boats, 20

through 30 for buildings along the shoreline, and slots 30 to 40 for people. It’s easier to edit a set when you don’t have to scroll through your entire inventory to find one prop.

How To Film A Stunt

You’re ready to film a stunt after you do one of the following: +

See the stunt coordinator for an assignment. When you accept an assignment, you’ll join the camera crew on location.

Go to the Set Design office and choose a location to fly. You can create a new set or load an existing set. Select Fly Stunt at the Set Design screen and you’ll join the camera

crew on location. A new set can be as simple as having one aircraft placed anywhere on the Island View screen.

Lockheed

TR-1

Manufacturer: ..........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed:

Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

.......................................

Retractable landing gear:

.......................

.............................

....................

..................

......... Yes

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When you’re with the camera crew on location, your options are:

ACTION-TAKE: Select this to begin filming. Press Esc during filming when you’re done or when you want to cut the action and return to the camera crew. The number after “Take” keeps

track of what take this is.

Note: If your computer setup has speech capabilities, you will hear the director say, “Quiet on the set.. Speed. Action!”

(“Speed” instructs th

THAT’S A WRAP: If you select That’s A Wrap immediately after you finish a take, you’re asked if you want to save the take. If you select Yes, you’re shown the Save Take requester. After you save the take, you can edit it in the post-production editing room.

If you chose not to edit, you’ll go to the theatre to view the take.

camera person to start the film rolling.)

PRINT FILM: This prints (or saves) the film footage. Type in a name and then select OK to print the film or Cancel

to cancel this selection.

STUNT COORD: Takes you to the stunt coordinator’s office.

SET DESIGN: This returns you to the Set Design screen. If you’ve recorded any footage that you want to save, you need

to save it before returning to the Set Design screen.

“Disk Full” Issues

If you run out of hard disk space, a requester saying “Disk Full” appears. If this appears, select OK to acknowledge the message. All data from the current flight will be lost and all cameras will shut down. At this point, you should exit to DOS and free up some room on your hard disk drive.

If the footage you recorded does not equal the actual time you invested in flying, that means you passed a one megabyte recording limit for the SPOOL.$$$ file. At the one megabyte limit, cameras will shut down and stop filming, although you can keep flying around. There is no way to get around this since the one megabyte limit is fixed.

leaving the Production Building

Select Exit to exit the production office and/or the production building.

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Questions and Answers

Q. I placed two props but only see one. Why?

A. You may have placed the two props in the same location.

Select DEL to remove the second prop and see if the first prop appears.

I know I placed a prop, but I can’t see it. What happened?

A. Try increasing or decreasing the zoom level. You may be

too far or too close to the object.

Q, All my prop settings of Yaw, Pitch and Roll have 0 as a

value, yet it moves. Why?

A. You have a speed entered. 0 is a valid setting for Yaw, Pitch

and Roll

is due north. For Pitch and Roll, 0 is level. Be sure to check

that the speed is zero when the ANIM button is pressed

and unpressed (animation on and off).

Q, I made my own set and then chose Fly Stunt. I had been

flying around for a long time when the message DISK FULL appeared. What happened? You ran out of disk space. When you chose Fly Stunt, the

program started filming (unless you turned REC off). The longest a flying segment can be is about 20 minutes or 1 megabyte in size, whichever occurs first. To delete this file, exit to DOS. Type SPOOL.$$$ to delete the file that caused your disk to become full. SPOOL.$$$ is a temporary name the file responsible for filling up the disk will be saved under.

0 does not mean nothing is entered. For yaw, 0

CD\STUNTISL\VAULT.

Then type DEL

Lockheed U-2 (Spy Plane)

Manufacturer: ..........................

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed:

Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

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Retractable landing gear:

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,428 m.p.h. .80,000

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The Events option, located on the Set Design screen, lets you set up the parameters

for a stunt.

Events option

Here are some examples of things that can be done with the Events option:

If an aircraft ever gets within a certain radius of the toxic drum, have the drum explode.

If an aircraft fires a weapon that lands within 5 feet of a car, have that car spin out.

Don’t start filming unless the aircraft is within 50 feet of the barn. If a pilot successfully lands his hang glider in the center of the sports stadium,

have cheering sounds and then award the pilot 100 points. If a bomb hits Alcatraz Island instead of the intended boat target 15 feet offshore,

stop the stunt and report “missed marked.”

