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Thanks guys, This was posted on the FB pages... Hey I want to show you guys a few things, when this model was being done, a friend of mine and myself did a lot of research to find out about the elusive F-15E cockpit. I honestly couldn't do with out him, but we managed to find information on the FLCS, Rudder pedal assembly, and even the ballistic gas Lines used for the ejection sequence of the seat and canopy. This pic shows some of the detail we put in this mesh and with the DCS engine and what ED/TFC has to offer us in the ability to create, we hope we can make a very real and beautiful weapons delivery platform.

Hello Gents, Just starting off the DCS Wednesday here at Razbam, and wanted to send off a little screen shot of what is on my screen. More to come,

Hey Guys, To clarify I was talking FC3, yes please don't spin any rumors off this. I am sure we will all be flying that new F-15C in FC3, I know I will. I was just trying to use an example that I want to make sure it "looks" like the same studio did both aircraft, Nothing more.

Thanks guys, Yeah I have been picking apart how we are going to do all of the great effects, at least on the artistic side. Coding is well in hand by Larry, but the little things such as the illumination and details, of course we are going to remap various items. We still have a lot of work ahead, but we have Nick, one of the best texture artist in the business. He will really add some wear and tear to the over project and I am sure you guys are going to love his work. Ultimately I want you to be able to go from the F-15C that is coming out from ED/TFC to our F-15E and swear it was done by the same studio.

Just a few renders of the cockpit work going on with the F-15E

Thanks Everyone, Really appreciate the compliments.

This is what we will be working on this DCS Wednesday with the F-15E project. We have a few things we want to adjust and add more polygons too. It's already very detailed even has the pressure seal and underlying structure that is the strength of the canopy. So we'll see you then.

Yes, sorry about that. I used the term tessellation to apply within 3DSMAX as a modifier. I was referring to the polygon edges with round areas such as the canopy bow. I will redo a lot of the 3D model to have an overall smoother look and to match the F-15C artistic impressions that will ED/TFC will release. As for the engine being DX11 that allows that form of tessellation, that is on the Studio, but remember that is going to be another function the GPU will have to perform and will cause an impact on FPS. What game developers have to do is put on a magic show, we generally bake in textures and build the model to look the best it can with out impact to performance. So the GPU/CPU has to do as little as possible to make it look good in the fast pace rendering of the game's engine. Razbam and Metal2Mesh are 2 separate companies. We have teamed up together to work on this DCS Title.

I absolutely agree, that's why we never looked at this as a race, we are taking our time on all aspects of the project. -Tim

Hi YoYo, Yes thank you for compliments on the IRIS FSX F-15E, I was the person who did the model. Actually the Mirage is actually still a ways off. Thanks, Tim

It's a Metal2Mesh aircraft, still in development.

Timeframe? couldn't tell you, too early to say, I can say it is a high priority project for Razbam maybe even will be the first one done. We have a lot of work to do, and we will be active with DCS even while while working on other projects, we do not want our forums to go dormant. Every week we have a "DCS Wednesday" where we only concentrate directly on DCS related projects. I am personally trying to get this changed to 2 days a week, but I have to see what Ron says. Razbam and I want to deliver this F-15E in a timely manner, but Timeframe is not possible. Here is a screenshot of the UI main menu. I wanted to get some feed back on what everyone thinks? -Tim

Here is some quick renders of the F-15E in DCS. You will notice the exterior is the DCS F-15E, this was a decision by the studio to use DCS World's model since it was a part of the sim already. Why not, it is a beautiful model and would work wonderfully with multiplayer. Now as for the Cockpit as you can see we already have a very detailed and accurate cockpit. This cockpit is just in the initial stages as we will redo the modeling, adding more detail and tessellation to get a smoother and more fluid version for the DCS engine. We will re-map, re-texture, and of course we have one of the best coders that can create the controllers and modules that will allow high fidelity systems to this aircraft. We will also follow the artistic impression from the C version in FC3 so that they can look like actual sister aircraft and immersion will be better then ever. Razbam and Metal2Mesh2 are working together to create this F-15E. So without further ado, I present to you, The RAZBAM F-15E Thanks everyone, Tim

OXY QTY gauge in the hole for the seat's emergency bottle.

Hello Everyone, I don't know if this has been mentioned but there is an issue with the Seat Adjust for the A-10C, the seat modeling is separated when it should be single unit. I am not sure if it was mentioned before. Thanks, Tim