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    MiG29A camo\skins

    in DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Mach3DS said:

    Can I ask a legitimate question here? I'm not trying to bait anyone, or be a jerk.  I'm obviously extremely disappointed with this decision as it's opening an entire host of issues which were clearly not previously thought through.   

    Question:  Who exactly is pushing for this encryption of models and textures? 

    Surely it's NOT the devs, right? 

    They should be fully aware that it does not protect your IP. 

    This seems like a knee-jerk reaction by someone else who is completely unaware of how the sim software interacts with the PC hardware. 

    This is literally only causing a problem for legitimate customers and good faith community members.  You all know that right? Those tech savvy enough who could do it before are still tech savvy enough to still do it.

    Please take this as a frustrated but good faith inquiry from a long time supporter, customer, tester, content creator and texture artist.  It's become so astonishing to me that it's gone down this road. 

    You will literally KILL livery making for your sim. 

    This is taking a generational step backward.  That's not hyperbole. 

    Again, I earnestly plead with ED to reconsider this ineffective IP theft measure, and just walk it back.  The livery/texture community will be greatly affected by this over arching policy decision.  Why? Because you're making it impractical and extremely painful to down right impossible to continue in this hobby with your future products. And frankly if this is how it's going to be in the future, then I've come to the end of my contributing rope.  It's not reasonable and it's down right disrespectful to those who put it so much time FOR FREE to make your community vibrant and diverse with content - to ask them to spend 5x more time on something that will ultimately be much worse in quality.

    I bought the F-5E and the remastered version. I've purchased most product until now.  I have been more than happy to support DCS.  This makes me want to completely reconsider my future purchases and support.

    Respectfully, 


    A long time customer.

    NineLine answered that on the first page

    MIG-29K

    in DCS Core Wish List

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Sniex said:

    I won't lie, but it feels like ED is kind of neglecting the Russian Navy. I think an update or at least a new module could really help bring it to life a bit more.

    Well they got a lot on their plate, so it may happen and maybe somebody will focus on that, or not. Unfortunately gotta wait and see. At least we can wish for it now.

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    MIG-29K

    in DCS Core Wish List

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, Sniex said:

    It could be like the Su-33, just an aircraft with FC would be nice to have, F/A-18C F-14A/B vs. Su-33 MiG-29K

    not to mention that in FC2 the MiG-29K was

    I agree, I don't need (or really require) a full fedelity version, just something so I can fly around and shoot stuff, and fly around and stuff.

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    MiG29A camo\skins

    in DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum

    Posted

    Pretty much, so unless (which I doubt they would), they would do such a thing, or come up with a plugin (if that's possible) for .edm, so they'd have to figure that out. I mean a program that they come up with would of course work, but I'm sure they're a bit busy as it is.

    MiG29A camo\skins

    in DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum

    Posted · Edited by EricJ

    37 minutes ago, aaronwhite said:

    I definitely understand why ED wants to encrypt things, and I don't think the encryption itself is bad or anything. It makes it easier for ED to protect their products and prevent them from being snatched up and used in other games or anything like that. 

    I just really hope making the model viewer work with the encrypted files is a priority as well. I can't remember if I mentioned it here or in another thread, but I would love if there was a way to use a tool like Substance Painter too. I imagine that could help speed the painting process up by a ton, assuming it works the way I imagine it does. Unfortunately, since I don't have a way to really use it with DCS or Il-2's models, I've never had an excuse to really get it and try it out for skin creation. But if I could just paint on the actual 3D model and not have to play the "Let's line up this straight line that's rendered slightly differently between these two different texture files" ever again, I certainly wouldn't be mad about it.

    Substance Painter (I used Deeppaint with another simulator though, but that was like 2004 or 5 after Iraq, or before..) is a good program to use for skins, but I still stick with the ModelViewer workflow, which I'm sure everybody else does, it would save a lot of time ane work. Anyway if they modify ModelViewer to read encrypted files and allow for texture work, then they can protect their content whilst allowing for more content (skins at least) to be created, and it will allow them to keep their privacy and other legal issues, so I agree with you on that. Whether or not they do that remains to be seen of course, but it wouldn't be a bad idea and we all win too.

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    MiG29A camo\skins

    in DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, aaronwhite said:

    My history on here probably shows as much, but I love throwing together fun skins for the various modules we get. Especially since it's impossible for ED or the various third parties to conceivably cover all of the different liveries out there (not that our hard drives would want them to anyway) and it's really a lot of fun, even if it turns into hours of frustration trying to line up two pixels on the weird wing joins of the F-14 to get a stupid line right.

