SF2 Mirage 4000A & B - French Air Force

[+logan4 845]

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SF2 Mirage 4000A & B - French Air Force

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This aircraft mod represents Dassault's probable initial Mirage 4000A fighter and its trainer B variant in the French Air Force service. Since the company always created several variants of each type based on costumer requirement and evolution of technology, other national oriented types and variants will be uploaded as separate packages.

This package comes with 3 skin sets for each variant, 3 squadron specific for A (18 planes), and 3 squadron sets for B (8 planes) and special Tiger Meet skin for a single AC.

This model is meant for SF2 games only, SF1 variants will be uploaded at the SF1 section.

Install is the regular dropping the contents in their respective places. In case you have the prototype variant you can skip the overwrite prompt of weapons as those 4 items are identical.

Please note: The model can be quite heavy on FPS in large formations on weaker machines, so if required, either resize skin files or use lower lods(_nd,001,002,003) as lod1.

The model uses the general french weapons, either as part of weapon packs or the Mirage 2000 family.

Important: The B variant comes with 2 types of cockpit, the basic setup will use a simple pit that has only the pilots cabin instrumented. The other is a fully modeled front and rear compartment, in which you want to fly you should activate the proper line in the AC's.ini file.

CockpitDataFile=Mirage4000B_Cockpit.ini <---- basic setup
;CockpitDataFile=Mirage4000B_Cockpit_full1.ini <------ front seat
;CockpitDataFile=Mirage4000B_Cockpit_full2.ini <------ rear seat

Be aware - the piloting seat position can not be changed during/in game, so chose wisely!

Make sure to read the manual included with the package.

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Creators of these Aircraft mods as members of CombatAce site:

Original 3D work: Cocas

Aircraft 3d update and additional changes: Logan4
Cockpit 3d work: Logan4
Aircraft FM: Cliff7600
Aircraft avionics: Loborojo, Cliff7600, logan4
Skin files and decals: Flogger23, Cliff7600, logan4, loborojo
Cockpit files: Logan4, Cliff7600

Thanks to Crusader for additional brochure files

Big thanks to members of CombatAce for helping and answering our questions and in sorting out some of the issues we got while creating this mod.

Modding and distribution of files are allowed and limited according to the CombatAce Freeware Licensing agreement.

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• Submitter
  logan4
• Submitted
  03/29/2019
• Category
  What If Hangar

 

[+Gepard 10,241]

Nice work. Well done.

[+Coupi 4,279]

Many thanks !!! 

[+Gunrunner 313]

Excellent job... any chance of a template being released?

/me dones his rivet-counter hat

Nooooowwww, on a less positive note...

- The flare boxes are untextured.

- The ground crews need a good talking to because the state of the B versions is simply disgraceful (you forgot to remove or tone down a weathering/dirt layer when exporting the B skins, except the Tiger Meet one).

- The front "exhausts" behind the air intakes do not all have shadows "baked" and some use the top colour rather than the bottom, making them "asymetric".

You must be sick of staring at all the skins you have to manage and small mistakes like these are easy to let slip (hence the template question, so you can concentrate on releases and OCD twits like myself can "fix" things themselves without pestering you).

Edited March 30, 2019 by Gunrunner

[Spinners 15,966]

Mirage 4000A - A DIY fix for the black central pylon on the EC1-10 skin is simply to copy the 'wetpylon' texture from the Mirage 4000B.

[+logan4 845]

2 hours ago, Gunrunner said:

Excellent job... any chance of a template being released?

- The flare boxes are untextured.

- The ground crews need a good talking to because the state of the B versions is simply disgraceful (you forgot to remove or tone down a weathering/dirt layer when exporting the B skins, except the Tiger Meet one).

- The front "exhausts" behind the air intakes do not all have shadows "baked" and some use the top colour rather than the bottom, making them "asymetric".

You must be sick of staring at all the skins you have to manage and small mistakes like these are easy to let slip (hence the template question, so you can concentrate on releases and OCD twits like myself can "fix" things themselves without pestering you).

Thank you! 
The templates will be released by Flogger23 when he is ready to do with it.

The flare box is textured what it miss are the release holes, which I do remember had at some point. 
Skins have various level of weathering, there are some that are even dirtier, Tiger meet must be clean as that is a sort of "for the show/look" one. 
It is possible that on one skin the color is different of that section, I thought that was my eyesight, but seems otherwise. 

I can not comment on how bad to look at the skins for long, will ask Flogger on it to pinch in. We did not intend to make all the skins ourselves, so you guys can have fun with these, there could be so many different that it will cripple our paint department, but we did intend to provide at least one or 2 skins sets per plane type so they are not just "bare metal".

41 minutes ago, Spinners said:

Mirage 4000A - A DIY fix for the black central pylon on the EC1-10 skin is simply to copy the 'wetpylon' texture from the Mirage 4000B.

That is odd, since the main folder have the wetpylon.jpg/bmp combo, so should not be black at all, but well check. Thanks for the info.

[+logan4 845]

@Spinners: Thank you for bring that up, the main bmp, file seem to be corrupted. I will upload a good one with v.1.0.1.