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If the pilot doesn’t snatch the wingwalker off another aircraft within a certain amount of time, have that

wing-

walker disappear and turn the other aircraft into a UFO

rewarded 100 points. If the pilot doesn’t crash through the billboard, the remaining commands are not executed - no music and no points.

that rises off into space.

The Events options are as follows: Events can be simple or involved, but in either case, they’re easy to create with the Events’ menus. You don’t need to do any programming. Except for entering an occasional number, there’s nothing to do but select the objects and actions.

All the assignments that are used in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest were created through the Events option. You have the same opportunity to create comparable stunts for your own contest. The only difference is that you won’t be able to load your stunts through the stunt coordinator’s office. To fly

that you set up, you must load it at the Set Designscreen.

stunts

EVENT - This is the Event number. Select the - (minus) button to go to the previous event or the + (plus) button to

You can modify any of the sets used in the competition.

go to the next event.

Actually, you won’t be modifying the original sets, but copies

of them. We recommend that you save any original sets you’ve modified under a new name so you always have them intact.

ONE SHOT - Select this if this event can only be done once. For example, an event that checks for the aircraft to crash is

one that you’ll want as a one shot event. With the Events option, you can create your own contest with up to 64 different assignments. When it comes time to fly, just load this set at the Set Design screen and then select Fly Stunt. The Events option functions in an “If - Then” manner. It first checks to see if certain requirements are met. If they are, then the command(s) are executed. For example, you could program a stunt in which the pilot must crash through a billboard. If successfully done, then music plays and the pilot is

COPY

The Copy option is helpful if you have events that are alike. You can copy one event, move to a blank event slot, and then select Paste to copy the event into the new slot. You can then make any necessary modifications to the event. PASTE with the Copy button.

Select this to copy all the contents of this screen.

Select this to paste the contents of what was copied

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CLEAR - Select this to clear all the lines in the current Events list.

You can also use the Del key to delete a line or the Ins key to insert a line on the Events list. To delete a line, place the cursor over

the line you want deleted and press Del. To insert a line, place

the cursor on the line that you want to insert above and press Ins.

If Option

The IF statement sets up this stunt. In order for the remaining statements to be executed, the IF statement must first be satisfied.

do nothing

I do

nothing

and do

nothing

If - Never: This is the default option that acts as a placeholder.

Nothing is executed by this command line if Never is selected.

If - Collision: This checks for a collision between two objects. When you select this option, you’re prompted to select the two objects that must collide. There are two special options that precede prop slot I: Any Weapon and Any Object.

For example, you could set it up so that if your plane hits

Any

Messerschmitt

Manufacturer.Manufacturer.

Take-off speed:Take-off speed: Stall speed:Stall speed:

. . . . . . . . .,......,...,......... 80 m.p.h.. . . . . . . + 80 m.p.h.

Maximum speed: MaximumMaximum altitude:altitude: Flaps:Flaps:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes

Retractable landing gear:

Bf 109G

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Messerschmitt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Messerschmitt

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

.....

...........

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,000 feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,000 feet

........

428 m.p.h.Maximum speed:

428 m.p.h.

YesRetractable landing gear: Yes

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Object, the next statement is executed. Or, you could be much

more specific and require the aircraft to collide into prop slot

15’s

cactus in order to execute the next statement. Both objects

must have COLL (Collision) on under their Adjust windows in

objects

order for the

to be able to collide. (For details on the

Collision option, see page 81.)

Crash: This checks to see if something crashes. If it does, then the next statement is executed. Crashing occurs when anything with COLL (Collision on the Adjust window) turned on crashes into any permanent sets like water, canyon, cities, mountains, the ground - anything that can’t be removed from the island.

If - Time: This checks to see if a certain amount of time has passed. If it has, then the next statement is executed. The maximum value for time is 655 seconds.

If-Weapon Count: This checks to see how many times a weapon has been fired.

And Qualifier

The two AND qualifiers that follow IF let you build on the requirements that must be met before the remaining statements

(starting with THEN) can be executed.

And - Nothing: “Nothing” is the default setting which tells

this statement not to do anything.

And - After Time: This checks for a minimum time requirement. Enter the time in seconds and then select OK. You can enter fractions of a second;( e.g.,

2.3,10.5,438.5,

etc.)

And - Before Time: This checks for a maximum time limit.

Enter the time in seconds and then select OK. You can enter fractions of a second.

