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I suggest that you try this mod package I released: https://combatace.com/files/file/16919-speech-enhancement/ With it, you can decide if you always want to have Hawkeye or Red Crown, alternative files are provided. I also fixed some inconsistencies with the original speech audio and subtitle files.

Great thinking out of the box, @Happy308! Please, let's pin this thread, this is a very nice discovery. I bet it can be made as default with some hex editing in the .dll files, but it would be a little risky. EDIT: unfortunately, the bad object detection of SF2 makes it impossible to move outside of the pit area, the plane soon gets FUBAR.

Thanks, I'll make good use of this info.

If you find those, it would be of help indeed. I have other references as well. In the end I can mix all of the info and obtain the perfect formula, so to speak.

That's what I thought as well. If so, which are the right Federal Standard color codes for the Mod Eagle scheme? I'd like to be as accurate as possible. Unfortunately, same FS colours are different depending on the site or paint maker. @ravenclaw_007 Speaking of the Raptor, the upcoming addon makes use of AIM missiles from your Weapons Pack 2. I have to ask you something about weapons, if you have time. I'll send you a PM.

I need help in regards to colours. The F-22A Raptor is known to be painted in a standard air superiority grey camouflage. However, a number of EMD prototypes of the Raptor sported a different colouring, which is kind of blue-ish. Here below some references I gathered from the internet: This last photo is a nice comparison; the grey-ish Raptor is still an EMD prototype, but it's closer to what the production Raptor would look like. I know I could simply use the colour picker tool and extract the colours from the photos, but they differ due to lighting conditions, and above all I'd like to know if they are standard USAF colours. Both the body and camo are blue-ish, it seems to me they are the same colours of the Mod Eagle scheme of early F-15s, but I am not totally sure. I had used the same colours of TW's F-15A, but the result is not close to the photos. I'd appreciate some help and opinions.

"Naked" Raptor Not a perfect 1:1 representation of the real looks of a mid-production Raptor, but it may be a fun bonus to include in the package nonetheless.

In the end, I reworked that blurry image of the ADTW marking into a decently enough decal. I also reworked number decals. This is the final result.

Unfortunately, current squadron markings are way different than what they used to be in the 1950s. Anyway, thanks for helping out! Here below the marking I am hoping to find in better quality: 3 Hikotai Even better, the ADTW (Air Development and Test Wing) tail marking is more appropriate for this fictive skin. I need to find a hi-res one, still no joy.

The skinpack I am working on for the upcoming F-22A Raptor contains a fictive JASDF 2-tone blue camo, like the one seen in the F-2s of 3 Hikotai, 6 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai. At the moment, this skin for the Raptor has got the markings of 6 Hikotai. I sort of dislike that squadron's tail marking being used on the Raptor, so I am looking for good quality reference images of the tail markings of 3 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai instead. Can anyone help? If high-res images of such emblems are available, I can worry about converting those to decals. I've tried my best but only found decent images of 6 Hikotai's marking, which you can see being used as a decal here below. I think that markings for 3 Hikotai would be more appropriate, since it's the longest serving JASDF squadron, and the first to use the F-2s with the 2-tone blue camo, and so the most likely to be the first to convert to the F-22J (in a fictive reality).

There are all decals for all squadrons already in the package, including the AK tail and many more.

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The two things are totally unrelated! You do not need to edit the _nations.ini necessarily, the skin will work even without the proper nation (Belka) being added to it. Just put the skin folder inside the aircraft folder of the F/A-18E. I suggest that you do not edit the _nations.ini, because it may mess up the stock game, unless you know exactly what you're doing. BTW, I was working on an Ace Combat _nations.ini, containing only the nations of the Ace Combat universe with their appropriate decals. I will finish it in the future.

Finally, a video with decent soundtrack. Long live rock 'n roll!

I have not planned to make such a skin at this time. I am still tweaking the almost 20 custom skins I've made already, so I am busy with fine-tuning them. For the skinpack I made, I focused my attention solely on reproducing the F-22s portrayed in other videogames, with the exception of the fictive Sea Raptor livery which is mostly original. Templates will be released so everyone can try to paint the Raptor in many different, original ways.

My PC is low-end so I rarely use Unlimited graphics options, unless I am testing a mod I am going to release. As you guys may know, specular maps are used in all their detail only when Effects are set to Unlimited. Some of you Raptor lovers may know that the paint of the F-22A Raptor is very particular; it helps with stealth properties and, together with the radar-absorbent material, it produces a metallic sheen effect, to the point that the coating may appear translucent under certain light conditions. This is rather difficult to portray on old, limited game engines. With the great opportunity for specular maps in the SF2 engine, I was able to reproduce this effect to an extent. Here below a few images showing it.

