ndicki

Unfortunately the Blenheim is on hold - the GMAX extrnal model is nearly finished, but the insides are not - and although I have the source files, I'm useless with GMAX... Our best modellers are utterly overloaded as it is.

View File Spitfire MkIXc D-Day Spitfire MkIXc, No.312 (Czech) Squadron RAF, June-July 1944 For use ONLY with SF2 including the Israel Expansion Pack. This will NOT work if you do not have the stock TW Spitfires installed and working. Credits: Model and flight dynamics by Third Wire Cockpit by Kesselbrut DEcals and placement by ndicki Submitter ndicki Submitted 03/10/2011 Category Spitfire

I've been using DXTBmp for nearly ten years now for CFS3 and I can assure you it works very well. What it doesn't do however is let you use shades of grey in alpha channels, but I suspect that's academic in SF owing to the use of TGA files instead. I find it easier to use than the Nvidia plug-in - where you run the slight but dangerous risk of saving your psd file as a psd file after fusing the layers. I find that is easier to avoid using DXTBmp!

You're not kidding it is! MAW itself has stayed where it was, in that the terrain exists already, but a large number of later aircraft can be added, and the effects etc have been completely updated. Northern Europe has also been fully reworked, with new scenery, realistic airfields, new aircraft etc - a whole new MAW-style install, in fact. Still ongoing. The main forum is here - you'll find the download links and section easily. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?7-CFS3-General-Discussion And here is another major site - small in content, but the very best quality. Takes a bit of time to find your way around, but well worth it. http://regshanger.com/ CFS3 is still very much a going concern as a result. Don't forget that it does model things that SF2 does not, such as prop torque, prop pitch, mixture and so on. SF was not designed as a prop-orientated sim, while CFS3 was. Conversely, CFS3 handles speeds higher than Mach 1 very badly. Each for its own purpose. But I do enjoy the rather more aggressive AI in SF, I have to admit!

IL-2's rubbish. This is from CFS3, and if you don't recognize the terrain, that's because you can do a whole lot of things with CFS3 that you can't do with IL-2... (Puts fingers in ears and ducks back into his foxhole...) The Bf109s are stock but with completely new flight dynamics to reflect each different subtypes capacities (yes, I do mean that we have modelled the differences between DB605A, A with GM-1, AS, ASM, DB, DC, DBM and DCM engines... And equally, each has specific armament fits and mission capacities. Lot of work!) The other aircraft are freeware add-ons, also built to similar specifications. You can't do that with IL-2.

Good to hear. Now I just have to sort the upload packages out - probably over the coming weekend. Bit busy with real life today and tomorrow!

You're probably fed up with me by now for teasing but not uploading, but I've been busy... The aircraft is of course Monty's and the cockpit Kesselbrut's; the WGr.21 are DAT property so I have very little input there and you'll have to pick them up there, but otherwise - uploading soon!

It has 42 entries in the decals.ini file... I've done it for fun, but the Czech bit stems from wanting to give a little something back to Monty for the S-(1)99 series he did, which I'm still fiddling with furiously. Uploading all sorts of things in the next few days...

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Ford Prefect.

Seriously, though - might it have some connection to your realism settings? Things set to easy which want to be set to hard? Most of my weapons and fuel settings are easy, but the rest are either normal or hard. Collision and take-off/landing I have at hard, in any case.

I get this all the time - you go steaming around the sky upsetting the unwashed, and when you get to the end of the mission, instead of finding yourself welcomed back by crowds of enthusiastic young maidens grateful for your saving them from a fate worse than death at the hands of the barbarian hordes, you find that you actually have no wings left and in fact died half an hour earlier. I know that in some life-forms it can take a while before all the various bits realise that the bit in the middle has stopped telling them what to do and they can stop waggling round, but in human beings I understand that it's quite quick. Especially when you have no wings any longer. Thoroughly frustrating, especially when you're still waving the bits around thinking you're alive... I wonder what happens to the evil ones you kill after you're actually dead. Do they really die too, or do they continue to fly around like undead AIs in some strange Strike Fighters twilight world, peopled by Mig-21s and Phantoms with wings missing?

I have to admit it's a little different...

This may have been said before - I didn't read the whole thread - but fragmentation weapons would be useful. Flak shells, and so on - at the moment you can fly through a wall of the stuff and not get a scratch.

