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Grand Forks.... gotta figure out how to tone down the AI from yankin back on the stick.....

that or move the decal (with proper distance from edge) to a close enough place on the mesh. sometimes you gotta be 18 inches from a particular part rather than 15 to get it to work. like everyone else said, my most common has been running up to close to the edge, although i have used it FOR that effect on some of the airliners (usually to get a stripe to the back end of the bird). most of my lod issues wound up being something completely screwy (thinkin of when i tried to do the VIP C-17 for Qatar, with "Qatar" on the bottom. didnt happen due to a wicked seam) good to hear your making a comeback

well thankfully we are in western countries, not the CCCP. no gulag if you dont get it i too will likely not buy it as it works fine on all my win10 systems. but it does concern me as now we modders will also have to hear "does it work on SF2 Win10?" as well as "does it work in Gen1?" hopefully the answer is "duh....."

i see TK messing with SF2 for the first time since Jul 2013. on behalf of the modders i would like to now say..... well shit.

interesting to me theres no date (at least that i saw. that aside its two fold announcement. first is good old budget politics; "we dont have enough money need to retire the old stuff so we can get new". however, some of the latest proposals are actually decent, like retiring a little over a dozen B-1B and 44 A-10 rather than the whole fleet. the aircraft proposed would be the higher hour birds and maintenence hogs of the fleet. in the case of the A-10 (still in the process of being rewinged) it would mean 65 new wingsets rather than 109, and a source of other spares for the remaining fleet of around 210. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/10/bye-bye-brrrrt-air-force-wants-retire-44-10-warthogs.html remains to see how the politics of this plays out tho. Congress is known for actions like not allowing retirement of the KC-135E fleet, at a time when they were sitting so long they had to be fired up and moved to keep the tires from going flat. the second youngest service (feels wierd to say that) does like shiny new things, but it really does need to let go of some of the old however much enthusiasts or Congress cry no. older airframes do get hard to pay for too, after a while. except BUFFs. ther will be a B-52 flyover when the USS Enterprise is launched heres is another version of the same news, with a little more detail https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/10/air-force-send-more-100-planes-boneyard-it-invests-future-fighters.html

i only did that with the KC-10, after ini snipping the boom off

also keep in mind when placing and sizing, that Mues latest LODviewer allows you to view decals (and everything else). saves alot of time. when working with decals, initial placement and sizing is the hardest part. create a saved pattern (just like making a skin template) then once the ini is dialed in, its just a matter of working through, whether adding serial numbers, nosearts, insignia, or whole skins (it can be done)

will you be doing the H's is SEA camo too? iirc they served in the guard until 70-71 timeframe (particularly MD ANG) mandatory screenie

"if you aint cheating you aint trying" -old military saying

ahem..... and ground crews

take one not so good picture, a clue about an album, and a little creative license with whats known on the past................ from the one (only one) picture i could find of 85-0064 prior to the mid 90s

more nosearts, from a time where alcohol and the ladies were more tolerated..

that is one of the best looking Spey Phantoms i've seen on this site mandatory screenie

2 1/2 hours on one pair of tgas. Texas girls are hard to handle it seems....

as miracle max said "look who knows so much" UH-60M and SeaCougar are extras in this release (Thanksgiving gift folder). they still need a chunk of work, but we do have them in house. Rayensouissi2002, get with allenjb42. he has been working on alot of skins for other site (facebook page, not capuns) Blackhawks, and has made a decent substitute Seahawk

Hello folks. Its been 2 years since the ODS campaign mod has been updated, and 9 years since the original Gen1 version release. There are many things that can be fixed within those releases (some may have noticed a theme in my recent skin pack releases). the question is, who out there is interested in working on updating this campaign? not looking for "thats a great idea", looking for folks that would like to improve on the mod as it currently stands and able to give some form of participation i very much understand about real life commitments and other projects. if we can get some folks willing to work on this, i propose a release of 16 Jan 2019. yes that's next year, but allows plenty of time to work on this and it seems an appropriate date for the theme because of newer aircraft, we would need some support from the experienced campaign gurus. not necessarily active work, but advising if an up and coming campaign builder volunteers to work on this finally most of the work anticipated is adding already complete objects to the campaign (and possibly removing some historically inaccurate items) and campaign edits to make it work. hopefully this will be an opportunity for some new talents in the community to work with the older heads. but before we even get to the scope of the project, gotta ask: who's in?

Working to the Bone on the next project, but iiiiiiiitttttsss grrrrrreeaat! might have to do some night work on this hope nothing goes wrong

blasphemy! heresy! ini editing is the purest form of witchcraft in SF2, with flight models being mastery of the darkest arts

well dammit Jim, im a sticker maker not a writer i very well know i can stick stuff on a mesh. i just wondered if anyone had decalled a landing gear strut before, or if i was the first. next one to tell me i can do it gets the dead parrot sketch posted

oh its not. i was just wondering IF anyone had done it before discovered the 28th Bomb Wing had a South Dakota outline with the crew cheifs names inside on the doors, numbers were on the struts figured that one out AFTER dialing in the 319ths nose door numbers. its always something.....

first one done to get some folks howling

im just curious, has anyone ever serial numbered the landing gears before?

i've emailed myself a document with all the serial numbers of the major electronics, and update about every 6 months. that way even if everything is lost, i still have the serials for police or insurance use.

i will also mention that there are alot of mods of the BUFF in the download section, as was asked earlier what are you looking to change?