And - Event: This checks to see if an Event has been triggered. Enter the event number and select OK.

And - Flag = : Enter a flag number and then the value that you want this flag to equal. Flags are useful for keeping

track of whether things have happened or not. See page

for an explanation of flags.

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And - Flag t : Enter a flag number and then the value that

this flag should not equal. (See page 95 for an explanation on flags.

)

And - No Event: This checks to make sure that a specific Event has not been triggered. Enter the event number and select OK.

Speed > : This checks to see if a prop’s speed is

And greater than a certain value when this event is triggered. You’re asked to select the prop and the minimum speed

And - Speed < : This checks to see if a prop’s speed drops below a certain value when this event is triggered. You’re asked to select the prop and the maximum speed.

Here’s a simple events list that does not use the AND command:

IF [ 500 seconds have elapsed]

THEN [award 500 dollars]

Here’s the same events list using AND. Notice how more qualifications must be met before the THEN statement can be executed:

IF [ 500 seconds have elapsed]

AND [the plane’s speed does not exceed 500 m.p.h.] AND [event 4 has not occurred]

THEN [award 500 dollars]

The above example is more specific about what must happen before the remaining statement can be executed than if only the IF command were used.

Messerschmitt Bf 110Messerschmitt Bf 110

Manufacturer: .Manufacturer: .. .. . . . . . . . . Messerschmitt. . . . . . . . . . Messerschmitt Flugzegbau,Flugzegbau,

G.m.b.h. Take-off speed:Take-off speed:

Stall speed:Stall speed: . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 88. . . . . . . . . . . . 88 m.p.h.m.p.h.

Maximum speed,

Maximum altitude:

Flaps:

........................................

Retractable landing gear:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 m.p.h.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 m.p.h.

.....................

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The first statement is as simple as: “If you eat your meat, then you can have your pudding.” That’s the simple If

Then statement. Compare that to “If you eat your meat and wash behind your ears and do them both within 50 seconds, then you can have your pudding.” The second statement has a few more requirements before you get the pudding payoff.

Then Option

THEN provides the details on what happens if the above requirements are satisfied. THEN has a number of options so you can tailor your event.

Then - Nothing: Do Nothing. “Nothing” is useful as a place holder. For instance, maybe you’ve built a fairly elab-

.”

orate event that you just want to take one “Then.. out of. Rather than rewriting the entire event, you can select Nothing. Or you can use Nothing simply as a spacer

between a couple of executable options.

Then -Auto Stop

Rec:

This lets you stop the recording if

you’ve selected auto-editing.

option

Then - Award $: Enter the number of dollars the pilot

will be awarded.

Then - Change: Changes an object. When you select Change, the object window opens so you can choose the object you want to change. A wide variety of ways to

change this object is presented:

Shape. The Prop window opens. Select the prop you want this one to change into.

WE position. Changes the west-east position.

Altitude. Changes the altitude.

SN position. Changes the south-north position.

Roll. Assigns a new Roll value. A negative number sets a new Roll position to the left; a positive number sets the new Roll position to the right, This sets the object to a new Roll value; there is no motion involved.

Pitch. Assigns a new Pitch value. A negative number decreases Pitch; a positive number increases pitch. This sets the object to a new Pitch value; there is no motion involved.

Yaw. Assigns a new Yaw value. A negative number sets the object Yaw counterclockwise; a positive number sets it clockwise. This sets the object to a new Yaw value; there is no motion involved.

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Roll Anim. Adjusts the speed of rolling. The higher the

number, the faster the rate of roll. (Does not apply to prop

1.) This actually rolls the object along its longitudinal axis; motion is involved. A negative number makes the object roll counterclockwise; a positive number makes it roll clockwise.

Pitch Anim. Adjusts the speed of change in Pitch. The higher the number, the faster the change in pitch. (Does not apply to prop 1.) This actually changes the position of the object along its lateral axis; motion is involved.

Yaw Anim. Adjusts the speed of change in yaw. The higher the number, the faster the change in yaw. (Does not apply to prop 1.) This actually changes the position of the object along its vertical axis; motion is involved.

Heading Pitch. Adjusts the direction of pitch in which this object is moving. This prop must already have an initial speed in order for this function to work.

Heading Yaw. Adjusts the direction of yaw in which this object is moving. This prop must already have an initial speed in order for this function to work.

