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I used Swambasts Mossul Dam parts and the stock generatorbuilding to create the Dnepr High Dam of Saporoschje.

He called in sick yesterday

Completed the first model with the UB-16 with three textures (12 HR work lol with texture) and more to come. I will be making the DSHK, Type-63 Rocket Launchers and ZU-23-2 PS. for the UB-16 texture I have used lindr2 texture.

meanwhile, some fastass CAS for the mandatory screenie. right after they upgraded to Block 30s....

32° Stormo Yankee & Tango

took allen up on that info bout the Aggressor Block 30s. some work later (these are coming in after doing the single seaters in each skin after all)

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrupppppp...........

ODS

Snake Island

mission day with 3W models (and skins downloaded from this page )

Somewhere over the river Dnepr.

And grey filter ...

Version 10.5 Addon (Stock Strutters Overhaul), June 10, 2022 - New types added are overhauled stock Strutters in FE2, as well as a Sop. 1B1 that is a lovely aircraft for sightseeing, recon., as well as light fighting duties (when it has no bomb load). Also added to all Strutters now are functioning and animated air brakes. As always, check over the included, main READ ME file for more info. and details. A link to the addon FM pack is available under the pic. below. For the big, ver. 10.0 FM pack, see the main download page of this series of posts (instead of these support threads). Cheers all and happy flying, Von S EDIT: removed download package - now included in the ver. 11.0 FM/realism package.

Meanwhile, over at the Persian Gulf coast....

Last update patch for FE2 is dated July, 2010. SF2 received another couple of updates after that, sometime around 2012, and then a last patch in 2013. So, technically, SF2 received two or three more patches than FE2. I am assuming that the additional patches offered for SF2 were regarding DX10 shader upgrades. FE2 also has DX10 shaders, but they are not as fully implemented, for all effects, as in SF2. If I've missed some information, I'm sure that any patch update specialists lurking on these forums will be willing to pitch in with more technical details. In terms of the action view (from SF2), I don't think that it works in FE2. It is easy to test, though; simply copy the action view setting from your SF2 Controls/Default.ini file into the same file in FE2, choose a key combination for the entry, save, and test. I may have tested that out a few years ago but I don't think that I had any results - otherwise I would have posted regarding the test. Cheers, Von S

why cant we do no fly zone patrols over nice places, like the Gulf coast?

researching can be draining. should take a trip to the Gulf... if anyone has better pics of the snake on the fuselage, i'd be appreciative. this one is a vector art that looked close to teh pics, then traced, chopped up and rearranged until it was close.

Please ask @swambast for permission. Even though it's included in my IraqWA terrain, he made it clear with me that it was to be exclusive for my terrain only. So before a release, double check with him. I have no problem with it being used elsewhere, but I'm not the owner of his work.

got enough LGBs? mandatory screenie, or not what i thought my boss meant when he said lets go hunting this weekend

Great work mate! Really looking forward!

10 June 2022 Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends, This week we released DCS 2.7.15.25026 to Open Beta with many new enhancements and fixes that can be viewed in the full change log. Most notably, we are pleased to announce that DCS: South Atlantic map is now available. To provide time to adequately test, the South Atlantic Assets Pack will be delivered in an upcoming Open Beta update. The South Atlantic map encompasses parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans. Covering southern Argentina and Chile, the map also includes a recreation of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. We are also pleased to provide you with a free updated external model of the CVN-74 John C. Stennis. This is an initial step in improving the free Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Thank you for your passion and support. Yours sincerely, Eagle Dynamics DCS: South Atlantic Available now in Open Beta The RAZBAM Terrain Development Team is proud to present the South Atlantic map that is a beautiful and majestic combination of Argentina, Chile, and the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. The topography of the region includes the beautifully rugged mountains of Chile, the vast and colorful Patagonian plains of Argentina, and the windswept islands of West and East Falklands/Malvinas. Covering an area of 3.1 million square kilometres, the team’s goal has been to give the DCS community the opportunity to develop missions that reflect the scale and complexity of modern-day operations in this scenic region. When developing this map, the team was proactive in listening to the DCS community regarding both scale and requirements of modern-day military operations. This provides the best possible experience and leverages land-class textures drawn from aerial and satellite photography. Development of the South Atlantic map will continue, and the team is now moving their focus from the Falkland/Malvinas Islands to mainland Argentina and Chile. They will flesh out the rural areas of the map to provide a more authentic and lived-in look. This will include adding additional buildings, infrastructure, and tidying up vector data (like mountains). Our community's input pushed for the inclusion of mainland and the team dedicated to make it even better. Moving forward, additional airfields will be added throughout the map to provide a diversified area of Naval and Fighter operations. The goal is to include all airfields at a high quality level. More villages, settlements, and road infrastructure improvements will be added across the various regions. The following items will also be further improved during the early access period: Visible tiling around some airfields and at certain view angles. Some angular sea cliffs Forest tiling from some view angles The DCS: South Atlantic map has undertaken a new strategy for generating terrain. Whereas all other DCS maps rely heavily on art-created ground textures combined with satellite textures, the South Atlantic map relies mostly on satellite textures. While this results in a more realistic looking map at medium to high altitudes, ground textures may appear less defined at low altitude. The team is committed to further improving the low-altitude terrain textures. CVN-74 Stennis Free Update We have updated the 3D exterior model of the CVN-74 John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, and are pleased to announce that this update is completely free to all of you. We eagerly await your feedback. Thank you again for your passion and support, Yours sincerely,

