Cliff7600

The spokesperson of the kingdom of Dhimar announced that a formal complaint has been filed against the empire of Paran for having armed military aircrafts flying under civilian registrations. The head of the training center "Falcon Flight", based near Horreya - Empire of Paran, answered it was a necessary measure to protect innocent civilian student pilots during their flights from (quote) the very dangerous and totally irresponsible trigger fanatics that were recruited in the armies of Dhimar, including their crazy pilots. Chief of the parani public relations added that there was no concern about these aircrafts being equipped with a machine gun because it was "filled with lead". ___ A parani MiG-15 photographed while flying over a Royal Dhimari Air Force base :

You did the right move. In the "What it is next" thread there's a post : "just a tip...you might not want to waste votes on tandem Jag or Mohawk...just saying..." So you didn't waste your vote on the tandem jag ^^

RAF Canucks B flight leader scored a kill My turn. So many debris ! Little weapons mod for the CF-100 Canuck in RAF livery by Spinners. What-if the ground crew found some paint ?

Yes when I talk about it I see it as an option, no more. I'm used to it the vote for the CL-215 is mine xD

I don't "want" anything (I had few minutes to write an answer during my lunch break, hence the lack of explanation). It's just that 27% of votes for the winner make 73% of the voters disappointed. This is due to the number of competitors. The idea behind the second round would be to make more people voting for the winner. If you make a vote with 3 contestants, it will increase the percentage of the winner (at least 33.333% if it's a tie, and the first round score would make the difference). So, yes an higher majority to support the winner. More people behind the elected one. I have nothing against the leading contestant. But at the end, winning with a "low" score can leave more disappointed people than happy people. Then, if the percentage is "low" after a second round, it should be the winner anyway, unless the rules of the vote don't allow it (and that's not the case). And if the winner of the second round was also the winner of the first round, it will enhance his status as winner for all participants as well. I fully agree with you on this point. And I noticed that you said that the winner will be the aircraft with the most votes.

The majority is 50% or more. Take 1000 or 10 people, 25% is not the majority. Unless it's a relative majority. The difference is to deal with 750 / 7.5 disappointed people, or with 500 / 5, or less, disappointed people. Then don't bother, it's your choice. I don't make the rules. It's just you retained a part of my suggestion of vote, and not the entire idea. The aircrafts I have chosen wouldn't have been in a second round anyway.

I'd like to underline that, because I really think that you should make a second round with only the highest scores. Otherwise the "most wanted" bird would have been chosen by a quarter of the voting community.

Modding in progress : I wasn't too happy with the handling at slow speed and sometimes the wingmen crashed. I just don't know what happened to this one So I decided to give more lift... but the landings on the aircraft carrier were not good anymore I got rear-ended by a wingman. I thought I should go further on the deck to wait for the wingmen, but the edge is not where it seems ^^ the left wheel is still there. On this one I recreated the issue just for the screenshot xD Wrong settings for a fake engine that I gave up later. Only the regular engines remain. I added some reverse and it worked as wanted with the player aircraft but not with the AI aircrafts who started to crash, so I deleted everything. The purpose of a fake engine at 0,0,0 of the model was to have a reverse sound, and it worked. But it looks like someone was smoking in the cargo bay next to a barrel of gasoline. It's going to take longer than I thought, but as long as the Royal Navy let me use their carrier (in the straits of Dhimar) it's ok.

It's a not serious mod I made from the very good MiG-Ye8ML made by Logan4 and available in the download section, in this pack :

Well, I think I can show you an example with a little hot-rod I made for fun Throttle at 99% Throttle at 100% It doesn't really give an advantage when dogfighting but it sure helps to runaway in a "F-104 style". The good thing is the wingmen use it all the time.

Okay, it was just to test... Many edits later, my wingman with 10000 pounds of payload : With a few more tries I succeeded too Still things to do, but at least it lands on the aircraft carrier And take-off The little grey thingy at the right bottom is my wingman doing rounds on the water with one engine down...

The way I would do things is to complicate things... Are we in a rush ? Maybe not Do we like all those aircrafts ? I guess yes So I would make a poll for each category of aircrafts. Not to decide which aircraft will be created, but to ask people their preference and then take a decision, because I'm fully aware that such a work should have a minimum interest game-wise. Fighters - F-35A - F-35B - F-35C - MiG-19S - F-94C Starfire - Mirage 2000D/N - AMX A-1M - AIDC F-CK-1 - J-20 - J-16 Bombers, patrol & recon - S-2 Tracker - E-1 Tracer - OV-1 Mohawk - A-2 Savage - E-2 A/B Hawkeye - U-2R/S / TR-1 - Mosquito Trainers - Jaguar E/B(T2-T4) - Su-15U - Hunter T7/T8 - Lightning T4/T5 - F9F-8T - Eurofighter Typhoon (2 seater) - Casa C-101 - Alphajet A/E - Aermacchi M-346 Liners & Cargo - Tu-154 - Caravelle - AN-72 / AN-74 - Beluga - 747 cargo - C-1 Trader - YC-14 - Concorde - 727 - DHC-4 Caribou - Do-31 Seaplanes - CL-215 - Martin Mars - Martin Marlin - Martin Mars - CL-415 Prototypes - YF-17 - Mirage G8 - X-32 (with a different wing shape) - X-15 - F2Y - Baroudeur - KF-21 - F-16XL - KAI T-50 - Textron Airland Scorpion - Su-75 - Helwan HA-300 Missiles - SS-N-27 - SS-26 - SS-21 - Thrust SSC - Bloodhound SSC Bonus - Su-34 - Yes please, I wouldn't mind a Su-34 - Oh, you're making a Su-34 ? That's great news ! Okay it's a big mess to organize, but it's not as hard as making a brand new 3D model. Just my grain of salt

