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I recently switched from using the twist on my Saitek X52 PRO to rudder pedals. The biggest problem I had was that I got quite good with the twist and still find myself twisting the stick a bit even after 4 or 5hrs of flight time! However.. immersion has increased as Maverick suggests and the rudders are more precise. I can also do more actions although I'm currently lacking the coordination to do them properly! FOR PEDALS: Immersion/realism Improved strafing ability More precise AGAINST: Harder to very quickly "flick" direction (This will probably improve but obviously there is a lot more travel in the rudder pedals) Learning curve, especially if you are used to the stick twist. I should point out that I am MUCH better now than I was in the first hour of flying with the pedals. I was hopeless, my legs had no idea what to do.. in fact they ignored me. There is still a lag between brain output and my legs responding.. a very odd sensation! Overall I would recommend them but you probably won't like them at first!

Ah.. the green eyed monster rears his ugly head again. You just wish you'd thought of it first :)

Nice find! :thumbup:

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I can't make any changes to the placement of textures. This is apparently just not possible at the moment. However I don't know how the Nellis field guys are doing their work. Maybe they know how.

The idea was to give the appearance of staggered joints as in the mod. Clearly graphic art is not your bag. I would suggest you stay well clear of graphical work in your chosen career. :megalol:

@jg3_dragon I would tend to agree with Cosmo's comments. Nearly everyone starts off with similar work to yours using stock methods (raw plugins basically). The fact that you are trying to make something for yourself and others is more important than anything else and I appreciate your comments in the first post :) May I recommend this site: http://psdtuts.com/category/tutorials/. There is some incredible work done by pros there and is a great resource for inspiration! A.n.other Dragon :)

It looks like your path may be incorrect Viper. My path using this tool is here: C:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50 Did you install just to an Eagle Dynamics folder or did you install to a KA-50 folder? Assuming KA-50 folder .. Check your registry entry here: computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Eagle Dynamics\BlackShark If you look at the path key in there.. is it correct?

Actually got chance to play the sim today! However.. I couldn't resist! Better or worse than my current cover page?

Thanks for all your support guys :thumbup: The MODMAN version is now downloadable from Lockonfiles too. Link is in the first post. The addon is only available here.. for now anyway.

A rar file is basically like a zip file. Use a program called "Winrar" to extract the file inside it.

I couldn't find a way to change textures by runway neither could I find a way to adjust texture placements or add in extra textures. I asked Necroscope (who is more experienced) and he said that the information is held in files which currently can't really be edited.. Or at last that's the impression I got.

:megalol: Yes, whilst I'm reasonably happy with the texture set I will probably do an alternate version where the concrete colour is a lighter/yellower/ivory tone. It will take me some time and I don't have the time to properly do it at the moment. If only we could have different textures/colours for each Airbase!

TAXI ROAD OPTIONAL ADDON/REPLACEMENT flanker1 in my old thread asked if I could put a soft edge on the taxi roads. I've looked at this and have made an optional addon which does this (to a degree). HOWEVER there are a couple of issues: Because I use transparency, I'm "cheating" and therefore I can't make the addon MODMAN installable. BUT! you CAN use it with the MODMAN version of my mod (if that makes sense!) So. basically you can use MODMAN to install the original Airbase Set and then manually put the file included in the optional addon manually into the "TempTextures" folder. The problem with this optional addon is that it looks good in most areas but not where a taxi road meets a perpendicular taxi road. So... if you don't care about the odd gap issue and prefer the softer edge grab the file from here: http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V2.0_OPTIONAL_TAXI_ROAD_TEXTURE_NOT_MODMAN.rar Area where the softer edge looks ok: Area where the softer edge causes an issue:

The one thing I would personally recommend is that you try mapping the first stage trigger to uncage the cannon, the second to fire the cannon. If you choose recage the gun to trigger stage 1 release you get a very nice way of automatically firing whenever you want in a fluid motion. You will need to set delays to 0.001ms otherwise it works a bit intermittently.

OH you are so dead! DTWD!!! :megalol::megalol::megalol: No I'm not currently working on any asphalt! I did think about it in the early stages and, as it happens, VikVaughn did a quick test of it somewhere in my original thread. I WOULD do it if we could have texture variations per runway but we can't. When I was doing research I could only find one SAT photo of a Russian runway which appeared to have some Asphalt. I guess if everyone wanted it I might have a go at some point.. However most people seem to want things to be as close to real as possible. The only thing I'm considering at the moment is lightening up the concrete a little and releasing that as an alternate version. Dragon

Thanks for your comments, much appreciated :thumbup:

It's hard to say why they've done this.. basically the file WPP_DARK.TGA is the DCS version of the file. The texture is stretched in a very similar way but is only used for an overlay. What you need to do (although it probably won't look very good) is load WPP.BMP into photoshop or similar, transform it vertically to the same size as the WPP_DARK.BMP and save it as WPP_DARK.BMP. Without having a good look myself I can't say for certain what's happenning.. I think in DCS they realised it was screwed and replaced the texture with a correctly sized texture. EDIT: This is the type of issue I've had here and there. I suspect that the "10" normally sits there but my WPP-KRAY.bmp lining is just too long for Lockon.

AHHHH OK.. Well WPP_DARK.TGA overlays the runway. I use it to put the runway landing zone texture and skid marks on. Try copying the file WPP.BMP and renaming the copy to WPP_DARK.BMP and see what happens.. It *might* work.

