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A brand new Mirage F1EQ waits for approval A preview by Coupi :

One of the forerunners to the Wild Weasel program...KTTV Channel 11, an Invader from the 729th BS flying electronic counter-measures (anti-radar) missions in Korea circa 1951.

Some old wolf257 Mustangs

para los que quieren saber el estado del PBY, detallado de la bodega de bombas, detalles de las alas destruidas y calcas con arte de nariz historicos y no tanto.

aVances lentos pero decididos, para el mod malvinas Nuevo barco mercante Rio Carcaraña, nuevo modelo de destruccion de Mirages-Dagger,nuevos detalles en portaviones 25 DE MAYO

SitRep: I'm still working on Energodar, town and nuclear powerplant. I added some more factories and other ground objects. Then i try to rework parts of the tiles which not match. And finally i have started to "plant trees".

First test.

Chrome Dome

Outstanding work gentlemen.

And '2 weeks' , ofc ;-)

I just started to work on FM . Give us 1-1.5 month and you will have really cool MQ-9 .

Confusion is probably all mine - First couple of downloads got 'porked' - wouldn't unzip/unpak? I could only get the 'Old' 001 file to unzip.......Thank you Nyghtfall for your feedback and support

i didnt figure you would be interested Menrva. You have said in the past that Balkans had sort of worn you out and I know that you still keep fine tuning ODS 30AE. It is impressive how you keep improving it so far out after its release when many modders and teams would have stopped and declared it finished when i make posts like that, it is to try to get other new interest in it. the game is up to the modders and those that still enjoy our work. everyone starts somewhere, maybe the Balkans gets someone new interested in modding. that interest goes further when we encourage new skinners, modelers, terrain builders and campaign writers rather than decrying the lack of interest. for the folks that dont have interest tweaking their work for a future update, i would hope they would be willing to help a next generation with interest learn. besides, like i mentioned theres quite abit of time to work on it. and even Allied Force wasnt as intensive as Iraq 91, let alone Deliberate Force or fictional strikes durng Deny Flight

Pretty ironic, I had worked on a new Iraq-Iran terrain when Centurion-1 was planning an Iraq-Iran war mod which never saw the light of day. My new terrain then got included by Spudknocker for a different Iraq-Iran mod, and has been the starting point for ODS 30AE. Similar situation about this Balkans scenario; I was hoping to see Baltika's terrain done but I ended up making it from scratch on my own instead. Working on ODS 30AE has been a fantastic team effort and experience, and I'm still improving upon it with time. A similar mod for the Balkans terrain is pretty far from being doable in the same level of quality. The terrain I made lacks target objects for cities and similar target areas, and I'm not in the mood of getting into it again anytime soon. I'd rather fine-tune ODS 30AE for the time being, while desperately hoping for SF2 to come back a bit more relevant than it is now. IMHO a mere hundred downloads for the Balkans terrain don't justify such a huge effort like ODS 30AE anymore. A terrain like that would have reached thousands of downloads years ago, now it's sign SF2 is pretty much dead and we modders are basically keeping it alive for our own.

I may not know where I'm going, but I sure know where I been ...

