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Maybe we should do a kickstarter and then just give TK the money Meh, if the guy is burnt out on SF2 development I understand fully, but that's the danger of one man shows.. Aaanyways, I don't see why a Kickstarter wouldn't be a good fit for TKs operation. It's not like it legally binds him to do anything, but gives him capital to hire staff to accomplish goals. And to clarify, I'm quite happy with SF2 right now, I'm a single player guy at heart and the graphics are good enough for me (with Starys magic the terrain engine is surprisingly versatile) but the potential for TK to monetize is huge if he would just leave his comfort zone.

Do you know what I think TK should do? A) A free-to-play multiplayer dogfight game using the TW engine and resources, sort of like World of Tanks where revenue is based on micro-transactions (upgrade your plane, buy better weapons, buy new planes etc). F2P just to get more people to try it. From what I have understood many MMO games who have gone F2P have boosted revenue massively. This would of-course require some graphical spit-and-polish to make it more pleasing for the larger crowd. And hiring some more network programmers. And bringing a publisher onboard. Or going route B. B) Start a kick-starter or other crowdfunding scheme to launch SF3 that would feature all the stuff we would like to see, like a complete new terrain engine, more avionics tweaks and fixed clouds and whatnot. This would enable TK to go it alone and wouldnt need to make skins for food. Just my 0.02€. I am contemplating to post this on TKs board, but I don't think it would do much good..

There seems to be quite a bit of "mess" in the texture on the sides of the fuselage, this is because if you project a circular shape from above straight down the curvature will not get enough space on the 2d texture, giving the artifact shown. And in practice this means it will be impossible to add texture detail to that part. So if what's happening is what I think it is I would strongly urge you to fix it. It's such a pretty plane! If you need help fixing it just PM me bro and I will help you sorting it out!

You shouldn't use JPG textures, we have been over this in other threads but basically it is more taxing for the GPU to decompress and render JPEGs than BMPs. A good middle way is DDS which is a compressed format BUT is made for easy handling and rendering by GPUs. Or just convert your BMPs to 256 colour palette, it also saves size.

More progress: The textures are ofcourse only placeholders, the wings are not finished yet still some small details to be modeled. I am going away for the weekend so I don't know how much progress there will be the next few days but I will bring my laptop. Yeah I think so, I haven't looked into how it is set up yet but.. Does anyone know why my glass material is not showing up?? I had the same problem with the old model but forgot how I fixed it!

Nevermind, the main fuselage had to many polys. Works again now! Also, the edit function does not work for me on the new forum software, using Google Chrome on Win7 64bit

I am now getting crashes on export, anybody has any clue on what it might mean?

Major step (for me): In-game and actually sits on the runway without blowing up Now where did those pilots go? Prospects for this projects are looking very good indeed! Almost all of the fiddly stuff is done, leaving only things I enjoy like texturing and uvmapping. Some final kinks to be straightened out on the fuselage before that and some minor details that need modeling + cutting out control surfaces and airbrake.

Hi! Sophocles, I decided to go with the middle road, and used a selective meshsmooth as cocas suggested around the intakes. Some funny geometry there still to be straightened out but I think it does look better now. The wings are very barebones still, just cut out the gear doors otherwise still in one piece. But it's nice to see that you think it's going well, judging by your F-5 you know what you are talking about Soulfreak yeah there are a lot of skins that need to be done for this one, I will get in contact with you ASAP when I have the uvmapping & template done. I got the pylons and landing gear done (as in modeled & uvmapped) though, which is nice as they are slightly tedious to do: Gear doors left off on purpose

Sophocles: I don't know, it brings the total up to 42k tris, vs. 23k for just one iteration. The only area that really benefits is the intake area. You be the judge 23K tris: http://postimage.org/image/xte3xn2sv/ 42K tris: http://postimage.org/image/qeos59gxb/ Thanks guys for the support, if it weren't for the support and interest I don't think I would have bothered to restart this!

