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Sorry guys, I wasn't planning on posting any new screenies until it was ready for release (which is relatively imminent at last!), but I couldn't help myself after yet another round of tinkering with the bump and specular maps ..

Given the date I thought it might be nice to see some D-Day striped birds

Blue Tail Flies...

Busy with Real Life at the moment, but did have time this morning to fool around with the China Skies stuff. Maybe some day...

Waking up the locals........ Any of you guys seen a big lizard round these parts? Oh well, le't see what's available.......... Time to go home...maybe I'll see that lizard on the way home.

“Vive la France”

@Geezer: Sure no problem, you've a PM From 'A Pass, a King and a Mountain' ... We ran, as the lorries ran, into patches of melting snow, fringed with gentian clumps, heath, and crocus! These patches thickened to sheets, till at the head of a pass we found ten foot of packed snow, all newly shovelled back from the dry, perfectly graded road-bed. It trailed after us brokenly, through villages whose gutters danced with bright water, and closed up abreast of us in sheets once more when we reached Cortina. This was an ex-health and pleasure resort, which of late belonged to the Austrians, who filled it with 'new-art' hotels, each more villainous in design than its neighbour. To-day, as the troops and transport come and go, the jigsaw and coloured-glass atrocities look like bedizened ladies , standing distracted in the middle of a police raid. The enemy do not shell the hotels much, because they are owned by Austrian heyducs who hope to come back and resume their illustrious trade. In the old days, whole novels were written about Cortina. The little-used mountains round made an impressive background for love-tales and climbing adventures. Love has gone out of this huge basin of the Dolomites now, and the mountaineering is done by platoons in order to kill men, not by individuals who read papers before Alpine Clubs.

Wow! I must have sent you guys an early experimental LOD. I'll make a new one tomorrow.

I can definitely say that on the Dux-built Nieuport-17, the machine gun was shifted to the right. As for the coloring, the second photo shows how much they looked more gray next to the French-built apparatus (fourth and fifth aircraft) .

The R.11 from what I'm aware was capable of doing a modern Immelmann, although sources are confusing on what an Immelmann is too (old-style chandelle, pirouette? or was the Immelmann always the same maneuver, as Dan-San Abbott suggested on the Aerodrome forums...). The R.11 has powerful engines, historically, so should be capable of such stunts if done gracefully I suppose. To minimize wild maneuvers from the AI in the R.11, try the following tweaks (haven't tested this yet but will get around to it eventually...still busy with the ver. 9.5 FM update pack). ------------------- R11 Caudron AI Tweak [AIData] -----> change values in two lines below as follows MaxRollCombat=15.0 MaxPitchCombat=25.0 -----> replace dogfight skill level entries with ones below [DogfightNovice] SafeAltitude=160 LookoutAngle=90 DefensiveAngle=60 ChanceDefensiveTurn=0 ChanceBreakTurn=10 ChanceHardTurn=10 ChanceTurnDirection=10 ChanceContinue=80 ChanceCheckNewTarget=5 ChanceUseVertical=5 FightWithoutAmmo=0 CannonFireAngle=20.0 MaxPitchInput=0.75 MaxCannonRange=500 OptimalCannonRange=80 MinCannonRange=50 MaxRollForGunAttack=45 CannonBurstLengthShort=2.5 CannonBurstLengthLong=2.5 MaxRudderForGunAttack=0.5 MaxRudderForManeuver=0.7 [DogfightGreen] SafeAltitude=140 LookoutAngle=120 DefensiveAngle=90 ChanceDefensiveTurn=15 ChanceBreakTurn=20 ChanceHardTurn=20 ChanceTurnDirection=20 ChanceContinue=70 ChanceCheckNewTarget=10 ChanceUseVertical=10 FightWithoutAmmo=0 CannonFireAngle=20.0 MaxPitchInput=0.75 MaxCannonRange=500 OptimalCannonRange=80 MinCannonRange=50 MaxRollForGunAttack=60 CannonBurstLengthShort=2.0 CannonBurstLengthLong=2.0 MaxRudderForGunAttack=0.8 MaxRudderForManeuver=0.9 [DogfightRegular] SafeAltitude=120 LookoutAngle=150 DefensiveAngle=90 ChanceDefensiveTurn=35 ChanceBreakTurn=30 ChanceHardTurn=30 ChanceTurnDirection=40 ChanceContinue=50 ChanceCheckNewTarget=20 ChanceUseVertical=20 FightWithoutAmmo=0 CannonFireAngle=12.0 MaxPitchInput=0.8 MaxCannonRange=500 OptimalCannonRange=70 MinCannonRange=30 MaxRollForGunAttack=75 CannonBurstLengthShort=0.75 CannonBurstLengthLong=1.0 MaxRudderForGunAttack=1.0 MaxRudderForManeuver=1.0 [DogfightVeteran] SafeAltitude=100 LookoutAngle=150 DefensiveAngle=120 ChanceDefensiveTurn=55 ChanceBreakTurn=30 ChanceHardTurn=30 ChanceTurnDirection=30 ChanceContinue=50 ChanceCheckNewTarget=30 ChanceUseVertical=40 FightWithoutAmmo=0 CannonFireAngle=12.0 MaxPitchInput=0.85 MaxCannonRange=500 OptimalCannonRange=70 MinCannonRange=30 MaxRollForGunAttack=90 CannonBurstLengthShort=0.75 CannonBurstLengthLong=1.0 MaxRudderForGunAttack=1.0 MaxRudderForManeuver=2.0 [DogfightAce] SafeAltitude=100 LookoutAngle=150 DefensiveAngle=120 ChanceDefensiveTurn=65 ChanceBreakTurn=50 ChanceHardTurn=50 ChanceTurnDirection=50 ChanceContinue=25 ChanceCheckNewTarget=40 ChanceUseVertical=50 FightWithoutAmmo=1 CannonFireAngle=12.0 MaxPitchInput=0.85 MaxCannonRange=500 OptimalCannonRange=70 MinCannonRange=30 MaxRollForGunAttack=90 CannonBurstLengthShort=0.75 CannonBurstLengthLong=1.0 MaxRudderForGunAttack=1.0 MaxRudderForManeuver=2.0 ------------------- Von S