The F-4X and RF-4X were proposals for advanced F-4E derivatives designed by General Dynamics to carry the HIAC-1 long focal length camera as part of Project Peace Jack. This project was a joint Israel-USAF study for an advanced photo-reconnaissance aircraft capable of Mach 3+ performance. The HIAC-1 camera was an advanced high-altitude reconnaissance camera that had a focal length of 66 inches which offered unparalled resolution at extreme ranges The HIAC-1 camera was originally so large and heavy that it could only be carried by the Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F. However, later versions were sufficiently slimmed down so that they could potentially be carried by smaller aircraft such as the F-4 Phantom. Israel had always wanted the HIAC-1 camera for its own use in keeping track of its Arab neighbors, but its requests had always been turned down. However, in 1971, US attitudes towards export of the HIAC-1 camera changed and approval was given for the development of a pod (designated G-139) which could carry this camera on the belly of a Phantom. The prototype G-139 pod was over 22 feet long and weighed over 4000 pounds, and was first tested on an RF-4C in October of 1971. Unfortunately, the G-139 was still so large and bulky that the performance of the Phantom when it was carrying the pod was unacceptably poor. The Peace Jack project originated in an attempt to improve the performance of the Phantom when carrying this camera. Both the USAF and the government of Israel contributed funds for the project. Rather than trying to slim down the reconnaissance pod, the original goal of the General Dynamics team was to improve the performance of the Phantom that was carrying it. The improved performance was to be obtained by using water injection for pre-compressor cooling, which would provided increased engine thrust at high altitudes. A similar system had been used successfully in the past in various F-4 record attempts. The water was to be contained in a pair of gigantic 2500-gallon tanks which were to be attached conformally to the intersection joints of the fuselage spine and the engine nacelles. The water injection system promised to give a 150 percent increase in engine thrust at altitude. In order to accommodate the increased engine thrust that would now be available, new air intakes had to be designed. The area of the intakes was to be made much larger and they were to contain a sophisticated system of internal cowls, splitter plates, vortex generators and bleeds. With the new intakes and the water injection system, it was anticipated that maximum speeds of up to Mach 3.2 and cruising speeds of up to Mach 2.7 could be attained. The project came to be known as the F-4X, although this was not an official USAF designation. Israel was clearly very interested in the F-4X, as it promised a a performance which would approach that of the USAF's SR-71. This would enable it to fly unimpeded anywhere it wanted to. However, the advanced performance of the F-4X clearly made it a possible candidate for a new interceptor. Consequently, the US State Department became more than a little worried about the export of such advanced technology overseas, since it promised to give Israel a potential interceptor which was more capable than anything currently in the US arsenal, one which might one day pose a threat to the SR-71. In addition, the Air Force was itself rather nervous about the F-4X project, since it might threaten to divert support away from the F-15 program which was just then getting underway. As a result, the State Department decided to disallow export of this technology to Israel. This ordinarily would have been the end of the game. However, in the meantime, Israel had expressed concern about the amount of aerodynamic drag produced by the pod carrying the camera. In response to these concerns, General Dynamics decided to relocate the HIAC-1 camera to the nose, displacing the AN/APQ-120 radar. The project was redesignated RF-4X. The removal of the interceptor capability seems to have reassured the State Department, and Israel was once again allowed back into the Peace Jack program. An ex-IDFAF F-4E (USAF serial 69-7576) was delivered to General Dynamics in December of 1974 to act as a mockup for the RF-4X. The nose was recontoured on the starboard side only, and a paper-mache coolant tank was fitted to one side of the upper fuselage. New intakes with revised variable ramps were fitted. However, in the meantime, the Air Force began to have second thoughts about the project, still fearful of the impact of the RF-4X on the F-15 project and nervous about the safety and reliability of pre-compressor cooling. The USAF withdrew from the project shortly thereafter, forcing Israel to go it alone. By itself, Israel could not afford to continue the project, and the RF-4X program quietly died. The idea for the nose-mounted HIAC-1 camera was later revived to form the basis of the F-4E(S), which was first applied to F-4E 69-7576. The F-4E(S) pilot and systems officer wore full pressure suits from the David Clark Company which also made the pressure suits used by USAF U-2 and SR-71 crews as well as Space Shuttle crews. [MissionData] Ceiling=23800 [FlightControl] MaxSpeedSL=1097.6 MachLimit=3.2 MachLimitDry=2.4 [Fuselage] SystemName[027]=CFTR_fuel SystemName[028]=CFTL_fuel [Engine1] AltitudeTableNumData=40 AltitudeTableDeltaX=609.6 AltitudeTableStartX=0.0 AltitudeTableData=1.000,0.952,0.906,0.860,0.816,0.773,0.731,0.691,0.652,0.614,0.578,0.543,0.578,0.614,0.652,0.691,0.731,0.773,0.816,0.860,0.906,0.952,0.1000,1.100,1.200,1.300,1.400,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,0.000 [Engine2] AltitudeTableNumData=40 AltitudeTableDeltaX=609.6 AltitudeTableStartX=0.0 AltitudeTableData=1.000,0.952,0.906,0.860,0.816,0.773,0.731,0.691,0.652,0.614,0.578,0.543,0.578,0.614,0.652,0.691,0.731,0.773,0.816,0.860,0.906,0.952,0.1000,1.100,1.200,1.300,1.400,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,1.500,0.000 [CFTR_fuel] SystemType=FUEL_TANK FuelTankID=9 MaxFuelAmount=1133.98 SelfHealing=FALSE FireSuppression=TRUE MinExtentPosition= 3.98,-0.69, 0.25 MaxExtentPosition= 1.32, 2.12, 0.92 [CFTL_fuel] SystemType=FUEL_TANK FuelTankID=9 MaxFuelAmount=1133.98 SelfHealing=FALSE FireSuppression=TRUE MinExtentPosition=-3.98,-0.69, 0.25 MaxExtentPosition=-1.32, 2.12, 0.92