That is one slick looking model! Great work! Man if I could make stuff that works ingame that fast I'd be in heaven :)

In the campaign data ini under the force01 and force02 statements you can find these arguments: AircraftReplacementTime=14 AircraftReplacement=10 GroundUnitReplacementTime=14 GroundUnitReplacement=20 Set to 0?

Yep. Moar polies = win. Update: Shell modifier is the s**t. Cutting out those canopy supports was like 2 minutes.

It rises like the Phoenix bird from the ashes: Imma doin' it right this time! Still very early but you get the idea. Some good late night modeling music:

Looks very nice! Who doesn't love Mirages? Are you planning to UVmap them to match the stock mirages so existing skins can be used? Might be a tad fiddly to get right to say the least but could provide advantageous later on!

Yeah those are alright, only the A-37 dragonfly was affected.. But yeah, now I can make it even better. Mainly regret losing the pylons and other details I had made. No I never got affiliated with any Arma modding group and never really figured out the O2 modeling suite either. Nice to know that people are looking forward to this! And yeah, the new F-5A looks completely awesome!

Those look great Paulo! I have some Hi-Viz skins in the work as you can see from the shots, but perhaps I should just give my working files to you? Or maybe you want to create your own? Either way works for me.. About the MiG-17PFs, yes maybe there should only be one sqn of those and the rest normal day fighters. According to some source I found Indonesia had at best 40 MiG-17s, but they were rapidly grounded when Suharto took power and killed off the communist party thereby ending Soviet support. My campaign asks the question "What if the PKI stayed in power and Soviet continued to supply airpower to Indonesia?" Anyways, in my current testing version the Badgers with Kometas always kill of the Ark Royal very early on. I need to tone down their deadliness, anybody got any ideas. They are also way to fast as it is, going almost Mach 2.3 while they should be cruising at Mach .9. [WeaponData001] TypeName=KS-1M FullName=KS-1M Kometa Cruise Missile ModelName=as-1 Mass=2700.000000 Diameter=1.350000 Length=8.720000 SubsonicDragCoeff=0.380000 SupersonicDragCoeff=0.460000 AttachmentType=WP,SOVIET SpecificStationCode=KS1M NationName=SOVIET StartYear=1957 EndYear=1975 Availability=2 BaseQuantity=8 Exported=TRUE ExportStartYear=1958 ExportEndYear=1980 ExportAvailability=0 WeaponDataType=7 RailLaunched=FALSE RocketPod=FALSE Retarded=FALSE FinStabilized=TRUE SpinStabilized=FALSE HasGrowl=FALSE EffectClassName=LargeMissileEffects ReleaseDelay=2.000000 WarheadType=0 Explosives=1015.000000 FusingDistance=0.000000 ClusterBomblets=0 ClusterDispersion=0.000000 GuidanceType=7 Accuracy=52 MaxTurnRate=3.000000 MaxLaunchG=2.000000 LockonChance=85 LaunchReliability=85 ArmingTime=2.000000 SeekerFOV=15.000000 SeekerGimbleLimit=25.000000 SeekerTrackRate=11.000000 SeekerRange=130000.000000 CLmax=14.000000 MinFreq=0.000000 MaxFreq=0.000000 MinLaunchRange=10000.000000 MaxLaunchRange=130000.000000 Duration=550.000000 CounterCountermeasure=0.000000 NoiseRejection=0.000000 CapabilityFlags=0x10000008 LoftAngle=0.000000 DescentAngle=0.000000 MaxLoftAltitude=0.000000 BoosterStart=0.000000 BoosterDuration=0.000000 BoosterAccel=0.000000 BoosterEffectName=DirtyExhaustEmitter BoosterSoundName=JetEngine BoosterNodeName= BoosterPosition=0.000000,-3.700000,0.000000 SustainerDuration=520.000000 SustainerAccel=1.000000 SustainerEffectName=DirtyExhaustEmitter SustainerSoundName=JetEngine SustainerPosition=0.000000,-3.930000,-0.050000 InFlightEffectName=DirtyExhaustEmitter InFlightSoundName= ReleaseAnimationID=-1 EODisplayFlags=0 CEP=55.000000

sorry, but: f*cking hell! I just noticed that I have most probably lost the updated model seen above because I was careless when doing backups when I bought a new laptop... OMG I feel like bashing my head in the wall. Now I only have that crappy model i started out with... omfg. I had it on backburner waiting for a suitable terrain... I cant believe my stupidity. Backing up only helps when you remember all the files, folks.. Oh well, starting from the lowpoly original means fixing some stuff that was wrong.

