Highwayman-Ed

Yes it is. You're welcome. Now that you have it installed, it's just a case if tweaking the SweetFX settings file to your liking, the one you're using now is directly from my system and the preferences that I have in place. Personally I love how dark it is but I must admit that it makes finding your way around a dark cockpit to start up IRL daytime a little tricky.

Here is a JSGME format version including PeterP's HDR Mod and Mustang's clouds. Just unzip this into your JSGME Mods folder and enable it.

If the flight model can be done properly, Harrier all the way... I don't care which, I'd even take the GR3

Cool Idea Devrim I played around trying to do this a while back to try and get a Russian accented English ATC voice but gave up on it, I'll be sure to give this a go :)

Thanks for the mod, in combination with SweetFX thanks to PeterP's post, the visuals are stunning!

Thanks for introducing me to this Peter, loving the beauty that this brings to the terrain!

First post updated with the latest links. You will notice some repetition in cities, you will notice some overlapping in places, and you will notice occasionally that there are car parks on 45 degree slopes and some with rivers running through them. This is the nature of how DCS lays down the textures and there really isn't much I can do about it, and it's why I haven't included more details or proper roads in them. See the shots below for some examples from a summer morning flight near where the KA-50 quick start mission begins. I'm still looking at the town textures, but they're more complex to work with and I may never be satisfied with how they work enough to publish anything, but I'll keep tinkering...

I've done some more work tonight on adding details to the tiles, and there is definitely a fine line between a little and too much detail with the way that the tiles are placed in game. These screenshots are taken in some of the larger villages, well away from the cities, and I'm tweaking them to make them work better where I can where overlaps occur. For now, here are a few early morning spring shots.

Just a little update on some of the Phase II textures that I'm working on now I have a foundation... No ETA on a final version of these yet...

I agree, I might just put the textures in on their own for those who don't use JSGME, I'm just trying to make it as simple as possible.

For those who don't know what it is: Zimmerit

Please find the download link to the release version in the first post I highly recommend using this with Rocky's trees and DTAC Terrain or Toby23's Low & Slow mods. Installation; My mod is in JSGME format for easy installation, so just unpack it into your JSGME _Mods folder, add the files from the scenery mods above if you wish to the relevant seasons 'LandTexturesSeasonOther zip file overwriting the files inside and then enable it. Release Notes; 1. I have only modified the villages in this release, the town textures used for the cities is very difficult to work with due to the way that the DCS engine places the texture files and overlaps them in game, and given the recent announcements that Wags has made about the EDGE engine, any further work I do may become irrelevant in the not too distant future. 2. Lighting at night emphasises the dirt roads a little more than I'd like, but does not reflect upon the underlying textures that I've allowed to bleed through in the villages. I've worked around this to some extent, but it's still a small compromise. 3. The download is 540MB and does contain parts that aren't strictly necessary in order to make it simple to install with JSGME, but I'm also pretty new to creating large scale mods like this, so I'm sure that there maybe more efficient ways of doing this. 4. I haven't done any hard standings or car parks in this version, pending item #5 5. There will be no further development until more information is forthcoming about the release of EDGE and what impact it may have on the terrain. Winter at noon Spring at 5am Summer at 1am

That's almost the point, you're not supposed to see much and they blend with the underlying terrain more rather than sticking out. You're dead right that they're a pain to work with as they don't always appear the same way when they're placed depending on the terrain features. The textures are under the trees, the dirt roads and under the light poles, the rest is alpha that lets the underlying noise file bleed through. Phase II is to add parking areas, hard standings and the like in localised areas around the larger individual buildings where it makes sense, but this is the hardest part due to how they are aligned.

Yep, it's on the plan to add these type of details around some of the larger buildings, but it's not possible to add proper linked roads, parks, pavements, parking areas, etc to create a fully built tile due to the way that the tiles fit together. It's fine when the tiles align nicely, but occasionally around the map you'll find some that overlap each other quite a lot at odd angles, but I am working on ways to minimize the impact when it occurs and this is primarily why you only see short windy dirt roads and not straight tarmac ones. The towns and larger industrial areas still have some of those features as is at the moment though that I kept from the original textures, here are a couple of examples: I'm currently working on a couple of fixes that we've spotted on the 229th testing, specifically with how the lighting works at night which I expect to take a couple of days to fix for all of the seasons (28 tiles per season!). I'm also re-touching some of the dirt roads that I'm not happy with as well, but I'm hoping to still submit this first version to ED by the weekend.

Effectively, yes I removed the existing textures containing the 2D village textures and replaced them with new ones with tree bases, dirt roads and some other small details which align with the structures. As for how it looks when 10-20 should appear from a distance, the second and third images of each version show approximately 30 of these village tiles together.

All files, links and screenshots updated, all taken with Diveplane's Shadows, Mustang's Clouds, PeterP's HDR and SweetFX 1.4 with PeterP's settings in Spring. Recommended for Helicopter Pilots; My original version with blended textures from Toby23's Low'n'Slow and Enhanced Terrain Mod & Rocky's Trees here (321MB) in JSGME format; or Toby23's Low'n'Slow & Rocky's DTAC Trees with this version here (392MB) Recommended for Fighter Jocks; Rocky's DTAC Terrain & Trees with this version here (842MB) or Toby23's Enhanced Terrain & Rocky's Trees with this version here (341MB) or Foxbeard's Terrain & Rocky's DTAC Trees with this version - Removed due to claims of Plagiarism (T@ker -> Foxbeard) All versions are JSGME and 1.2.7 compatible First, here is the stock DCS without any Terrain mods: Here is what the mod looks like with my version: Here is what the mod looks like with Toby23's Low'n'Slow: Here with Rocky's DTAC Terrain & Trees: Here it is with Toby23's Enhanced Terrain Here it is with Foxbeard's Terrain Mod

+1 even if it's only AI, I'd love to see this in game

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Want it, Want it, Want it!

Thanks, it appeared not long after your post.

I'm going to jump on the the sale for the Mi-8 and I've just gone to the store to purchase it. It shows as $19.99, but when I click on it to buy, the price is still $49.99. It's the 20th here in Australia, and on GMT now, is the sale starting in the US time zones?

I think we all knew this was coming, Wags even posted the day that the Steam sale started to say that there would be an ED sale coming soon and that it would cover the entire store... I've bought everything so far at full price except the Mustang, and that's really because it's not my type of plane (don't hate me), and the same can be said of the Mi-8. That said, Belsimtek/ED will be getting $20 from me that they wouldn't have been getting before, and I dare say that the same is true for a lot of the DCS community, therefore, more sales... But I feel your pain having experienced it with the Huey. The real danger here though is that this pattern is repeating itself, and in the long term ED will see more and more people holding out for the sales to pickup the airframes unless they simply must have on launch day. F-86... yeah, I'll pick it up on sale, F-18...? Take my money now, I'll pay double to reserve the first download!

Nice one yet again Mustang :)

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Just a heads up that Steam have changed the discount available on the Huey. I looked about 2 hours ago for a friend of mine and it was US$9.99 with the 80% discount, but it's been reduced to a 10% discount now and is $44.99