ADMIRAL189'S CORNER - INCOMING SHIP MODELS

[Dargaard01]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Admiral189:

Good Morning Everyone,

Hello Dargaard01, yes, I'm aware of the dancing missiles on the Normandy Frigate. The missile file has been corrected. Thankfully, the new updates didn't cause any further problems. I will release an updated missile file sometime today.

Thanks, Cao990 for chiming in. As he mentioned, please be patient as I am a one-man shipyard. It takes time to go back and repair the older mods while also working on the new mods. 

I will be releasing the Italian Comandante Frigate soon. There were problems with the FPS while playing with the AI Player Aircraft. That has been resolved. Thanks to Kaiser for pointing it out. 

 Also, I do take some time to play with the mods. Configuring the declared missiles to perform correctly takes up most of my time. Going in and out of DCS is very time-consuming.

Something to note is when you all are playing with the mods and it's not performing correctly. Send me a PM and I will add it to my Shipyard repair list. Most problems are simple fixes. Thanks.

Hello Admiral,
thank you for your message in the forum. I didn't want to rush you in any way! I fully understand the time you need for this. For me, your work is simply perfect and realistic naval operations would simply be impossible. So once again my thanks and my greatest respect for what you do.
I'm really looking forward to more great ships from you and remain with my best regards
Dargaard (Didi)

[Beldin]

So while the Admiral is getting all the ship fixes sorted he said it'd be ok to share my updated Normandie Frigate files. This update is more than just a fix for the "dancing missiles" and includes both the ASW and AAW variants of the FREMM "Aquitaine" class used by the French Navy. 3 ships and fixed/new missiles have been added.

2 ASW variants are D-650 Aquitaine and D-651 Normandie

2 AAW variants are D-656 Alsace and D-657 Lorraine

ASW ships have either 16 Aster 15 (D-650) or 16 Aster 30NT (D-651) SAMs and 16 MdCN Land Attack Cruise missiles (760 nm range)

AAW Ships have 16 Aster 30NT and Aster 30 Blk2 SAMs

Both versions have 8 Exocet Anti Ship missiles as well.

This is a update/patch so you will need the original mod. To install, remove original Normandie mod folder from your saved games folder and back it up. You will need to copy files from it.

Copy the new mod folder to saved games. Then you will need to copy 4 files (ship edm files) from the orignal mods "Shapes" folder to the new mod's  "Shapes" folder.

D651_Normandie.edm

D651_Normandie.lods.ship_wake

D651_Normandie_collision.edm

D651_Normandie (LODS File)

 

Important. If you have any issues/conflict with this update message ME directly. Please to not bother the Admiral about this update or post issues in the thread. I will do my best to help with any issues.

Note. Ship names in ME list are FS-DXXX and nation must be France

D-651 update.zip

 

Edited August 12 by Beldin

[clanitho]

39 minutes ago, Beldin said:

So while the Admiral is getting all the ship fixes sorted he said it'd be ok to share my updated Normandie Frigate files. This update is more than just a fix for the "dancing missiles" and includes both the ASW and AAW variants of the FREMM "Aquitaine" class used by the French Navy. 3 ships and fixed/new missiles have been added.

2 ASW variants are D-650 Aquitaine and D-651 Normandie

2 AAW variants are D-656 Alsace and D-657 Lorraine

ASW ships have either 16 Aster 15 (D-650) or 16 Aster 30NT (D-651) SAMs and 16 MdCN Land Attack Cruise missiles (760 nm range)

AAW Ships have 16 Aster 30NT and Aster 30 Blk2 SAMs

Both versions have 8 Exocet Anti Ship missiles as well.

This is a update/patch so you will need the original mod. To install, remove original Normandie mod folder from your saved games folder and back it up. You will need to copy files from it.

Copy the new mod folder to saved games. Then you will need to copy 4 files (ship edm files) from the orignal mods "Shapes" folder to the new mod's  "Shapes" folder.

D651_Normandie.edm

D651_Normandie.lods.ship_wake

D651_Normandie_collision.edm

D651_Normandie (LODS File)

 

Important. If you have any issues/conflict with this update message ME directly. Please to not bother the Admiral about this update or post issues in the thread. I will do my best to help with any issues.