I think, that i can release a first Beta this weekend. It contains the ukrainian airbases which i made as real looking as possible and the russian airbases which are made as placeholders. In a further step i will make the russian bases as unique and real like the ukrainians are already done. Then i made a placeholder targetarea for Sewastopol Harbour. If you use SF2NA as basic game then you will find Krivak destroyers in the harbour. All other games as basic will find an empty harbour. So a visit to Sewastopol looks in SF2NA: This targetarea is far away to be complete.

HH-3E

amazing work!!!

Looking good as always, nice work

Almost done with the upgrades but I have to spend a day or two packaging everything -- more studying of the flaps/brakes system on the Strutters, in the meantime, has resulted in some more tweaks -- they function more so as a drag/braking system than lifting device (I initially thought that they provided drag/lift as traditional, small flaps). See the linked YouTube movie for a good illustration of how they actually work. Use of the airbrakes therefore requires that you include the following entry in your Controls/Default.ini file, since they are manually operated: AIRBRAKES_TOGGLE= (choose key combo. of some kind) Have also attempted implementing the brakes strictly as an inverted lift device but they then remain open constantly on AI-flown aircraft since the AI can't handle them properly. I've instead now combined some lift data that would otherwise be used for lift entries and, together with "SystemType=Airbrake," the data seems to work well - use of the airbrakes gives shorter landing distances and also a faster sink rate when flying at idle. Also good is that the airbrakes, when fully extended, cut down on the climb rate by about 30% or so (based on various tests at full throttle climbs). Will update again once the ver. 10.5 addon FM pack is released. Cheers all, Von S Airbrakes fully extended (in their correct position) Avoid prolonged blipping of the LeRhone 120-125 hp on the Sop 1B1 - tends to catch fire... And then spreads quickly...

another MiG killer

Coming soon -- a ver. 10.5 addon pack for the big FM/realism pack, with stock Sopwith Strutter overhauls (now that I've made them player-flown for myself - haven't bothered with that until now***). FM tweaks will include the "Strutter 110," "Strutter 130," "Sop 1A2," "Sop 1B2," and additional "Sop 1B1" and "Sop 1B1 Dux" variants. Pics. below of the French-built 1B1 being tested - animated and functional flaps now included on the 1B1, and to be included on all of the variants. More pics. available under the FE2 pics. thread. Cheers all and happy flying, Von S Flaps auto-deploy/retract around 90 kph, for shorter landings *** NOTE for FE2-ers: stock Strutters are only AI-flown unless made player-flyable with the addition of a tweaked cockpit.ini file and/or both cockpit.ini and cockpit folder.

welcome! i sense a theme there... mandatory screenie, or "huh, they let them paint those on Herks?" 704th FS, 1994

Though it's not perfect, at least it seems it's an improvement for night missions. I wonder if the DTV could be improved via shader. By default TW makes use of twColor1.FX. However, it seems in the game files there is an unused FltDTVFilter.FX shader. It doesn't work but I wonder if the code was a work in progress by TK. The game does not feature true IR images so black and white FLIR still is not a thing.

those were there since day one IIRC, just modulation options built in, I was fiddling with those for some different trees graphics blending options for soem test treemods back when, never found them usable, nice to see those actually do have some use on certain materials/textures

barring a completely new model somewhere i dont think it will be coming anytime soon. not trying to speak for folks, but the ones with the max files for the Team Viper work are either not really active in SF2 anymore, or rather restricted on availability not to mention no modder of any discipline will make just one fix unless its in the intial version or very close when it was released. i mean hell, this was to bring one of HrntFixr's old skins to current SF2 standards. its since expanded to the whole 23d Wing, two wings in USAFE completed and 20 ANG squadrons in progress! again, not trying to speak for others. just saying i wouldnt hold breath on it.