I am not a majority but I really think a single seater Hunter and a two seater Hunter are not the same aircraft at all. Even if only the nose is different. Imagine Lightning T4 and T5... Trainers don't really represent any interest game-wise. But, some of them are really beautiful planes (Jaguar B/T2, TF-104G, Mirage F1B, Su-22 UM3K, Mitsubishi T-2, F-5B, and many others...). I edited the files of the old TF-104G to fly from the back seat and that is really fun. Same with the MiG-15 UTI, MiG-21 UM. And some aircrafts are modeled this way, FastCargo's F-5B and T-38, the Mirage 4000B. Go download the Mirage 4000 M2 and try to land on an aircraft carrier from the back seat ^^ It's totally different when you launch the SF2 game as a flight simulator and not as an aerial warfare game. Then, if we had the "Hunter T7 with the proper cockpit" I would fly it just to fly from A to B and land and take off and land somewhere else. Yes Strike Fighter is my Flight Simulator xD Thing is, it doesn't really work without a specific cockpit, because Mirage F1 or MiG-15 are "the same" from the front seat, and you don't have the guns. So I agree not to concentrate on trainers and yet we should make more of them. Speaking about cockpit, I'd like to underline that the F-94C Starfire already has a dedicated cockpit made by Stary more than 7 years ago. And I'd like to volunteer to make the data.ini file for the Canadair CL-215 to make it seaworthy. The CL-415 looks meaner !

Hi Flogger23 has some MiG-21 in development and I know there's something to reproduce this feature (I did it lol ) with overheating and engine explosion when used for too long.

Regarding seaplanes almost everything is to test ^^

Sea planes are ok. They just need proper data.ini and someone to build their 3D models. It's the same trick as the belly landing.

View File Spitfire Mk6b / b Trop --------------- Spitfire for CombatAce --------------- SF2 version 2021 TurboSquid : original 3D model Snapper21 : source file donated to CA Wrench : project development origin and inis Starfighter2 : original Spitfire Mk9 cockpit Logan4 : additionnal 3D parts and model editing to import into TW sims, textures editing, decals and inis. Cliff7600 : textures editing, decals and inis, cockpit editing. Thirdwire : textures and inis. These are the models made for CombatAce from the original TurboSquid 3D source file. It is made to be downloaded for free at CombatAce site only, and not to be used in any other way. The models have been designed for a SF2 / ThirdWire use and nothing else. Not to be merged with other files sharing the same original 3D model. - Spitfire Mk6b - Spitfire Mk6b Trop Submitter Cliff7600 Submitted 02/06/2023 Category Spitfire  

A model with a proper cockpit is always a good addition. Two-seater Jaguar and Su-15 are very interesting ideas I admit the Mirage G8 would be great as well. The three aircrafts I've always dreamed of seeing in game : X-15 and X-15A2 F-94C Starfire F2Y Sea Dart Each one would be a challenging project for the ini aspect (I do ini). The rocket engines and speed of the X-15, the rockets setting of the F-94C and the hull of the F2Y. Ini-wise an X-wing would be fun to do. Any seaplane, just for the fun of making it "float" on the water, and taking-off and land anywhere. and : SE 5000 Baroudeur (land based jet fighter without landing gear) Boeing YC-14 Grumman S-2 Tracker / C-1 Trader / E-1 Tracer would be great for sure. We don't have an OV-1 Mohawk Ju-188 G4M Betty Ki-84 Hayate And talking about liners : Concorde Boeing 727 ( And, totally useless in game but worth a supersonic ride : Thrust SSC or Bloodhound SSC ) xD

That's is correct. You can slow down if you have speed but you cannot go in reverse on the ground.

Still about the canyon S-W of the Desert V4 terrain : Go to P13 and set course at 150 / distance 100 km - 55 NM or P14 and set course at 160 / distance 30 km - 15 NM or Jalamin (Position=248000.00,241000.00 in the target.ini file) and head southeast 10 km - 6NM

I am talking about changing this set of values, in the data.ini file. The position values in the cockpit.ini file has no effect on the center of gravity indeed. But changing the CGPosition in the data.ini file changes also where you sit in the aircraft : TW's Hunter : After adding a "CGPosition=0.0,2.0,0.0" line in the [AircraftData] part in the data.ini file : You're sitting 2 meters forward and I didn't change the position values in the cockpit.ini file.

That's true. You can even use no cockpit at all, as long as there's a cockpit.ini file. A 3D model of a cockpit is not necessary to make an aircraft flyable. The cockpit.ini file is. I almost always change the cockpit position. It's very rare to have it exactly where it should be "straight from the box". If the cockpit has a position there should be a 0,0,0 point to refer to.

In game there's no call like "On l'a rentré" xD (nor "enc... p... de ta r...")