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VonS and I recently had fun sharing a bunch of old pulp fiction covers - they were so horrible they were great! Also, I have been helping JacksonM as he experiments with hangar and loading screens. The two came together when he sent me a great shot of an "Evil Hun" with a Mauser broomhandle! VonS wondered if there was a way to code the observers to throw daggers at opponents!

A SAM pad detonation and a sunrise :)

Total of 10 different skies to roll into the environsys ini file for a ver. 9.5 update of the FM pack. Or I might make two separate environsys ini files, that contain the five weather patterns (clear, scattered, broken, overcast, inclement), to accommodate for the 10 weather types - and so that entries don't have to be toggled in the environsys file. Another alternative is to make four versions for the four theatres for FE2, so that they can be "installed" into the relevant terrain folders - will see what is most workable. Also tweaked now is the sky width (slightly wider) and vertical sky panels with Panama Red's cirrus effects in place (slightly taller now) - this allows the clouds to intersect with and "fade into" the vertical sky panels at some altitudes. Weather types: 1. clouds clear high - cirrocumulus layer 2. clouds clear low - altocumulus type 3. clouds scattered high - stratocumulus and cumulus types at higher alt. 4. clouds scattered low - stratocumulus and cumulus at lower alt. (slightly taller and thicker than no. 3) 5. clouds broken high - cumulus and cumulonimbus at higher alt. 6. clouds broken low - cumulus and cumulonimbus at lower alt. (much taller and slightly thicker than no. 5) 7. clouds overcast high - nimbostratus type at higher alt. 8. clouds overcast lower - nimbostratus type at lower alt. (slightly shorter and thicker than no. 7) 9. clouds inclement higher - nimbostratus and cumulonimbus at higher alt. 10. clouds inclement lower - nimbostratus and cumulonimbus at lower alt. (slightly wider and thicker than no. 9) Stary's "thin" cloud from the ver. 1.3 Sarcasm pack, also his cloud for the ver. 1.5 Sarcasm pack - work beautifully with this for the right effects. Also necessary is the very thin Ilyushin2 cloud for FE2, by Gumpy (will include the necessary files). Panama Red's clouds are too thick for these subtle variations to work - although they can be used if you really like them. Have compressed Starry's and Gumpy's clouds from 4 to 1 MB (from 1024 x 1024 size to 512 x 512) - improves frame rates but the clouds still look pretty much the same. Pics included below of the weather types (Stary's blizzard effect on the inclement pics, by the way, but rain works well too ). Happy flying, Von S inclement low inclement high overcast low overcast high broken low broken high clear low scattered low scattered high clear high

ok last one of the day..... enroute to Riyadh via Germany

Southeast Asia, 1968 Outbound from USS Shangra-La, VA-152 Scooters head to work

Gorgeous!

That looks outstanding! Maybe it could also adapted to SF2?

just getting all kinds of interesting scenes as i check my work....

That is marketing art of the DIVAD self-propelled flak gun, painted when I was a concept artist at General Dynamics in 1979.

is that a particular part of America? its a pretty big place i've heard mandatory screenie and a PSA (now why wont the game let me take a screenie of the loading process?)

Somewhere in Nevada.....Area51 unconfirmed....C L A S S I F I E D , circa 1985

And desert camo... That's all folks

Mirage F-1CT winter camo, over Sweden

VonS sent some outstanding experimental shots that I just had to share with you guys. He is systematically tweaking files to develop a much improved environment for the new aircraft we are developing. The last two shots would look great over a muddy France!

You could check if setting a specific environment file works in FE2 like it does with SF2 from within the terrain's main ini. Example from SF2 [Terrain] TerrainFullName=Southwest U.S. ... EnvironmentFile=SWUS_ENVSYS_STOCK.INI //EnvironmentFile=SWUS_ENVSYS_SARCASM_14.INI //EnvironmentFile=SWUS_ENVSYS_SARCASM_15.INI In this case the different inis are all in the terrains (SWUS) folder but the path can be changed to point to the Flight folder. You can have one set of different environment inis in the Flight folder and link to them individually EnvironmentFile=..\Flight\SWUS_ENVSYS_STOCK.INI Hope this works..

Very nice old school concept artwork!

Long ago, I used to do that kind of stuff professionally. I was a concept artist/designer in LA before I went back into aircraft engineering, ultimately retiring as a field service engineer for the Global Hawk, and also training college interns to make computer game models. Below is a marketing painting from 1979, done the old fashioned way - geometry, pencil, and paint brush.

You're doing an awesome job, take your time to finish it. Your dedication to this project is admirable. Hopefully one day I will manage to create a much needed terrain for SF (and for the Italian Tornados...)

"Taproom 305"

I've sent to Wrench all my old F-4B project files based mostly on Sundowner High res skins mixed up with Mytai's decals, I hope it will be useful to get this beauty out

Sans day glo. Detailing continues. The pit got some new colours but it needs some movement to get in better positions.

reasons why i do how i do...

U-2... high flight !

Kestrel FGA.2... in 1968! NATO needed new aerodynamical test flights with 6 initial modified Kestrels before the first RAF Harrier GR.1 deliveries!

Some Corsair action...

Another Marine Corps Jet...this time a TF-9J Cougar

The Turnip Termites

New Israeli ATGM Pack

RF-8A......

Now, where have I seen something like this before ????