Gepard

Search and destroy a SAM-site

I was not able to convert from jpg to dds format with proper layer for the waves. So i made the tiles old school tga. So looks Energodar at the moment. In the forground you find the town of Energodar. In the middle, where the smoke is, is the thermal powerstation Energodar situated and in the background you see the 6 reactor buildings of Energodar Nuclear Powerstation.

Never underestimate the enemy Flak.

I did not know, that SF2 support DDS formate. I will give it a try.

First i will convert the coast tiles from jpg to tga and then i will test how much performance is lost. A jpg file is between 190 and 350 kb, a tga file 4096 kb. And afterwards i will decide how many Flak and SAM i can place, without making the game to a slideshow. But you are right, a lot of Flak would be nice.

"One Big Mac, fries and a Coke Light please!" (Socotra terrain, easter egg)

SitRep: I'm still working on Energodar, town and nuclear powerplant. I added some more factories and other ground objects. Then i try to rework parts of the tiles which not match. And finally i have started to "plant trees".

Over the town of Energodar. (Donbass WIP terrain)

The town of Energodar is finished now. 481 buildings. It looks like a typical soviet town of the 1980th.

SitRep: Building of the town of Energodar makes good progress: At the moment 292 buildings, all complete destroyable. Apprx. 50% done.

I have startet to built the town of Energodar by using Wingwiners blocks of flats. (I hope this is the correct english term, perhaps panel building is better.) I converted Wingwiners buildings from bmp to jpg, to reduce the workload of the computer. I hope that the framerate will not suffer from the lots of buildings when Energodar will be finished.

Over Energodar Nuclear Powerplant. (Donbass terrain WIP)

The tiling of Energodar Nuclear Powerplant is nearly finished. There are still some refinements neccessary. And of course the change from jpg to tga format for coastline tiles. So it looks in game at the moment: Flightpath from East to West. Placed target objects are at the moment the 6 reactor buildings and some big warehouses as placeholders for big generator buildings and last but not least the 2 cooling towers. Its still a long way till Energodar will be finished. To comparision, so Energodar town and nuclear plant looks in reality:

What if the Ukrainians would not have sold the carrier Varyag to China.

You mean something like this: Its a first experimental tile for one of the iron mines near Kriwoi Rog. It should be twice as big as i have done it so far. With TFD editor i have lowered the terrain under the mine and formed a "hole" which is more than 100 m deep. At the screenshots it is not very good to see. Perhaps on the last one a little bit better. On the left side is a spoil dump, on the tight side the "hole" of the mine.

Some progress with Energodar. It looks better now. Its not perfect, but better. The missing waves on the water are there, because the tiles are still jpg and not tga. Still WIP.

Fly over Energodar Nuclear Powerplant. Still work in progress. It is still a lot to do. Water tiles are in JPG instead TGA. Some more tiles in the east are to made and then the blendig to existing tiles must made. If Energogar is done, i think i will make some tiles for the big iron mines of Kriwoi Rog. Ther are really big holes in the earth.

View File Chinese Carrier Liaoning Aircraft Carrier "Liaoning" ex Varjag ex Kremlin Class ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History Since the 50th the Soviet Navy tried to get aircraft carriers. But the political leadership denied all attempts to build such vessels. So the Admirality tried to get carriers through the back door. They declared such ships would be neccessary to hunt down american submarines. So the big ASW ships Moskva and Leningrad were built. But the design was terrible. Thatswhy the project 1143 was developed, better known as Kiev class. The Kiev class was to small to operate conventional fix wing jets. So the ships were equipped with VTOL planes, the Yak-38. But this plane was no match for american or west european carrierbased planes. Thatswhy the flightdeck of project 1143.4 was made longer. The ship was named Baku. It was built for the supersonic Yak-41. A plan-B was to use the MiG-29K in the air group of the Baku. The next step was to make the project 1143 ships bigger and longer. 1143.5 was launched in 1982. First named as Riga, then Breshnev, then Tblissi and in 1990 renamed into Kuznetsov. When the USSR broke into parts the Kuznetsov was transfered to the russian North Fleet. The sister ship 1143.6, Riga was renamed in 1990 into Varjag (Viking). It was not operational when it was was given to the Ukraine. The Ukraine had not had enough money to finish the ship. Thatswhy it was sold to China. China finished the ship, modified it and named it Liaoning. A second carrier of the same typ the Chinese built under the name Shandong. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. CREDITS: This is a quick mod of the ship "Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov", made by rokieborhgunder, which you can find here: https://combatace.com/files/file/17091-admiral-flota-sovetskogo-soyuza-kuznetsov/ ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip the folders into your SF2 mod folder ------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Known Problems: The mod is not perfect. The gun turrets are not of the correct type. The gun barrels looking always in the wrong direction. The HQ-10 missiles does not start from the silos, but from mid of the ship. ---------------------------------------------------------- V. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Liaoning and all other files are FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany September 2022 Submitter Gepard Submitted 09/30/2022 Category Aircraft Carriers  

Logans beautifull Ye-8_144

pictures by Bundesluftwaffe

The chinese carrier Shandong close to the coast of Taiwan And hit by Corsairs Shandong burning