Thanks to the ever so friendly Piecemeal there is now a proper Tu-16KS with Kometas. On the first try out I was flying a F-4K out of Ark Royal with seven (7!!!) wingmen and found the Tu-16KS formation readily enough. I then started to expend munitions like crazy but ultimately two Badgers fired their missiles, and well... I also started working on some MiG skins since the ones avaliable was a little low resolution.. Still work in progress:

OK, good, then I wont waste time trying to troubleshoot the issue.. Anyways, from some playtesting here are some stuff I'm going to change in the next version: More strategic nodes to fight over. Slow down the ground war a bit Try to protect the Ark Royal a bit more, it now got sunk by waves of Badgers. More land based interceptors? The missile carriers dont seem to work, probably a service date issue. Need a proper Tu-16KS with Kometas.

Piecemeal is that a Tu-16KS carrying KS-1 Kometa ASMs? Cause I need one of those, for my Indonesia campaign! Speaking of which, here are the screenies:

I am getting crashes on viewing the second PT boat in ground object view (F7), can anyone else confirm this? If you are getting this, delete the following snippet [NavalUnit004] UnitName=Indonesian PT Boats ForceID=2 Nation=Indonesia StartDate=06/01/1970 RandomChance=100 MaxObjects=16 Experience=70 Morale=100 Supply=100 Intelligence=70 StartPosition=483007.81,537109.37 ObjectivePosition=645507.814130,403320.313518 //HomePortPosition=1000000.0,600000.0 Ship[01].Name=Ship 1 Ship[01].Type=Komar Ship[01].ShipNumber=1 Ship[02].Name=Ship 2 Ship[02].Type=Komar Ship[02].ShipNumber=2 Ship[03].Name=Ship 3 Ship[03].Type=Komar Ship[03].ShipNumber=3s from the data ini for now

https://rapidshare.com/files/3723321276/IndonesiaBeta3.7z Here is beta 3, the beta 2 pt boats were borked sorry..

Oh Jonathan, I want to kiss you! The Naval combat now works! Beta 2 avaliable here: https://rapidshare.com/files/3202448438/IndonesianGambitBeta2.7z Changelog: Fixed naval combat Updated the RN and RAN escorts to something more realistic. Added a readme with links to all required files Requirements as of beta 2: REQUIREMENTS: All SF2 titles, merged! Modern Darwin terrain DLC Aircraft: A-4G F-4K Mirage IIIO 3rd Party aircraft: http://combatace.com/files/file/9416-canberra-b-mk20/ http://combatace.com/files/file/11568-f-4e-phantom-ii-raaf/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12308-buccaneer-raf-for-sf2/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12307-buccaneer-faa-for-sf2/ Ships: http://combatace.com/files/file/12830-royal-navy-frigate-update-pack/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12814-sf-2na-leander-batch-2/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12809-daring-class-dd-sf-2na/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12191-osa-class-missile-boat-pack/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12807-sf-2na-ark-royal/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12215-komar-class-missile-boat-pack/ http://combatace.com/files/file/12991-9-carriers-pack/ Now if only some master shipbuilder like WBS would make the Admiral Sverdlov class cruiser so we could have a nice KRI Irian: http://warshipsfromrussia.devhub.com/img/upload/seef.jpg http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot/ships/ships-russia/r-cl-0068u-2-sverdlov-admiral-cenjavin.gif

Also: Soulfreak that looks great! Any chance I could interest you in some Indonesian MiGs, hmm?