ravenclaw_007

small update originally i had the fuel filler cap on all drop tanks as a 3d part since i try to reduce the lod sice i removed this 3d fuel filler caps and replaced it with a texture this is how it looks like now

Thanks everything is working now i replaced the motherboard and the CPU and installed windows 7 to a new 1TB SSD luckily i had enough spare parts for my old computer , still got 1 motherboard and 2 CPU´s and one set of RAM´s , maybe have to look to get 1 more from that motherboard and a CPU i´m using Gigabyte GA-Z79X-UD5H motherboard Intel I7-4790K CPU G.Skill DDR3 1600mhz 32Gb ( 4x8GB ) RAM WD Blue 1TB SSD Gigabyte Geforce RTX 3060 OC 12Gb graphic card my biggest surprise was that i got all Win 7 updates from Microsoft automatically , no need for endless searching just a lot of time to install almost 300 updates so much for no windows 7 support , by the way i just got the latest security update from this month ohhh..... and i got the driver for my Intel 660P 512 GB M.2 SSD so i have windows 7 64 bit with my library on that M.2 SSD working now

i´m back , computer is working again

i got my computer working , i had to change the mainboard and the cpu windows 7 is installed and all updates installed ( was surprised that i got them automatically from microsoft ) i had some problem with the graphicscard because windows did not recognize it and i was unable to install the Nvidia driver , somehow i got it solved and now everything is running fine the only problem is that i got most of my reference material , pictures , flight manuals and the SF installation files on a M.2 SSD and my Windows 7 installation is not showing the drive , the bios is showing the drive only windows is saying no , on my previouse windows 7 installation the M.2 SSD was no problem and since i use the same Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installation disk and istalled all updates i dont understand why i have that problem now i installed all drivers for the mainboard just in case somebody is asking anybody an idea how i can fix this ???? would it help if i use a external usb docking station for the M.2 SSD , at least to get the data ????

in the moment you can not send any mail to me because my computer just died , i can not start windows , so i installed a 1T SSD to install a new windows but even that is not working windows is unable to make a installation dont know what is happening but something is totaly wrong here i also made a reset to the bios but no luck if i start the computer he is sometimes very fast also with the installation cd and than for no reason he slows down and needs 30 minutes or more for something he did before in 5 minutes , starting windows is a no go , new installation is a no go , dont know what to do so i´m off for a while , at least until i know what the hell is going on

i wanted to make the engine nozzle as 3D part but i was running in to problems with the fuselage and the lod size would increase to much , so i decided to just change the texture and make some minor changes like adding the inner nozzle and deepen the after burner area to the corecr size thats how they look like now this is the best i could come up with right now , maybe in the future i will get the 3d nozzle working like i want to and added to the aircraft

some update on the 3D model and the texture i added a new 370 gallon drop tank with more details and a new pylon for it i added anew LAU-7A launch rail with the correct length and more details new outer wing weapons pylon new inner wing pylon new 600 gallon drop tank ( nestable ) , i also have the welded version , the welded version will be used on early F-4E´s the nestable version on the mid to later F-4E´s and early F-4G´s the lod has now 9.34 MB , and i´m not yet done so the lod will further increase in size pictures where taken over a version from Rent´s Germany terrain , so far i dont have any problems may be a small hit on the FPS but no stutter or freezing what surprises me a lot given of the lod size , especially since i have been warned not to create lod´s with a large size and that since the beginning of my modding for SF2 given the fact that i´m still on an old computer , win-7 64 bit with 32 GB ram and an i7-4790k CPU and a RTX 3060 graphics card with 12 MB ram , i begin to wonder what are the limits with regard to lod size and large textures especially with new more powerful computers and graphic cards

F-8E_66 with 3 x LAU-33A/A and 1 x LAU-35A/A , the LAU-35A/A was for the lower left hand pylon only the LAU-33A/A was used on all other pylons

everything ok here and yes i have them , try this and let me know if you find any problems GBU-15 Bombs.7z

was there not something with a simple mod request only unfortunately i dont have anything for the B-52

by working on my F-4E/G cockpits and try to improve them more and more i got some help from Pvince , so far i was using Avioncs60.dll for the avionics but Pvince suggested to use Avionics70.dll since the DSCG radar display is a digital display and Avionics70.dll would be more suited for it especially the VC display ( velocity closure ) in the upper right of the display would be only possible with the Avionics70.dll Pvince made all the changes and got the F-4E avionics70.dll cockpit working , so that is what we got now Search with radar range display Boresight with radar range display lock on with radar range display an VC display PPI with radar range display TISEO one problem is still remaining , the F-4E with DMAS / ARN-101 is using CCIP but with out a fall line , so if you select a bomb the gun-sight disappears from the HUD if you are close to the target the gun-sight com`s back up and you can attack your target normal view Bombs selected , gun-sight disappears close to target dont know if i should keep that CCIP or just use the normal gun sight

i´m searching high res pictures from the Spoiler bay /well if somebody has pictures please share them with me , i search and search but cant find any picture of this spoiler bay/well and it does not matter from what F-4 version that picture would be , i assume that they are all looking the same after all this time searching this is the only picture i found , would be nice to have the picture taken from above

some more details that i added /changed on the new model no more gap between wing and flaps , aileron arresting hook actuator piston some arresting hook and lower tail details new canopy`s with hinge new air refueling receptacle nose gear front door is now linked with 2 strut´s to the nose gear , still a lot of work on this whole nose gear section still so much work to do , currently i´m reworking the front gear well and adding much more details to the templates still thinking what to do with the engine nozzles , i would like to make them more in 3D but maybe i´m just adding new textures i´m planning to add specular map´s but i don't have any experience with this kind of maps , will see how what i can come up with , the bump map´s will be no problem i hope

first test flight with the new F-4G and the new 4096 x 4096 skin , no bump map yet and still have to add a lot more details to the skin