boundless84

First time making a custom skin. I'm looking to make a camouflage patterned F-15E skin, just for fun. I have a camo template, but not sure how to go about positioning it so that there is a continuous flow from one part of the aircraft to another. I've attached a screenshot to show that, although the surface is covered by the camo, where the wings meet the fuselage there is not a continuous flow of the pattern. Any tips on how to achieve this? Also, I cannot load the skin in the model viewer, as I have no idea where the F-15E skins are stored. The default liveries will load in the viewer, but not sure how to load my custom skin. Any help with that is appreciated. Thanks!

I'm working on a template for NTTR, wanting to have a tanker set up in the air - which I can do no problem. However, what I specifically am trying to do is have the tanker hold and orbit at a specific anchor point until the receiving aircraft approached to within, say, 5 miles, or 10 miles, and only at that point it would begin it's larger race-track orbit to conduct the refueling operation. However...I'm not sure how or if this is possible. The reason I'm wanting to do this is so that a plane doesn't have to chase the tanker down a 50 to 70 mile pattern, but rather could know that the tanker will hold at a smaller designated anchor point/orbit until they arrive. Can this be done within the mission editor, or even with LUA scripting? I have some experience with the mission editor, but even less with LUA scripting - although I've been trying to learn some of that, playing with RAT scripts. Anyways, hopefully that makes sense. Any advice/help is appreciated.

So...I've been doing a lot of reading/watching tutorials/browsing through this thread, and so far I have been able to get RAT launching from McCarran in my test mission. Also, when I downloaded and tried the sample mission for the above "Activate Uncontrolled Aircraft" script, it works just as it does in the sample video. However, when I attempt to combine the two scripts, the first which I made and the second which I literally copy and paste (the Activate Uncontrolled Cessna's), the Cessna's spawn, but then they all activate immediately. Rather than randomly activating at specified intervals, they all start up together. Below is the LUA script I've made this far. The only change I added to the cessna portion (at the very end) is to add specific destinations. However with or without this, they always start almost simultaneously. I don't understand what is different that would cause them to do this. Any help is appreciated! This is the script I have so far (please note I'm new to this and am playing around with different options): -- Liveries local b727skins={"AEROFLOT", "Air France", "Alaska", "Alitalia", "American Airlines", "Clean", "Delta Airlines", "Delta Airlines OLD", "FedEx", "Hapag Lloyd", "Lufthansa", "Lufthansa Oberhausen Old", "Northwest", "Pan Am", "Singapore Airlines", "Southwest", "UNITED", "UNITED OLD", "ZERO G"} local b737skins={"Air Algerie", "Air Berlin", "Air France", "airBaltic", "Airzena", "AM", "American_Airlines", "British Airways", "C40s", "Clean", "Disney", "EA", "easyjet", "FINNAIR", "HARIBO", "JA", "Jet2", "kulula", "LH", "Lufthansa BA", "Lufthansa KR", "OLD_BA", "OMAN AIR", "PAN AM", "Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT", "QANTAS", "RYANAIR", "SouthWest Lone Star", "ThomsonFly", "TNT", "Ukraine Airlines", "UPS"} local b747skins={"AF", "AI", "CP", "KLM", "LH", "NW", "PA", "QA", "TA", "Virgin Atlantic 747_Barbarella_G-VROM"} local b757skins={"AA", "BA", "C-32", "Delta", "DHL", "easyJet", "Swiss", "Thomson"} local a320skins={"Aeroflot", "Aeroflot 1", "Air Asia", "Air Berlin", "Air Berlin FFO", "Air Berlin OLT", "Air Berlin retro","Air Canada", "Air France", "Air France RETRO", "Air Moldova", "airarabia", "Airbus Neo", "Al Maha", "Alaska", "Alitalia", "Allegiant", "American Airlines", "atlasglobal", "Austrian", "Austrian RETRO", "Azul", "BRD", "British Airways", "Brunei", "Cebu Pacific", "Citilink", "Clean", "Cobalt", "Condor", "Condor Retro", "Croatia", "Delta Airlines", "Easy Jet", "Easy Jet Berlin", "Easy Jet W", "Edelweiss", "Egyptair", "Emirates", "Etihad", "Eurowings", "Eurowings BVB09", "Eurowings Europa Park", "Fly Georgia", "Fly Niki", "flynas", "Frontier", "German Wings", "Germania", "Germanwings", "Gulf Air", "Iberia", "IndiGo", "Iran Air", "Iraqi Airways", "Islamic Republic", "Jazeera", "Jet Blue NY", "JetBlue", "jetBlue FDNY", "JetBlue RETRO", "jetBlue Vet", "Kish Air", "KLM", "KLM WiFi", "Kuwait Airways", "LAN", "Lufthansa", "Lufthansa New", "MEA", "Monarch", "Nesma", "New Zealand", "Nile Air", "Northwest", "Qatar", "RAF OMAN", "S7", "SalamAir", "SAS", "SATA", "Saudi Gulf", "Saudia", "Scoot", "Small Planet", "spirit", "Star Alliance", "SWISS", "TAP", "Thai", "Thomas Cook", "tiger", "Tunis Air", "Turkish Airlines", "UAE", "United", "Ural Airlines", "US Airways", "Vietnam Airlines", "Virgin", "Virgin Atlantic A_320_Rosie Lee_EI-EZW", "vueling", "WiZZ", "WiZZ Budapest", "WOW"} local a380skins={"Air France", "BA", "China Southern", "Clean", "Emirates", "KA", "LH", "LHF", "Qantas Airways", "QTR", "SA", "TA"} local cessnaskins={"Blank", "D-EKVW", "HellenicAF", "Muster", "N9672H", "SEagle_blue", "SEagle_red", "USAF-Academy", "V5-BUG", "VH-JGA"} local b737=RAT:New("RAT_B737") b737:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") b737:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") b737:Livery(b737skins) b737:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) b737:StatusReports(false) b737:SetSpawnDelay(10) b737:SetSpawnInterval(120) b737:SetTakeoff("cold") b737:SetFLmin(200) b737:SetFLcruise(300) b737:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() b737:RespawnAfterTakeoff() b737:Spawn(20) local b727=RAT:New("RAT_B727") b727:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") b727:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") b727:Livery(b727skins) b727:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) b727:StatusReports(false) b727:SetSpawnDelay(20) b727:SetSpawnInterval(120) b727:SetTakeoff("cold") b727:SetFLmin(210) b727:SetFLcruise(305) b727:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() b727:RespawnAfterTakeoff() b727:Spawn(20) local b747=RAT:New("RAT_B747") b747:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") b747:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") b747:Livery(b747skins) b747:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) b747:StatusReports(false) b747:SetSpawnDelay(30) b747:SetSpawnInterval(120) b747:SetTakeoff("cold") b747:SetFLmin(240) b747:SetFLcruise(340) b747:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() b747:RespawnAfterTakeoff() b747:Spawn(10) local b757=RAT:New("RAT_B757") b757:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") b757:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") b757:Livery(b757skins) b757:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) b757:StatusReports(false) b757:SetSpawnDelay(40) b757:SetSpawnInterval(120) b757:SetTakeoff("cold") b757:SetFLmin(220) b757:SetFLcruise(320) b757:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() b757:RespawnAfterTakeoff() b757:Spawn(20) local a320=RAT:New("RAT_A320") a320:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") a320:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") a320:Livery(a320skins) a320:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) a320:StatusReports(false) a320:SetSpawnDelay(50) a320:SetSpawnInterval(120) a320:SetTakeoff("cold") a320:SetFLmin(230) a320:SetFLcruise(330) a320:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() a320:RespawnAfterTakeoff() a320:Spawn(20) local a380=RAT:New("RAT_A380") a380:SetDeparture("McCarran International Airport") a380:SetDestination("RAT Zone A") a380:Livery(a380skins) a380:SetMaxRespawnTriedWhenSpawnedOnRunway(0) a380:StatusReports(false) a380:SetSpawnDelay(60) a380:SetSpawnInterval(120) a380:SetTakeoff("cold") a380:SetFLmin(255) a380:SetFLcruise(350) a380:RespawnInAirNotAllowed() a380:RespawnAfterTakeoff() a380:Spawn(10) local cessna=RAT:New("RAT_CESSNA", "Cessna Henderson") cessna:SetDeparture("Henderson Executive Airport") cessna:Livery(cessnaskins) cessna:SetSpawnDelay(30) cessna:SetSpawnInterval(0.5) cessna:Uncontrolled() cessna:ActivateUncontrolled(30, 120, 120, 0.5) cessna:SetDestination({"North Las Vegas", "Boulder City Airport"}) cessna:ContinueJourney() cessna:Spawn(44)