These are unused but working BlendOp options as found inside the GraphicsEngineDX10.dll: MODULATE_AND_ADD_SRC MODULATE_AND_ADD_DST MODULATE_MUL_2 MODULATE_INV_SRC MODULATE_INV_DST My discovery was dictated by my hunger of finding a proper solution to the DTV filter which does not work properly in-game with night environments, especially with the much darker nights of my realSKY mod. Below you'll find a comparison between stock filter material data and the custom one using another BlendOp: Stock MODULATE, day Stock MODULATE, night Unused MODULATE_MUL_2, day Unused MODULATE_MUL_2, night The main drawback of MODULATE_MUL_2 is that it doubles the MODULATE option, so at day the image is lightened too much than the stock MODULATE. Mind you, the screenshots were taken with the realSKY mod on Unlimited settings, so the post processing effect adds bloom to already bright areas. However, at night MODULATE_MUL_2 brings a big improvement as you can finally see the ground and its objects more easily. PS: Please admins, pin this topic. The unused BlendOps I found work just fine, and may be useful to other modders willing to experiment with them.

Hello everyone, This is the first time I am writing a letter to the people and the communities that I enjoyed being part of throughout my life. I want to write this before anything may happen to my vision. I went to the eye doctor, and he told me that I have between 10 to 20 years before I might go blind. As you can imagine a big shock for me. I decided to just quickly write a story about my life. That way I can have no regrets. As you can see, what I have is known as Usher Syndrome, which led to the loss of my part vision and deafness. Hence, I am deaf with low vision. I am also legally deafblind since I can’t see well in dark. So many challenges have been achieved throughout my life. When I was a young boy, I had two big dreams; To go to Japan and to be a Navy fighter pilot. Obviously, I could not be a Navy fighter pilot and that is where simulation comes in. Initially, it was found out that I am deaf during baby age, but my vision situation wasn’t found out until very much later in my life at the age of 16. It was a big shock for me. I was even told that I am going blind eventually as soon as I reach adulthood (the 20s to 30s of the age). You can imagine how scared I was, thinking my life was in ruin. My world was turned upside. My father always taught me to dream big, no matter what the situation. I had two choices: To live for my dream and try again or to give up and live in a dark world. I chose the first one and decided to try anyway. This led me to achieved what was considered impossible. There were always challenges to face, without any breaks in between. In the educational world, when I was in an elementary school, they treated me like I wasn’t smart because of my deafness. They refused to give me an equal opportunity of education as other children. Fortunately, the teacher told my parent about it and my parent fought the hardest for my right to have an education like everyone else. When I was transferred to another school, I was the only deaf boy in the entire school. It was a scary world. Decided to give it a try and made a few friends, that was when I started teaching sign language for the first time (At age of 9). Having never given up, I had to re-learn the 4th grade to the previous grade in one year to catch up with everyone and it was achieved. Into the High school, never given up, kept trying on and made it to graduate my high school. During high school, even with my limited vision, I joined the swimming team, a tennis game (Oh my god, I HATE THAT game. It was such pain trying to spot fast-moving balls), slotput / disc throw, and Tae kwon Do. And for my hobby at home, I could never stop flying ancient simulations. It was Jane’s series simulation! Even though I could not be real navy fighter pilot, simulation was perfect for me. I loved learning about various military aircraft and fly them virtually. When I got to university, I go through many challenges again. It was a socializing challenge, as well as learning subjects. What doesn’t help was being burnt out from too many studies and hard work. I gave up from time to time but tried again. I had good and not good teachers. I had many ups and downs. Made many mistakes and learned from them. There were so many things I wanted to do but did not have the courage to do because of busy trying to study and pass classes. Here were the big dreams I wanted to do throughout my life: - Successfully living and working in awesome company in Japan - Marry a wonderful woman - Write the fictional books for simulation or game - Write the stories for manga - Have my own gaming development company - Live a happy life without losing my vision After changing my major from aeronautical engineering to computer science, it has taken me 10 years to finish university. Even though it took me that long to finish, I still achieved getting a degree in computer science. Right after the university, did my best to look for the jobs, and got declined due to my sensory disabilities. Bless my parent, they sent me to Japan as my graduation gift. That was the best gift in my life. Took the opportunity to go to Japan for the first time. It was a challenging and fun journey going through Tokyo alone most of