yakarov79

night turret jet fighter

NF.6 

this checkerboard is correct for the 1921-1993 period. all good.

The color looks good too, no chocolate brownish at all...

2 hours ago, Gepard said:

1. Transport mission.  Simply fly from one to an other airfield. Would be nice for civil mods

...........

3. Ferry mission. Similar to 1.) but with enemy fighters

Ha! 

From the very beginning of combat sim games, developers neglected these most important aspects of air war. In modern combat and even hundreds of years ago, you could not win a campaign with a proper supply chain. But NO! For game developers "air war" can only be done by fighter aircraft...crap. Disappointing.

Someone once said - that fighter pilots make movies, the rest is making history. 

Baltic patrol.

On 8/25/2023 at 3:37 PM, Gepard said:

A fistfull new planes and anew war theater ... Perhaps Korea War. And he would had a lot if people which would be interested in.

that would be another TK suicide. At least not worth any penny unless the whole sack of bugs would be addressed. 

new theater, campaign, and again players would complain about historical accuracy, phases of the moon, and birds chirping - and started to mod it anyway.

I said it before and will say it again. This game in versions 3, 4, or even 5  would not require new aircraft, objects, or terrains. This can be handled quite easily. And this site/forum is a quite decent example. 

If we look at the aircraft library not sure how 'developer' could surprise us....

What this game needs is....

and here I will stop. 

Honestly. What are you expecting? If it was me creating a game and then a bunch of players started to mess with it, trying to change everything that I achieved, trying to work around things that were not supposed to work, building new models where the polycount of one model is bigger than the whole objects pool from the original game. Building new terrains and fancy campaigns that bring too much to the game... hell screw players then. He made a game and you are screwing with it...instead playing.

looks nice. own build or from the model library?

I had this issue on some models, and in some places, after editing normal it was gone... sometimes it was back after further editing in max and then exporting...

And I know that in one case I was able to export the model and it was good in a game, and on some other models (F-22?) I was not able to fix this.

Perhaps some settings in edit normals?  I usually try to mess with this but have similar effects.

32 minutes ago, Gepard said:

then i see no ribs at the end.

ribs are on the other side of the pod  (right side of access doors) - when opened ribs are on the left side - as Ravenclaw mentioned earlier.

20 hours ago, ravenclaw_007 said:

video of that gun

the first picture here pod under Pony (and one with guys tinkering with the pod - that blurred one) - if I remember correctly is from 1972 China Lake tests - maybe this is some early version, while the production model (Martin Marietta) used rotating doors? - (I saw that video that you are referring to)

So far no luck in my references...

Guardians of the North.

F-104G

CF-104

75th Anniversary, 20 years in service. 23°Gruppo

F-104S-ASA MM6737

to many polys in one node can cause the wrong presentation in the game...if your fuselage is one mesh then I can see from here that it is too many polygons indeed. You will have to divide it into a few nodes - just do it smart and 'cut' pieces in 'smart' places.

smoothing groups will work but I gues you have unwelded vertexes, then it means you have double or triple count of polys. Select by drag and click one vertex - if it will display vertex  (example ) 235 selected than it is ok...if menu will display '3 vertexes selected' than you have to  Select vertexes in area and click target weld and set range to 0,001 this should solve problem. And you have to do it probably to whole model.

50 000 hours and 75th anniversary. 12°Gruppo.

Very sad news. Condolences to the family. 

Rest in peace.

Get fighter sweep instead in mission editor, as escort is not really working as escort...more like target of oportunity...so escort will even engage ground targets. Then you are screwd too.

'Papero'

If I remember correctly this can be done only on the 3d model stage.

Last two pictures of Navy  sluff are taken 1990/91 during DS. At the time Sluff was ready for retirement...and VA had not enough pylons at the moment, so pylons from stations 2,3,6 and 7 were didided for two aircraft. Except HARM birds.

Second pic- empty station 6 may indicate that mission was carried without it and flight was refueled on route.

In real unlike in game pylons are not something that you plug and play on a whim..it takes time to wire systems and pylons..and during combat deployment not always there is a time for it. Often aircafts wired for HARMs stayed HARM bird for whole deployment while other birds were bomb trucks with TERs. Also from certain point ..if you have TER fixed to pylon and mission requires smaller payload - you just hang one mk82 on TER...it saves time too.

I think we have all been there...doing some chellenging things...and then...ahhh sh..it is still not what we wanted...but it is still fun working on something new..

Yup. I know where is one and i had a plan to go there in summer...but plans for summer changed(again) and I just ended in Italy instead...again.

5 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

you ever do a new LANA pod when you were working on naval A-7s?

I was planning to do something about it the moment I will get into Air Force SLUFFs....well it did not happen yet.

more seriously...I did not research the topic yet.  once I asked for some pictorial walkaround but seems like my guy did not have time or chance to do it yet...