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    Community A-4E

    in Flyable/Drivable Mods for DCS World

    Posted · Edited by gospadin

    Community A-4E: October 2017 Update

     

    Community A-4E: October 2017 Update

     

    Trick or Treat!

     

    Slow month from the team, so first the trick... While the PBR conversion continues in the background and our cockpit slowly improves, the major 3D improvements we are working on spent a month on hold while our lead 3D artist was traveling in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean....

     

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    We do have a tiny treat though, think of it as a single M&M or something... In the last month, we did get a bit of time to play with some visual effects with the radar. While the AN/APG-53A circuitry requires several minutes to warm up properly, it's possible to enable the display before all the circuitry is operating properly. Since users will inevitably turn on the radar circuitry at first opportunity or forget to warm it up properly, we wanted to model what one "might" see on the display as it warms up.

     

    This video demonstrates one of the effects we've been trying out... it starts off displaying static, then about 45 seconds in, the return begins to come into focus. Eventually, there's a slight analog "wobble" on the input data, which looks nice, though is probably over modeled. Anyway, here's the video:

     

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    The rest of the code changes this past month have been internal plumbing and debug improvements for some future changes, but nothing really visible to the pilot. Oh, and I got my instrument rating.

     

    Thanks again for everyone's support!

    --gos

    The F-35 Thread

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted

    For the record though - I do think the F-35's going to have a service history like the Convair Hustler (an aircraft I love).

    Beautiful expression of specialisation that, once that specialist trick was countered, was quickly replaced by more generally able aircraft

     

    I was more-or-less with you until this assessment.

     

    Nothing more capable is in the pipe. Essentially, the USN/USAF have bet everything on the success of the platform, so it'll succeed one way or another, by simply throwing money at it. On paper, it'll should be a better platform than the F-18, and we've already built more than the F-22 resulting in a far lower per-unit cost. Enough partner nations are signed up and apparently happy that I'm sure it'll do fine.

    104th Phoenix Dedicated Server Info

    in Multiplayer

    Posted · Edited by gospadin

    Hi. I am trying to connect to 104th, and I'm getting a error claiming a modified client with 3 modified files:

     

    textures/empty

    textures/light_green

    textures/light_red

     

    My client is unmodified, I have no mods installed, and I ran a repair deleting the files you suggested on the website first.

     

    Any ideas?

    --gos

     

    Edit: nevermind, figured it out. Turns out aircraft in Saved Games cannot use the same texture filenames as existing dds files, or the game engine can get confused and cause an IC failure.

    The F-35 Thread

    in Military and Aviation

    Posted

    Well that an F-35 is put completely out of commision by a bird aint that good of story either tbh, even if I do heavily prefer it to one being tracked & hit by an old S-200 as that would be downright scary.

     

    The original article quoted the IAF who said it'd be back operational "in the coming days."

     

    http://www.kan.org.il/item/?itemId=23623

     

    Not sure it's a big deal, but better to take the time to double-check the RAM than risk being detected on a mission.

    Dynamic Nose and Tail Number system

    in M-2000

    Posted

    The way the system is now, the dynamic textures have to be part of the 3D object, restricting the position, size, and number of dynamic digits. So unfortunately, the answer to your question is no.

     

    It would be a feature request to RAZBAM, to add an additional number area that could be optionally enabled or disabled.

     

    You're correct that it's part of the 3D model itself.

    Legs created with DIRECT-TO don't always originate at current position.

    in Bugs and Problems

    Posted

    This was reported as part of a larger bug listing issues with flight plan behavior, but you're right, it should probably get filed separately as its own issue.

     

    I'll try to remember to do that tonight.

     

    IRL, "direct to" creates a virtual origin waypoint for the pink line, but that point doesn't appear in flight plan page. Direct-To with an already-active flight plan shows a little pink arrow next to the point you're flying to, and disactivates an already-active leg according to some logic I don't 100% understand.

    Default English cockpit option

    in M-2000

    Posted

    Unfortunately my English cockpit mod will not work with the M-2000C when installed in the Saved Games folder, because it requires a modification to entry.lua to enable the cockpit livery scan.

     

    Once someone from RAZBAM updates the lua code for the Mirage, then JSGME or similar will not be required.

     

    To be honest, we've been expecting a RAZBAM-provided English cockpit option for a while. My mod was only supposed to be a short-lived endeavor for a few months, but now it's been almost 2 years.

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