Heading Pitch Anim. Heading Pitch Anim makes the

object travel in a circular pattern. Think of a chair on a ferris wheel. Heading Pitch Anim lets you set the same type of motion pattern for an object as the chair on a ferris

wheel. The chair itself will not move along its lateral, vertical, or horizontal axis unless you specially use the

MiG-15(UT) Midget

Manufacturer:

Take-off speed: ............. ...123

Stall speed: Maximum speed: Maximum altitude:

Flaps: ....................................... Yes

Retractable landing gear:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mi koyan

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

...........

51,000 feet

.........

Yes

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Pitch Anim, Roll Anim, or Yaw Anim options.

Collideability is explained on page 81.

Heading Yaw Anim. Heading Yaw Anim makes the object travel in a circular pattern. Think of a roulette wheel with a ball in a slot. The object will have the same motion pattern as the ball that’s going around and around. The ball itself isn’t moving unless you specially instruct it to.

Speed. Changes the speed. A negative value causes the object to go in reverse; a positive value causes it to go forward.

Acceleration. Changes the rate of acceleration. The amount you enter will be gradually added to the current speed (add a negative number to reduce speed).

Zoom. Changes the level of zoom. This only applies to objects in prop slots 2 through 8.

Watch Obj. Changes the object that this object is watching. You can set this to 0 (zero) to disable the Watch option.

Method. Lets you select a new type of method for this object (Face, Free, Seek, Spot, Follow, or Attach.)

Method Obj. Lets you choose a new object for the method.

Visibility. You can set this at 0 for off or 1 for on. An object

that is on can be seen on the screen.

Auto zoom. This turns the auto zoom feature under Watch on or off. 0 equals off while 1 equals on. This feature only applies to prop slots 3 through 8.

Then - Cut To: Cut to another camera or object. If the object being cut to is not a camera, nothing will happen.

Then

Then - Fade: Lets you fade the screen. The Fade percent requester appears. Enter the value that you want this screen to fade by; the higher the number, the darker the screen gets.

Then - Finish: Ends the stunt and shows a message stating why the stunt is over. A list appears that lets you choose the appropriate message. In the case of success, choose the Success option. In the case of failure, choose any of the other options.

Then don’t need a certain object anymore. If the program does not need to keep track of it, it can free up room for another object. The object window opens; select the object that you want “killed.”

Then - Set Flag: This lets you choose a flag number and set

it to any value ranging from -128 to 127. For an explanation

on setting up and using flags, see page 95.

Explode: Explodes the prop that you choose.

Kill: Makes an object disappear. This is useful if you

Collideability. You can set this at 0 for off or 1 for on.

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Then - Set Time: This lets you set the time of day. Click on

the up or down arrows to adjust the time.

Then

Start Rec: Starts recording. This option is required when REC on the Global screen is turned off. If REC is turned off and you don’t use Start Rec, recording will never occur. Use

this to tell the program to start recording when the IF

AND requirements are met. All cameras record at the same time; cameras cannot be instructed to individually turn on or off.

Then - Start Sound: This lets you select a piece of music or sound effect. The Select Score window appears; select the sound you want. (Details on the Select Score window are in Chapter 8.)

Then - Stop Rec: Stops recording. Use this to end the Start Rec option, If you don’t include a Stop Rec statement in the

Events list, the recording will stop when the pilot presses Esc

to return to the Camera Crew screen. All cameras record at the same time; cameras cannot be instructed to individually turn on or off.

Then -Wait: You’re prompted to enter the number of seconds to wait before the remaining actions on the Events list are executed. Wait does not affect your flying; you can still fly even though the Event list is waiting to finish executing.

Setting and Using Flags

Flags take on any value that you assign it. The Flag value can

-128

range from

to 127.

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Let’s say your goal in a stunt is to land on a particular spot on a bridge. First, you could set up Event 1 to check if you crashed. If you did, then set flag #I to 1. Now you can use flag #l in any other event as the indicator for whether or not you crashed. You could set up Event 2 to check if you successfully landed on the bridge (represented by the collision window 00010x00010) and

to make sure that flag #l does not equal 1

which you set up

as representing a crash. The events could look something like:

Event 1

IF Piper Cherokee (1) crashes

THEN set flag #l to 1

Event 2

IF Piper Cherokee (1) hits 00010x00010 AND

flag#l # l

THEN finish - success It’s important that you keep in mind that flag values have no

relation to each other, like time or speed or altitude does. You know that with speed, the higher the number the faster you’re

going. Or with time, the greater the number the more time has

elapsed. Flags don’t have such a relative value. It’s merely a number. In the above example, you could easily replace flag #l with flag #12. Or change the flag value from 1 to 4. The only thing that matters with flags is what numbers and what

values you assign them

and that you remember what these

values represent when you use them in another event.

