ndicki

Just need time to finish it... Ay, there's the rub.

Look on the bright side! At least you know enough about it to figure that out. I'd have been going round in circles for weeks...

Actually, amend that. I have been going round in circles for weeks. There's something about this nations limitations thing that doesn't seem to agree with me.

This is odd...

OK, so what about Plan B, where you make Japan attachment type = WP. I assume that any WW2 install will be pure WW2 and not all mixed in with other things - mine is pure - so this should be risk free. If WP works with a plethora of nasty nations from around the world in modern SF, then it should work with IJA, IJN and Manchukuo. Any Russian aircraft would stay with Soviet, and generic allied NATO. Seems logical to me...

Once I get the original S-199 sorted out, yes, I'd like to have a go there too!

Here's what I've been doing to the S-199; not immediately obvious, but then Monty's originals were already very good! Trying to give things a bit more volume with shading and highlighting, among other things. One wing is already half-done, the other I haven't touched.

I know most of the WW2 fliers are using the old SF1 platform, but you still might like to know that the latest SF2 patch brings the Spitfires and the DC-3 up to speed with the complete set of LODs that were missing in the original pack. I've just been up with some 20+ Spits in the air and it didn't stutter once...

Brilliant!

Government cuts?

Honestly, no - never seen that before. I'm interested to know what has caused it, too.

And there was a reshuffle within the organisation of bomber (Ju87) units when the number of Staffeln in a Gruppe passed from three to four, and the number of Gruppen in a Geschwader passed from four to five... It gets complicated, like everything else in the Luftwaffe!

A further four-letter set was the Stammkennzeichen, or factory delivery code. This was painted on pre-delivery aircraft on the fuselage only for single engined monoplane fighters, but on the fuselage and under the wings on other aircraft, including single-engined dive bombers such as the Ju87. On the fuselage you would get AB+CD, while under the wings, A+B C+D. If there is a discrepancy between what you see on the fuselage of an operational (dive/level) bomber and under the wings, that is often the explanation.

On fighters, not to be confused with such things as Reconnaissance unit markings; they also used Bf109s, but which carried four letter codes.

There's a link at Sim Outhouse in the CFS3 Forum, but I can't get it for you right now as the site is undergoing maintenance for an hour or two. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forum.php

Med Air War is the best thing that ever happened to CFS3, in my rather biased opinion! While you're at it, check out here:

http://regshanger.co...raft%20MAIN.htm

http://regshanger.co...l%20Website.htm

http://regshanger.co...avo4%20home.htm

http://regshanger.co...teds%20home.htm

http://regshanger.co...%20skins%20.htm

For some of the very best CFS3 addons.

Others are at SOH in the Downloads Library and Archive.

We're not talking about From-the-box CFS3 any more...

I admit that the Greek and French G-36 aircraft are "alternative history!" They were ordered but never delivered. A month or two more and they would have been, in both cases.

The Bf109G is stock but completely reworked, while the other aircraft are updated addons.

Come to that, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be somehow possible to have mixed units spawning - at the moment, you get 20 say T-55s. That's fine, but sometimes you get 20 jeeps or 20 school buses... Maybe there is a way to stop some spawning (so they can still be used in scripted missions) and to make others appear only in mixed groups - say a load of lorries with a couple of jeeps and an AA vehicle.

If TK gives any interest to my idea of maximum group size (he hasn't shown any so far though) it might solve one of the problems!

CFS3 in its box form, perhaps not. But if you have followed what we've done with it... Mediterranean Air War and the ETO add-on, for starters, and a level of aircraft modelling that defies the imagination. If you don't know what I'm talking about, get over to Sim Outhouse http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?f=7 and take a look, especially at some of the screenshots. I'll upload a few here just to give you an idea!

Front props sometimes spins then stops. sometimes doesnt spin at all...on auto the plane keeps going on the ground and wont take off

Going along the ground and not taking off is a common prob with FE, too. Don't really understand why, though.

To be honest, a lot of the differences can be covered simply with a bit of paint... Admittedly these are some of my efforts for CFS3 using the stock G-10 (so streamlined cowling without prominent bulges) which I've repainted as a G-14, with cowl bulges. It won't be so easy for SF because as I said above, the graphics are less well developed; CFS uses a specular sheet which enables you to play with levels of shininess and depth of shadow, for example. But I just wanted to show the sort of thing that can be done with a little application!

Just released, awaiting aproval :-)

It was just quick editing work :-)

If you need 3DS file to turn it into messerschmidt we can talk :-)

MontyCZ

Great work, Monty! Beautiful!

I'm getting on meanwhile with the S-199 - nearly finished the fuselage and about to start on the wings. It's a nice template to begin with - that helps a great deal! But the visual effects are not as good in SF as they might be.

OK... Here goes. Not for Monty, because it's not his thing, but just for general interest.

