Centurion-1

It looks strangely good in Brit colors! But of course the Blinder is looks wise the most awesome plane ever so it looks good in every variation. It might even pull of the grisly desert pink scheme... But probably not

The importance of Martins modeling contribution to this project can not be overestimated, he has been a huge help fixing the external models different problems! Just compare these shots with my own work a few pages back

View File IL-28 "Beagle" Full PSD Templates Il-28 Beagle templates by Flogger23 tweaked and uploaded by Centurion 2048*2048 full layered PSD templates. Layers for making both painted and silver variants, tho the bare aluminium might need tweaking still. Happy skinning! Submitter Centurion-1 Submitted 04/21/2014 Category Skin Templates

About the F-5Es, would I be correct to assume that the early USN aggressors would wear ex-USAF liveries starting in '78, schemes like the "Old Ghost"`? On the Don Color site I found some nice USAF schemes, can anyone tell me if this would be correct? http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/usaf_e.htm#1970 I plan to do more or less all of them but it will take time for sure!

Man, I love that F-2A! It really is too bad that Japan can't export them, they fill a good gap between the F-16 and F-15 in terms of capability and payload!

View File Tu-22 Blinder Templates Tu-22 Blinder templates by Flogger23 tweaked and uploaded by Centurion 2048*2048 full layered PSD templates Usable for all the SF2 Blinders. The PSDs are actually named after the KD missile carrier but are identical to the B bombers except file naming. These templates are mostly for creating camo variants, silver textures might need some tweaks but this is a good place to start. Happy skinning! EDIT: Added the high-resolution bump maps I made out of these templates also, just drop into your Tu-22 directory. Submitter Centurion-1 Submitted 04/19/2014 Category Skin Templates

That is one cool plastic model for sure. Me and Martin are chipping away at this bird, martin is working the fuselage good! I finally got the main gears animated in a satisfactory manner (for now with my currents refs). I am now working the templates, it is an interesting bird to texture because of the differences to other aircraft, with steel skin and welds, not so many rivets but a lot of screws around the access panels et cetera. Remapping this bird was the right decision, now I can cram a lot of detail into the template.. Here is a early WIP to show the approximate detail level, hopefully will be able to add Comrads stencils and so for even more realism. Also, welcome to Combat Ace!

Don't mean to derail this thread, but do you guys remember Topgun: Fire at Will from '96 by Spectrum Holobyte? I loved that game, my first air combat game for my first own PC that my dad bought for me in a fit of generosity. I really liked that and I have been toying with the idea to create a campaign series for SF2 that would follow the events of the campaigns there roughly, starting out with Topgun. Looks like I won't have to do the first bit really (IMHO, this game did a very good job of injecting story and characters into the otherwise very sterile air combat/sim genre. I'm a PC man so can't comment on the various Ace Combats tho, but they are quite arcade)

I am getting completely destroyed trying to animate the main gear of the MiG-25. I just cant figure out what part should go where in what sequence. Adding to that is 3ds max super sucky animations. I guess I should build a rig for this and animate it thru inverse kinematics but I only ever did that on Maya and it will probably be a long time to make it work.... I really need help on this one.. anything guys, a diagram, a video or whatever. If someone has DCS they could give a look how the AI MiG-25 landing gear deploys? If anyone could help I would be really grateful!

I uploaded the Dhimari Lightning 53 skin I did, the rest are by ValAstur and already avaliable. Both the F-5E and A-37B are both beta though, and not released yet, sorry. I will however release the first campaign file soon!

If you do plan to make any post-78 Top Gun campaigns and need any specific kind of aggressor F-5Es, just say the word.

View File Dhimar Deset Camo for Lightning53 Dhimari Desert Camo for TW's Lightning53 Installation: Drop into your mod folder of choice. Credits: Skin by Centurion Templates by Sundowner Dhimari Desert Camo idea by ValAstur Submitter Centurion-1 Submitted 04/16/2014 Category What If Skins

View File Parani Air Force Pack 1 -=Parani Air Force Pack 1=- *********************** *****by Centurion 1****** *********************** This pack adds a bunch of nation specifc, flyable aircraft that depicts the fictional Parani Air Force of the 1970s. All the skins are high-resolution and custom made for this. The baddies have never looked so good :) The fighters also have kill markings included. Included are: MiG-21MF*/PFM Mirage 3 called PC Mirage 5** called PD Mirage F.1 (early type, Cyrano IV radar and no RWR. Inboard Atoll pylons included) Su-7BMK Tu-22 Il-28 and a skin for the Tu-22KD. The reason for this not being a nation specific variant is I cant make cruise missiles work for other nations than the Soviets. The MiG-21s are based on the latest MiG-21 pack by Ataribaby and include the "hard" handling model. *The MiG-21MF have provisions for mounting Matra550 Magic 1 IRMS, because of the poor performance of the Atolls. This was done IRL by the Iraqi air force in the 1980s. If you dont like it, feel free to edit it out. **Converesly, the Mirage 5s have the possibility to mount WP IRMs and dumb ordnance, like the Libyan Mirage 5D Installation: Unzip to a mod folder of your choice. Suggested to use with Piecemeals excellent Desert 4 terrain. Requirements: MiG-21s, Il-28, Su-7, Tu-22: Any SF2 title more or less. Mirage 3 and 5: SF2 Israel (based on the Nesher and Shahak) Tu-22KD: SF2: North Atlantic CREDITS: Thirdwire for making Sf2 The CombatAce community for being very friendly, supporting and making SF2 live on! Piecemeal for making the Desert 4 terrain, the main reason for me making this pack Me (Centurion): Su-7BMK templates. Skins. Misc tweaks. Ataribaby, Paladrian, Spillone104,Howling1,Klavs81,Wrench,Lindr2,Zdenek Kussior, 4plus: MiG-21 pack (cockpits, data tweaks, sounds etc) Soulfreak: MiG-21 templates LudoM54: Mirage temps Flogger23: Il-28 and Tu-22 temps Stary: Su-7 and Il-28 cockpits Lindr2 for some weapons Ravenclaw for some weapons LudoM54, Crusader and me and the rest of the F.1 team for the Mirage F.1 And anyone else I might have forgot. Submitter Centurion-1 Submitted 04/16/2014 Category What If Hangar

Sorry about the delay guys, wanted to fix a few small issues before I uploaded then I got a bit sidetracked with the MiG-25 and F-5. I will try to upload it tomorrow, might be a few errors but nothing major.

Dont worry all the major operators will be covered, like Carlsberg, Heineken (that's the red star you see) and Budweiser. Also, some minor versions might be covered, like the interceptors of the Soviet PVO and the RB variants of the VVS.

Update on the landing gear:

Good news guys, me and Martin have finally gotten around to restarting work on the MiG-25! I also asked Comrad for help on making the russian stencils for added realism. So does anyone have an engineer to spare? Need to animate this landing gear and my brain is self-destructing

Awesome! I had the exact same idea to do this actually when I made the aggressor F-5E skins, this is gonna be way better though! What will the Redfor/Aggressors be flying? If there is any particular camo scheme for the F-5E you would like me to make I would be more than glad to help you!

Hmm you only have ground units for the blue side, try to add one for the red side too?

Agressors! and yes, the striped camo was a sumbitch to paint.