the time. I stayed in an apartment for 2 and half months. I was lucky to be able to figure out how to communicate with the apartment company. For your information, I do not have the ability to speak well. I use body language and gesture to communicate with people who do not know any sign language. My primary sign language is ASL (American Sign Language). Right now, I can read some Japanese (basic) and can hold the communication in JSL (Japanese Sign Language). After 3 months of my stay in Japan and returning to the USA, it feels like I was stuck. Nowhere to go because companies often do not give me an opportunity to work for them, even though I hunted for many jobs. I still was fortunate enough to work for my family’s business which gave me a lot of experience. (My family is awesome! They always have my back!) Then comes the 2nd opportunity for me to go back to Japan for 2 months. After that, I decided I am going to try and make a difference in my experience, despite that I couldn’t get jobs. I never forget that day when I was staying in Japan twice as a tourist. I would always keep that experience inside my mind and heart. Seeing people walking around happily, seeing the tall buildings, and seeing myself being successful there. I vowed to make it happen someday. Fortunately, I bumped into a new friend of mine in America. She gave me an opportunity to work as a volunteer for a non-profit organization. I decided to give it a try. 3 years later, I was contacted by a company in Tokyo with a job offer of teaching ASL. Even though it wasn’t related to gaming development or computer-related jobs, I decided to give it a try because it is what will lead me to the next steps toward successfully living in Japan. I have been teaching sign language since I was 9, so I had enough experience to do my best there. To my surprise, working in Tokyo was the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. So many challenges and unexcepted things happening that require me to put a lot of effort into it. Having gone through the sleepless nights, I worked very hard for 2 years straight. Their ways of culture in the work are very different from America for sure! After my contract ended, I was only given 3 months to find a new job before my VISA no longer become valid. Worked very hard looking for the jobs and have gone through various interviews. To my surprise, unlike before, I got a lot of interviews for computer-related jobs! Unfortunately, they told me they found someone else with more experience than me. The closest one I got the job was from an apple company. With the time running out and the unknown of the future, I would still never give up envisioning myself being successful. Thank to my wonderful friend who owns a tavern, they gave me a part-time job as a website developer and interpreter (ASL to JSL). Did my best there and that is when I met a wonderful woman of my life too. With the coronavirus going on, a lot of companies started closing and my journey to find a full-time job in computer-related jobs did not yet happen. After being married to my wonderful woman and moving to Fukushima from Tokyo, continued to do my best with the jobs hunting, got various interviews, and then got declined many times again. With that, decided to try something new. Started doing graphic work as a hobby which led me into creating many things such as menus, short video promotions, and other kinds of graphic works for fun. It made me happy. Then you can guess, it led me into making the mods for SF2. One of them is a new screen/menu for SF2 inspired by Jane’s Fighter Anthology! And at the same time, one of my old dreams is being realized when I started writing a book about the fictional nations (Saad / Zafir) for SF2. That gave me so many joys! Many new skills were developed from it which I believe would be very helpful for the computer-related jobs too! My wife and I made the big goal of moving back to Tokyo someday and then the news hit me a few days ago. The eye doctor told me that I might go blind in 10 to 20 years. That was a huge punch to my stomach, and I felt like the world crumpled around me temporarily and thanks to my wife, she got me pulling myself back together. It wasn’t the first time I experienced this. Back there during my high school time, when I was told that I might go blind by my 20s or 30s, it never happened. I did not believe I would go blind and stayed with the belief I would still be able to preserve my vision. That still happened to this very day. I am going to continue staying with that kind of hope. A miracle can happen. However, as I said, just in case, if anything happens to my vision, I am happy I got this out of my chest and wanted to share with the community and the world about my life challenges. Thank you everyone for my wonderful experiences of simulation and modding. I will continue to work on SFAW mods slowly through time. Have to make to rest my eyes every day too. Cheers

Outstanding work, Gepard! It's a tragedy that all of that is a current warzone, but in a way you're giving light to it with such artistic work. Props to you.

Thank you for everything my dear friend.

Looking good

Just having fun with the drone. I think I need to work on the roof shingles before the winter. That is what happens when you play around, you spend more money fixing things.