Collision Windows

Under the Production Tool category in the props are “collision

windows.”

Collision windows are simply outlines of rectangles or solid spheres. They work as “space indicators” that let you define an area. Once you place collision windows, you can then use the Event option and define these collision windows as areas

where something should or should not happen.

For example, let’s say you have a stunt where you have to fly between two highrises, with the requirement being that the aircraft pass through the highrises at an altitude no higher

than the fifth floor. You could specify this requirement by setting a collision window that covers the ground up to the fifth floor. The aircraft must past through this collision window or the stunt will not be acknowledged as successful.

In another stunt, you might want a parachutist to land in the center of a stadium. You could lay down a horizontal collision

window that defines the specific area in which the parachutist

must touch down in to call it a successful stunt. You would in effect be laying down a transparent mat that the parachutist must land on in the previous two examples, the collision win-

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dows are rectangular and two-dimensional. There’s another type of collision window that comes in the shape of a sphere. The sphere, unlike the rectangular collision windows, defines a three-dimensional airspace. A sphere is useful when defining an airspace that doesn’t matter what direction you approach it from when you “collide.” For example, let’s say you wanted a car to start driving off if an aircraft came within 50 feet of it. You could put a sphere around the car that extends out 50 feet.

When an aircraft hits this collision window, or “collision

sphere,” the car will drive off. Keep in mind that in order for the car to respond like this, you must use the Event option to “program” this action.

Vertical windows range from 00010 x 00002 to 36000 x 36000.

Horizontal windows range from 0010 x 0002 to 6000 x 6000. These measurements are in feet. Spheres range from 00001 to 15000; these are radius measurements in feet (radius is the mea-

surement from the center of the sphere to the edge).

After you place a collision window, you should turn Collision

(COLL) on so it registers when hit. You will probably also want to take Visibility (VIS) off so you can’t see the outline of the col-

lision window when you film the stunt.

Chapter 7 contains examples of how collision windows are used.

MiG-25 Foxbat

Manufacturer: Take-off speed: Stall speed:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Mikoyan Guryevitch

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 m.p.h.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 m.p.h.

Maximum speed: . . . . . . . . . 668 m.p.h.

Setting The Recording Features

There are three different settings that determine whether or

not recording will occur:

1) the Global-Ret option on the Set Design screen, 2) the Events

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Maximum altitude:

Flaps.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Retractable landing gear:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,450 feet

Yes

......

Yes

option on the Set Design screen, and 3) the Film Editing option on the Preferences screen.

The following chart shows how the above three options in combination affect recording:

FILM EDITING

GLOBAL ON

AUTO

Recording Recording Recording* Not Recording

OFF Not Recording

OFF

Not Recording

Events -Start Rec and Stop Rec override ALL of the above options.

Only Auto Stop Rec stops this recording mode

is off, cameras stay off unless triggered by an Event.

The Preferences Screen

On the Preferences screen is the option Film Editing. This

option is set to on or off depending on how you answered the question “Do you want to do your own editing?” that appears when you first start the game.

Film Editing is set to on if you answered Yes to “Are

ON you going to do your own editing?” When you’re done filming, the program automatically goes to the editing room and loads the footage from each camera angle used onto the Source decks. You can either stay in the editing room and work on your film or exit and do something else. You are not required to stay here and edit.

The Global Option

The Global-Ret option is available at the Set Design screen. Select the Global option and the Global Information screen appears. In the upper left corner is the Rec option with the default setting of on. Select the down arrow next to

Rec

and

the options of Off, Auto, and On appear.

OFF going to do your own editing?” When you’re done filming, you’ll go directly to the theatre to view the footage you’ve just recorded.

Although the Film Editing option is off, you can still go to the

editing room at any time to edit this footage. You are not

Cameras automatically start recording at the beginning

ON of a take.

barred from the editing room just because Film Editing is off

you just won’t automatically be taken to the editing room

when you’re done.

