New Black Shark Screens! 15th June

[Starlight]

AFAIK, (at least some of) the new models were created by community members. Don't forget LOBS is about a helo air-to-ground engagements (relatively slow flying as well), meaning it's interesting to have more variety in ground targets.

 

Do you think a helo flies close to its intended targets? If tactics work you should detect, ID, launch and "forget" in a few seconds. You're not gonna overfly tanks and drop bomblets while hovering atop.

 

Anyway, you want the 3D modelers to sit idle while the programmers revise the program code? ...

 

I think there are a lot of things which need revision, even in the 3D compartment, before adding detailed APCs

 

The 3D model of the Flanker is good, but could be improved since there are a lot of better models out there (just think of Strikemax's model)

The same goes for the F-14, the Mig-31, and many other aircraft, which fly with a poor 3D model or with a poor texture (some are straight copy&paste from "Flanker" which is about 10 years old!)

 

Or they could add some non-flyables with simple flight model just tweaking some existing aircraft (think a new F-111, a new Tornado F3, a Strike Eagle, all aircraft which already have a 3D model and a simple FM in Lomac)

 

Or they could add a western style airbase.

 

These are just proposals, to not allow "modellers sit idle"...

[Starlight]

THat's pretty simple ... ED isn't making the models, they're accepting what artists feel like creating for the most part.

 

ok, understood, but why reject Strikemax's Su-27, the Prowler, the Mirage F1, the F-14D, the Harrier.... all user-made models...

MTLB is a troop carrier, it doesn't make much sense having so much detail and no troops coming off.... just my 2c

[rekoal]

The Cobra can't use Mavericks. It uses BGM-71 TOW and the AGM-114K Hellfire. Russian counterparts are the Vikhr and Ataka. The Russian counterpart to the Maverick would probably be the Kh-25.

 

 

my bad, thanks very much!

 

rekoal

[NEODARK]

THat's pretty simple ... ED isn't making the models, they're accepting what artists feel like creating for the most part.

Didnt they reject a recently made SU27 model that was user created?

 

EDIT: forget it, I didnt see the two posts above mine when I saw your reply..

[GGTharos]

These models have to meet certain requirements also in terms of animation, and LOD's (they likely have the required amount of polygons).

 

None of this is easy, and a plane is rough enough to make to begin with.

[SuperKungFu]

Yea i been asking for new models for planes for a long time :P but one of the main issues the 3rd party has to face is lod..etc. Personally, i would love to see ED release the models for the flyable planes and let the 3rd party modify them. Like improve on some areas (especially the nose of the aircraft). I think that would save a lot of time on both sides but i also know ED probably won't do this because its their precious model. :doh: Just my 2 cents. unless ED release it to one respectable member they trust and let him touch up the model.

[Starlight]

The Cobra can't use Mavericks. It uses BGM-71 TOW and the AGM-114K Hellfire. Russian counterparts are the Vikhr and Ataka. The Russian counterpart to the Maverick would probably be the Kh-25.

 

Maybe it's not a standard weapon, but I saw pictures of a test-firing of a Maverick from an AH-1W

[Cobra360]

Thats news to me.

[GGTharos]

It has been tested, yes, but why carry 1 (really heavy) mav per pylon when for the same weight you can carry 8 quite capable anti-tank missiles?

[Starlight]

It has been tested, yes, but why carry 1 (really heavy) mav per pylon when for the same weight you can carry 8 quite capable anti-tank missiles?

 

maybe for "special employments" like Task Force Normandy in 1991. In the case you have to blow up a bunker, a mav has better chances than a Hellfire (just guessing)

[Cobra360]

I cases like that the Cobra would probably sit tight, lase the target and call in fighter support like USMC did all the time with F/A-18s in OIF.

[GGTharos]

maybe for "special employments" like Task Force Normandy in 1991. In the case you have to blow up a bunker, a mav has better chances than a Hellfire (just guessing)

Poor guess :)

 

The hellfire will happily do a number on a bunker, though for trajectory reasons typically a TOW is preferred.

 

EDIT: I should say, it depends on the type of bunker. Typically if a Mav will do, so will a hellfire or TOW. However there are things that the new Mav warhead will do the older one wouldn't, and then there's just some targets you really have to GBU.