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look on the bright side, its stable for modding. if TK released a DLC with air to air refueling tomorrow, there would be 10 minutes of songs of praise and dancing in the streets, followed by 10 days of "it broke my mods" and "i coulda done it better"

now with service out of Washington state... on a related note, after the recent break I'm looking at working on the final years of SAC to get back into modding. BUFFs, Switchblades, early Bones. If anyone wants to assist with the antennea farms via fakepilot Looking Glass and Nightwatch should be in the works too.

I finally tried out the new LOD viewer this morning (its been a rough time lately) and am very impressed. This was excellent for skins and making adjustments without having to fire the game up every time, now thats extended to tga. Especially useful to me and others that work tga based skins (see my airliners or Gepards MiGs for what i mean). it is hard for me to get a spot on view on the nose arts i am working on, however i blame this on the size of the aircraft im working on not the viewer itself. also despite my joke to the contrary, i think i will still fire up the game every serials completed for a true in game look (ok including weapons too), but this gives a good view of the placement (even on far out ends!) and saves a good chunk of time. a huge thank you sir for the work you've done

as to the nation showing in the drop down, does your aircraft skin folder have a decal for that nation? years ago hgbn i think posted a similar issue and the solution was to have a blank DecalLevel=0 (nation) tga and appropriate mention in the decal.ini. iirc their original issue was that the marking were on skin, and the nation wouldnt pop up in drop down. but the solution might fight from what im reading . blank decal can be name whatever, and 6x6 size, just make sure its labeled for the nation you want, ie whatever233.tga

Still got more of those coming, just very slowed down at the moment. next batch will be G and H from 88-90. and yes it will be huge. are you a member of the B-52 page on FB Ron? lots of good stories and pics on there, and i've gotten alot of help from some former crew chiefs hunting down nose arts and eras (some are even gonna be included in the appropriate spots on these finished birds)

i second the civil airport, although static airliners will need to be at the gates lemme know when you get that far and need some skinned up!

and all others that commented on its not gonna happen, time for the classic CA drinking game SF3 now everyone take a shot!

no nation is suicidal, they will push as far as they think they can and then back off because of what ever face saving reason they choose to give. they probably also realize that we wont be staying to fix what we break this time around

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i've been here long enough to see the Ancient One refered to the Knowledge Base

here's a start https://combatace.com/forums/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/ and currently the 3W exporter only runs with Max 2009. but any program that can create jpg, bmp or tga will get you skinning (although PS and GIMP are the preferred programs)

i shall now edit a bird and bomb to this very specific code then again, i made the basket for the tanker Eddie (after the navy name for that basket Iron Maiden)

My father in law David Winn (USN Ret) passed away last friday. while that is difficult enough, my family had been living with him for the last several years. It was a mutual deal of assistance for him and a home for us. However, with his passing we now have to find a new home in the next 30 days or less (estate lawyer and brother in law already being ..... fun) so projects are on hold for now, and i might be even rarer than lately. but i'll poke my head in from time to time as i can

now i gotta find my copy of the book. need that quote i mentioned earlier

struggling with a name for when these get released. SAC pack just doesnt seem right....

The Air Force's drive for more eco friendly warfighting solutions in all seriousness, evidently this is a real pic, but didnt end well for the bird

in the spirit of the other themed days, post your big ones, your jumbos, anything bigger than a fighter sized breadbox. Wednesdays only (sorry bout starting so late, was at work until now

fly by night away from here.....

Yup. Win10, Nvidia card (seems Im lucky), no issues.

memphis belle my ***, this one acted my like a strawberry.......... oh nevermind. one good image to work from, color change up, image reversal for other side and perspective change by yours truly and the source material, best pic (of either side) out of a dozen

Superheats

Swedish underground bases would be cool as well. My suggestion though (as always) is for dual use airfields Although Kandahar would be interesting too. You can model the shape of one certain feature, but you will be a master if you can simulate the smell

IT"S..... ok yall... . and a random heavy, just because me and the outer fringes of the thread rules

let me remind you that this is a family oriented site

i see both sides of that coin to paraphrase Bob Ross, theres no mistakes its the modders world buuuut as a alt history/counterfactual fan one should make the minimum changes possible in the revised scenario I see this as a good alternative to buying American, esp. after the scandal surrounding the Starfighter purchase