Gunrunner

You also have the Mirage F.2 and G G.4, G.8, G.8A/F.8 . But I guess you still have the 4000 to finish someday first. :D There's Russo's P.1211 in the works for a few years now that would fit the time period. The P.1154, either the RAF single seater or FAA two seaters would also fit the period and usage. The Vought V-507 would also fit the time period.

I'd say edit the userlist or data INIs to change the availability. Both the 17 and 21 have multiple versions classified as VERY_COMMON while the 19 only had one rated as COMMON so when the game has to decide how to populate, the weight of a 19 against the rest is pretty low.

Or they can have been put there by campaign creators (some CA members are aces in NATO Fighters campaigns).

Reselling is allowed under conditions by section 3.© of the Licence Agreement included in the installers (emphasis mine) :

Wait, the RN is back to getting C models ? I thought they finally decided to go B and STOBAR all the way... (and they don't have a carrier able to operate them yet, or am I that behind ?)

Well, off the top of my head a fully loaded Skyhawk (about 12t) is about as heavy as a clean Hornet, and a loaded Hornet can weight up to twice a loaded Skyhawk, it's only marginally lighter than the Phantom II which was deemed too big and too heavy to operate from the Essexes with any useful payload.

Just remember, don't eat the snow in Hawaii. It's cute, makes the situation in the EU as seen by Russia look like utopia.

Yes, that's in the Mirage5E2 folder (and/or in each skin folder). Strahi, except the placement of some features are not exactly identical... especially in BM_MIRAGE5***_1.BMP.

Errr, how do you expect them to show, by magic ? You think that just adding the node names valid for a 3D model with the rails, they will automagically appear on a 3D model without them ? Your only chance to get rails is either by designing them as weapons or fake-pilot addons, the method you're using will never work if the pylons are not already present in the 3D model. Besides, I'm quite certain someone already did that work (Once again, the quite prolific Paulopanz did the work : http://combatace.com/files/file/10657-lim-6p/ or http://combatace.com/files/file/10656-lim-6-bis/). Or if I was mistaken in what you wanted, have a look there : http://combatace.com/files/category/633-mig-17/.

She's dedicated to tracking and analyzing missile tests, mostly submarine launched nuclear missiles, but was also used to validate some variants of the ASMP and monitor a few Ariane launches IIRC.

Yep, great job guys. Thanks for saving us all a few headaches. :)

An alternative hypotheses is that this is his plan to raise the money necessary to finish Exp 3...

If Russo is right we face 4 hypotheses : 1 - TW is deep in debt and the assets end up belonging to the banks which can lead to 2/ or 3/, but not 4/ 2 - TW assets are sold to a game publisher/dev, who may or may not continue the SF series or just scrounge it for some code and the models. 3 - TW assets are left untouched, orphaned, in a legal limbo as to whom they belong to. 4 - TW releases all its assets as open source, letting the community take on the both the code and plane development. 2/ could be either way, it could help the SF series, even though without TK it would be strange, or it could just be the final blow while preventing us to ever patch the game ourselves. 3/ would left us in a grey legal area allowing us both to patch the game and eventually convert the LODs back to sources, but it still would be not be entirely legal while requiring a lot of effort. 4/ would be ideal, but highly improbable. Also, if TW is clearing house, it would make 1/ and 2/ less likely, as these models are worth more money as potential assets than as released DLC, it might however be a form of "farewell gift".

