Gepard

You find it in the download section

WHATS NEW?

Version 1.0

1. Vogesen Terrain is now compatible with the Expansion Pack of First Eagles. You will enjoy now the terrain in all 4 seasons. You will face snow in the winter and green in the summer.

If you dont have the expansion pack you should open file vogesen.ini and exchange line

CatFile=..\wwiCambrai\wwiCambrai.cat

with

CatFile=..\wwiVerdun\wwiVerdun.cat

2. I improved the tiling of the terrain. The street network in the Elsass is now much more dense. The River Rhine is now not longer a fragment.

3. I added 2 new german airfields, 2 more Rhine bridges, 2 other bridges, a couple of Castles, 2 chateaus and additional observation ballons (hope i had forgotten nothing). Increased the number of target areas from 78 to 116.

4. I cutted the middle Rhine Valley into the mountains south of Koblenz. This beautifull valley, which is famous for its castles, is still only a fragment. But i enjoyed the fly through this valley very often. With a WWI plane its an relaxe flight. For a funny ride you should take a WWII bird. With full speed in a FW-190, a Spitfire or a Mustang hedgehopping there is a great experience.

Hope you enjoy it.

The problem of a India Pakistan terrain are the mountains. The AI planes could have the tendency to run against the hills. It could be also difficult to use Alt +N because of the danger of hitting the hills.

To build this terrain would require the terrain data for the heigh profile,( what is not the problem), then it would need a completly new texture set (who would make it) and finaly the order of battle, the knowledge, where to place the airfields, SAM sites and other target areas.

Would be a very big work. And then the problem with AI fly into the hills.

If i take a look to the First Eagle WWI sim of TK i find weather parameters in the terrain files. I guess, that TK will implement this feature in the SFP1 seria when he release WOI. Or better said, i hope he will do it.

I only adjusted the fuselage. I tested it in clean mode, also flying without weapons and tanks. And i think the performance of the clean bird could be relative okay. For a more correct performance of a missile armed plane, i think it would be neccessary to edit the drag performed by the pylons and the weapons.

Of course, only a guy who had flown the MiG-29 can tell us, how exact the here used flight model is.

I found an article of an interview with a german MiG-29 pilot who was asked what he thought about computer flight sims:

Q:Flanker 2.5 now simulates also the Mig-29 K, almost exactly the plane you are flying (Nb. The sim models the navalized version, which is capable of carrier landings and air to air refueling. The Mig-29 G in Laage is the land based version.). What's your impression ?

A:It seems to be a very realistic simulation. The flight characteristics and the cockpit are caught very well. Also all the HUD, IRST and radar modes are very realistic including their presentations. The only thing that is not so realistic is the performance of the radar. In real world it has much more trouble in finding targets and is a lot less stable in tracking those. But on the other hand is the simulation imitating the more modern MiG-29K with a better radar.

Q:Are the general flight characteristics well caught ? How does the sim flight model perform on the border of the safe Mig flight envelope ?

A:The flight characteristics are caught very well. The energy bleed rate also seems to be right. The only thing I would like to criticise is the tendency to go out of control to easily and then to be to hard to recover. The real MiG hardly goes out of control and then is very easy and quickly to recover. Also does it seem to be a little bit to unstable in normal flight.

Q:How does the simulation perform regarding the Fulcrum high performance region, do things like turn rate and sustained corner speed feel right ?

A:Yes, turnrate and corner speed feel very right.

So i guess if we would compare the flight model of the MiG-29 for SFP1 family and the MiG-29 of Flanker 2.51 we could get a feeling how acurate our MiG is.

