William Ortis at Lionheart Creations Ltd. created this fantastic, cutting edge jet, and I went ahead and pushed it off the cutting edge. The final, final tweeks are being made to the release package, but you can see a lot of the great new features in this music video!

I edited the video using the NewTek Video Toaster System and software, and compressed it into a self-running .exe file using Rad Video Tools' Bink compression software. The music is from the "Sin City" soundtrack. Use "ESC" to quit the video and the spacebar to pause it.

There are too many new features to list here, but a more complete list is in the readme file.

The highlights are:

Rocket engine afterburner effect

Mach 4+ "Hyper-mach" effect (based on real photos of the top-secret Aurora's "donuts on a rope" contrail.)

Animated missiles and massive explosions, activated when the missile bay opens

Mach speed water displacement effect (fly low and fast; drown some fishermen)

LOTS of new textures

Wavering drag-chute effect (actual effect which may be added to any aircraft if you know what you are doing!)

Engine glow, engine heat, and sonic boom effect by Rob Barendregt (Rob Barendregt's effects and gauges are used by his kind permission)

Lots of AUTOMATIC sequences and buttons including an auto-closing hatch, retracting landing gear, deploying hyper-mach nozzles and changeover to the hyper-mach effect at Mach 4, takeoff button landing mode button (only SETS UP for a landing, does NOT land the plane!) max-speed and height button and sequence, de-orbit burn and drop to destination (scary, but actually works), terrain-follow button

--and much more!

Enjoy the video!

Matt Stryker
strykersmsfs@hotmail.com