Enjoying the technical posts gents': from what I could find, Alkan-Hamy, and then later Birkigt gears on occasion, were used on license-built aircraft in Russia too (as with DUX manufactured types). Experiments were done as early as 1915 by Dibovsky, also Lavrov, with interrupter gears - but apart from the Sikorsky S-16, I don't know if these early experiments were in use...Dibovsky, with Scarff, later developed the interrupter gear used on several Sopwith Strutters and some early Sopwith Pups (see pic. below). Scarff is best know for the Scarff ring moveable gun-mount for observers. Happy flying, Von S

Lots of character!

Thanks for clearing that up. I got the color scheme off the internet and did not realize it was an N23, not an N17. The "dark" silver artwork is simply a modified version of the "light" silver artwork of the other N17s I have posted. Attached is the original .psd artwork (light silver paintwork) with the Russian markings added. The N17 artwork is interchangeable with the N23 artwork as the aircraft were externally identical. Just transfer layers from one artwork set to the other set if you want to make your own variants. VonS and I discussed gun location and determined that the gun installation varied with the type of synchronizer. The only synchronizer specified by the French government for rotary engines was the Alkan-Hamy type - Systeme de Synchronisation pour Vickers Type 1 (moteurs rotatifs) - that placed the gun slightly offset to starboard. However, early production of the Alkan gears did not meet demand, so several British gun/synchronizers systems - which placed the gun on the center line - were imported for installation on some N17 aircraft. I do not know which type(s) were installed on Russian Nieuports. The Alkan-Hamy gear, slightly offset to starboard, can be identified by the spring loaded rod above the gun barrel and is shown below. Note the cocking lever is the British Hyland Type A, not the standard French cocking lever. Artwork with Russian Markings.rar

Not to be picky, but this particular aeroplane No. 3598 was built in France, so in this case it was superfluous to imitate the Russian paintwork. In addition, as mentioned above, "Bob" is the 23rd type, not the 17th. The serial number and type description were indicated on bottom surfaces of wings - approximately the same as in the figure (I just love all sorts of technical inscriptions! However, type 17 from type 23 differed only in the placement of weapons and two bracing wires (inside - the modified construction of boxes for ammunition)...

