streakeagle

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.

It appears the end of the double red frame may have started with F-15C production: aircraft delivered from the factory with only the red along the sides, not over the bow or in front of the windscreen. This is F-15C No.1 78-0468 with only the side red frames on the front windscreen.