Well it looks like either DCS-BS has one less runway piece the Lockon OR that a file is named differently. All I can suggest is browse the cdds files looking for WPP.. something and see if one of them is named differently in some way or has a different filetype? Dragon

RELEASED: New thread here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37246

NOTE: The above shot shows V2.0 work not V3.0. I hope to find the time to change it soon! ABOUT THIS AIRBASE MOD: These textures replace the standard DCS Blackshark very low resolution runway, taxi roads, parking areas, run off roads and hardstandings with fully tiled, worn concrete high resolution textures to match (as closely as possible) real Russian Runways. The new textures have almost zero impact on FPS. DOWNLOAD THE FULLY MODMAN COMPLAINT VERSION HERE: Installation: See readme.txt included in the file. This version should work properly in all seasons/campaign missions. V3.0 - NEW!!! 22-4-2009! NOTE!! This is a replacement for V2.0 although some of you might prefer V2.0 Changes (not shown in cover screenshots) Improvements: Replaced the V2.0 white lining with aged version all areas except the parking area where I've darkened the V2.0 lining a little. Removed gravel from runway and replaced with white lining and grass edging under. Moved outer lining on taxi roads to edges (pros and cons here!) Improved blending from runway concrete to grass at the start of the runway (not so good in winter season) Lightened runway texturing generally Fixed a problem with a small tile showing on the K-Ray Known Issues: I cannot fix the texture placement issues such as overlapping. There's a minor problem at the runway start with a black or white line. Don't know why this occurs at all! V3.0 DOWNLOAD LINK: (Would appreciate MIRRORS!) FRANCE DOWNLOAD: http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?Fichier=5841 Main Page: http://www.checksix-fr.com/ (Thanks Phoenix!) UNITED KINGDOM DOWNLOAD: http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V3.0_MODMAN.rar SWEDEN DOWNLOAD: http://bluefire.dnsalias.com/~tats/files/Dragon's_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V3.0_MODMAN.rar (Thanks EtherealN!!) NORTH AMERICA DOWNLOAD: http://mirror.quex.org/dcs/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V3.0_MODMAN.rar (Thanks nomdeplume!) FRANCE DOWNLOAD: http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?Fichier=5841 (Thanks Phoenix!) SPAIN DOWNLOAD: http://www.escuadron69.net/v20/foro/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=437 (Thanks korrea!) GERMANY DOWNLOAD: http://hifi-sims.com/component/remository/Downloads/Black-Shark/Mods/Texturen/Dragons-Airbase-Textures-3.0-(ModMan-Version).html (Thanks AlexDuke!) The Above in game screenshot shows V3.0 Older V2.0: http://www.checksix-fr.com/bibliotheque/index.php?Fichier=5740 http://www.checksix-fr.com/ (Thanks Phoenix!) http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&cid=238&lid=1328&title=Worn%20Russian%20Airbase%20Textures%20v2.0#dldetails http://hifi-sims.com/component/remository/Downloads/Black-Shark/Mods/Texturen/ (Thanks Alexduke!) MIRROR: http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V2.0_MODMAN.rar DOWNLOAD THE NON-MODMAN V2.0 VERSION HERE: Installation: See readme.txt included in the file. This version installs in the temptextures folder and should automatically work properly in all seasons/campaign missions. NOTE: This version probably has a slightly lower video memory overhead http://hifi-sims.com/component/remository/Downloads/Black-Shark/Mods/Texturen/ (Thanks Alexduke!) http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V2.0.rar --------------------------------------------------------------- OPTIONAL ADDON FOR MY WORN AIRBASE TEXTURE SET V2.0 ONLY. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT MODMAN COMPLIANT BUT WILL WORK WITH EITHER THE ORIGINAL MODMAN OR NON-MODMAN VERSION. More information and screenshots about this version are here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=624096&postcount=12 Download link: http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V2.0_OPTIONAL_TAXI_ROAD_TEXTURE_NOT_MODMAN.rar ================================================= OLDER/ALTERNATIVE TEXTURES You can find my "NEW" Concrete runways in this thread, page 1: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36290 Some forum users have reported that the textures work in Lockon although not 100%. Just another Piccie V2.0:

Working on the Modman package currently. FINALLY figured out how to add the extra lines into the correct place in the graphics.cfg file using Modman and have checked Modman installs and uninstalls correctly. Now starting on the cover piccie and the readme. The Modman package will use a bit more video memory than the non-modman version. This is because I can't package the renamed DDS files into a CDDS package. The CDDS packer knows I'm cheating! :mad:

Yes the beta was unstable for me as well. Kept having to re-install the damned drivers. Reverted back and all ok again.

RELEASE! V2 BETA. NOT MODMAN compliant. Hope to have the final all Modmanned up. This release will only be shown here, not on the front page of the thread. New for V2: Run off areas now highres and concrete tiles Hard standings now highres and concrete tiles New landing zone textures Fixes from v1.4 Start of runway - bevel fixed. Installation - plz see the readme.txt http://www.xeos.co.uk/Dragon%27s_Ancient_Airbase_Texture_Set_V2.0_BETA.rar Let me know what you think plz. EDIT: Ooops! Thanks to all for their comments on how I can improve the textures (this involved some backtracking!) I used this airbase sat photo with ummmmmmm some artistic license :sorcerer:as a basis for the mod. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=52.916252,103.571033&spn=0.06697,0.161018&t=k