With the greatest pleasure! For some time, digging into the insides of my favorite game has become for me an even more fascinating occupation than the virtual flight itself. Of course, I can not compare with such a monster as Von S, but maybe I can also be useful.

because TK (the original developer you bought the series from) hasnt done so much as a patch or said so much as a peep about PC development. one could hope for a suprise, but after 5 years dont hope too hard all forward progress on this series has been from the modders for the last half decade. while there is much great work out there, we are a bit fragmented and preoccupied with our own lives to get a community SF3 rolling. Shoot major campaigns and aircraft are stop and go, let alone the whole series revamped mandatory screenie

...unfortunately we'll never know. Mandatory Screenshot "Recon"-Skyhawk. Bomb damage assessment camera - a small visual gimmick. :)

do anybody has this file ??? ha-300 egypt

As for the gunners, I will also add that after I added FakeGun, the behavior of the aircraft really became more aggressive. Now, after the command "Engage Air", Caudrons began to pursue enemy planes, performing steep turns and loops (of course, this is nonsense for such a large wagon)). But it almost did not affect the behavior of the gunners. It seems that the rear gunner thinks he is the front gunner (or vice versa), because on closer examination it turned out that the rear gunner shoots forward, while the front gunner is idle. But why are muzzle flashes in the wrong place (MuzzlePosition)? In general, the solution is somewhere close, I think ... P.S. I didn't manage to catch the moment when muzzle flashes, but it is clear that the fire was opened by the rear gunner.

I tried with settings from various stock and additional aircraft (including Laton's Halberstadt CL4), but so far to no avail. At the moment gunners are still shoot as in the screenshot, or prefer to turn their backs when they are attacked by a whole swarm of enemy hunters. . Although I even tried to add a FakeGun there to make them more aggressive... )) I think that the error is somewhere in the aircraft's coordinate system in the data-in-file

Third Wire's 3D model instructions require flexible guns to point forward, to provide a reference for the game code. Making the guns point aft is accomplished by the entries in the data file. Shot below shows the guns point in the correct direction before exporting the 3D model as a LOD. I do not know what causes the gunner problem ingame, but the model is set up correctly. This has worked correctly before, with the Halberstadt CL4. Perhaps the entries in Laton's old CL4 data file might help you figure out the problem? HalberstadtCLIV_DATA.INI

Yes, modding has a peculiar fascination doesn't it? I hardly ever fly anymore. My limited time is now spent developing and testing.

you went to contribute in a fashion that you could. it went south, as things do from time to time. no worries and hopefully it gets back running again

Stratos, you mean something like this?

Persian Gulf intercept F\A-18Cs over the Persian Gulf.....(because my FB feed has suddenly become clogged by DCS screenshots)

Some progress on the Vietnam Scooters. Focus lies on A-4E and F (B+C still need Cockpit-Repaint). I'm still not sure yet, how to release a first package...Currently I'm at 46 skins with 1,5GB disk space. VA-56 "Champions", USS Ticonderoga, 1964 VA-152 "Fighting Aces", USS Shangri-La, 1970 VA-106 "Gladiators", USS Forrestal, 1967 VA-55 "Warhorses", USS Hancock, 1968 VA-155 "Silver Foxes", USS Constellation, 1966

"What If "- French Corsairs with Sidewinders!!

Vietnamese MiG-29s

On a CAS mission

South China Sea. Present Day...

Think it'll pass for a Seafire?

Enter the Twister He blinked. Electrify me. Over my ahoulder

CP-121 skins on the final stretch. Here is one of the WIP

Somewhere over the Donbass..

VA-86 ‘Sidewinders’

the canopy animation is done now and some minor items are fixed , i have to check for some more items to fix

Hello all!! Thanks for your concern and interest. Like Ravenclaw stated earlier, he got into contact with me, and God bless him, he has graciously offered to help; so we are going to make a concerted effort to get a couple of versions out there for you as soon as possible. Thanks again for your support!

This is Mil Mi-24 Hind W DCS Model free 3d model adapted in SF2 3D Model Converted By me in game Strike Fighters 2 Skin by me data.ini biig help VP Emre Mola (emresukhoi) ------ Thank you bro This is beta version 0,9

More formation shots