Bananimal

Definitely would be interested if it is of no trouble for you. The more I have, the more I can paint. Going to be starting the CoNA bird tonight. It should go fast.

That's alright man. I'll let it go this time. LOL Just horsing around. :megalol: It's interesting that in the two photos you posted in full sun, one is the color you expect and the other is the colors I used to paint this particular skin. It came down to this. I looked at decal sets for this scheme and most of them used a more blue as opposed to the dark navy blue. So, I was more inclined to assume that the color is supposed to be as depicted in your second photo. Unless this bird is sitting in front of me where I can see it with my own eyes, I'm not so sure the exact color can be determined. If anyone has seen this bird in person, please chime in. It's not too late for me to change the colors on it. :thumbup:

And my pics were in direct sunlight. In the sim with Reshade, the colors on mine go dark in shade as in the picture above. It depends on the lighting in the sim. I lifted the colors directly off of a photo in the sun. While I understand that it depends on the lighting and the camera that was used to take the photo, researching all of the photos indicates mine is very, very close to accurate, if not accurate. Post a pic of the real bird in the sun and you'll see how much the blue and gold changes. Here's an example Note how dark the stripe under the wing is when in the shade. Much like your photo above. My colors behave this way in the sim. You'll see when you fly it! :-) Or take a look at the colors on the vertical stab and the anti-glare visor on the nose in the third picture I posted above.

Yes. I have that one and while it is a decent effort, it is not done correctly. The hornet graphic on the nose and the helmet on the tail are mis-shapen and inaccurate. As are the layout for the striping on the vertical and horizontal stabs. The roundel on the left wing upper is not slanted. The anti-glare visor is not correct. It's missing proper stenciling as well on the wings, etc. And the colors are off. Then again, that is a 40 year anniversary skin and i have not seen the real bird. Therefore, the one I am doing has technically NOT been done yet as it is a 30 year anniversary skin. When I do a skin, I do it down to the hinges, bolts and washers on the model. Spent 2 hours yesterday hunting down a washer that needed to be painted. I guess I'm nuts. Pun intended. LOL!!

VFA-106 Gladiators Inbound Well, seeing as I was tired of sitting around waiting for the F-14 templates to drop, I figured I crank out another F/A-18 set. This time, it's the Gladiators. Started work on this one yesterday. Just about wrapped it up today. Still need to do the pilot and BuNO on the dash. Other than that, she's complete. This is one of my favorite schemes. I built a Minicraft Hasegawa kit in 1/32 of the very similar prototype scheme when I was a kid. Seeing it come to life in the sim is just fantastic. It's truly stunning cruising along in the sim. Next is the CoNA bird, followed by a few CAGs, XOs, and line birds from various years. Probably will be thirty or so in the packs once I release them. Enjoy this one as a teaser.

Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I was going to resolve it on my own, but once I realized the mapping was sharing specific coordinates with the main gear, I promptly realized there was nothing I could do to fix it. :thumbup: I love this mod. It's great to school the F-14 fly boys!:music_whistling:

Any chance on re-texturing the exhaust and intake compressor blades? Looks like they were mapped near the main gear and are sharing the gear textures.

Same here. Touched down on the carrier deck and CTD immediately to desktop.Been going on since the F-14 came out.

When I import the vap files they overwrite conflicting commands whether I click to deselect the conflicting commands or not. The end result is that many of the commands state "UNABLE TO EXECUTE COMMAND - COMMAND NOT AVAILABLE." So, the import is breaking your files. Like I said, either way, it fails. It might be better to do one big file.

You may want to check the Jester "Check" command. It's missing the LCTRL+4 part of the command.

F11 and F12 resolved the startup issue. Active Window was not set for the output and that fixed the Jester issues. Thanks for the help.:thumbup:

Thanks for putting this together. I was thinking of starting one myself. For some reason though, the commands aren't working for me. I can see in the VA panel that the spoken commands are recognized, but Jester never pops up or responds. Likewise, when I tell the chief to hook us up, The camera changes through three airport cameras and then he only hooks up the air supply. None of the default key bindings have been changed for DCS or the F-14. Not sure what gives.

Same problem here.

I agree. The idle sounds outside and behind the aircraft give one the impression that the engines are in cruise. And it is much too loud to boot. This is the same, although at different volume levels, for the other aircraft as well. No aircraft sounds like this IRL while taxiing. ED needs to update the sound engine completely for this game, as this has been a limitation of the current sound engine for quite some time.

I suspect a memory leak on behalf of ED's latest OB build. I too experience delayed loading times. however, if I fly the F-14 or any other aircraft long enough, terrain tiles fail to load in completely and the terrain starts getting blurry. About 10 minutes later, CTD. Specs: 4.7Ghz processor 64GB RAM RTX 2080Ti FTW Ultra 3 Resolution 3840x2160 DCS on SSD

After cranking out 103 F/A-18C skins, I'm eager to hop on some F-14 skin action myself. Really wanting to paint some early, hi-vis A models

If you escape to menu during the autostart sequence and go into the Options and make changes then come back out resume the game, the autostart sequence fails to complete. In my case, it was stuck on INS configuration 23 and would not progress.

Absolutely!

Ok fellas, the files are uploaded. There's a total of 30 planes if you download all three packs. These are definitely cool. Many have unique fuel tanks. They should be approved by tomorrow and I'll update the OP with a link to the files then. Enjoy! DOWNLOAD HERE

Outstanding work, dude! Camo is a biotch to paint on the f-18! Thanks for the effort and sharing.

Yes, they've been done for about a month. Just haven't spent the time to setup the download. Personal stuff going on right now.

Maybe files that are longer to the point where they don't get a chance to loop at speed might work.

I think the issue is that you are using sounds that have a pitch variations. The way the sim deals with these files is that it loops them at a different rates depending on speed. If ou were to find sound files that are steady and can be looped without detecting the loop, the issue would be resolved.

Reinstalled Discord only to find they're down. LOL! :wallbash: Finally got in. Thanks!

Here's what v1.1.1 sounds like on my system. Not usable. I've uninstalled Discord. Didn't like it.