Seems like people have problems unpacking the addon. 1. Download BOTH files (SF2 VietnamScooters - Addon 1 - v0.02.7z.001 and .002) 2. click on file 001 and extract to a directory of your choice 3. THAT'S IT The AddOn is split into 2 files and after extract of file 001 is done, 7zip continues with 002. No manual extraction of the second file... I hope that helps.

slowly but surely we're getting there

The town of Energodar is finished now. 481 buildings. It looks like a typical soviet town of the 1980th.

I can't wait these beautiful Stafighters... Screenshots needed From an old SFP1 Mirage Factory mod (2006), their (early delivered from 1976) F-15A Baz runs perfectly after several SF2 tweaks.

working on the texture. this is just the beginning. lol

A Gathering of Eagles (google it!!)

this ones been quite a while. guess i better go medium rather than heavy weight

F4-U5 NL

And grey filter ...

I want to let everyone know I am back a while ago. I am going to share what has happened to me since April (When I posted here). It has been miracle experience. I am never going to let doctors decide my fate ever again. I am one who make the decision for myself, especially about my fate. The reason why I visited the doctor is that I noticed something was wrong with my left vision. it seem like I was having cataracts growing more and more. It is what makes it more difficult to look at the computer screen or read anything. Went to see an eye doctor. He told me that it wasn't cataracts and that my tunnel vision was getting smaller and that I have 10 to 20 years before I lost vision. He especially told me that the effects I was seeing through my left vision is incurable, I had to get used to it. After going through days of intense fears, worrying, crying, anger, frustration, and desperation for finding a way to heal my vision. My wife and I decided we would give it a try by doing anything we can do to heal my vision situations. My left vision was getting more fuzzy, wavy (like water wavy), and blurry. Then after that, my right eye fuzzy part was starting to grow slowly. That was very scary! I honestly thought I may have to give up my passions and hobbies. However, my wife read a lot about which fruits and vegetables are good for the eye, then we start eating that everyday now. I read the book about the miracle healing from this amazing person, Morris Goodman "The Miracle Man". He was in a plane crash, the doctor told him his body would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. He refused to trust the doctor and take the matter into his own hand. He started believing his body is healed, despite any situation. Months later, his body has gone through healing. Then eventually he accomplished being able to walk and use his body again. There was one situation I forgot as well. My family told me that it wasn't the first time doctor told me that I was going blind and I ended up still seeing even with the tunnel vision. Then it hit me, during my young age (High school), the doctor told me the exact same thing. The doctors told me that I was going blind by 30 years old. To this very day, I can still see because I refused to believe in doctors and assumed that my eyes are fine. This is the result. However, back in my recent situation, I decided to use what is known as the "Placebo effect" by starting to believe that whatever I do and eat is good for my eyes and that my eye is healthy. I prayed and meditated every day, took the time to relax, worked with the fears, and trusted the process. We had no other choice but to give this the best chance. It was a big leap of faith. In the following weeks, I started to notice the improvement in vision incrementally. Eventually later when I can finally read again, use the computer to do very light gaming, and a few simple modding for simulation / games, we were overjoyed! Then eventually as soon my eyes no longer hurt when using a computer and bought a screen protector for blue light), I could read more and more now. When looking at the line, they no longer appear wavy. The wavy water effect in vision almost completely disappears. Then to my surprise, could see more light entering my eyes, could see more lights even than many years ago. Could see a bit more as if the tunnel were getting a bit wider. The 'cataract" spot is just a tiny spot. Won't stop until the eyes are completely healed, even until I could see the whole vision completely instead of tunnel vision. That's the goal! I am still amazed by this miracle healing. From now on, I am continuing to trust in the healing process with confidence and will never listen to the doctor again if they tell me if anything can't be healed. This is why I am joyfully working on SFCE and SFAW mod projects steadily. And unlike before, I take more rest often from time to time from the computer and enjoy secondary hobbies by going out to the cafe or meditating. Eagle114th

enroute to Sicily DZ, circa 1994

Enhance Plus 2 (yes coming soon, and got 29 USAF serial matched to VNAF, plus US identities and fates for the 37 Herks involved with the Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa

Ravenclaw is like a fine wine, he gets better with age.

Saudi and Luftwaffe MRTTs..

You know how it is. Wait ages for a(n air)bus and then two arrive at once!