OFF - Cameras stay off. They will only start rolling if you give specific instructions through the events list.

Recording Through the Events Option

The Events option is “recording king.” It doesn’t matter what

AUTO

If Film Editing on the Preferences screen is on, cam-

eras start recording right when the action starts. If Film Editing

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any other recording setting is

Rec,

Film Editing is set to off if you answered No to “Are you

if an Event has the line Start

recording will

always

start if that Event is triggered.

The Events option is available on the Set Design screen. Select

the Events option and the Events list appears. All the following

options are available through the THEN option on the Events list:

AUTO STOP REC - Stops all recording if Auto was selected under the Global-Ret option and Film Editing is off. This will

not

stop recording if Film Editing is on; you must use Stop

if the Film Editing option is on.

START REC - Starts recording when this event is triggered. It does not matter what any other setting is.

STOP REC - Stops recording when this event is triggered. It does not matter what any other setting is.

Rec

Auto-Edited Films

If you go to the Set Design screen, build a set from scratch, and

then fly it an auto-edited film, but the auto-edited film will only be made up of your pilot’s camera view.

True auto-editing, where different footage from different cameras is spliced together, occurs when camera cuts have been programmed in through the Events option. All the pre-built sets have

camera cuts built in for auto-editing.

If you load any of the pre-built sets and look through the Events list, you’ll see the option “cut to [prop name]” on some of the

Events. The “cut to” command tells the program what cameras to

without using the Events option - you can get

MiG-29 FulcrumMiG-29 Fulcrum

Manufacturer:Manufacturer: ....................................................

Take-off speed:Take-off speed:

StallStall speed:speed: Maximum speed:Maximum speed: Maximum altitude:Maximum altitude: Flaps:Flaps:

............................................................................ .Yes.Yes

RetractableRetractable

..............................................

..........................................................

..........................................

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landinglanding

gear:gear: ..................

MikoyanMikoyan GuryevitchGuryevitch .168m.p.h..168m.p.h. .140m.p.h..140m.p.h.

1,530 m.p.h.1,530 m.p.h.

60,700 feet60,700 feet

YesYes

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take footage from to create the auto-edited films. If you choose

to do your own editing, the “cut to” command is not impor-

tant to you doing your own editing, auto-editing still occurs - you just won’t be automatically taken to the theatre to view it.

Take a look at the BURGER.SET. Events 22 and 23 have “cut to” commands in them. Notice that they’re used in conjunction with collision windows. That’s the best way to set up camera cuts. Set up collision windows in the area of the camera. Then when the aircraft hits the collision window, the camera

will know that the aircraft is in view and cut to that camera.

To understand cuts, study the Event lists in the pre-built sets. See what collision windows are tied to which cameras. See what order the cuts occur. See how the collision windows and cameras are placed on the set. If you’ve successfully flown any of the stunts, watch the film and see how the cuts relate to how they were set up on the Events list.

What Editing Options You Should Choose

If you just want to fly and don’t want to view any films, make sure Film Editing (under Alt-P) is off. No footage will be

recorded, which keeps your computer’s memory and hard

drive use to a minimum.

If you’re flying a pre-built set and would like to see an edited film without doing any editing work, make sure Film Editing (under Alt-P) is off and Global-Ret is on Auto.

you won’t be seeing its effects. But even if you’re

Remember that if you’re not flying a pre-built set or a set that has cuts built into the Events, the auto-edited footage will only consist of the pilot’s view.

If you want the editing to be done by the program (you don’t want to do it in the editing room) on a set you created, you must be sure to program the “cut to” options in the Events list. Turn Global-Ret off so the cameras don’t immediately start rolling with the action. Then use the Events option to start and stop recording, and to establish the camera cuts. Keep in mind that all the pre-built sets have cuts already built into them. It’s the sets that you build and want auto-edited that require you to use the cut options in the Events list.

If you’re heavy into doing your own editing in the editing room, make sure Film Editing and Global-Ret are on. You’ll capture all footage from beginning to end. You can then go to the editing room to put it together the way you want.

Dissecting Stunt Sets for Success

Now that you’ve learned all there is to know about objects, collision windows, and Events lists, you have the key to interpreting all the stunts used in the Stunt Pilot of the Year contest. If you can’t seem to succeed on a stunt, load it in the Set Design room and study it. (The names of the sets used for each stunt are listed at the end of Chapter 4.)