There's some runway mods by Piecemeal that populate airbases with many objects; AFAIK all lights, coloured ones as well, were all added to the .ini of each corresponding runway, so it was one hell of a job. Since objects do not move, with correct coordinates one could add lights on top of buildings etc. Those lights are of the same nature of the game's runway ones, so to speak. However, for buildings that are not part of an airbase, this method clearly cannot be applied. I think Stary's lighthouse 3d model is a better example for your needs.

@ShrikeHawk If you wish to release modified files for my terrain packages, please check with me via PM first. I spend a lot of time and effort to make those terrains, and I don't want people to release edited or messed up files, for which I don't provide support, without my prior consent. The Madagascar terrain is meant not to have that much Friendly AAA or SAMs, because the only Blue airfields you get are civilian airports IRL. To sum it up, if things are done in a certain way in my terrain packages, most likely there is a good reason.

Just a little note to my fellow modders; some mods include a custom red tracer, named TRACER2.tga, which overwrites the stock one. In the stock game, TRACER2 is actually meant to be green, as far as I can see. If a red tracer is needed, SF2 already includes a TRACER_RED.tga file. Here's all tracer files extracted from SF2: SF2 Stock Tracers.zip So, gun files should be corrected accordingly.

In the end, I remade the fictive Sea Raptor livery; old games from the 1990s, such as Jane's Fighter Anthology or JetFighter III, portrayed the F-22N Sea Raptor simply as a YF-22 based on aircraft carriers. The Sea Raptor livery I propose is based on the YF-22 paint scheme, but it is stripped of its two-tone camo, so it's just light grey. I also added some USAF stars on both wings, as suggested by two images found on the internet;

With all due respect, it is you who assumed that we modders and creators should all think and behave like you, that is to be non-caring about what others do with what we produce. I simply stated how it is for me and some other people I worked with. I never said nor assumed that everyone feels like me. Actually, my previous post is pretty clear on this aspect; I said that "not everyone is like me and like you". That is all but an ignorant thought/statement.

With due respect, what have you done for this community during all these years? All I see is you downloading mods for free, never say thank you and instead complaining for it. Why there's a limit per day? Sites are not magically maintained without money. This site relies on donations, so with that limit it encourages users either to pay for a membership, or to contribute with mods. I have been here for so long, contributing with various mods, to the point that my mod contributions granted me less restrictions, so I can download more than 5 files per day. This doesn't happen magically, it took time. Last but not least, you claiming that you'd be happy if someone uses your 3d model etc... Clearly you're not a modder, nor a 3d modeller. Many here have experienced what it feels like to see someone steal your own work and claim it as your own, or even make money out of it. This is why rules exist. I've been through a similar experience, and to see someone else copy paste your hard work of years, and then claim it as his own, is all but funny. I make mods and I am happy to release them, as long as people don't steal them nor claim them as their own work somewhere else. You instead are one of those users who downloads stuff, that is all. You also asked certain questions all for a single Su-47 3d model that is not used by anyone because it's incomplete and can't be completed. I still have that lost 3d model. I didn't share it with close friends or anything like it. I shared it with another modder in the past, who attempted to complete it, but nothing came out of it. So I don't know why you're obsessed about having an incomplete, messed up Su-47 that nobody uses. I have seen so many mods here not being released even if they are complete. But I don't complain about it. I am happy for what is here already, lots of content you don't see on other sites. This site is great for me as it is. No hard feelings. That's all.

You've made lots of wrong assumptions. First of all, there is a Su-47 available here, but it's far from being good. The other Su-47 which seems complete and better is actually much incomplete and far from being flyable decently. Source files of it were never available, so we are stuck with the 3d model as is, it cannot be modified. I for one don't feel like releasing something that's not mine, especially if it is not in good state. People are not all like you or like me. Everyone has the right to exercise his/her own reasons as long as doing so does not harm or insult others. There are still some 3d modellers here, and probably someone does have a better Su-47 in the works. So please, enjoy what this community has to offer already. Me and a lot of other modders have contributed much during the years, and to see this complaint is kind of heartbreaking.

Me too! I spent a lot of time to find the correct decals, they were low-res and I had to tinker with them a bit. The fonts should be much like the real thing! Placement is as good as it can be, given that the F-22A is not the YF-22. Speaking of the aircraft itself, I love the YF-22's shape more than the F-22A's; this YF-22 paint scheme is a "what if" for it is applied to the production Raptor.

YF-22 Scheme USAF Pac West Saudi Grey Egyptian Woodland