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LMAO! Only a few would understand the French one, it's a nod to the pilots of the submarine and aircraft carrier Alicorn in Ace Combat 7, where they fly Rafales. That's where the "Salvation" thing and music come from.

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This is an interesting post! I always wondered about it when I made the experimental Moon and Mars terrains. In the EnvironmentSystem.ini file we could tweak the coefficient of gravity, but nothing about air density and atmospheric pressure. Those things must be hardcoded in some way.

Exactly. His English is rather broken, had a look at past posts as well. He's just a hack. The only thing I see fresh is some new skins for aircraft. Also, I have strong reason to believe that the guy is modding not Strike Fighters 2 but Strike Fighters 1! I see he made an YF-22 skin for the old F-22 Raptor released in 2005. I don't think he can use the new one I released since yakarov79's LODs are only compatible with SF2.

I'd stay away from anything SF related on FB. I recall another account of a troll from Turkey who got banned from CA a while ago; he shows our mods and even takes our very own screenshots and then claims them all as his own work. One of such screenshots is that of the Mirage 2k cockpit I retextured, which I had taken for the ODS 30AE mod. I was very puzzled to see someone else use it for getting some likes.

I was hoping to see it again with the new tileset you were making. Top notch work!

By using OpenCockpit=TRUE, it's a less than ideal solution, as it brings other side issues (with clouds for instance) as it treats the cockpit as open, much like that of a WW1 plane, thus with no canopy glass etc. I've been thinking out of the box, and I'm wondering if shadows like in the first generation of Strike Fighters games would work in SF2 as well. Here's an example: [Shadow] CastShadow=TRUE ShadowLOD=A-4B_shadow.shd ShadowType=1 ShadowCastDist=10000 MaxVisibleDistance=400 If those statements work in SF2, it means we could develop our own .shd files to act as a LOD for the shadows of a cockpit. It's a big if and I honestly have very low expectations it would still work but, if it does, no need to worry about editing existing LODs.

You have the latest if you downloaded it after January 19, 2022. A new version with many additions and improvements hopefully happens by the end of the year. I might include the complete change logs of all released and unreleased versions in it, if users are so keen to know about its development history.

Not just that. Site rules do not allow to edit LODs and share them, either third-party and stock ones. I wish we could fix them all one by one, it'd be a game changer. I guess the concern is more about third-party ones. To share a fixed LOD for stock cockpits wouldn't worry me as much. A stock cockpit LOD with no textures is of no use, it would require the users to own the game to experience it as it's meant to be. In any case, it cannot be done so it's case closed.

Clever. I never thought of doing that, but after all it's a LOD like everything else. Even for terrain objects the same thing applies, if we want shadows for the 300 custom ground objects, 300 such .ini files are required to be added. The only major issue about shadow casting is that it would require cockpit 3d models without holes in them. Unfortunately many third-party and even stock cockpit 3d models feature holes, either to the front or back of the cockpit. For proper shadow casting those holes would need to be fixed, but we cannot edit LODs.

You're in good faith, and I'm glad the situation was soon solved in the best possible way with the other modders involved. This isn't the first time that something that shouldn't be uploaded gets approved indiscriminately. As much as you're at fault for uploading it, someone else is to blame for approving it without the proper consideration. @FLOGGER23 I can surely wait, it's not my work and you decide what to do with it. If anything, this thread shows there's interest by many about an updated Su-24 so it may offer even more motivation to get it done. It's harder to work on something when nobody wants it, I know for experience. That being said, keep up the great work!

I don't know who opposes this here at CA. I would certainly be happy to do it, but I entirely lack skills to do any reverse engineering. We've discussed this countless times; this is not programming in a specific language (something which I can do), this is on a different level really. And if nothing happened in twenty years (we've seen programmers much more capable than me produce tools to mod Strike Fighters better than ever) then chances are very slim that the game's coding could be reverse engineered successfully. Find someone who would do it and everyone would be happy. Sadly I don't know anyone with those skills that's interested in such an old game; if and when I get to meet such a person, that's the only contribution I could give aside from the knowledge I have about the game engine's limitations. If TK really wanted to help, he could have been more involved with the healthy bit of the community and shared such info. He has no interest in doing that and I'm not planning to beg him after what I consider very poor marketing decisions.