Note. Ship names in ME list are FS-DXXX and nation must be France

D-651 update.zip

 

 

Hello, where is the new mod folder ?

[McFly29]

30 minutes ago, clanitho said:

Hello, where is the new mod folder ?

Click the D651 zip link at the bottom of that post and download from there

1 hour ago, Beldin said:

So while the Admiral is getting all the ship fixes sorted he said it'd be ok to share my updated Normandie Frigate files. This update is more than just a fix for the "dancing missiles" and includes both the ASW and AAW variants of the FREMM "Aquitaine" class used by the French Navy. 3 ships and fixed/new missiles have been added.

2 ASW variants are D-650 Aquitaine and D-651 Normandie

2 AAW variants are D-656 Alsace and D-657 Lorraine

ASW ships have either 16 Aster 15 (D-650) or 16 Aster 30NT (D-651) SAMs and 16 MdCN Land Attack Cruise missiles (760 nm range)

AAW Ships have 16 Aster 30NT and Aster 30 Blk2 SAMs

Both versions have 8 Exocet Anti Ship missiles as well.

This is a update/patch so you will need the original mod. To install, remove original Normandie mod folder from your saved games folder and back it up. You will need to copy files from it.

Copy the new mod folder to saved games. Then you will need to copy 4 files (ship edm files) from the orignal mods "Shapes" folder to the new mod's  "Shapes" folder.

D651_Normandie.edm

D651_Normandie.lods.ship_wake

D651_Normandie_collision.edm

D651_Normandie (LODS File)

 

Important. If you have any issues/conflict with this update message ME directly. Please to not bother the Admiral about this update or post issues in the thread. I will do my best to help with any issues.

Note. Ship names in ME list are FS-DXXX and nation must be France

D-651 update.zip

 

 

Lovely work from yourself and Admiral, Beldin. Thank you. Ships work perfectly, look absolutely gorgeous and it’s a simple and straightforward install process. Thank you again

[RichCotte]

They look great and load up as expected.  Time to put them to use....

[Dargaard01]

Hello Beldin, hello friends,

Very thx for the Normandie update. The ships look excellent and work perfectly. I have a question regarding the helicopters that are visible on the picture of the four frigates. What type are they and where can I find the corresponding mod. I am looking for helicopters that are in service with the French Navy. I would be pleased if someone could help me with my search.

Best regards
Dargaard

 

[ggrewe]

4 hours ago, Dargaard01 said:

Hello Beldin, hello friends,

Very thx for the Normandie update. The ships look excellent and work perfectly. I have a question regarding the helicopters that are visible on the picture of the four frigates. What type are they and where can I find the corresponding mod. I am looking for helicopters that are in service with the French Navy. I would be pleased if someone could help me with my search.

Best regards
Dargaard

 

Pack 8 hélicos IA armée Française, diverses structures, 17 véhicules

[Beldin]

A small fix will be posted for the temp Normandie update later.

Silly me forgot to hide the MdCN cruise missiles and the tops are poking through the hatches . Thank you daskjdhjsh for spotting that.

Please keep in mind these are my "experimental/test files" and many thanks to the Admiral for the orignal mod and allowing these to be shared here.

Some additional French assets can be found here.

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/263509-pack-8-helicos-ia-armee-francaise-diverses-structures-17-vehicules/

 

Edited August 13 by Beldin

[Beldin]

These files should fix the visible cruise missiles sticking out of the hatches on the Normandie update I posted.

Replace files in Navy folder with these,

 

D650_Aquitaine.lua D651_Normandie.lua

[toan]

5 hours ago, Beldin said:

Hi Beldin, Thanks for your hard work on improving the excellent FREMM Aquitaine frigates by Admiral189. Just a side note : the Normandie frigate (D656), and probably the other ones that I have not tested yet, have a wrong D651 hull number. This being said, the French Navy has recently decided to remove all the hull identification marks on its ships. So, all hull numbers are now discarded, and may be deleted from the FREMM Mod in DCS. I'm now looking forward to the Forbin (aka Italian Adrea Doria) class AA ships by Admiral. Cheers.

 

[Beldin]

2 hours ago, toan said:

wrong D651 hull number.

Make sure you load the livery for each ship.

[toan]

22 minutes ago, Beldin said:

Make sure you load the livery for each ship.

