Nyghtfall

Nice cockpit. Why not load it into lod-viewer?

Wouldn't it be better to actually post your edits here, so others can use them, if they wish to? At the moment your post has no useful information at all...

Just use an F-16 and say to your friend it's an A-4 with some body kit attached. Or create a mission were the Scooter has a realistic chance....2 vs. 2 with early Missiles (AIM-9B and the like) or something like that. ;) But your M2.6-idea is horrible. :P Don't take it personally though. P.S. In this thread is a similar approach, but not that far off as yours.

Have you tried to backup the old options.ini and let the game create a new one with the new graphics? If it works, just copy over the non-graphics stuff to the new ini.

This looks nice! Don't forget the small numbers on the ruddertip.

I know, that's tricky. That's why I made a template some time ago covering such things like tilted, staggered, staggered+tilted, different fonts, etc. :) Here are the decals: 3xx tilted without shadow (300-324) 3xx_tilted_all.7z 3xx tilted with small white shadow (300-324) 3xx_whiteshadow_tilted_all.7z Just say, if you need more.

I only have 4xx with red shadow tilted and 3xx with white shadow non-tilted, but I have a template for different modexstyles and can do them later today.

You could start learning Blender. Doing Fakepilot-stuff helps getting into it. Finding the correct position and size is easy enough with mue's LOD-viewer and exporting works with his Blender-exporter. Not exactly easy-mode, but it opens up options.

and Kuwaiti single-seaters (based on A-4K-model with ini-edits and additional/corrected stuff)

...or you could simply set the type to inactive to get rid of it in SF2. Instrument[xxx]=Mirror01 .... [Mirror01] Type=inactive NodeName=mirror_mounting

Kuwaiti 2-seater

Looks interesting. Too bad we need the 3D-files for the cockpit, though.

Getting there,

Good to see more people starting to play around with Blender. I learn it myself mostly by trial-and-error. Doing smaller objects and fakepilot-parts has helped me a lot to learn basic things of 3D-modelling and it was and often enough still is a big struggle to get things the way I want them to be. Finding helpful tips and shortcuts to functions was a big help and makes life _a lot_ easier, when you know them. So here are some things and infos that maybe help you guys, that are complete noobs in 3D-business, like myself: Feel free to add more tips, hint and useful infos. They are always welcome! Tips: - set units to metric in your project, so you can see actual measurements of your objects. - useful tools from the tools-section include * subdivide -> split edge or face in 2 or more sections * loop cut and slide -> have a cube and cut it into 2 parts along a loop, you can then slide the cut along the object - remove double vertices: when editing stuff, you sometimes get 2 vertices that are on top of each other. Those should be removed, as they affect shading and other stuff. When in edit-mode, in 3D-view-window, select "Mesh"->"Clean Up"->"Remove Doubles". Mapping: - recalculate normals -> blender tries to find the correct direction of faces (inside/outside). Flipped faces may result in visible holes. - smooth your objects to get rid of hard edges --> "Shading/UVs" in leftside menu of 3D-view-window --> smooth faces, edges, vertices - if a vertex/edges/face does not need to be smoothed, select it and hit flat/sharp/sharp - i recommend also enable autosmooth: properties-window (right side bottom) -> select the triangle-icon and under "normals" select autosmooth and an angle (60° works mostly for me, but sometimes have to be adjusted) - unwrap-menu->unwrap: works best, if you have marked seams on your model. marked seams are the edges, the model will be cut to get the 2d mapping of your 3d object. - unwrap-menu->project from view: works best for complex objects. Attention though: if you do this for example for a cube, the top and bottom-surfaces are just a line in your 3d-view, as those face are rotated 90° to your view. the mapping of those areas is stretched in your final object and can lead to visual distortions. Shortcuts: - Numlock 1 : front view - CTRL + Numlock 1 : back view - Numlock 2 : rotate view horizontal in steps in one direction - Numlock 3 : left view - CTRL + Numlock 3 : right view - Numlock 4 : rotate view vertical in steps in one direction - Numlock 5 : View changed between Orthographic-view (like Drawings) and Perspective view (like Photos) - Numlock 6 : rotate view vertical in steps in opposite direction as "4" - Numlock 7 : top view - CTRL + Numlock 7 : Bottom view - Numlock 8 : rotate view horizontal in steps in the opposite direction as "2" editing (if the key is followed by x, y or z it only affects the according axis. you can also give a value by typing in 2.0 for example): - TAB : changes between Object- and Edit-mode - Shift + s : set cursor to a certain location or move selection to cursor --> useful for scaling, etc. - a : select everything (in edit-mode: vertices/edges/faces, in object-mode: objects) - e : extrude selection --> for example start with a circle and extrude it to get cylinder - s : scaling, "s x 2.0" for example means you scale up the x-axis of your object by factor 2.0 - g : select a vertex, edge or face and move it. - r : rotate --> you should set the cursor with "Shift + s" to set the center of your rotation - CTRL + SHIFT + b : create rounded corners from a vertex or edge. mousewheel changes number of segments ...to be continued...

When in Object-mode all 3 scale values of an object should always be 1.0. You can scale your object in edit-mode to the proper size (s key optional followed by x,y or z for the axis) It also helped me to set the units used to metric. So you always know how tall or long something is.

I also have an updated A-4KU/TA-4KU in the works. Although probably mostly optical updated.

As expected, the fault was on my end. It works now as intended! Let me thank you again mue...this Exporter is a HUGE timesaver for me! If we ever get a "Modders Walk of Fame", you are the first one to get a star!

Ok, good to know. Thanks.

Maybe I should just release what I have done so far, rather than trying to finish all skins for the next 5 years. :) new VA-46 Clansmen.