Viper63a

What a rush! What an honor to be part of it. Menrva had the dream and we had the will, but none of this could have been possible without the "CombatAce" community. So THANK YOU - All who came before, are here today, and will be in the future. This is for you! Enjoy! My personal Thanks to Menrva, yakarov79, guuruu, daddyairplanes, and Coupi - I learned a lot from you guys. Menrva, your ability to integrate the ENTIRE pack with all the mods and changes we threw at you, optimize them - while building and testing yourself - and STILL find time to direct and keep us on track is truly AMAZING!

Caught between SF2 and DSC, FalconBMS is an amazing testament to dedication. Can you imagine if SF2 had that level of commitment to development? Thumbs way up to the BMS team!

I fly SF2 most of the time now. The level of commitment is casual and fun. It has just amount of complexity to make it fun. Wish we could update it like the BMS and FreeFalcon teams did. SF2 is holding up well but showing its age. Can you imagine an updated SF2? Not talking about complexity...TW got that nailed - updating just the game and graphics engine to take advantage of the current technology. It would be awesome! I think BMS had a rough spot during the transition, but 435 is looking pretty good. Configuring the controllers is the most challenging task in these sims. It seemed easier this time. But still have to program all those settings. Then, remember those along with SF2, DCS, Sturmovik, Elite, war thunder....whew!. I sort of defaulted to SF2. I still boot up falcon, install the updates, configure it (seemed easier this time?) just enough to fly around and take in the scenery. Falcon will always have a place on my shelf. For me, SF2 is more about dogfighting and bombing...DCS, and to some level, Falcon, is more about flying than fighting...there is fun in all of them.

Nice article, last thing we want to do is create toy looking versions of real things. Unless that is the intent. :)

So...in a side seat config, do British pilots sit on the left or the right?

Let's hope he started modding and got carried away like "we" all do...LOLOLOL...Maybe it will be better than promised...positive thoughts...see where this goes... :)

Yeah, I can do that...I did it through paypal, let me see if I can...Thanks! =V=

https://store.thirdwire.com/project_sf2_complete.htm

Damn! I bought the Windows 10 version and now the complete version is available again with free copy of the Window 10 version + DLCs....@$#&*@(#$)(@!!! :(

Some truly amazing people on this site!! Thanks!

Found it! Thanks DaddyAirplanes... Decal001] MeshName=Fuselage ---------------- actual node it goes on. limit 3 tga per (your viewer make this sooooo much easier for the likes of me to find this out) DecalLevel=2 ---------------------------- 4 different levels. O ties to nation, 1 ties to unit, 2 is serialized and unique to each aircraft, 4 is kills iirc. 2 is normally used for serial numbers but can be used for individual schemes/camoflage or nose arts DecalFacing=RIGHT ----------------- self explanitory. all basic directions included TOP, FRONT, LEFT etc FilenameFormat=B-52G_89/DiegoGarcia/D/FuseR naming convention. game starts looking where guruu pointed out and does not need included in this line. the D folder in this is not really needed, but a habit amongst the senior modders that i picked up Position=-2.75,0.0 Rotation=0.0 Scale=48.00 ----------------------------------------------- not usually this big. can be either side of the decimal point, mine are often huge due to a tga covering the whole fuselage side or wing. but one could make a bigger tga with high detail and scale below 1.0 to place on model DecalMaxLOD=3 --------------------- Wrench can explain better than me, but iirc has to do with distance visible biggest issue often encountered is typo's in the fileformat and position being off model. DecalMaxLOD can cause some issues too, again not THE expert on that. I usually default to =3 on most of my work. the ini can be huge. the displayed project is already at 130+ entries and I am going to add two more showing the EVS in better detail personally i prefer tga for many markings to on skin. it seems to show detail better in some instances than skins (esp when the original skin is smaller; 512 rather than 2048 or 4096) one other trick that can be done with 2 level decals is to have a base decal and then one or two specials. example thisDecal as a base then thisDecal000 as a CAG bird. the other however many will just use that default. HOWEVER, i found with the tankers i did that more than two individuals caused issues. i wound up having to create a tga for every single one and even then there were oddities past 10 aircraft loaded. hope this is useful information. just some observations from a guy that plays quite a bit with the tga file.

I know enough to get by, but digging deeper for better understanding... Can someone point to or let me know exactly what these fields do in the decal.ini file? I think I sorta figure them out by trial and error...but looking for some clearer info... DecalLevel= DecalMaxLOD= Many Thanks! =V=

Tick-Tock...yea...any news anyone?

Hello all, Is there a list of valid default missions somewhere? Strike, CAP...etc? And their corresponding LOADOUT entries? =V=