Chinook Helicopter Prefab

Anyone know of a decent Chinook helicopter prefab ? it has to be a prefab and not a model. Haven't looked at the one on prefabland yet as the DL link seems to be down atm.

tia

Erm. I have a helicopter model...But it probally doesnt suit your needs.

I have a heli too, but its a black hawk not a chinook.

I have a chinook, got it from http://prefabs.gamedesign.net I think... It's a tad off scale wise though seeing as chinooks can carry tanks, yet this one is far too small to do that.

That site is down right now, Telefragged b0rked it up a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully it'll be back soon...

Erm. I have a helicopter model...But it probally doesnt suit your needs.

heh, it has to be a prefab, a model won't work :sad:

@Wild Card - was really after a chinook, thx for the offer tho'

Myrk any chance of posting a DL link ?

Forgot to mention that it has to be big enough to carry 8 CS players and let them move about in it. Its ok if its smaller as i can modify it and its easier than doing one from scratch.

Well, mine holds 3 quite comfortably if ever you change ideas. A heli holding 8 players is going to have to be big though as there has to be some spacing between players to prevent spawnfragging.

Blackhawks hold a good 12 peeps sitting down. About room for 6 standing... Just have 2 blackhawks :razz:

Find pictures of chinooks on the internet and try and make the prefab yourself. It's good experience and will teach you the more advanced tools. If you must download one you could look at www.ejoop.com/pfl/ and see if they have any.

PFL has been having issues with some of its older downloads.. apparently the links still lead to the old Nin64 host :sad:

unseth has been notified..

Myrk- said:
Blackhawks hold a good 12 peeps sitting down. About room for 6 standing... Just have 2 blackhawks :razz:

In real life you can be sitting shoulder to shoulder and squeeze next to someone else, in HL, your 32x32x74 units all the time. And in real life you dont get gibbed when the mission starts and there 12 people in the heli :razz:

If you must download one you could look at www.ejoop.com/pfl/ and see if they have any.

Errr, already checked out PrefabLand but the link was down. I've done prefabs before but i'm lazy and was hoping someone else had already done one.

Blackhawks hold a good 12 peeps sitting down. About room for 6 standing... Just have 2 blackhawks

I thought about 2 heli's but it means extra complexity, its only a
16 player map so 1 should do it.

...is going to have to be big though as there has to be some spacing between players to prevent spawn fragging.

Yup, that could be a problem so... i'll have to make it big enough :smile:

Myrk- said:
It's a tad off scale wise though seeing as chinooks can carry tanks, yet this one is far too small to do that.

Chinooks can carry tanks, yes, but not internally. They carry them on a sling externally, because theyre not big enough to fit a tank inside.

I'm pretty sure they can take vehicles inside.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/chinook.html

They can take 54 guys, and it says 2 landrovers will fit inside, so Maybe an APC or light tank could fit in there as well.

Landrovers, yes. They would fit, if you put them in end-to-end. Tanks and APCs are wider, so they wouldnt fit.

They can carry tanks and some other vehicles underneath, if I'm not mistaken. Like wil5on said.

try this

if thats no good, try this instead :smile:

Orph, its already been decided, chinooks cant carry tanks internally. The leper is always right :wink:

wil5on said:
Orph, its already been decided, chinooks cant carry tanks internally.

maybe so, but then again, what it "can't" haul, may not be the entire question :wink:

still for expediencies sake.. those are nice links :biggrin:

/me pointedly removes portion of quote that is a fallacy

Nice links there Orph :smile:

Seeing as how this is going into a game, its not going to be carrying any lame tanks or APC's - a 20 ton fruit cake should fit underneath ok.

Couldnt you just settel for a blackhawk?

And they look so much nicer than Chinooks anyways...

gimp !!! :smile: its going to be a chinook because i just fancy putting something different in there.

beer hunter said:
gimp !!! :smile: its going to be a chinook because i just fancy putting something different in there.

different, as in like one that you don't have?

have some popcorn instead

Just to go completely (well not completely) off topic, anyone know where I can get a nice blackhawk model? I'm thinking of replacing that osprey...

wil5on said:
Just to go completely (well not completely) off topic, anyone know where I can get a nice blackhawk model? I'm thinking of replacing that osprey...

I got one. But Im not home right now, Im at school, I can upload it when I get home. Its the one I'm using in de_alert if you wanna look at it.

That looks to me like a prefab, not a model.

Oh.. you want a model... well. Unno, either take the apache model HL uses or good luck finding one :smile:

Surely HL's osprey model would be better than the apache - apache's arent exactly meant as people carriers!

Well, I dont know, maybe if you kill an apache 2 grunts could parachute out of it before it hits the ground...

/starts C++

scary_jeff said:
I'm pretty sure they can take vehicles inside.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/chinook.html

They can take 54 guys, and it says 2 landrovers will fit inside, so Maybe an APC or light tank could fit in there as well.

feasibly it would seem, but then they are designed differently and covered in thick armour plating :razz: mabe some of those mech infantry, at a squeeze ^_^ ?

as for the prefab, like Yak said, i'd have a crack at making it yourself.. it doesnt need to look too hot if its just acting as a transit method for players IMO. just resemble what it is supposed to :smile:

yup, i've resigned myself to doing one from scratch when i get the
time, theres placeholders in there atm to get it working.

<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->http://www.ejoop.com/pfl/showlist.asp?prefabid=554&formtype=2, you can try that, tbh its not that gd, but you could put on your own textures.

thx :smile: