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And today we have one guy uploading 2.5 pages of skins for a single aircraft type where one upload would have been perfectly adequate ... I reckon they must be collecting Air Miles for all the extra hits ...

How about the guys who upload multiple skins of the same aircraft one at a time taking up page after page of data when 1 upload would be perfectly adequate. It takes forever to trawl past all that stuff just to get to something you want to look at which was on page 2 yesterday and is now on page 8, if your lucky !!.

We are looking at adding RoughMet textures to the edm for this model and adding the textures to the texture file, in due course. They are not nominated in the edm at present.

New link to an updated version posted 20 Feb 2021, we are aware of ongoing issues but if you spot anything new please let us know.

We are looking at that ... its possible but we need to do something else first and that may be the better option, but correct scale is part of it.

There are several issues with requesting help from different groups. We all do this mod stuff differently, we all want our Mods to be different things, no 2 groups use the same graphics software or even the same versions of 3dmax, and we all have different priorities. (I just want eye candy, I want it flyable, I want it to have these lights, I want it to be able to do this or not do that - its and endless list !) We did get help from others, and that was very much appreciated and some of that help is ongoing, but its extremely difficult to have several groups playing with the same model with all the different permutations of kit and still end up with what it was you envisaged at the very beginning. Evolution of the Mod is great, opening the doors and the ramp were not in the original plan but were a great addition, but at some point you lose control of what it was you had and unless you have the skills to manage all of that complexity you are going to produce something less than what you started with. I lost control of the whole and I knew then it was time to sit back and take stock. I still have the Merlin I bought in and I'm taking stock.

Hornet - See you PM's, this might be of interest to you.

My original plan was to create a Military Helicopter Mod similar in style and complimentary to the Civil Aircraft Mod and Military Aircraft Mod's. II was too ambitious a project and we quickly realised we don't have the technical knowledge needed to complete a Mod of this complexity, to our satisfaction. Our first attempt was very oversized and we could not create a credible flight model or master some of the technical issues associated with a wheeled Helicopter. As we fixed some issues we created more, and the deeper we got into the technical aspects of creating even a simple AI model the more difficult it became to create our original Mod in the way that we wanted to do it. The larger project is abandoned, however, we are still considering what to do with the Merlin, if it does come back it may be in a different form.

Project abandoned, sorry.

We dont know the answer to that Worg, we have never tried it. We spend so much time modding these days we lose track of what the game can and cant do and I have never got around to trying that function in game. We are rebuilding the Mod at the moment, as soon as that is done we will try it and let you know.

Thanks Urbi, we think you are right, we will have to fix that. A million thanks to Damien for his help, we are looking to add some features which he has helped us with enormously, we have deleted the link for now and will put up a new one when we have made the changes. Its still a steep learning curve for Admiral and myself, be patient. Damien: When we have finished this one I would be glad to help mate, you have helped us and we will return the favour. But we need to finish this first. PS: Admiral and I own this jointly, he is the brains and I am the brawn !!! We work on this as a team.

I would like to see some close ups, lets see the detail please Damien. We have some long term plans and we dont want to go making something that has already been made - Duplication is such a waste of everyone's time.

Just to keep you aware, we are looking at several options to update, in due course. Wheels, Lights, Doors, Ramps come to mind. Hawkeye60 is going to try and make a flyable Mod out of this but that will be outside of this Mod and it will be uploaded separately, we only ever intended for this to be an AI Mod. Flyables are beyond our knowledge at present, we have a lot to learn before we go there.

All these models you made for DCS World, where can we find them ?

My cockup, I put the updated edm in the wrong Mod !!!!! The new link above should work correctly. Its my age !!!