F14 Skinners thread (Paintkit in 1st post)

[Rinz1er]

Has anyone else noticed an insane glare when looking at the sun with only the VF-32 Swordsmen AB200 (1976) F14A livery? I will post a picture soon of what I am seeing but it makes this livery almost unusable in dusk and dawn scenarios.

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Edited September 20, 2022 by Rinz1er
Adding photo

[LanceCriminal86]

I think he'd been working on some revised glass to be less scratched/grimy and representing newish jets, it could be a side effect of that.

[_YaeSakura_]

My apologies, I intended to have it be a clean internal canopy and only recently fixed the issue, will push a patch to it ASAP.

[ESCOMM_Miranda]

Do someone have a more PC friendly weathering and dirt layer? I'm trying to make a skin for my squadrom but it's almost impossible to change anything since those laylers from the base template takes so much from my computer

[McKronenberg]

VF-213 Is finally finished

 

Edited October 19, 2022 by McKronenberg

[ShinyMikey]

On 10/20/2022 at 7:05 AM, McKronenberg said:

VF-213 Is finally finished

 

 

 Awesome! I've been watching for these on the user files since I saw the post...looking forward to them

[LanceCriminal86]

Coming, eventually. VX-4 F-14A+ 162911 from 1988. Same airframe would go to VF-24 as the 201 skin that currently is included (and is on the list for some fixes), then went to NFWS briefly and ended up over in VX-9 later on before ending up with VF-11 from '97-'04, and she's now on display as such:

References, mainly thanks to the great Keith Svendsen's wonderful photos from Edwards and other bases/airshows from the 80s-90s, who caught her at the Edwards open house or airshow in 1988:

But wait, helmets? Names? Well that took a good while, but I finally found a photo of some VX-4 crews walking to both Vandy1 black Phantoms, which dated to March of '89, and other photos from '87-'89 Point Mugu airshows showed these helmets but not clearly:

Some more digging, and I found out "Edelen" was Marine Captain Russ Edelen, who worked on the F/A-18D stuff at Pax River in '86 and seems to have been around VX-4 at the right time as a back-seater, and the for the pilot, Tom Lindgren who was an F-14 project officer with VX-4 from '87-'89 and a Tomcat pilot.

The pilot bodies are going to be changing at some point in the future, so I'll redo them at that time.

[WarthogOsl]

3 hours ago, LanceCriminal86 said:

Coming, eventually. VX-4 F-14A+ 162911 from 1988. Same airframe would go to VF-24 as the 201 skin that currently is included (and is on the list for some fixes), then went to NFWS briefly and ended up over in VX-9 later on before ending up with VF-11 from '97-'04, and she's now on display as such:

References, mainly thanks to the great Keith Svendsen's wonderful photos from Edwards and other bases/airshows from the 80s-90s, who caught her at the Edwards open house or airshow in 1988:

But wait, helmets? Names? Well that took a good while, but I finally found a photo of some VX-4 crews walking to both Vandy1 black Phantoms, which dated to March of '89, and other photos from '87-'89 Point Mugu airshows showed these helmets but not clearly:

Some more digging, and I found out "Edelen" was Marine Captain Russ Edelen, who worked on the F/A-18D stuff at Pax River in '86 and seems to have been around VX-4 at the right time as a back-seater, and the for the pilot, Tom Lindgren who was an F-14 project officer with VX-4 from '87-'89 and a Tomcat pilot.

The pilot bodies are going to be changing at some point in the future, so I'll redo them at that time.

Note: I'm pretty sure most if not all of those shots are from Point Mugu.  That little control tower is in the background of so many of my pics.  Except this one: My pic of VX-4 #46. 

[LanceCriminal86]

25 minutes ago, WarthogOsl said:

Note: I'm pretty sure most if not all of those shots are from Point Mugu.  That little control tower is in the background of so many of my pics.  Except this one: My pic of VX-4 #46. 

Yep, most of his photos were from Edwards, Nellis, and sometimes Miramar but he did have the airport code on there as I see it now.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/147861202@N07/albums/72157666900357129/with/38691679272/

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by LanceCriminal86

[chgr]

Am 20.10.2022 um 00:05 schrieb McKronenberg:

VF-213 Is finally finished

 

 

Nice

can t wait

[_YaeSakura_]

cough

[_YaeSakura_]

VF-142 has been approved and now available for public download. After a little break, onto the Red Checkertails.
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3327599/

[RWallaby]

Hey Guys,

 

Been trying to skin a more personal, less realistic skin,

Obviously, being edgy, I wanted a "very very dark grey" plane, however I haven't been able to paint the inside of the air turbines, went searching through a few other liveries who also haven't been able to paint this area.

 

Was wondering if anyone knew which file I could find it in:

Edited November 29, 2022 by RWallaby

[LanceCriminal86]

HB_F14_EXT_INTAKERAMPS. If it isn't in the template you will have to grab it from the coremods/aircraft/f14/textures/diffuse_roughmet folder and use overlay or another mode to work with it.

 

[RWallaby]

14 hours ago, LanceCriminal86 said:

HB_F14_EXT_INTAKERAMPS. If it isn't in the template you will have to grab it from the coremods/aircraft/f14/textures/diffuse_roughmet folder and use overlay or another mode to work with it.

 

Yeah.... I thought that was it, must have some syntax error or something in my description, cuz no matter what I did to the Intake ramp file,  it did nothing.

 

Will have a closer look.

[LanceCriminal86]

{"HB_F14_EXT_INTAKERAMPS", 0, "hb_f14_ext_intakeramps", false};

 

[_YaeSakura_]

Aside from the very obvious squadron coming up next, I wonder if anyone can spot something different about these Tomcat tails.

[McKronenberg]

Just now, _YaeSakura_ said:

Aside from the very obvious squadron coming up next, I wonder if anyone can spot something different about these Tomcat tails.

the leading edges aren't broken cause you adjusted the normals

[Bremspropeller]

Does anybody know where to get the VF-33 1991 skin pack? Seems like the linked google folder is empty

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322758/

[Panny]

16 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody know where to get the VF-33 1991 skin pack? Seems like the linked google folder is empty

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322758/

Hey there,

Those are my paints. I'll check that over next 24 hours and have it updated.

Cheers

[Panny]

On 12/7/2022 at 9:48 PM, Bremspropeller said:

Does anybody know where to get the VF-33 1991 skin pack? Seems like the linked google folder is empty

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3322758/

should work now

[Bremspropeller]

58 minutes ago, Panny said:

should work now

Awesome, thanks a lot Panny!

[Callsign JoNay]

Does anyone know where textures for the new pilot body are located? More specifically how to mod the nametag?

[LanceCriminal86]

No, the new VR body is in the Mods/aircraft/f14 folders. You can change the textures in there and probably tie them to a livery using the model viewer to generate the LUA lines, but it's only visible in the cockpit. The external body is still the old one.

[Callsign JoNay]

14 hours ago, LanceCriminal86 said:

No, the new VR body is in the Mods/aircraft/f14 folders. You can change the textures in there and probably tie them to a livery using the model viewer to generate the LUA lines, but it's only visible in the cockpit. The external body is still the old one.

Thanks. It's been irking me that both the Driver and RIO are named Ben O'Neil. HB, please.