G-2/4 - basically similar to F-4 but has two small intakes on either side of the nose cowling ahead of the exhaust stubs. DB605A engine with larger Fo870 radiator. The quarter-lights in the cockpit windscreen disappear, and one or two small intakes take their place. Bean-shaped bulges appear on the wings during the production run as larger wheels are fitted. Fixed tailwheel. Reinforced "square" canopy. Some with GM-1 boost system.

G-6 Early production - as above but with 7.62mm cowl MG17s replaced by 13mm MG131s. This necessitated the installation of bulged covers over the breech blocks and feed mechanism. Usually fitted with GM-1 boost system.

G-5 - Similar to G-6 but with pressurised cockpit. Produced concurrently with G-6, but production began slightly later.

G-6 Late production/reworked - as above but may have Erla canopy and wooden tailfin and rudder/tailplanes(as IDF S-199)

G-6AS - DB605AS engine, new streamlined cowling over the MG131 breeches.

G-14 - basically a late-production G-6 with DB605A engine. It does have breech bulges, and usually has the Erla canopy and wooden tail unit. Late units with third type wider wheels and long, "rectangular" wing bulges (as S-199)

G-14AS - essentially as G-6AS, DB605AS engine, frequently with enlarged Fo987 radiator. May have lengthened tail wheel and various types of aerial mast.

G-10 - externally similar to G-6AS and G-14AS; first major series with new streamlined cowling as for AS engines. Some aircraft fitted with DB605DM engine with MW50 boost - these had larger radiator and bulges on the lower cowling below the leading exhaust stub. This type became the Avia S-99 immediately after the war. May have lengthened tail wheel and various types of aerial mast.

K-4 - DB605D, DM or AS engine, essentially similar to G-10; rectangular wing bulges with final type of wheels, long tailwheel, wooden tail unit and Erla canopy. Short or no antenna mast. The main easy recognition features are the R/T access panel moved from frame 5 to frame 4, and the (often removed) secondary undercarriage bay covers.

It is rather challenging to tell them all apart, especially as improvements did not necessarily bring about a new mark number. For example, the G-14 is essentially indistinguishable from a late production G-6...

And don't try and catch me out, because you'll probably succeed. I'm still a bit dazed after all that - and I've left a fair few things out...

Monty, you are not at all joking when you say you can't tell which is which! it is unbelievably confusing. I'm concurrently doing a series of late-war 109s for CFS3, and it's driving me mental... Not just the visual models, but the flight models too. There were so many different combinations of airframe/engine/boost/etc that it's dizzying.

Having said that, if Monty agrees, from the original S-99 I can cook up the G-6AS, G-10, G-14AS and K-4. There are visible differences although the airframe is much the same for each of these models. Most of the differences can be painted in quite convincingly, even if some, such as the tailwheel length, simply will have to stay as they are.

But I hope nobody's in a hurry! I have my CFS3 series to complete and I'm also working on further skins for the S-199 - Monty was good enough to send me his templates, which has saved a certain amount of blood, sweat and tears!

I've been through so many muzzle flash effects, that I could not tell you whether I'm using Deuces, Stary's, my own, or some unholy hybrid of all three....

 

Grief, don't even think of asking... !

(OK, I'm in the wrong forum again!) SF2 complete merged.

Looks as though I'm going to have to take a look at particlesystem.ini AND 20mmFireEffect... Thanks - Back in a bit...

Edit - I meant HMGFireEffect - the only entry is in ParticleSysyem.ini, and both stock and added are identical... Stumped. Unless it's the tga files that share the same name but different content.

I'm trying to find the effects file that determines the 20mm cannon muzzle flash effects, and simple though it should be in theory, I can't find it! There's one which basically makes it look as though the entire aircraft has caught fire, and if you're flying Monty's Avia or a Bf109 with guns in the cowling, you get a rather shocking gout of flames pouring back over the canopy... I'd rather go back to the stock one, but short of removing the entire effects folder, I haven't managed to nail it.

Could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Now those do look promising! Great work there. Do you need cockpit photos as well?

Grief, Monty, sooner you than me!

That shows brains, a dummy jet engine!

Found them. The other thing I've noticed compared to the real one is that the slant from windscreen to spinner needs to be quite pronounced, and in two steps. Don't pay any attention to the guns, exhausts or fixed cooler - they are effectively Swiss only! But the rest of the aircraft is the same.

I mean to in due course, but don't hold your breath! I have a lot to do, not all for SF...

Looking very promising! One of my favourite early-war aircraft; I was on the team for the CFS3 version.

If I may make so bold, though, I have a feeling that the lower cowl needs to be a bit deeper and the angle up to the spinner more pronounced, and the wheels need to be at a significant angle to the undercarriage legs. The "bulges" behind the canopy were usually flattened down, and the cannon bulges on the wings were wider and deeper.

If you need photos, I did a walk-round of the restored Swiss one - if I can find them.