OlWilly

Is it possible to enable Launch Authorized indication for ground attack munitions? Otherwise it is quite sketchy trying to guess when you had to launch.

Similarly, could the distance to ground target be displayed in cockpit? Maybe on TV screen through avionics data?

On 5/5/2023 at 7:18 PM, michaelk said:

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You see, the 3d models themselves are different.

This is how 21MF SPO looks like with front node removed. Aside from the general SPO circle, you have 8 points for flashing lights

And this is how 23s SPO looks like. Underneath the SPO circle - there is another SPO circle 

SPO in 21 generally works and show from where the threat comes. In 23, it doesn't 

Did a second version if anyone is interested, changed the HUD a little too 

I noticed that MiG-21MF pit has working Bereza RWR. It bleeps and lights do show the angle of incoming radiation

MiG-23 pit has Bereza too, and it looks like a same 3D model, but currently lights don't work. It bleeps, but no lights

Another thing, 21 pit has "droptanks empty" indicator light. Very useful. 23 pit doesn't

Thus, how exactly I can edit 23 pit to add this? I understand that I had to modify 3d model of the pit, add hooks and respective light textures, then add them in cockpit.ini having 21 pit as an example. What software is best to use here?

On 11.03.2023 at 1:12 AM, bazillius said:

Although according to the documents, the R-77 missile is superior to AMRAAM. But in the game and on paper R-77 better.

Russian sources claim R-77-SD have 100km range, AIM-120-C-7 is claimed to have 120km. Ramjet R-77-PD is supposed to have more, but no one has seen it in actual service - unicorn missile

6 hours ago, bazillius said:

it's all clear and obvious. I just want to say that a range of 120 kilometers and even more so of 200 kilometers is a Russian lie. official Russian sources lied about the range of this missile, and the one who modeled this missile in the game took Russian lies as a basis. 

Well, RUSI doesn't treat R-37 as a joke and I find RUSI as a decent source of analysis

The VKS has been firing up to six R-37Ms per day during October, and the extremely high speed of the weapon, coupled with very long effective range and a seeker designed for engaging low-altitude targets, makes it particularly difficult to evade.76 The long range of the R-37M, in conjunction with the very high performance and high operating altitude of the Mig-31BM also allows it significant freedom to menace Ukrainian aircraft near the frontlines from outside the range of Ukrainian defences. The VKS has also started employing the R-37M from at least a few of its Su-35S fighters, which not only increases the reach of the latter in combat but may also suggests Russian stocks of the R-37M are in little danger of running out.77

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/russian-air-war-and-ukrainian-requirements-air-defence

I like how pits are modeled in the vanilla game. Front pit is modeled fine, you have working instrumentation and proper 3D pit. Sides, where all the engine, radio, etc management are just flat 2D texture. It's not as pretty as fully modeled pit, but since this stuff is non-functional this is fine. Saves some time on modelling I reckon, I wonder how many time people spent on modelling the sides of the pit

On 01.03.2023 at 8:51 PM, bazillius said:

Unfortunately, the R-37 missiles fly at a distance of 100 kilometers. Of course, not 120, as they are lied about, but they get close to 100 kilometers. There were already launches in a real battle. The missiles missed but forced the bombers to stop attacking. So I recommend reducing the chance of hitting and the Lock chance,  but the range should be 100 kilometers.

It depends on many factors - altitude, speed, type of target and direction - frontal or rear semisphere.

If you fly at 20000m at 1.5M and launch at frontal semisphere of something like C-130 or B-52 - you may hit even from 150km.

If you fly lower and slower, and launch a catch-up against a fighter, the hit is not guaranteed even at 30-40km.

The problem with such long-range massive missiles is that while they have lots of energy - no joke, traveling at 5-6M, their maneuverability is limited and they use a lot of anticipation while tracking their target. Fighters usually can dodge them if timely maneuver is made.

This is how it work in real life, dunno how accurately it is modeled in the game

On 01.03.2023 at 9:45 PM, Righteous26 said:

If the enemy fighter is an Su-35S you will get outranged because his radar will burn through your jamming before you can burn through his and fire. These reduced firing ranges also put both combatants well within the no escape envelopes of each other's missiles so the player can't just turn and run away at full afterburner. Players must then defeat the missile with chaff as the ECM is of no value against a missile and a kinematic or seeker track rate defeat is unlikely.

You should remember that such stuff is governed by avionics70.dll which was intended for early 4th gen fighters - F-14A, F-15A, F-16A, etc. Putting overly modern stuff in the game still forces it to use the same 70.dll file to govern its function. So don't expect proper modern ECM function, stealth, LPI radars and such.

Su-35S radar is indeed very powerful, it is made that way since Russia doesn't have much A-50 AWACS planes and there is no developed datalink in Russian AirForce like you would expect in USAF; A-50 just gives azimuth to the target by radio comms. Thus it's old-school, A-50 gives you azimuth, then you look with your own radar. Moreso, Su-35S pays for its radar range by being very detectable - it has huge RCS and radar itself is non-LPI, therefore target will know very early that it is being looked at.

1 hour ago, Menrva said:

Those wonderful cockpits were all made by Stary. He also made alternative colors for the MiG-23 ones, any chance you could fix textures with those colors as well? Below two examples, one from the MLD and the other from his BN cockpit.

Sure, why not. So, the one I did is blueish-green (a "middle" color), and the two others are clean blue and clean light green.

I see that texture sets are basically the same across the pits so it won't be hard

9 hours ago, EricJ said:

I'm sure you can upload that to the Downloads section rather than hosting it on your Google Drive. As long as you give proper credit you should be okay.

Also, while we are here, I converted a couple of planes from SF1 to SF2 for personal use. Su-35, Su-47, MiG-1.44, etc. Nothing too fancy but works fine from the box. Should I upload these?

8 hours ago, EricJ said:

I'm sure you can upload that to the Downloads section rather than hosting it on your Google Drive. As long as you give proper credit you should be okay.

Sure, I'm not familiar with local procedure yet

1 hour ago, bazillius said:

Yes I see you corrected missprints and mistakes. And I want to say that it is possible to convert *.bmps to *.jpegs. I did it for my MOD folder. Cockpit works nice and no white/black not textured places. thanks.

Good idea, also saves space on the disk.

With all due respect, but cockpit texturing here is a mess, using a whole load of textures with almost 200mb per one cockpit. Considering how many planes are in MiG-23 pack and if someone wants to use the similar pit for MiG-23B/27 it's almost 2GB of pit files alone.

I think I will do the conversion for myself but upload these ones as they are

I will also look into other planes, AFAIK, Su-7 pit has the same set of typos

Enjoyed MiG-23s from this pack. 

But one thing kept bugging me out, the labels have a lot of typos in them, sometimes just gibberish.

I took the liberty to fix this. 

Just drop textures into the pit folder and replace.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vy50VNwDtLx5TEQrZH_6Yt8MVxbZX7wM/view?usp=share_link

This also works for MiG-23B/MiG-27 pit by "Stary"

It works, awesome. 

Disabling cockpit with del button allows to simulate bombsight (move and zoom with according buttons) and CCIP mark moves accordingly. Blasted airfield from 8000 meters straight 

Thanks, I will look into it

I installed Lancer mod. Great plane but level bombing with it is nigh impossible because it lacks any bombsights. 

As I understand, SF2 doesn't really support bombsights but it does support CCIP.

Is there a way I could be able to add a simple CCIP to Lancer (or any plane for that matter)?