Centurion-1

Now that's photorealism.. One can only wish to make anything of that level. On the other hand, that's payware and should be perfect!

I was just about to say that bucklehead, I have already mentally put away about 300USD from my savings account for when the production Rift comes out.

Pylonism

The pylon_AIM9_L would need to be present on the actual F-5E model to use, so for now you need to use the same pylon name as the outer wing pylon. If it references a node name not present you get floating missiles.

I wouldn't sweat it, the F.1C pit is about 50k tris right now and there is no stuttering at all on my laptop. So 100k should still be ok. And yes, it looks awesome!

Ok, so I might have played a bit of War Thunder... so? The Mirage F.1C masquerading as the LaGG-3 of Soviet Frontal Aviation!

Gmax/ 3ds max is really quite intuitive once you get used to it, and there are loads of great tutorials on the net!

I'd reserve judgement on that until in-game testing, the game engine displays transparency a bit differently. That's looking right about done to my eyes btw, a superb accomplishment all in all!

Retroing over Iceand, no RWR and old style Cyrano IV CRT set. Thanks to the Mirage IIIO DLC I could code all the fancy lights all by myself (so proud), it reminds me of the X-Wing from the original Star Wars

Oh yes it is not technically difficult.. only tedious as hell with all the small cylinders and stuff. At least I find it so.. if you have any good pro-tips, I'm all ears

Yep, that looks the money, extremely well done. Some nice ambient occlusion baked textures on that and you've got some kick-ass eye candy. Only downside is uvmapping all those little fiddly bits so all sides are mapped to make the AO look proper.. Oh how we suffer for the arts

It really is a pleasure to work on this model, I can only hope to get my MiG-25 and other projects even close.. Thanks to Paulo the F.1CE now has correct serials, here shown the F.1CE in Lizard camo and pre-upgrade loviz of Ala 14! That brings the Spanish AF to-do liveries down to two, the ex-Qatar EDA and the Blue camo EE of Ala462.

What are these pods?

Continuing on the Spanish theme,

I found this but no idea what it is or if it is any use.. from a japanese site, apparantly a jammer pod for the U-36 but maybe others? (source: http://rightwing.sakura.ne.jp/equipment/jmsdf/aviation/u-36a/u-36a.html)..

This aircraft has my knickers in a twist! Your cockpit work and Ravenclaw's otherwordly level of detail is what has made me really try to push the envelope on my projects! if this level of work keeps going we are really gonna give DCS a run for their money. Seeing as SF2 mods are free and all! edit: spelling...

Regarding the external model here is a nice collection of refs if you didnt have them already! http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/waF5A.html Once again, can't wait!

Looking sharp!

Is your problem that once captured you cant fly from those fields or what? Once I had a problem with units not showing up, was the unit numbering that was screwed up. So check for syntax and typo errors too!

Have you noticed tho that when doing cruise missile attacks the Blinders for example allways fly with burners lit at altitude. Hardcoded behaviour? I really wish you could customize behaviour for AI strikers more to enhance their survivability..

Well, here's something for all you Spaniards, and also a lesson in colossal time managment failure (I made the conformal Chaff/Flare dispensers, realized I did not have any skin appropriate for that variant, spent something like 3 hours making the skins and new RWR parts + low viz stencils). Also shown is the new higher res inboard pylons. The decals are not by me and just temporary to have something. Cockpit is still some ways off because it is completely proprietary but the pre-upgrade Spanish F.1s should not be that far into the future. A cookie for whoever can find high res pics of the inboard missile pylons (the ones for the Matra Super 530s).

I can wouch for Starys darwin tileset, the best looking for SF2 so far in my opinion!