EricJ

Just a minor update I got from Alfa on his work:

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/c-124_globemaster_ii.pl

BrzI back in the Flanker 2.51 days (Or was it Klatuu?) came up with strategies with the MIG-29 and I came up with a few using SARH missiles against the Tomcat, so it's not invincible, you just gotta know the angles ;) I mean I would for LOMAC, but since the R-27RE is borked, no way. But as you saw, it's possible. But great movie BTW, great first song :thumbup:

One thing you gotta love about renders, is that they can be beautiful sometimes..

Additionally hitman_214th, if you do have his name, PM me it and I'll look it up on AKO if you don't have access. Plus his unit may help too..

I saw it yesterday and must say I was impressed, the low level flying of the mountains was the best part :thumbsup:

Probably both, just like Alfa said, the F/A-18F is used both for the Fleet Replacement Squadrons as well as combat squadrons. The Russians just said "hey that'd be a good idea to give it combat capability". So they get a naval strike aircraft that's more capable than it's progenitor.

Well AKO if you got it, other than that not sure, unless you know his unit... As far as the poly reduction... no it wasn't me really, I got a project started for Wings of Europe, and I sent it to one person, who did all the work as far as reducing polys and sorts, I have no real experience, and the most was back then doing guns... so a guy named "capun" did it, not me. Yeah I like the model myself, but as said, Mesh Factory did it, so it was really the best choice. And yes, it does have bump mapping, there should be a generic texture (I don't think Wings Over Europe has bump mapping either, or I highly doubt it..) associated with the optimized version so whenever somebody can map a texture canvas, we can attack it when it comes to that point...

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Well check your PM ;) I figure the work you do can be helped along (texture map, etc) by somebody else, kinda like a project :). I'll have to send it along and you find out, I'm clueless but it's not a low poly one... I've been to Hood before (98-02) so I'm sure it hasn't changed much, and people I've talked to say it hasn't much, so it's nothing new unfortunately. Then again familiarity isn't bad either :)

They have to be predesignated in the Mission Editor or they won't work.

Yeah I've already done the testing earlier, and quite frankly haven't been too interested in getting back into it... Thing is IK is right, I'm fixing to move to Fort Hood late next month, so while I do got plenty of free time, I'm just hanging out for a bit, and don't want to commit myself to it when email contact or internet access won't be as constant for awhile. Once I get more of an idea I may ask again, and then again, I didn't do as much as most believe. Some procrastination and a deployment does it to you, so I kinda just fell out of the loop of things. I maintain contact (spotty) with some people, but overall I'm just like most other posters, just another guy. USAFMTL has bugged me about it, but I told him the same on the issue. Then again I don't know if my NDA is still good or not and as mentioned, haven't bothered asking either, but I act as it's still valid, and quite confident it is. But thanks for the recommendation :thumbsup:

Yeah no problems man, and he's been on convalescent leave for awhile, and recently got a month extra, so he's chillin like a real villian. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the file is in MAX2 format, so conversion shouldn't be too difficult.... :) So seriously if anybody's interested, PM me, and I'll send it over. There's a lot of issues with somebody buying a model and the issues associated wiht it. So far I got MAX9 trial version, and since the plugin for LO is for MAX7, even if I had some skillz (which isn't much right now, still shaking some of the rust off) I wouldn't be able to insert it, which is why I'm asking. I've done plenty of modelling, just that software constraints has me halted.

He's doing allright, he's had some pins inserted his back so he's just hanging out at home. But.... I think we're getting confused on skins.... I don't remember an ACU patterned skin ever done by me, somebody else I think?.... Oh no the digital pattern was done by somebody else, you can get it on the virtual JaboG site, I don't remember who did that one since I really don't have the patience for some reason for digital patterns...

Yeah it's crap and USAFMTL was very clear on that (and it's of course obvious) so the pics that Marcfighter posted are definitely better. As far as actual flight it's right there with the Tomcat and Su-33 so I'm set on the current settings. The new model is going to require a new FM but more than likely I'll have to set it as it is now, as really it just needs a much better model.

:D It's not actually MARPAT (markings are actually that of VF(A)-213 "Black Lions").... it's pretty much the same pattern applied to the Tomcats (Dark Ghost Grey), and looks alot better in LOMAC than in WoE, much better rendering. But yeah, I changed after the Ubi Forums. I figure a new name, face so to speak everywhere else would help. I'm still a moderater there, but haven't been there in ages. I figured the hell I caused, I should become another common poster again, sorta to humble myself back, but I kept the old handle when I logged into Combatace long ago... But yeah I figured I'd just lurk as I'm really waiting for BS to come around to maybe get back into the tutorial stuff. So much is expected out of this one, so I'm on a wait-and-see approach. Yes, the model is in .max format and yes, if there's any plane I'd replace my beloved Su-33 with, is this. I love the Tomcat, but after a bit of flying with it in WoE (USAFMTL sent me a real crappy one) it's been my A+ A2G aircraft so it should be different in LOMAC, but IMO better in some cases due to the better FM than the less fidelity one in WoE, and skinning opportunities... And yes Disso I think the -F looks alot better, I've always liked two-seaters in some cases, and this one qualifies. There's an E also on TurboSquid, but right now one thing at a time I guess.. As for the stage... it's in .max format. The screenie previous was one for Combatace, as initially I was intending to put that in Wings Over Europe after no joy here. Well one thing leads to another, and somebody shows me a better model (much cleaner than the one here, but that's after being modified for WOE) so I go with him. I got the original file from TurboSquid so this one is more like a "hey would you mind?". It's paid for, and just taking up space.

haha that's a good point :D, thanks!

Erm yeah, I bought this model, not actually did it unfortunately... so.....

Well I did.... so anybody interested?

A good suggestion is to never delete your .cmd files. Backup backup them if you do anything. Never know when you may need to re put back stuff in....

Man if there's one thing I enjoy about these forums, ask one question, get five hundred replies... moving on... :thumbup:

This is what I'm working on, of course the texture only :D It's not too bad, unfortunately I don't have a real one to go off of, but I enjoy flying it :)

Yes, and that's why I'm starting to play Wings Over Europe. Sure yeah okay, the FM isn't the best (as well as alot of things compared to LOMAC), but least when I strap myself in an F-14, I have an F-14 cockpit and F-14 this and that. Sure there's limitations, but really, sometimes you just gotta do something else.

Actually Viper101, if you check out Airliners.net, you can see quite a few A-10s with sports emblems on them (one of my reference pics has the Red Sox emblem, along with other bits prominently on them). Matter of fact there's a couple old reference files I used from TwoBobs for one of my CAW-Carrier Ops that one F-14 had "GO NAVY" while the other had "BEAT ARMY" so it appears every so often on various military aircraft. Generally speaking, the military is about competition, so naturally for sports teams to sometimes appear on aircraft or other items isn't too surprising, since sports by it's nature is compettitive.

Okay, I figured as much but had to ask anyways, thanks! ;)