Take a look at where the collision windows are positioned and check the Events lists to see what exactly the pilot is allowed

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to do. This should help you determine what triggers success and what triggers failure.

You can also modify a stunt to make it easier to do, giving you

the opportunity to complete it. For example, in BURGERSET, you’ll see in Event 3 that if 100 seconds have elapsed, then you’ve failed because you took too long. If you want to extend

the time limit, you could just change the first line in that event

If - 655

Event 1 in BURGER.SET checks to see if the Piper Cherokee crashes. If it crashes, the stunt ends. You could alter this by changing the first line to program no longer looks for the Piper Cherokee to crash. It looks for the crate truck to crash, which should never occur.

seconds have occurred.

If - crate truck (20) crashes.

This extends the time limit.

The

The sets that you can load at the Set Design screen are of the ones used in the contest. So even if you’ve successfully flown all the stunts loaded from the Set Design office, you can’t win the contest because these stunts aren’t the ones being tracked by the contest. You must see the stunt coordinator to receive assignments that count towards the contest.

There’s no way to have the aircraft automatically flown for you in the contest, so keep up the sharp piloting.

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copies

Mirage 2000Mirage 2000

Manufacturer:

Take off speed:

Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps: Retractable landing gear:

...................................

.................................

.....................................

.............................

........................... 59,000 feet

...............................................

.................

Dassault Aviation 138 m.p.h.

m.p.h.Stall speed:

.114

m.p.h.

1,645 m.p.h.

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Tutorial: Creating Sets and Events

In this chapter you’ll learn how to create a set for a stunt, and then use the Events option to set up the requirements for that stunt.

Contest Scene 7

The stunt you’ll be setting up is one that’s used in the Stunt Pilot of the Year

contest do the following:

Scene 7: Park at the hamburger stand. That’s the one where you have to

Land your Piper Cherokee on the country road.

Taxi down the road. When you get to the police road block, make a left hand

turn to avoid them.

The hamburger joint is to the left. Pull into the parking lot and put the nose of

your plane in the second row, third stall in.

This stunt needs to be performed in less than 100 seconds (a little over one and a half minutes) and the plane cannot crash or hit any of the vehicles.

Designing The Set

All work takes place at the Set Design screen in the production building.

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Here’s a rough layout of how your set should look when you’re done:

This stunt takes place in a pre-built set of a small town. The

approximate coordinates of the location is Sth/Nrth 175,963 and Wst/East 60,503. Go to this location on the island view screen.

Overhead view

.:,

Police cars

Park

here

:i;

Now that the location is established, you’re going to work on placing the props, Below is a list of all the props you need to place with their exact locations and Adjust option settings.

Setting Up The Cameras

Props 1 through 8 have filming capabilities. You will only

record with props 1 through 4 in this stunt.

Prop 1. Piper Cherokee

The Piper Cherokee is the stunt plane you’ll be flying. The

plane starts out in mid-air with a specific altitude and speed

setting.

PROP TYPE Free

ANIM.

WTCH

POSITION

FACING ........ Roll ................ 0

......

No settings

.....

No settings

......

Sth/Nrth

Wst/East

Altitude . . . . ......... 430

Speed . . . . . . . . . . ........ 120

Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . ........... 0

Yaw . . . . . . . . . . . . .

.........

........

............

169000

60970

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Prop 2. Spotter Plane

The spotter plane is set slightly below (pitch -14), behind (yaw

100), and 70 feet away (dist 70) from the Piper Cherokee. Because Watch is on and the will maintain a fixed zoom power of 1 on the Piper Cherokee. The Spot option instructs the spotter plane to auto-adjust for

the best camera angles.

autozoom

is off, the spotter plane

PROP TYPE ANIM WTCH _________

OFFSET POSITION Pitch -14

Prop 3. Camera

This camera is filming towards the direction that the plane will be coming from. It’s set to watch the Piper Cherokee with the automatic zoom on.

PROP TYPE ANIM WTCH Watch ON

.......

Spot

...........

No settings

...

Watch

Object ............. 1

Zoom . .............. 1

Autozoom OFF

Yaw ................... 100

Dist . . . ................. 70

....

. ..Free

Object ................. 1

Zoom . . . . ............... 1.4

Autozoom.. ON

..... .......

.ON

Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen

Manufacturer:

Take-off speed: Stall speed:

Maximum speed: Maximum altitude: Flaps:

Retractable landing

.........................

