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Had some downtime tonight so I decided to fight with the Abacus AH-1G. There is no repaint kit for this so I used dxtbmp and Photoshop. I decided I'd try to get Squatter Swatter done which was Hugh Mills's Cobra that he flew after his successful career as a Cav Scout pilot in the OH-6. Not done but I was able to use the kit decal set to get a lot right. I still need to modify the dental work and get that chin turret some teeth but it's looking good I think. Comments welcome. Once I'm finished and have permission I'll upload the textures.

Voodoo Lady 11th ACR

About a month shy of release pending my finish of some textures, the photo-realistic VC and pilot/gunner animations. I'm cutting my teeth on this one before the UH-1D/H release. UH-1B is still in progress. The Mike model here representing FAS 323 was just for grins.

Given that I cant port this to SF2 what I've always wanted to do anyway was develop these as addons for CFS3 in the same vein as OFF did. That will also give me the option of creating more AC, rotorcraft and bases not to mention the ability to build out squadrons or flights. Into the A Shau would be a hell of a mission. I already have the desire but I'm a one man shop.

Unfortunately SF2 appears to be coded with 3D Studio Max and even with GMAX there is no way for me to port it otherwise I would love to for the Vietnam add-on. Bummer. I've got the following units fully textured: 174th Sharks (Easy Rider, Ace of Spades, Surfer, Mexican Express, Grim Reaper, Battlin Bitch, Woodstock, Cobra, Checkmate) 118th Bandits 120 Razorbacks 114th Knights of the Air HAL-3 Seawolves 101st Soc Trang Thunderbirds 121st Vikings 68th Mustangs I completed the entire overhead panel last night.

Does this look familiar too?

I'd be more than happy to work on porting it over from FS9 - FSX if the .dxt and .dds textures will work. The Charlie doesn't have the toilet bowl anti-strella mod or the rooftop whip antenna. Here's my laundry list of left to do's: door pull handles tail UHF antenna even out particle separator fix troop seat - needs bow add mount points to M21 - add wires for electric attachment points fix cyclic grip fix collective shape & add detail add wiper boots add Grimes cabin lights add overhead console hand holds add reflex sight add rooftop details add clutter replace crew Diego, glad to see your still around. Nice job on the Snake. After the RAH-66 I'll be putting an AH-1G out there myself.

Thanks for the compliment! Despite the lack of any real feedback on multiple forums it's a really just a labor of love I wanted to share. I dearly want to learn XML programming to step this up to what it needs to be. While the cockpit is photo-realistic I want to be able to do the gauges with the same quality I see in the payware Hueys out there. This works in FSX-FS9-FS2002. Tested out in all three.

Thanks! Unfortunately the texture for the chin turret is tied to the doghouse so I cant paint it up. I can still do quite a few Cobra units however and will release the textures soon.

Sort of cheapens the Bronze star on my 69 year old neighbors wall right next to his Senior Aviators wings, DFCs, and Vietnam Legion of Merit for being a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. "Earn this" comes to mind. -Out

Right on! Give me the Nam or a Cold War. I'm working on that....just give me time. Lots left to do so forgive the missing attachment points on the M21 or other details, textures that are still in progress.

Unless they plan on allowing modding which could take the ground warfare aspect to a different level. Personally I'm happy to see them paying attention to detail. I cant stand some sims with low poly level textures to objects such as a nicely textured building sitting on an over pixelized rendering of ground terrain that looks more like blobs of green, brown and black or vehicles that look like paper cutouts with no AI.

] Good review. I've always considered WoV a diamond in the rough. My father flew hueys with C Co 227th in Vietnam. I grew up learning about torgue, collective, cyclic, density air, dynamic rollover, blade stall, ground vortex and all sorts of things that most people don't talk about over a meal at Western Sizzler. I still think with some more work this would be the pinnacle for a Vietnam gunship sim. Other than that, I make my own Huey gunships with working armament so I can light it all up. .

I got this long ago and have been only mildly playing with reverse engineering certain parts of it. The textures are all coded in .tex files which you need a scientific viewer to see. No dds or dxt3 here! There is a mission builder included but because the documentation sucked so horribly bad you would not know that nor are there any instructions on how to actually use it. The eye candy, very well rendered cockpits and gunships themselves are the reason I got it. As a Huey 3D Designer it's what drove me to waste my money on it. The sim also has some very advanced built in helicopter dynamics that most people just leave out so junior Johnson can just pick up his joystick and fly. Who builds in blade stall? Well they did so even getting off the ground can be problematic for people used to just throttling up and off we go. Sucked overall but with some decent coding it might be possible to resurrect it and make it what it should have been. I'd be willing to buy all the code just to continue the work and have a true Vietnam helicopter gunship simulator out there.