Thanks for the responses! I managed to get it working successfully. It seems I had everything set up properly. What I noticed was that in order to get Flight A to use Tanker A, and flight B to use Tanker B, is that flight A needed to be closer to Tanker A than to Tanker B. If both flight A and B were closer to Tanker A, they all would contact that tanker for refuel, even if the other tanker was merely 1000ft farther away. Moving their waypoint/flight path closer to the other tanker enabled them to make contact with that one instead of all sharing one tanker. Thanks again!

Hey all. Is it possible to set up a mission with multiple, simultaneous tankers that can be used by both AI and Player aircraft? I can't seem to get this to work. I can set up an individual tanker no problem. But I can't seem to get two tankers to function as tankers at the same time. Is this possible? The separate AI flights all go to the same tanker, rather than splitting up and go to the second available tanker.

I have noticed there is no longer a "Close Group Formation" option. Is there a reason for this? I remember flying Jane's F-15 years ago, and you could get the AI wingmen to close formation to within 20ft or so - and they didn't crash into you lol! I would love to have that ability again in DCS.

I tried the AUTO Flaps after takeoff and that worked. Strange things is another time it didn't work. I've assigned that control to a switch on my throttle so hopefully it won't be an issue anymore. Thanks!

I've had this happen a few times and I'm not sure what's happening. Most recently it happens when I try and fly the "Eastern Friendship - An F/A-18 Single Player Mission by Sedlo (ver 1.5)" mission. When I take off the plane pulls up steeply and basically does a loop that I have to push hard nose down to try and correct. I've tried resetting the FCS. I have manually cycled through the flap positions and they make no difference. What am I missing or doing wrong? I should also note that other missions it doesn't happen. Example, the Takeoff and Navigation in Caucasus works just fine. And like I said, another mission I flew, I think one I made myself, I took off and flew just fine. Landed at Nellis, went to take off again, and the stabilizers seemed stuck in a pull position and without any input on the joystick the plane pulls back hard into a loop. And I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or what happens to cause this.

F-15E - love the A/G and A/A capability, as well as the various systems that could be used Dynamic Campaign AH-64D