    I'm really hoping if the models are going to be archived going forward, which I understand the point of from ED's perspective, that they are going to at least update the model viewer before that become the norm, so we can at least continue working.

    Even on my relatively beefy computer, having to run multiple high resolution templates in Photoshop with the potentially hundreds of layers on each one, while opening DCS and having to load a mission just to go "Oh, no, that line is still 3 pixels too far off" is really time consuming and frustrating, to the point of being enough to kill my enjoyment and make me not want to do it at all. 

    I've thrown together skins for the F-14, MiG-21, Mi-24 and the Ka-50, and I would love to have the MiG-29 added to the list with all of the great variety we would have doing some of the IRIAF skins and the really interesting weathering you can see on current Syrian Air Force examples. But if it become a chore, I just don't see myself putting in the time.

    That video really is full of them. This looks damn near like a real life photo, which would have been hard to even imagine back when I was playing Flanker 2.5 or the original Lock On back in high school. I thought the graphics back then were mind blowing. I still remember seeing the DCS update about the new Mi-24 model and textures back in Lock On and having my mind blown that the tires actually looked bulged from the weight of the thing. null

     

    I've done a few skins too and I mean is it a loss if the new MIG-29A is encrypted? In the long run no, but I'll be like "WTF?" and so on, so there's that. Overall I can't effect how it's handled, but I do hope they don't encrypt it, they'd be shooting themselves in the foot content-wise, given the amount of skins on the User Files in the first place. I mean that's a new model, new textures, new template, hopefully at least.

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    German and East-German liveries

    in MiG-29

    Posted

    I mean that's a valid request, but let's see if they don't encrypt the module first, then we can talk about new liveries. I mean I'm angling for some Fictional ones, and a real world one, but given the F-5 issue, let's wait and see before we get too excited.

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    AGM-88G AARGM-ER

    in Wish List

    Posted

    4 hours ago, DSplayer said:

    Module developers, even ED, can't just manifest something out of nowhere. The F-35 that is in service today doesn't even have HARM or AARGM integrated yet. With absolutely no information to work on unlike other instances, ED can't just make the largest assumptions to put the HARM or AARGM on our F-35.

    This

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    A-10/A/C/CII skins

    in A-10C/A-10C II

    Posted

    No problem. No the A-10s all have the same texture setup, so you can use them interchangeably. Which makes it nice if you want to pimp a skin or whatnot on your ride. Anyway good to hear it's good to go.

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    L-39 Skins

    in L-39

    Posted · Edited by EricJ

    15 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

     

    But I have not seen these skins before on User Files, did you originally share them on a different website?

    They're on the CombatAce site. It's a long and sordid story that will break a forum rule, so I'll just keep to "a long story" for the moderators to ignore. But I'm going through them as they were done years ago, and I wanted them back for people to enjoy. I'm going to do new content, but don't know when, so I'm passing the time re-establishing myself on here and the main DCS site

    A fictional Arctic scheme for the C

    https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3344785/

    L-39C Arctic Scheme.jpg

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    L-39 Skins

    in L-39

    Posted

    I think I should note through a long story, that I'm merely re-uiploading skins. I might be helping somebody out with some skins or not, but overall these are re-uploads, not current work or whatnot.

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    MiG29A camo\skins

    in DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum

    Posted

    7 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

    Not if it's encrypted like the F-5E. Well, you might get some simple, run of the mill skins but not any good quality ones since all of the experienced / talented skinners will refuse to touch it. However, I did pre-purchase it as a gesture of support for ED and am crossing my fingers for a good outcome for the Livery community. Waiting to hear what @BIGNEWY and @NineLine have to say about it.

    Yeah I skinned the F-5 for somebody years ago, and I think it was before they encrypted the models, so I did the work and moved on, and took a break due to not enough hard drive space., Now that I got a better laptop with more space, I can get back into it now, so that's good. As for the Mig-29 agreed, it'd be a real shame if they didn't encrypt it though, as I'd like to mess with it myself.

    L-39 Skins

    in L-39

    Posted · Edited by EricJ

    22 minutes ago, Lt.Turbo said:

    Excellent work. A GDR skin for the CWG map is needed if you still have your paint brushes out.

    I decided to do one but there's already a skin present for the DDR scheme with the East German Air Force skin already present in the base files.

    223750_6.jpg

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