That's much appreciated, I like when things are improved even more. The author of the cockpit should be Centurion-1, he hasn't been around in a long while. With due credits to all modders involved, I think it could be released as standalone.

I remember YEYEYE had a personal website, I recall I downloaded incomplete Su-47 and X-32 models for Strike Fighters from it. I don't recall anything about a Su-24 cockpit, I'm surprised it found its way somehow without a public release. If the plane and cockpit can be released with due credits to the authors, I'd be happy to include this new Su-24 in the ODS 30AE mod as a flyable aircraft.

That cockpit's 3d modeling and texturing style... it reminds me a lot of cockpits created by YEYEYE, maybe it's from him? I don't know. No idea where this Su-24 model comes from, I'd be happy to know if it's something legit that we can use.

I'm terribly sad to hear these news. It's been a while since last time I heard from Marty via email... I'm as shocked and saddened as much as I'm honored to have known him. One of the kindest men I've ever known. I'm keeping all posts from him with care. Our chats and his positive posts and comments made my day more than once. I lack the words to truly express how I feel about this loss. My deepest condolences to his family and loved ones, and to the guys of the CombatACE community who, like me, had the pleasure of chatting and collaborating with him. Rest in peace, Marty.

You need a GPU with at least 4GB VRAM. The mod does not work on Intel UHD integrated graphics cards. I already posted all possible suggestions and solutions to known issues in the mod's download page.

These are unused but working BlendOp options as found inside the GraphicsEngineDX10.dll: MODULATE_AND_ADD_SRC MODULATE_AND_ADD_DST MODULATE_MUL_2 MODULATE_INV_SRC MODULATE_INV_DST My discovery was dictated by my hunger of finding a proper solution to the DTV filter which does not work properly in-game with night environments, especially with the much darker nights of my realSKY mod. Below you'll find a comparison between stock filter material data and the custom one using another BlendOp: Stock MODULATE, day Stock MODULATE, night Unused MODULATE_MUL_2, day Unused MODULATE_MUL_2, night The main drawback of MODULATE_MUL_2 is that it doubles the MODULATE option, so at day the image is lightened too much than the stock MODULATE. Mind you, the screenshots were taken with the realSKY mod on Unlimited settings, so the post processing effect adds bloom to already bright areas. However, at night MODULATE_MUL_2 brings a big improvement as you can finally see the ground and its objects more easily. PS: Please admins, pin this topic. The unused BlendOps I found work just fine, and may be useful to other modders willing to experiment with them.

Posts like this mean a lot, believe me. We modders create so much but we rarely get any feedback after dozens and dozens of downloads. Glad to hear your voice, you're welcome!

You're confused about WoE. The first generation of Strike Fighters games never had sounds for chaff and flares. Strike Fighters 2 never added them either. Sounds are probably the worst part of Strike Fighters. If you're hit, deploy countermeasures or drop bombs, there's no sound associated with those events. Nothing we can do, it's another limitation of the game engine.

The Su-22M4 cockpit by Farid is nicely detailed! It just misses a working mirror glass on the top, centre strut of the canopy. It'd be awesome if Farid could add that and even make the M3 cockpit by reworking the M4 one. Strike Fighters very rarely gets new cockpits these days, so I'm thankful for this addition.

It's not clear what the file exactly does but it does not seem to have any visible effect. The game already knows if a target area is Friendly or Enemy and in which specific Location thanks to the _targets.ini and nations.ini files. Even if we understand how this additional file works, we'd know colors only for a limited number of nations. On terrains having more countries, who knows which colors are exactly needed for that file. Simply put, I'd move on.

I think everyone using mods and not having a PC with NASA specs has the issue. Never managed to find an exact cause apart from the game's management of VRAM; it's also random, doesn't matter which weapon, even with the same one, sometimes it's an issue, sometimes FPS is decent. I'd classify it as a stock game engine issue, nothing that could be fixed. In the stock game it won't happen, but as soon as you add mods, custom effects, custom terrains and/or a third-party aircraft, then it happens.

My condolences to you and your family. My thoughts are with you all.