Shooting back at helicopters is standard doctrine in Royal Armoured Corps as well - with helicopters, the missile was (even if it isn't now) likely to be wire-guided, so the idea was that if you missed the chopper - most probable result, let's be honest - you might give the missile-guider enough of a surprise that he'd lose concentration.

Probably meant for the upcoming Wings Over Africa.... It's about the air war in the Congo. There were a number of problems involved with the deployment of SAMs in the Congo, such as the crews' tendency to go to sleep, return home without asking, get unexpectedly drunk, disappear into the bush to roger passing young ladies, and so on. Ten minutes sounds like you're looking at one of the better teams!

My thinking exactly, except: A. I haven't a clue how to do it in this sim B. No model available C. No fragmentation = no point (the thing that was bothering me most... ) Yes, they are a bit big, but CFS3 has this annoying close-in exaggerated perspective that makes things look even bigger. They are MILES better than the original stock ones though, believe me! They don't work in CFS3 either - you can't fire flak shells from aircraft, and rockets detonate only on contact. The only MS combat sim that did it more-or-less correctly was CFS1, even if the blast was excessive and killed entire formations with two shells!

Well, I've already used a sizeable chunk of the AvH Bf109g-10/DCM flight dynamics to boost the S-99; the g-10 was the fastest of all the 109s, and should be able to manage nearly 700 KPH at 7500m altitude... As the S-99 was a rather odd derivative of the g-14/AS, it used a DB605AS engine, and could not equal that kind of performance. I don't expect I'll release it with the modded FM for the simple reason that I don't want to do half-measures. Wait and see. I really need to speak to Gregory, but he is rather occupied... Meanwhile, Stary in particular, - look at this and tell me what you can suggest: http://combatace.com/topic/62881-wgr21-anybody/

In the meanwhile, there are the AvHistory FMs for The D-9 and P-47M which are compatible with SF2. Admittedly they don't fix the visuals, but it you want AIs, they'll do to be going on with...

I'd like a pair of these stovepipes -see below - to fit onto Monty's S-99/Bf109g. Admittedly, they were used only on G-5/6 aircraft, and Monty's is a G-14/AS or G-10, but still... Is there a way to have an unguided projectile that flies about 1,200 metres before exploding? And that actually does some damage? Because the heavy Flak doesn't seem to... The photo below is of one of my 50 or so totally reworked G and K series aircraft for CFS3.

And if you're wondering why it's taking so long, it's because I decided to go into it in a bit more depth. This is Kesselbrut's Bf109e cockpit still, but I've stuck a bit of paint here and there and fitted a Revi 16b gunsight, as per the original g-10. If anybody knows how to push the instruments round a bit so they are more-or-less in the correct places for a G-series...

I was hoping that when the AvHistory team (who are highly respected in CFS at least) made the switch, that somehow things might come back together. But they didn't, and as a result, we've got a shattered community where it seems to be difficult to get things done. As I wasn't there when the rift took place, I have no idea what caused it, and no wish to know or judge. Just that it's a shame, and it's held a lot of good stuff back. Actually, I have the set of AvHistory FMs for a number of aircraft - some DAT, some Wolf's - if anybody is interested. I can't upload them without permission, but if there is enough interest, I'll ask.

I can identify with that only too easily... Started with CFS1, go from there... Only it's not 6 years. One reason why most of my effort still goes into CFS3, because after all the stuff I've made, I'm not giving up like that! Admittedly, SF2 has many very good or sometimes better points, but not quite enough to get my total loyalty!

I've just shot down a Hellcat that was at 5,000 feet and not moving at all... You tell me! I think I'm going to have to remove a lot of the WW2 aircraft I've got. SF2 clearly does not fly them the way SF1 did...

Hi Kulbit - If I were you, I'd just upload them directly yourself. There are however a few differences between subtypes... There isn't much I can do with the cockpit except possibly change the gunsight and repaint the interior the right colour for this series - it's originally for an Emil, which was (at least in it's earlier production runs) painted with RLM 02 grey-green. Towards the end of the Emil's production life, the cockpit colour was switched to RLM 66 (the Luftwaffe expression for Panzer Grey, if you prefer!) so all F, G and K series aircraft have the dark grey cockpit.