rato65

absolutely beautiful! Thank you!

nope.

Its a german research icebraker, RV Polarstern. It is not released yet.

You may want to check this out:

A simple mod providing swimming polar icebergs and icesheets, to be placed as ships at sea, coming in two sizes (IceSheet1 and IceSheet2). They can follow a waypoint path to simulate drift and have collision, but no damage model. Ships have no chance... Helicopters can land on some areas, which allow to land without sinking into "snow". You need to find out by yourself, as IRL. Structures like biwaks etc can be placed, same here with "snow". This is due to an integrative collision model, which does not reflect the surface 1:1. Helicopters and ships are not part of this package. Tested with DCS 2.9 DOWNLOAD: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2l4spy1b9upntxzbdbqs0/IcebergsV01.zip?rlkey=lzioj6o5t0gid4t11bwy9bh3a&dl=0 INSTALL: Unzip the package. 1. Copy the content of "tech" into your "Saved Games/DCS/Mods/tech" folder CREDITS: The 3D model of the icesheet was downloaded from Turbosquid with permission for royalty free usage and distribution. I made some changes to the original model though, and included a simplified collision shape. Take warm clothes! cheers, rato65

Haha.... well I would prefer to fly the bird and have Magnum on the Co-Pilot seat Just kidding - its awful lot of work.

Not yet, there are some issues with the collission because of the large surface. But what the heck....maybe I should just share it. Thanks for your interest. Needs a couple of bad weather days though...

Does anyone know if at all and how the smoke of a sling cargo can be reduced, shortened or even switched off? I find it problematic when you always have to fly into the smoke which disturbs sight in the most demanding moments, although it switches off automatically after some seconds. Plus, I do not think it is very realistic that we cannot do sling load ops without smoke. Maybe this was discussed before, then I did not find it. Any hint is much appreciated.

really?? now it starts getting scary...

Sorry for my slow response. If I change the mounting connector all other payloads cannot be carried anymore. I wanted it to be compatible to Eightballs civil loadouts. Doing both (your idea plus Eighballs loadouts) would make the hole mod very tedious and inconsistent. Thanks for the skin, have seen it before. Currently i have no plans to modify the mod, I apologize. But it is "bumped" and may be included at a later time.

Thanks for the update, and for the details about internatl decisions you made to allow developing a realistic simulation. I know from different projects outside DCS that simulation development takes incredible much of time, and of course long-breath-motivation. Considering the very high level of functional realism given in DCS your way is understandable and appreciated with the Bo-105 project. However, I hope it will succeed and it will become available at some stage, sometimes it might be worth a consideration to provide a non-final technology for feedback from the community to see if everything is on the right path. But this is not easy, I understand. Anyway, great to learn this is not dead, and I am very much looking forwrard to the future of the Bo-105 - as are many others I suppose. Good luck!

@Vismonger what version of max do you use? What exact material do you apply in terms of material type in the material editor? I had a similar issue with max 2022 and it was due to the wrong standard material. see few posts above.

I send my best wishes to him.

updated. See first post.

not yet, I am sorry. Still trying to get it exported correctly from a new 3dmax install...

I temporarily switched back to 3dsmax to bea able to repair an older model, but I am not able to export any edm correctly, whatsoever. Even a simple box mapped with a bitmap does only give a 309 byte edm file and an empty box-frame in model viewer mt. I use max 2022 and edm-plugins-216821, and also tried edm-plugins-229281. Any trick I am missing? Which combination works with max 2022? edit: I get a model exported with the standard legacy materials, but no mapping of textures or lights. In Modelviewer, no "Textures" Window pops up (it does with older or Blender-exported models). Thanks for any suggestions... edit: solved. (I used OSL bitmap lookup accidentally, needed to use simple bitmap load). V.

jaaaaaaa....want to haaaave looks fantastic!

check first page, updated.

Here it works with 2.9

Even better! Looking forward to fly it.

Wow, this look great! I am looking forward to see it in action. Great you took the chance to follow the initial AH-6 idea from nibbylot and develop it to a detailed mod.

thank you! my first christmas present this year I assume the code to unhook a sling load is still protected, or do you maybe know this as well? Happy christmas!

Any chance you might share this?

Which liveries do you use? You need to use explicit AB212 or AB412 liveries. Normal UH-1 liveries do not include nose and cover.

I understand smoke durations seem to be locked, but does this include cargo smoke for sling load ops? Can we switch off this cargo smoke when the load is selected somehow, or decrease the smoke time?