Why can't he be both, if we were to reach the Godwin point and be overly dramatic, was von Stauffenberg a traitor or was he doing the right thing ? Sometimes doing the right thing is breaking your pledges and disobeying orders, as you should know. In the present case there was no "proper channel" to report to before whistle blowing so, unlike Manning, he did not fail to follow procedure before jumping to acts that could be qualified as treason. Is the revealed information ground-breaking and surprising ? Not really. Does the information reveal that the NSA and CIA might be overextending their mandate ? Possibly. Is the surveillance society and reliance on technological surveillance instead of human intel mostly theater, costly and globally inefficient while degrading civil liberties ? Certainly. Does that same surveillance society and security theater change anything for the average citizen, for better or for worse ? Nope. Do you need to grow up and stop adding more and more rituals to defeat bogeymen who have repeatedly shown that your rituals are ineffective ? Probably. What was the lesson of 9/11 ? Why did it happen ? Because experts, with human intel, were not heard... And how did you fix it ? By investing more and more into technological intel, data mining and almost scuttling traditional human intel... The only reason you haven't had any major problem since is not because how effective this intel setup and your security theater are, but the fact that your enemies just don't give enough of a damn about you and are even more incompetent, 9/11 was a fluke, the perfect combination of some imagination on one side and utter political failure on the other, it had nothing to do with a lack of intel.

Etendard IVC ? Uh ? Don't get me wrong, it seems nice and I'm really curious to get my hands on it, however I think the designation and back-story will need some work. C usually stands for "Chasse" (hunting) and designates planes which primary mission is air defense. Besides, Etendard IV were larger, this one seems closer to the first two Etendard VI, however the real ones were to have afterburners and an area-ruled fuselage similar to that of the Etendard IV. In fact the main differences I notice between your plane and the first two Etendard VI are the refueling probe (which could pass for a british or isreali refit, but is not in the french style of implementing it) and ECM antenna on the rudder (once again in the british style rather than french).

Nah, don't worry, I know you're doing your best, you're the one knowing how much time, money and hardware you're willing to throw at the problem and the exact parameters of said problem, I'm just cranky...

Sorry to contradict you Erik, but it is not. First of all, operators should usually only be parsed as such if they are the leading term of a query or preceded by a space and should be treated as text otherwise (unless you have the power to do like Google and treat them as placeholders for both space, text and operators). Second, if it worked as you seem to think the search result for "F-35" would not be "No results for 'F������'" but "The following search terms are not allowed and were removed from your query: F" and "One or all of your search keywords were below 2 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords." The current answer for "F-35" suggests a query parser problem (or at least a problem in determining which error message to throw, suggesting sloppy code). Thirdly, let's see what results your proposed alternatives offer shall we ? Query : "F+35" Answers : Mirage III Phil Air Force F-8H F-32 Cutlass II F-32 Cutlass II SF2 F-85F-40 Sabre Remod Pak AT-6G North Korea People's Air Force MiG-29 IV.KGzbV 1, 1940 Banidos J-31 TSF J 35 Draken Ilmavoimat Package So we only have the first vaguely relevant relevant in 10th place, the rest was garbage, you have 2 other "relevant" results in the first page, and have the first true F-35 only on the second page (in 30th position). The reason is simple, the search ignores the "F" part of the query, as it's too short a search term and starts searching only for 35, among both the title AND the description of the download, which is fine for forum content, but makes it useless for download content. "F +35", "F 35" bear the exact same results as once parsed they are identical. Query : "F35" Answer : Bird of Prey That's the unique result. Compare and contrast these with the results google offers for the same searches using the following method : In Google type : site:combatace.com/files F-35 site:combatace.com/files F -35 site:combatace.com/files F35 site:combatace.com/files F 35 site:combatace.com/files F+35 site:combatace.com/files F +35 We'll note that Google also searches both titles and contents, it does rank results by putting more weight on results in title though, offering far more useful results. In conclusion, 1/ There is a bug 2/ If you are still unwilling to fix it, I still demonstrated the search engine doesn't work as you yourself believe 3/ We may alleviate the problem by making the search in the downloads section on Titles only by default and allowing 1 character search (but depending on the code it might create performance problems so I would discourage it without greenlight from the dev) On a sidenote I also have to wonder what the big deal is with the reorganization of files and why it does seem to involve moving the files, in any properly coded system it should only be a matter of altering database records (and with properly set constraints either at the DB or code level, it should not lead to crashes), not moving files themselves (not to insult Erik if that's a homegrown solution, but from what is said and seen of it, it would seem to be using the least elegant solution to a common problem)...

