streakeagle

Sunday co-op missions hosted by the Forgotten are few and far between in recent months, but the three original Blue side only PVE servers are still up. All of the server missions have been updated to support dynamic spawning and the mission tasking system provided in the F10 menu now states clear primary objectives to achieve victory. When victory is achieved or a mission has been running for more than 4 hours, an F10 menu option appears to permit rotating to the next mission. After 7 hours, the mission rotates automatically. The servers also use slmod which permits calling a vote among player clients to rotate to any desired mission. Early Cold War Servers: Cold War 1973-1977 (A-4E-C and OH-6A mods supported but not required) with four missions in random rotation: Defend Georgia (free Caucasus Map) Estonia Liberation (free Caucasus Map) Extended Vietnam (free Marianas Map) Fulda Gap (Cold War Germany Map) Early Cold War Servers: Forgotten War (Korea) 1950-1953 (no mods) with three missions in random rotation on the free Caucasus Map: Battle of Chosin Battle of Seoul Battle of Taehwa-do Early Cold War Servers: The Vietnam War (A-4E-C and OH-6A mods supported but not required) with six missions in random rotation on the free Caucasus Map: Battle for Hue Battle of Khe Sanh Battle of Saigon Ho Chi Minh Trail Linebacker I Operation Flaming Dart Additionally, I host three more servers that mirror the ones listed above with the exact same missions except that the Red side is enabled (permitting PVP) and a large number of mods are supported including many of the VSN mods as well as the OV-10A and C-130H: Early Cold War Servers: * Streak Eagle's Cold War PVE PVP VSN Early Cold War Servers: * Streak Eagle's Korean War PVE PVP VSN Early Cold War Servers: * Streak Eagle's Vietnam PVE PVP VSN However, the main reason for this updated post is to announce an experimental new server: Early Cold War Servers: * Streak Eagle's Middle East PVE PVP VSN (A-4E-C, VSN F-100, and VSN Mirage III mods supported but not required) with only one mission: Valley of Tears (Syria Map) This first mission covers the early days of the battle for the Golan Heights in the 1973 October War (Yom Kippur). I intend to make at least one more mission using the Sinai map covering the battle for the Sinai Peninsula during that same war. If these missions work well, I may try to make server missions covering other Arab-Israeli conflicts as well as the Iran-Iraq War. Unlike the other servers, these missions are not focused on a particular time frame. So, anything from a 1948 themed mission featuring WW2 aircraft up to 1991 Desert Storm is possible, which covers the entire Cold War range of aircraft.

That did the trick.

Thank you for the information!

I know the Voice Warning Test button originally worked, but I have not been heard it since the patch. Is it a problem unique to my installation (which includes 3rd party software such as Voice Attack/VAICOM) or is this a global problem?

@[MVP] Mugga It has been a year since your last post and the MVP Korea 52 server has been down for quite some time. Are you ok? Are you still working on this F-86 and actively playing DCS World?

I don't use the AIM-7M with the 1970s/1980s F-15C, so no problem for me. Just like the Heatblur F-14A 1970s skins that use the white body, which absolutely looks great and was the inspiration for me to figure out how to do the same with the F-15C. I have a lot of F-15 books and most of them were published prior to 1990. Almost none of them have photos with AIM-7s with the gray bodies. So, if you are trying to recreate a "cold war gone hot" NATO vs Warsaw Pact mission for the Germany terrain, AIM-7Fs in the old paint scheme are the way to go. Customizing the AIM-7 for old skins doesn't affect the AIM-7M of other skins.

I can create a mission with supercarrier and place an F4U-1D on the supercarrier without issues. However, when dynamic spawning is enabled on the supercarrier for the F4U-1D, the F4U-1D remains grayed out on dynamic spawn drop down list for the supercarrier. Dynamic spawning works correctly with the new Essex carrier.

The AIM-7F uses the same textures as the AIM-7M, so the lines and files added for AIM-7Fs do not appear to be doing anything. The lines for the AIM-7M can be used for a custom skin shared by both the AIM-7M and AIM-7F. As I am primarily interested in the early AIM-7F with white bodies, it is easy for me to chose: overwrite the AIM-7M files with my AIM-7F preference.

@SOLIDKREATE I think the AIM-7F dds files you provided in your skins are being ignored. The default AIM-7F uses the 3d model/dds files of the AIM-7M. When AIM-7Fs are loaded, they are using the AIM-7M files.

You don't need to go to the trouble, but if you are willing to do it, the A models need the full red frame on the front windscreen and the AIM-7Fs should be the white body/grey nose/steel fin skin. But I am perfectly happy with what you have already released, so don't waste any time on early A skins unless it is trivial and/or fun for you.

Outstanding. I will try these out tonight. I will add them to the early cold war 1973-1977 server missions, particularly the Fulda Gap mission which already has AI flights out of Bitburg.

I copied the dds files from one of the stock early F-14A skins, then added the lines that overwrote the default AIM-7M model dds files with the copied F-14A dds files. So, if you could make your own dds files or get permission to use/edit Heatblurs dds files, you would just add them to the skins. One of the skins with missile skin files is Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\CoreMods\aircraft\F14\Liveries\F-14A-135-GR\VF-1 Wolfpack NK100 (1974).zip the description.lua needs these lines added to the "livery" list to use them when located in the same folder as the skin: {"AIM-7M", 0 ,"aim_7f_Diff", false}; {"AIM-7M", 13 ,"aim_7f_Diff_RoughMet", false} {"AIM-7M", 1 ,"aim_7f_Diff_Normal", false}; The other skins pointed to those files: {"AIM-7M", 0 ,"../VF-1 Wolfpack NK100 (1974)/aim_7f_Diff", false}; {"AIM-7M", 13 ,"../VF-1 Wolfpack NK100 (1974)/aim_7f_Diff_RoughMet", false}; {"AIM-7M", 1 ,"../VF-1 Wolfpack NK100 (1974)/aim_7f_Diff_Normal", false}; I don't know if you can point to these zipped up core files in the F-15 skin lua files, but if you can, that would be better than the default AIM-7M gray body/white nose skins.

I did a test last night: I imported the early F-14A AIM-7F skin into the F-15A/C skins. It looked great. If the fins on that skin were repainted a dark steel color, it would look identical to USAF AIM-7Fs in 1980s F-15A/C photos. I don't know if Heatblur would give permission to edit their skin, but it really completes the look of the 1970s/1980s Eagle skins instead of the light gray body with a white nosecone. Light gray nose, white bodies, dark fins is the way AIM-7Fs were born to look:

I now have: 22nd TFS by @EricJ 53rd TFS AF 76 015 and 79 074 by @SOLIDKREATE (by the way, you marked 76 074 completed instedd of 79 074 on your list) 525th TFS AF 75-0076 by @Awacs_bandog Off to a great start after years of having very little to choose from proper 1970s and 1980s Bitburg skins. What I really need now is for ED to release the F-15C module complete with a checkbox for adding/removing turkey feathers (which would not only provide for early F-15Cs, but would look a lot more like F-15As) and preferably with the option for CFTs.

@SOLIDKREATE I forgot to comment on the new skin: excellent! Keep 'em coming. Can't beat matching historical photos with such high detail and color accuracy.