Geezer

Attached are templates and artwork for early and late versions of the Br14. Note the artwork is not finished but is developed enough for you to make your own versions. Br14 Early.rar Br14 Camo.rar

Thanks, but I'm OK. Had a lot of real world stuff to take care of, and that left no time for modding. Among other things, my sister in California passed away and I got stuck with sorting out her estate - including a thousand-mile round trip to Denver to set up an escrow account.

OK, I'll find the Br.XIV and J.1 and look them over. BTW, the N.28 and CL.IV are not done - the artwork requires more dirt/weathering.

Hey, guys! I think I may be able to resume modding soon. I had a lot of real world stuff to take care of, but it looks like the worst of it is done. I scanned your recent posts and I'm really impressed with all the work you guys have done! It will take me a while to reinstall FE2 and find my backups discs with my model files. Maybe Eugene2 can pick up some of the graphics load? What do you guys think needs to be done first? I have not given FE2 a thought for months, so I am not sure where we stand.

The Pfalz artwork is nearly done. Shots taken at high noon in Gterl's excellent rework of Gepard's Vosges map. While intended for FE2, Crawford says the environmental tweaks look equally good in FE1, so the ENVIRONMENT file used in shots below is attached. Thanks to VonS, Quack74, Panama Red, and Coupi for the file tweaks. 7-26-18 ENVIRONMENTSYSTEM.rar

Got the Pfalz D3 (not D3a) screens done, plus some interesting "dogfight at dawn" shots.

Two more examples of final packaging; HANGAR and LOADING screens for the Caudron R11.

After a LOT of hard work by VonS, Crawford, Mike Dora, and Jeanba to develop new FE2 files, we have a batch of Pfalz and Nieuports that are almost ready for release. What remains is a lot of final packaging work for me to do - the new screens above are but one example of stuff that remains to be done. Shots below illustrate some of the final, time-consuming adjustments. I obtained correct dimensions for the Pfalz D3a wheels in 3dsmax, and then loaded the numbers into the data file but the result looked like the aircraft had flat tires. It took several adjustments to finally get a dimension that looked OK, but the numbers were LARGER than the wheel! Go figure.

New screens for the Nieuport 24.

Finalizing the new Pfalz and Nieuport aircraft is taking longer than we anticipated, but we ARE making progress. Below are shots from a Dawn Patrol photo session, also shots of a test N21, N24bis, and N27.

Mike Dora just posted some outstanding shots taken at Old Rheinbeck Aerodrome. One more plugs into the theme for the new series of FE2 aircraft.

Working from some excellent references provided by jeanba, I'm developing skins for French N27s stationed in Italy in 1917/18.

Progress shots below of an experiment, showing Nungesser's Nieuport 24. We are trying to figure out a way to run multiple versions of one aircraft ingame, each utilizing dedicated artwork, or decals, or both.

It's taken a looooong time to develop new FMs for the new aircraft, in addition it takes me a long time to make the models and skins. Having said that, the Pfalz D3 and D3a, plus the Nieuport 17 and 23 are nearing completion. For variety, we also worked on the Caudron R11 and it is also nearing completion. All have been developed for FE2 to take advantage of dds format artwork, which reduces workload on the game engine. Crawford succeeded in converting the art to bmp format so he could run the aircraft in FE1. All releases will include a graphics pack of templates and baseline artwork, similar to my earlier releases of the Gladiator and CR42, plus developer notes from VonS and Crawford included with the aircraft release. Once we push the aircraft listed out the door, we will continue work on the Nieuport 24, 24bis, 27, and 28. Eventually, every Nieuport sesquiplane release will have a Lewis gun armed version - it's less confusing to complete baseline aircraft first. Then, the Pfalz D8 and Halberstadt CL4 will be refined and finished, followed by the Breguet 14 bomber. Models inwork for next year are Bleriot 11, Sopwith Triplane and Pup, and Berg D1. More dawn patrol shots below.

We keep working on file improvements to the many Nieuports. Things have progressed far enough to make new hangar and loading screens.