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?

[jarvik7]

I think what you're looking for is typically in

...CoreMods\aircraft\F14\Textures\Diffuse_RoughMet\HB_F14_EXT_PILOT_SUIT.dds

But I don't think there is actually a nametag, just unit patches. I guess you could make one a nametag tho

 

[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.