In that case the next best thing would be fixing the search... I guess the lP Board licence comes with a certain amount of tech and bug support, and in my book the forum search behavior when it comes to downloads IS a bug (if only because it works for the other searches), and that's the whole reason you pay for a licence. That would make it relatively safe if Erik didn't feel like messing with the code.

Or at least they should fix the damn search "feature" that ignores/misinterpret dashes, meaning that searching for "f-16" for instance returns nothing, on a site focused on military aviation, it is a vital part of the forum search engine (and using google is not really an alternative). If that was done AND modders all agreed on a common taxonomy for their uploads (some use only "viper" for their F-16 file, others just "falcon", others "F-16", some "F16" or a combination of those, it makes finding everything easily a mess, even using Google), it would made search actually usable.

Well, Dassault was very accommodating with the customer wishes, however the starting price point of a Mirage III was higher than that of a Mirage 5 and politically it was easier to sell the "inferior" Mirage 5, never-mind the fact that some Mirage 5 configurations (including the 5DE) ended up being Mirage IIIE, at similar cost.

No trouble on my end using the Mirage5BA and Mirage IIIO cockpits.

Yep, extract the BM_MIRAGE5E2_*.BMP files from the DLCData028.DLC, use a tool to convert them to true normal maps (I used Paint.Net and the NormalMapPlus plugin, however I do not know the settings used by TW originally, my attempts so far seem either too flat or too strong) and place the result in /Objects/Aircraft/Mirage5E2 But that would still need fixing by TK at some point anyway, I already reported it.

Can anyone confirm that there's a problem with the Mirage 5E2 (it already happened with an earlier Mirage DLC when a texture was used a normal map) ? I just extracted the files, the bump maps are textures improperly converted...

Unless I missed it, and given the screenshots, the only single seat F-5 released was a F-5A, then used for the F-5E, which might explain the differences. Apparently we have at least a F-5E, I'll have to check that, didn't look at the LERX. Yes, there are two main variants to the stock F-5E nose, the original one, close to the F-5A one, and the later one, called "sharknose", flatter, fitted to late Taiwan and Swiss models (and maybe others, but they are the only ones I remember to have used it consistently). The nose in your pictures and screenshots both seem to be the regular, early version. Take into account that some south american air forces (Brazil at least) refitted their F-5 with radar (of the Griffo family IIRC), leading to a modified, slightly longer nose, maybe there has been other.

