VikVaughan

Installed :D

Fantastic! Looks great diveplane.

I have a small one - may I suggest darkening the white lines a tiny amount. They are fairly bright against the otherwise old-looking surface. Keep up the nice work!

Hi Ulrich, my apologies, I've been really busy the past couple of days. I will make my best efforts to send you something tonight or tomorrow latest. Sweet custom shots there svk_fox :D Glad those from Slovakia like it VV

Interesting.. very interesting. Hopefully something like that can be done as an add-on rather than being integral from the beginning. I can model and texture, but don't know poop about software. Thanks for the link.

It seems there should be. They appear to be composed of several snap together sections like building blocks. There must be a file (hopefully) that defines which go where for each air field. I'd like to know also. Actually, I've been wondering if there is a way to build entirely new airfields, perhaps entirely new terrain/theaters. In anticipation of the A-10 module, I've had this ambitious idea that would require me brush off my old 3d modeling skills.. I haven't opened 3ds in years! Something along the lines of a recreation of southeastern Ontario & Quebec/northeastern US, with realistic representations of major military and civil fields. It would involve Quebec separatists resorting to forced millitaristic action in an attempt to remove the province form the country, with Canada calling on US A-10's to help resolve the situation.. haha.. anyway.. waaay off track. I think I'm gong to browse the install folders and see if I come accross anythign with regard to airfield texture placement.

How about some asphalt :D (I know, its not typical for such an airfield. This isn't actually something I'm 'working on', just some experimentation from today). Aged concrete on the taxiway of course!

Hi Ulrich. Certainly. I'll try and have something to you today or tomorrow :).

Aaaah, I see, I see. Too bad it's set up that way, I too would be interested in knowing if there is a way to modify the texture layout. There must be somehow. I'd love to make replicas of real airports from around the world, new terrain for different locations etc.. could really get into this whole modding thing... but I'm getting sidetracked here :D Again, excellent work on the textures. Ironically one of the biggest contributors to realism is imperfection, and all too often things look too squaky clean and perfect in computer games/simulations. Dirt, wear, cracks, dirty glass, you name it, are all a part of reality! Thanks for contributing to the immersion of the software. PS: If anyone out there made cockpit glass with a hint of grime, wiper marks, scratches, etc on it, or has any advice on where to start with something like that, it would make my day ;)

Here is Russia's Smolensk airforce base, with aiming/distance markings on the runway. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=54%C2%B049%E2%80%B230%E2%80%B3N+032%C2%B01%E2%80%B230%E2%80%B3E&sll=52.626916,39.464436&sspn=0.035844,0.077248&ie=UTF8&ll=54.824086,32.036004&spn=0.004252,0.009656&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr Here are two useful pages with general runway marking info: http://stoenworks.com/Tutorials/Runways%20and%20Taxiways.html http://www.pilotfriend.com/training/flight_training/communication/rnwy_mark.htm

Hey Timm, glad you got it working. The black line is meant to be a shadow (the top of the tail is slightly fatter I believe). The shadow appears on all the skins in BS. However, after you mentioned that I took a look, and it does seem a little too dark for such a light colored skin. I will tone it down in a future version. Thanks for the feedback :D

Hi Timm, that's unusual. I'm not too sure about the ins and outs of ModMan yet as I'm fairly new with it, but I think installing multiple mods might conflict with eachother. One mod migth edit a file that the other mod needed (unless the program is intuative enough to take that into account and simply add to the file instead of replacing it. That could very well be the case - I'd like to know actually). Sorry I couldn't be of more help. it's odd that TimA installed without any problem. Maybe someone else could chime in.

Nice work! Forgive me if it has already been asked, but is it possible to change the runway and taxiway markings? Aiming points/touchdown zone markings, displaced thresholds, etc, would be amazing.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=36605

Thank you :) . However i uploaded the wrong file! Let me fix that - 5 mins. Edit: Fixed. The old file will work too, but doesn't come with instructions.

DOWNLOAD This skin is based on Slovakia's digital camouflage paint scheme implemented on their Mig-29's. It's my first real skin for BS, so forgive me for any hickups. File is ready to be installed with Modman, headache free. Instructions are in the readme. Background These images of a real Slovak Mig-29 with the digital camo paint job were my reference/inspiration. More: http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9941/mig29gooddigikf2.jpg http://www.hyperstealth.com/Mig29/index.html http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Digital-Thunder-Camo-for-Slovakias-MiG-29s-04814/ Screenshots Where's waldo? (alright its not that good :P ) *Final version features small black tail numbers instead of large side numbering.

Maybe its just something I'm doing wrong, but what is with my wingmen? I've been in 3 missions over the past 2 days where I was in a completely stationary hover, and the little bastards just plowed into me when I gave them an order that involved them moving ahead of me. This was in the default formation, but some other formations seem to just make this more frequent. I haven't had time to try them all exhaustively though. Has anyone else experienced this or know what to do to avoid it? There's also this loud buzz/squeal on the radio in lieu of voices at times. Is this meant to be a representation of Jamming or interference/multiple people talking at the same time? The radio is pretty dead most of the time, so that would seem unusual. Any insights are appreciated! Thanks. :)

Hey CrazyD. I used Modman to overwrite an existing skin. I am going to attempt to make it so that it does not replace an old one, but there isn't too much documentation on how to do this that i can find. I've sort of decyphered it from other threads/skins that were posted. EDIT: It's done and Modman compatible! Now I just need to figure out a place to upload it to. .

Thanks :) . I worked on it a bit a few days ago and it looks much better now, more similar to the real thing. I've also added the Slovak coat of arms. I'll post a download in a couple of days, things have been busy starting my second term back at college. Something to watch: .

Aaaaw man, I should have stuck around for a bit longer! Tigrom, I have a similar mission made with a bunch of Su-33`s and a couple of other random planes and helicopters taking off from the airfield and landing again, or landing on the carrier. It`s prety cool how they fly out there, trap on the carrier, and then fold up their wings and park out of the way leaving the boat populated :D. Theres also a few static targets to go out and shoot at. I`m not sure how to make planes do continuous touch and gos in a sane manner either. By any chance, did you figure out how to make multiple Ka-50`s without having to manually redraw waypoints for each and every one? Its a pain to do it 10 times to create 10 aircraft people can fly.

Looks like things have been postponed due to technical difficulties :( . If anyone`s reading, stay in touch and maybe we can have another go later.

It shouldn`t effect you hopefully, I actually just managed to resolve the issue for myself. Try joining.

Not yet, I think I`ll give it a test run now though. Feel free to attempt joining. Edit: It works! But I can`t seem to alt-tab out without it hanging. Looks like once I`m in, I`m in. As such I won`t start it until just before 6.

VV works :) To connect: Run the `DCS Black Shark multiplayer` program (there should be a shortcut to it on your desktop next to the normal Black Shark game, or if not, look in the BS install folder). Once its running, click on `client`. At the top of the new screen that opens, select `internet` as the source from the dropdown menu. Then click refresh at the bottom. The game should show up in the list as `Vik`s beginner practice` or something to that effect. Select it, join, and then chose any empty slot in the flight list (will be on the blue side in my mission). Then hit Fly. If you can`t find it, I will send an IP (don`t want to post it publicly here) and you can join by IP at the same screen you clicked refresh at previously.

The mig-29? Thats not a skin, that`s a real plane :P