Some data taken from website www.mig-21online.de unfortunatly only in german language

Taktisch-Technische Daten

infrarotgelenkte Raketen R-3S R-13M R-60M

NATO-Code AA-2b "Atoll" AA-8 a/c APHID

Länge 2838 mm 2870 mm 2095 mm

Durchmesser 127 mm 127 mm 120 mm

Spannweite 528 mm 632 mm 390 mm

Masse 73,3 kg 90 kg 43,5 kg

Masse Gefechtskopf 19,2 kg 27 kg 3 kg

Art Gefechtskopf Splitter (1000) Stabmantel (Ringbildung Durchmesser 15 m)

Zünder optisch, Aufschlag optisch, Aufschlag Funk, Aufschlag

Öffnungswinkel Erfassungskopf 3,5° 3° 5°

Auslenkwinkel Erfassungskopf +/- 28° +/- 40° +/- 45°

Lenkflugdauer 21" 60" 23"

minimale Geschwindigkeitsdifferenz am Ziel 150 m/s 150 m/s 150 m/s

Vernichtungsradius 9 m 7 m 5 m

Maximale Abschußentfernung große Höhe 7,6 km 13 km 8 km

Maximale Abschußentfernung geringe Höhe 2,5 km 3 km 1,8 km

Minimale Abschußentfernung große Höhe 1,5 km 1 km 300 m

Minimale Abschußentfernung geringe Höhe 900 m 750 m 300 m

Startbedingunen H<5 km M>=0,6 H<10 km M>=0,8 Vmin 450 km/h

H>5 km V>=550 km/h, H>10 km V>750 km/h

Mmax=1,95

Maximales Lastvielfaches beim Abschuß H<12 km = 2g 3,7g 7g

H>12 km = 1,6g

Zielhöhe maximal 20.000 m 24.000 m 20.000 m

Zielhöhe minimal 50 m 50 m 30 m

funkmessgelenkte Raketen RS-2US R-3R

interne Bezeichnung NVA Gerät IS Gerät 320

NATO-Code AA-1b "ALKALI" AA-2c "ATOLL"

Länge 2.500 mm 3417 mm

Durchmesser 200 mm 127 mm

Spannweite 654 mm 528 mm

Masse 83,2 kg 83,5 kg

Masse Gefechtskopf 13,0kg 19,2 kg

Art Gefechtskpof Splitter Stabmantel (Ringbildung Durchmesser 16 m)

Lenksystem Leitstrahl passiv Radar halbaktiv

Lenkzeit 12,5 sec. 21sec.

Zünder Funk Funk, Aufschlag

Abschussentfernung 2,5 - 20 km max. 17 km

I'm to stupid to format it correctly here. For correct formated dada sheet look at www.mig-21online.de

My work on Vogesen terrain comes to an end. Thatswhy i'm playing with the though to make a terrain in 1:1 scale covering Taiwan, the Formosa Street and a little bit of China.

Is there an interesst in the community for such a terrain or would it be wasted time?

Was a little bit time consuming while developing, but i think this petite Chateau was worth the effort.

I think next weekend i should be ready for release of the new version of Vogesen terrain.

I solved the problem. I had forgotten to include the line FlatObject=TRUE in the types.ini.

In combination with ZBufferSetting=6 it runs very satisfying.

I think the new version of Vogesen terrain could be released next weekend.

Aggie, the ZBuffer thing = 5 worked, but not in the wished way. The flickering is gone, but now i cant see the object texture anymore, its only the terraintile texture visible. I've also tried to set -5, but the flickering is still to see.

I will try the idea of Bandy.

While working on an updated version of Vogesen Terrain for First Eagles i found the problem of flickering textures of a flat object.

My intention was to create a garden for a chateau. For the garden i used the same flat object, that i already successfully used in SFP1 and WOE for creating airfields, i only changed the texture of the garden. While i never had problems in SFP1 and WOE i have in FE to face, that the terrain texture is flickering through the object.

Has someone an idea, how to solve this problem?

The designation MiG-21SPS or SPS-K was given by the LSK/LV (east german air force), because they internally had given MiG-21PF, which were modified in the GDR, the designation MiG-21PFM. When the soviets delivered the original MiG-21PFM to the GDR, the LSK had a problem of course. So the decision was made to call all "original" PFM in LSK service SPS. When the gunpod GP-9 was available, all GP-9 capable "original" PFM got the german designation SPS-K. K stands for Kanone, gun.