Download available here All right, I'm working again on my RF-84F superpack, I know no one cares about the little recon plane, but at least that guarantees Paulopanz or Ludo won't beat me to it. This thread will serve to track the WiP and to motivate me to progress regularly, it will also serve to gather any information and feedback you might have to contribute. The big idea follows : Legend : Done In progress To be done Awaiting information Historical means only planes known to be available for the given time frame are represented, it's not 100% accurate, but as accurate as sources, motivation and gameplay allow. Semi-Historical means it contains both planes verified historically to be active and part of the represented squadron AND planes randomly chosen from planes known to have served with, depending on the available sources, the wing or the service at the time to fill the gaps. Generic means the plane numbers are chosen randomly from the pool of planes assigned to the nation, squadron numbers assigned randomly from the possible numbers and no sources allows to verify the plane was or was not in flying order at a given date. In some extreme cases it might mean a generic skin with no serial at all to avoid. RF-84F_US (Early Republic Seat, US pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 32nd TRS Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1956, Sembach DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 32nd TRS, Late '57 Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1957, Sembach, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 38th TRS, Late '55 Silver, Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1955, Sembach, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 38th TRS Silver, Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1956, Sembach, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 38th TRS, Late '57 Silver, Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1957, Sembach, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 302nd TRS, Late '55 Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1955, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 302nd TRS Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1956, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 302nd TRS, Late '57 Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1957, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 303rd TRS, Late '55 Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1955, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 303rd TRS Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1956, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, US Air Force in Europe, 303rd TRS, Late '57 Silver, Semi-Historical, 17 planes, circa late 1957, Spangdahlem, DE United States of America, Pacific Air Forces, 15th TRS, Late '58 Silver, Semi-Historical, ?? planes, circa late 1958, Kadena, JP United States of America, Pacific Air Forces, 45th TRS, Late '58 Silver, Semi-Historical, ?? planes, circa late 1958, Misawa, JP RF-84F_FR1 (Early Republic Seat, French pilot, no spoilers, inactive brake chute) France, Armée de l'Air, ER 4/33 Silver, Semi-Historical, 14 planes, circa late 1956, Akrotiri, Cyprus, UK RF-84F_FR2 (Early Republic Seat, French pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) France, Armée de l'Air, GR 1/33 Silver, Generic, 24 planes, circa late 1956, Cognac, FR France, Armée de l'Air, ERT 2/33 Silver, Generic, 23 planes, circa late 1956, Cognac, FR France, Armée de l'Air, ERT 3/33 Silver, Generic, 23 planes, circa late 1956, Cognac, FR RF-84F_FR3 (Late Republic Seat, French pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) France, Armée de l'Air, [GR|ER] 1/33 Camo, Generic, 16 planes, circa late 1962, Cognac, FR France, Armée de l'Air, [ERT|ER] 2/33 Silver, Generic, 16 planes, circa late 1960, Cognac, FR Camo, Generic, 16 planes, circa late 1962, Cognac, FR France, Armée de l'Air, ERT 3/33 Silver, Generic, 16 planes, circa late 1960, Cognac, FR Camo, Generic, 16 planes, circa late 1962, Cognac, FR RF-84F_NATO1 (Early Republic Seat, Euro pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) Netherlands, Koninklijke Luchtmacht, 306 Sqn. Silver, Historical, 16 planes, circa late 1956, Eindhoven, NL Belgium, Force Aérienne Belge, 42 Sqn. Silver, Historical, 14 planes, circa late 1956, Brustem, BE Belgium, Force Aérienne Belge, 42 Sqn. Camo, Historical, 16 planes, circa late 1960, Brustem, BE Norway, Luftforsvaret, 717 Skv. Silver, Historical, 24 planes, circa late 1956, Rygge, DK Greece, Polemikí Aeroporía, 348 Mira Silver, Generic, 16 airplanes, circa late 1955 RF-84F_NATO2 (Late Republic Seat, Euro pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) Netherlands, Koninklijke Luchtmacht, 306 Sqn. Camo, Historical, 16 planes, circa late 1962 Belgium, Force Aérienne Belge, 42 Sqn. Camo, Historical, 15 planes, circa late 1962 Camo, Historical, 24 planes, circa late 1968 Denmark, Flyvevåbnet, 729 Esk. Silver, Generic, 4 planes, circa late 1962 Camo, Historical, 19 planes, circa late 1962 Camo, Historical, 18 planes, circa late 1968 Norway, Luftforsvaret, 717 Skv. Camo, Historical, 24 planes, circa late 1962 Camo, Historical, 19 planes, circa late 1968 Greece, Polemikí Aeroporía, 348 Mira Camo, Generic, 16 airplanes, circa late 1964 Camo, Generic, 16 airplanes, circa late 1974 Turkey, Türk Hava Kuvvetleri Silver, Generic, 24 airplanes, circa late 1964 Camo, Generic, 24 airplanes, circa late 1974 RF-84F_DE2 (Martin Baker seat, German pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) Germany, Bundesluftwaffe, AG 51 Camo, Generic, 36 planes, circa late 1962 Germany, Bundesluftwaffe, AG 52 Camo, Generic, 36 planes, circa late 1962 RF-84F_TW (Early Republic Seat, US pilot, painted spoilers, active brake chute) Taiwan, Zhonghuá Mínguó Kongjun, 4th CRS Silver, Historical, 22 planes, circa late 1958, Songhang, TW