jocko417

Yes, I know about Grizzly's cockpit textures. Like mine, you have to back up your originals and dump the new ones into the Textures folder for the F-86. What I'm asking is, is it possible to assign the textures via the description.lua file for each livery, so you don't have to have one cockpit for all skins.

Having spent a few hours of my career doing real life NDB approaches into various airports, both in training and later in 3rd-tier airline operations, I must say the Sabre's instruments SUCK :) 1950s ergonomics... Or lack thereof... It's one thing to have a fixed-card ADF, but quite another to have a fixed-card Heading Indicator... One can easily transpose the relative bearing picture from an ADF to a modern Heading Indicator in order to calculate a magnetic bearing, not so much when the heading indicator's compass rose is, for all intents, fixed, while the pointer rotates instead! Effectively the opposite from today's standards. Ridiculous to have to fly the airplane with one hand while "flying" the heading indicator knob with the other, just so left and right corrections make more sense on the approach! Here is a period ADF approach chart for RCAF Station Marville, near the end of the Sabre era: Note the minimum altitude is 900 feet above field elevation, and the beacon is located on the field, not aligned with the extended runway centerline. This is purely a "cloud busting" procedure, designed to hopefully get you below the cloud base within sight of the airfield so you can circle to land visually. Imagine shooting the approach at night, with visibility down to a mile... Being essentially a day VFR aircraft, the Sabre depended more on ground controlled radar approaches when the weather was REALLY bad, as it had no ILS or TACAN. A radio failure in bad weather would have been cause for a rather tight sphincter... ;) The GCA operators in Europe got lots of practice and were very, very good at their trade. I've only flown one GCA approach, and it's interesting to be "talked" down through the cloud :) After 1963 the RCAF's Sabres were replaced overseas by the CF-104, which had both TACAN and ILS capability.

Is it possible to add replacement textures for the 3D cockpit in the various livery folders? I've changed some stuff but don't know a) the official naming convention for the various cockpit texture files for use in the description.lua file, b) whether or not it works at all... or is it a case of one cockpit for all, by replacing the files in the f-86f/Textures folder, like what I've been doing for personal use. Would be cool to have the cockpit match the skin without having to replace the default textures each time a skin is selected. Thanks!

Well, I figured since we're all training on the F-86 I'd offer up a training skin... Sabre Mk.5 23362 of No.1 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Station Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, circa 1958. W.I.P

Been playing with the Spec files a bit, always looks better in motion than in screens though :-/ Sabre Mk.5 23187 of No. 434 "Bluenose" Squadron, 3 Fighter Wing, RCAF Station Zweibrücken, West Germany, 1955.

Lower right corner of the file:

Should have known you'd be first to get it :) '314 in a previous life with 441 squadron. I plan on doing a bare metal version in STU colours too.

Just a quick note to say Thanks for the improvements to the texture mapping. :thumbup: It's nice to be able to have the gun ports match the camo paint on both sides :) Thanks for fixing the pitot tube shape and for adding the intake pitot :) Most Canucks will know the answer, but the booby prize goes to the first person to tell me what the significance of Sabre 23314 is these days... Skins to be updated and some new ones to be added. One of these days I'll start on the pilot...

Yeah, it would make sense, I just haven't been able to get it to work yet since I don't know the official naming convention for those texture files in the description, and what I've tried obviously isn't correct. Thanks again :)

No, I mean INTERNAL, the cockpit as seen by the player, not the external view. The ones named Cockpit1, Cockpit2, etc.

Yep, thanks much! :)

That's got it! Thanks SkateZilla :) BTW, is there a way to use substitute textures for the internal cockpit by editing the description.lua in each livery folder, or is it "one for all" by changing them in the main F-86 textures folder?

Hi fellas, It seems they added a US Decals file to the textures, I'm trying to figure out how to turn it off in the description.lua files for my skins, ie: Decals EMPTY;false, etc, but no joy so far. Working on it ;) On a happier note, there are now left and right gun ports, so ver. 2.0 of my camo RCAF skins will have green gun ports on the left and grey on the right, just like the real deal :) Stand by...

Lovely work markuscha! :)

@ assafm25 and SchniX, you're welcome, was fun researching a little known fact about Canadian Sabres :) @ headtraumaza, check the thread for some nice Korean war SAAF Sabre skins, I've always been a fan of the SAAF camo, maybe I'll give it a try if the mapping around the control surfaces doesn't kill me first :)

410 "Cougar" Squadron, RCAF Canadair Sabre Mk.5 23300 of No. 410 "Cougar" Squadron, 1 Fighter Wing, RCAF Station Marville, circa October, 1956. In April, 1955, 1 Fighter Wing, consisting of No's 410, 439, and 441 squadrons, moved from it's original location in North Luffenham, England to it's new home in Marville, France. Not long after arrival in France, the decision was made to replace one Sabre squadron at each of Canada's four NATO fighter bases with an all-Weather CF-100 interceptor squadron. It was decided to stand down the lowest numbered squadron at each fighter Wing, so 410 squadron left Marville and was replaced by 445 "Wolverine" squadron, flying the CF-100 Mk.4. The four Sabre squadrons to leave NATO, No's 410, 413, 414, and 416, all returned to Canada and converted to the all-weather interceptor role for NORAD, flying CF-100s. The aircraft depicted, 23300, is a rare one as it is the only camouflaged 410 Sabre seen in photos to sport the squadron's 'chevron' tail art, which was used extensively on the earlier Sabre Mk.2s flown from North Luffenham. 410 was stood down about the time the squadron art was being added to the camouflaged Mk.5s. It is unknown if any other 410 Sabres had the tail art applied. Note - Bare metal drop tank texture is intentional, based on period photo. Officially, the drop tanks were to be painted with the top half in Extra Dark Sea Grey and the underside in PRU Blue to match the camo scheme, but there are many examples of all-over PRU Blue, as well as natural metal. Available for download here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/828475/

IDF Sabres By request, a fictional skin pack of Israeli Sabres, representing 105 "Scorpion", 109 "Valley", and 116 "Defenders of the South" squadrons of the Israel Defence Forces. Canada was to have provided 24 Sabre Mk.6 aircraft to Israel, but the export license was revoked by the Canadian government due to the 1956 Suez Crisis. Eight of the Israeli order were in various states of assembly when the order was cancelled, and had been allocated the IDF serials 6030-6037. Available for download here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/828435/ 109 "Valley" Squadron 105 "Scorpion" Squadron 116 "Defenders of the South" Squadron Markings and squadron art size and placement based on period photos from Canadair Limited and IDF aircraft of the 1950s.

@ assafm25 assam25, which squadron would you like?

Beautiful job Bo! :)

Cheers Mate! :) You're quite right, we're probably all doomed to redo these skins and don't think a little voice in my head hasn't warned me more than once. All the same, it's addictive, and so much fun to see all these reference photos come to life in the game!

If I recall, they didn't glide to a landing, they shut the engine down to save gas during the glide home, then relit the engine for a powered approach and landing. Flaps are electric.

1959 Golden Hawks paint scheme now available here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/793979/

The "notching" might be how your stripe is mapped near the seam between the top fuselage strip and the fuselage sides. There is a gap between these textures, although it's hard to see on the default skin as it's all one colour. Same thing happens with the ailerons, flaps, and rudder. Makes camo patterns a bit... challenging. ;)

I've always liked that scheme, of course the CAC-27 airframe is quite different than the one modelled.

411 Squadron RCAF Auxiliary skin now available here: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/780767/