The MiG-21PFM of SFP1 would be, following the LSK designation rules, a MiG-21SPS-K.

I hope my statement was not to confusing.

It's more a guess, but it brings relative realistic speeds. I tested it with a F-15A as Wingman. The MiG accellerates better, but at high altitudes the F-15 has a higher final speed.

If you want to have a Mach 2 capable MiG-29 then do following steps:

1. open file MiG-29_Data.ini

2. look for [fuselage]

3. in section [fuselage] look for entries

CD0MachTableNumData=5

CD0MachTableDeltaX=0.40

CD0MachTableStartX=0.00

CD0MachTableData=1.275,1.000,0.991,46.549,48.253

4. replace it with

CD0MachTableNumData=8

CD0MachTableDeltaX=0.40

CD0MachTableStartX=0.00

CD0MachTableData=1.113,1.000,0.993,1.181,0.998,0.890,0.795,0.729

5. safe file

6. start game an enjoy a very fast Fulcrum

In the last days i set the river Rhine completly on the map. Thatswhy i was forced to make the Mittelrheintal, the famous avalley in Germany along the Rhine where you can find a lot of Castles. To flying in this valley is a nice experience, but unfortunatly i'm unable to set castles in the area. This has never happen before, dont know, what i have done wrong.

Nice ship, a very nice prey for the Su-22M4.

Project SM was the MiG-19, like project E was MiG-21 and project S the MiG-15, if i remember right.

F means forsasch afterburner

P means perechwatschik Interceptor radar equipped

PF means perechwatschik forsasch Interceptor radar equipped with afterburner

PFM means perechwatschik forsasch modifizirowanui PF modernized

S means Saphire Radar type Saphire RP-21

SM means Saphire modifiziroowanui Saphire modernized

SMT means Saphire modifizirovanui topliwo Saphire modernized with larger tanks

M means modifizirowanui modernised

Nice birds, but the installation is a little bit tricky, nothing for newbees.

SM-12PM. I'll try my hand at this, along with SM-12 day fighter.

 

I may use these -12's for the Siberian Sky myth, but probably with standard RD-9B engines instead of RD-9BFs or Sorokins. It seems the extra speed came largely from the sharper intake, and not just engines.

The aerodynamics was better, but i thought, that it were only prototypes, because the MiG-21 development made a good progress.

First of all i made Vogesen terrain compatible with the Expansion, what means, that now also winter, spring and autumn terrain will be available. I added some new bridges and some new sight seeing objects, like the castles. Many more streets are now to see in the Elsass region (Rhine Valley), The Frontline and the River Rhine are now longer etc.

Parked aircrafts are with the expansion automaticaly available. In the Beta i used a standard airfield for all, in the new version you will find different airfields.

In the soviet SM project had a MiG-19 the nose part of the MiG-21PF, also with a much bigger air cone.

J18Dread, Vogesen terrain high data are taken from satellite high data information. The mountains are nearly so as you can find them in reality. The only diffrence is, that the Vogesen looks a little bit more rocky than in the game. one or two big mountains would be nice, but such mountains you cant find in this area. The highest "hill" is the Grosse Belchen or on french the Grand Ballon, but on this highest hill you can walk without problems. Its not to compare with the high mountains of the Alps.

To put a little bit water in your wine. The effect may be good for fuel aerosol bombs, for nuke effects it lack one major nuclear weapon effect which is called EMP electro magnetic pulse. It destroyes all microelectronic devices in the aerea. What means, that after use of a nuclear bomb all of your plane avionics must switch off.

THe Mi-8 was used by the soviets in Afghanistan in special combat formations. The Mi-24 leaded the formation and searched the enemy in front and the Mi-8 cargo bay gunners protected the back of the formation.

One small correction. In the Mi-8 cargo bay the soviets used a 12.7 mm Machine gun, but is was not the DSHK (Duschka) but the 12.7 4 barrel gatling of the Mi-24.