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MV 22 Osprey: Hi guys. Would you be able to produce a static folded version of the Osprey, using the same skins etc. I want to be able to park a heap of them along the edge of the flight deck, all folded, making best use of the space etc. I only need the folded edm really, I can do the rest myself I expect. All the very best to everyone. Eddie

Type 45 fix - nagging reminder !!

Many thanks Luiz - your prompt response very much appreciated.

Same issue with AVG - AVG moved the dll file to quarantine - simple solution go into AVG Quarantine and declare it as a False Positive, AVG will reinstall the file to the game.

Same issue with AVG - File deleted - I declared it as a False Positive and the software reinstalled it.

Cracked it, I had made 2 very simple basic errors which compounded each other several times over. I will tidy this mess up and attach a link to a JSGME file that will do a couple of things to the existing game model. 1 - It will replace the rather basic deck default textures with some weathered ones that somebody did a long time ago - they come complete with the alpha channels. I cant recollect who that was, whoever you are take a bow !! - They are superb. 2 - It will allow you to use all the excellent liveries that somebody else did ages ago as well, which are done with the alpha channels as well - I suspect it is the same person so take another bow ! Watch this space, it will take a while to sort it out completely, it was a bit of a mess. PS: MANY THANKS URBI - Your message pointed me in the right direction to find my errors.

Thanks Urbi - I tried something similar to this option earlier. I can get the additional Liveries to show up in the ME drop down but they wont change in the ME preview window and dont appear in game when I launch it. I am also having issues with the game itself, I can get logged in to the website at present - dont know why ! I will keep trying, there has to be an easy solution to this.

I tried to fix this liveries issue but the BDK-775.lua is screwed up, GT.visual.shape = "BDK_775" GT.Name = "BDK-775" The principal edm in the shapes folder is called: BDK_775_LOD0.edm The GT.Name should be the same as the shape.edm which then translates into the given name for the Livery files - none of them match up so no liveries appear. I tried changing things around but nothing worked - ED will have to fix this.

I love this wee aircraft, but I'm seriously fed up hacking around trying to get it to work every time DCS Updates. I appreciate its not a DCS issue and its entirely up to the developer to get it working again but there has to be something wrong with the cockpit in this mod, it has always worked fine as an AI Mod so logic suggests its a cockpit issue. Sadly I dont have the expertise to fix it, I wish I did. Back to waiting again, last time it was eon's before a fix was issued. (I might have exaggerated the eon's bit - it was a while though !!)

Look closer at the whole area - the small hill that was at the end of the runway is now flat, the hill is gone.

I'm experiencing a minor snag with Terrain Object Shadows, in relation to AM2 Matting. At certain angles from above (at fairly high altitude - 2000 ft) the shadow turn black. I have tried every adjustment with all of the shadow settings with little effect. With Shadows set to High, 2nd Shadows set to On and Terrain Object Shadows set to default I get the best result, any other setting and the black appears from lower altitude. I have also tried the various shadow Mods that are available but all they do is activate the black lower down as well. I also tried creating lods files for each of the matting edm's to see if that would disable that black shadow but that had no effect either. Anyone got any ides on what else I could try to correct this ?

This seems to work fine, I get a few intermittent lags on some really heavily populated airfields as I pan into the dense areas, and this reduces that a lot. Might take it down a bit more yet to see how it works out.

Soooper - the static needs static blades but otherwise I love it.

The CIWS does need to be repositioned, its slightly outboard of its platform. The GPMG Gunners only appear offset when they traverse forward or to the rear, when pointing outboard they look fine. The CIWS is an easy fix I think, the gunners GPMG Pintals would need to be repositioned inboard of the guardrails/gunwales, otherwise when firing to the front or rear they are half in half out of the gunwales, but you would only notice that REALLY close up.

Try this, closer to the liveries they used then, after the punch up my unit were flown back from Ascencion to RAF Leuchars, via an 8 hour stop in Senegal, in three of them. Link deleted, that skin does not work any more and I have not updated it, might get around to it later.

Cant help you, that edm is too old to break down a description.lua from using the normal methods we all use (ModelVierwer), there is another very complicated way to do it but that might not even work if you did know how to do it and its extremely hit and miss anyway, not worth the HUGE extra effort usually. Go back to the Mod maker and ask him to do it for you, if he can, he has the original 3dmax or blender files I assume.

That mod has an edm that is so old the latest ModelViewer does not recognise it, you will get that with older edm models sadly. If you have both versions of the game try Alpha ModelViewer, I find that sometimes recognises an older edm, but not always.

The OPV HMS Tamar P233 also has a red Dragon painted on the upperworks and I'm sure I saw another 'Dragon' in Plymouth Sound last year but I forget which ship it was. Might have been one of the smaller MCM boats. I think what you posted there from the Wales website is probably true, its unusual, but very credible. Close associations with named ports/cities has always been encouraged in the RN, port visits being undertaken where possible to show the ships off to the Taxpayer ! - and its good for recruiting, which is major problem for the RN today. Cant think why HMS Tamar has a Dragon on her, must find out ! (Ships crest has a red dragon on it - is the answer) Hijack over - sorry Currenthill !!

I always wanted to try and paint that dragon onto a type 45 bow, getting an image to copy was difficult because they have changed that dragon shape a couple of times over the years but I found something I could copy and paste, it works quite well. I am old and my eye's are on the way out so I had to darken your Mod down a lot otherwise the game blinds me, so forgive me if this image looks a bit too dark, it's me age Guv !! I redid the numbers and added the flight deck codes as well, finding a decent RN font is almost impossible so its a compromise.

Type 45 - HMS Dragon - a couple of small observations re this wonderful Mod. Not a criticism, just observations, there are no hard and fast rules as such. Flags - At sea it is normal for RN ships to fly a Naval Ensign from a yard, as per the attached image. Entering harbour or alongside they would have a Naval Ensign flying on the stern and a Union Flag on the bow. It would be unusual to have a ship at sea flying just a Naval Ensign at the stern, that flag post would be removed to allow for flying stations. That said you see all manner of flag arrangements so this mod is not wrong, just unusual. GPMG Machine Guns - At sea these would normally be removed and stowed below decks, normally they only man them for entering or leaving harbour or where there is a threat from small boats. So again, not wrong, just unusual. HMS Dragon - The red dragon on the bow is very unusual for the RN which is normally VERY conservative when it comes to decoration (some would say anal !!). I have no idea what has changed but they now have dragons on the sides of three warships that I know of, in my day all that was allowed on the hull was rust, and that's was never for very long !!! Super Mod mate, well done.

Thanks Flappie, much appriciated.

What the title says, I go to the start menu and the Repair button is gone, all the others are still there, Update, Manual, Read me etc. How do I fix it ?

Hi - Love the type 45, very nice. Can you extract a description.lua for the edm please, I want to add the other ships in the class to the Liveries folder but this edm is crashing DCS when I load it into ModelViewer. (I am getting this more and more now with recent mods, I have no idea what the problem is). Many thanks. DISREGARD - I got one using the Alpha viewer.

Okay - I lied about the Ernest bit. Something different, something unusual. I used to watch these beats doing circuits at RAF Kinloss when I was just a lad, my brother flew in them during the Beria Patrols in the 1960-70's. Noisy bastards, but so impressive.