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

.......................

............................

...................

.................

.90 m.p.h. .75 m.p.h. ,340 m.p.h. .24,000

...................................... Yes

gear: ........ Yes

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POSITION

HEADING . . .

..Sth/Nrth

................. 175981

Wst/East.. ................. 60720

Altitude Speed

..Pitc h..

Yaw.

......................... .64

................................ 0

...............................

..................................

0 0

Prop 11 contains the 10x10 foot collision window that detects if the nose of the plane is parked properly in the stall.

PROP TYPE.. ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION ...........

Prop 4. Camera

This camera is set up in the parking lot to film the Piper Cherokee as it tries to maneuver into the parking space.

FACING

PROP TYPE ANIM WTCH

.........Free

................

..N o settings

.........................

Watch

OFF

HEADING

Object.. ............................ .l

Zoom..

POSITION

FACING

...........

..............

..............................

Autozoom Sth/Nrth..

Wst/East

Altitude

Speed Roll

................... OFF

.............. .175922

.................. .60497

......................... .17

...............................

..................................

Pitch.. ............................ -10

Yaw..

...............................

Prop 12. Sphere 00006r

The sphere is attached to the nose of the plane and is used to determine if the plane is properly parked in the stall at the end of the stunt. The sphere must touch the 10x10 foot collision

window (prop 11) placed in the stall.

PROP TYPE ANIM

WTCH ................

Prop 11.00010x00010

Prop slots 5 through 10 are not used. Because you don’t need

OFFSET

POSITION ...........Pitch .................................

to set up any more cameras, we had you jump to prop slot 11 to start the next series of items. This is just a simple way of keeping track of items.

.......Free

..................

No settings

.............

Sth/Nrth

Wst/East Altitude Speed

.Roll

................. 176006

.................. .60539

...........................

................................

..................................

Pitch ................................. 0

Yaw..

...............................

...........Pitch ................................. .

Yaw..

................................

......... Attach

..................

No settings No settings

Yaw

...............................

Dist ..................................

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Parked Vehicles

The next 11 props, starting with the monster truck, are the vehicles parked outside of the hamburger stand. The Collision must be toggle on (it will look pushed in when on) in order for these planes to be “collideable.”

You could place all these props and run into them with the

Piper Cherokee without penalty if all their COLL options were toggled off.

Props

through 19 have a FACING yaw of 90 because the

front of these vehicles point due east.

Prop 13. Monster Truck #2

PROP TYPE ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION ..........

.........Free

..................

No settings No settings

.Sth/Nrth

Wst/East

Altitude Speed

...............................

FACING

HEADING

.............

.Roll

..................................

Pitch ................................

Yaw

................................. 90

...........Pitch ................................. .

Yaw..

................................. 0

................ .176018

.................. .6049

............................ .

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Prop 14. Limousine #2

PROP TYPE ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION ...........

........ .Free

..................

No settings No settings Sth/Nrth Wst/East Altitude Speed

FACING ............

..Roll

Pitch

Yaw..

HEADING ..........

.Pitch

Yaw

................. 175999

.................. .6049

............................ .

...............................

..................................

................................. 0

............................... 90

................................. .

...................................

.O .O

Prop 16. WWII Motorcycle

PROP TYPE.. ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION ...........

...... .Free

..................

No settings No settings

Sth/Nrth

Wst/East

Altitude Speed

................. 175977

.................. .60497

............................

...............................

FACING ..............Roll.. ................................. 0

Pitch

.................................

Yaw..

HEADING ...........

...............................

Pitch

.................................

................................

Yaw..

Prop 15. WWII Motorcycle

PROP TYPE ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION ...........

FACING ..............

HEADING ...........

........ .Free

..................

No settings No settings Sth/Nrth..

Wst/East

Altitude

Speed Roll Pitch

Yaw.

Pitch

Yaw.

............... 175984

................... 60497

...........................

...............................

..................................

................................. .

............................... .90

................................

..................................

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Prop 17. WWII Motorcycle

PROP TYPE.. ANIM

WTCH ................

POSITION

FACING ............

HEADING ...........

....... Free

..................

...........

No settings No settings Sth/Nrth

Wst/East

Altitude Speed

..Roll

Pitch Yaw. Pitch Yaw..

................. 175969

.................. .60498

............................

................................

...................................

................................. 0

............

.................................

................................

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