pyromaniac4002

An in-game refresh texture option is not an adequate solution. ModelViewer has more necessary functionality than just displaying the texture on the 3D model, if it isn't working or ED doesn't make an equivalent replacement community livery making will still be dead.

You nor any other ED representative has said anything about any changes that will make community-made liveries possible again after this well understood decision to destroy it. No one has even directly responded to our concerns about the end of livery making. This is as close as anyone from ED has gotten, an offhand remark to put me in my place. If there is something, tell us what it is like we've been asking from the beginning of this thread.

ED has never been particularly supportive of community contributions to their products that they can't monetize directly. I've been deeply involved in running servers and making missions and liveries for well over a decade in DCS and it's not unfair to say that much of the work I've seen go in to making the best experiences I've had in DCS has been done in spite of ED rather than with their genuine support. They released the template because they already have it finished for themselves and it won't cost anything to make it a public download. Maybe even someone desperate enough to put some paint on an F-5 will trial-and-error their way in to finding out how to name things and what to put in the description.lua to get the most rudimentary implementation of a skin one day, and will subject themselves to hours and hours of opening and closing DCS to use the mission editor as their severely crippled model viewer.. For the rest of us, the complete lack of acknowledgement of the issue for months says everything.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/filter/type-is-skin/unit-is-f-5e/apply/ Have you taken a look in here for any F-5 remaster skins?

Delivering the template without any solution for the broken model viewer/encryption situation introduced with this module is useless. Since no one on ED's side has even indicated their recognition of the problem, I can only assume that there are no plans to restore this most basic and essential tool that livery makers have been using to add value to ED's products for decades. Been waiting and following up on this for months by now for any sign of a solution. If this is the way it's going to be, there simply won't be community-made liveries in DCS anymore.

Team: 104th Phoenix VFBS Aircraft: All Team Roster: Stuge, Wiley, Tiger, Jake, West, Octuplefire, Pyromaniac, others possible Play Times: 1700z-1900z (match start times, accounting for 1-2 hours duration) Logo:

Squadron: 104th Phoenix VFBS Timezone: 1800z-2000z Aircraft: F-15, F-16, F-18 Maps: Caucasus, Persian Gulf, Syria

We would like to add 104th_Maverick as a standby F/A-18C (SC) pilot, please and thank you.

F-15E (A/A) 104th_Fallen 104th_Tiger 104th_Pyromaniac

Yeppers. Edit: Soon as I post it's back up.

pyromaniac4002 - F/A-18C I can fly... I'm a pilot.

Just a heads-up, my RIO F99th-Kocrachon won't be able to make it because he's busy cleaning up after the Texas weather situation. F99th-Alphaskoom or someone else may be able to take his place if it isn't a problem.

F99th-pyromaniac4002 - Red F-14B

F99th-pyromaniac4002 UH-1 Blue

An 80s F-16 in the USAF wouldn’t have Fox 1 capability anyways, they would be slinging Sidewinders like the original Lightweight Fighter concept. So far as I know only a handful of F-16s in US service got Sparrow capability with the Air Defense Fighter variant for the Air National Guard and I don’t think that even happened until very late 80s or early 90s. All that to say, it’s actually completely reasonable to keep the Fox 3s out even if the Vipers are left with heaters only, they’re only going to be outranged by a couple miles and it’s pretty easy to see and defend a Fox 1 at max range. It’ll be cool to have the dogfighters complimenting the longer range stuff. I think that’s the best way to move forward in light of the problem we’re dealing with.

F99th-pyromaniac4002 F-14B Pilot/F99th-Kocrachon F-14B RIO Looking forward to it!

Yeah that's much closer to what I've got.. Thanks.

I guess this is the right place to post this: Been happening off and on, this was a particularly horrible one and I happened to catch it on a recording.

Total nonsense. If you want the product but can't handle delays or quality control problems, buy it when it's in the state you find acceptable; buying it and whining about problems does very little to deliver your message to the people who are in a position to address them. If ED has to close up shop because you took responsibility for your end of the transaction, so be it. Otherwise, bottle up the feelings of anguish and disappointment and grow a tumor like the rest of us.

Wasn’t sure if I could make it, but if there’s still room— F99th-pyromaniac4002 - F-14B RIO for F99th-Mataman

F99th-pyromaniac4002 F-5E :gun_smilie:

Excellent Red Flag Rumble, thank you 104th for hosting as always! And congratulations to you communist Fishbed bastards on the 2-0 win! If I may offer one piece of feedback, I would suggest that Slmod be removed from the equation in the future. To me it seems the design objective regarding who's dead and who gets to come back is based around realism, people who (most regrettably) tally up a teamkill (or teamhit, I believe there was also at least one kick for that) and go on to live with the shame are not dead and completely capable of flying back to recover their aircraft and pilot. But of course Slmod steps in and artificially removes them from the situation, and at least in my situation I was not allowed to come back in afterwards despite my not being in combat at the time I was kicked in the first round. TKs are lame and penalties are a totally reasonable response, but in an event like this I don't think it belongs. It's a penalty two-for-one to the entire team, and it seemed like a pretty decisive factor in the first round contributing to blue's loss. And of course, they're always gonna happen; in my case I was firing a Sidewinder at an enemy, at the time I pressed and held pickle I had solid tone and no friendlies in my field of view, by the time the missile released a friendly flew from under my nose where I couldn't see him (I was in a right hand turn tracking the target) and passed between the target and myself with full afterburners and lured the missile away. I don't think I could have reasonably avoided that outcome, so if we were going for the full-realism angle I think my court of inquiry wouldn't hang me completely out to dry, but Slmod did it anyway and took the whole team along for the ride. EDIT: I should also note that I don't believe there was any discussion of being kicked for TK and disallowed from rejoining during the briefing on the rules, and as it happened it caught a lot of people out. If that's intended behavior, please be sure to mention it in the next briefing. Looking forward to the next one!

F99th-pyromaniac4002 F-5E-3

F99th-pyromaniac4002 F-5E-3 Please and thank you.