You're right. My mistake,.... 

[McFly29]

I’m so excited for the pending release of the Horizon class! My french CSG will then be complete as I’ve now found a La Fayette class.

Please don’t take this as any pressure pushing though @Admiral189, as someone also dealing with medical procedures (although not as intensive as yours by the sounds of it), I fully endorse health and body first! 
 

On a side note, does anyone know how to make harpoons fire from further than 18 miles (that’s the maximum I can get my La Fayette to fire, although it is up from 5…)?

[Beldin]

7 hours ago, McFly29 said:

On a side note, does anyone know how to make harpoons fire from further than 18 miles

Try adding an AWACS for targeting data, also try turning on unrestricted satellite navigation in the mission options. I think there might have been some change to how the Harpoon works in the last few update maybe. But it should fire out to around 60nm I believe.

Also I have an old update for the La Fayette I want to rework. I disabled the vertical launch tubes the ship should not have. I'm hoping to do a new Crotale SAM this weekend for it. If we are lucky one of the stock Chinese SAM models may work for the Crotale. The Chinese version is the HQ-7 but I can't recall if that system is in the game or not.  

[LACMenjoyer]

18 hours ago, McFly29 said:

I’m so excited for the pending release of the Horizon class! My french CSG will then be complete as I’ve now found a La Fayette class.

Please don’t take this as any pressure pushing though @Admiral189, as someone also dealing with medical procedures (although not as intensive as yours by the sounds of it), I fully endorse health and body first! 
 

On a side note, does anyone know how to make harpoons fire from further than 18 miles (that’s the maximum I can get my La Fayette to fire, although it is up from 5…)?

Can I ask where you found that La Fayette class? 

[toan]

4 hours ago, LACMenjoyer said:

Can I ask where you found that La Fayette class? 

Hi, try this : 

The dowload link is on the 1st page of that thread. There has been an update that should be available there also. Not very recent, but it's a good collection of helos (Super Frelon, Alouette III, NH90, etc) not available elsewhere, of vehicles (VAB, VBCI, etc) and a unique La Fayette ship for DCS. Enjoy ! 

Edited August 17 by toan

[McFly29]

5 hours ago, LACMenjoyer said:

Can I ask where you found that La Fayette class? 

It’s as Toan describes. You need to make a couple of tweaks to it as the harpoons are visible (and massive), and I’m still trying to figure out how to make them fire at the correct range (will try Beldin’s advice and move the awacs closer to target). But otherwise it’s a nice little mod to run as a picket for my CSG

[toan]

2 hours ago, McFly29 said:

It’s as Toan describes. You need to make a couple of tweaks to it as the harpoons are visible (and massive), and I’m still trying to figure out how to make them fire at the correct range (will try Beldin’s advice and move the awacs closer to target). But otherwise it’s a nice little mod to run as a picket for my CSG

It's quite easy to make the Harpoons not visible. You need to update the ship LUA file with something like "GT.WS[ws].LN[1].show_external_missile = false" concerning the  missile. That's it. As a side note, the La Fayette (neither any other French Navy ship) does not fire Harpoon missiles IRL, but the Exocet MM38 or MM40 missile. I think Admiral189 and Beldin have good definitions for them (check Beldin's recent FREMM Mod update). Enjoy !

[McFly29]

1 hour ago, toan said:

It's quite easy to make the Harpoons not visible. You need to update the ship LUA file with something like "GT.WS[ws].LN[1].show_external_missile = false" concerning the  missile. That's it. As a side note, the La Fayette (neither any other French Navy ship) does not fire Harpoon missiles IRL, but the Exocet MM38 or MM40 missile. I think Admiral189 and Beldin have good definitions for them (check Beldin's recent FREMM Mod update). Enjoy !

You are indeed correct. I just don’t know how to move the Exocet files over to replace the harpoon and not completely mess things up . Still figuring things out

Edited August 17 by McFly29

[Oban]

On 8/17/2024 at 11:43 AM, McFly29 said:

You are indeed correct. I just don’t know how to move the Exocet files over to replace the harpoon and not completely mess things up . Still figuring things out

 

You should be able to just add their line of code to yours and it should work, as long as you have both mods running.

If you can't then you need to create your own missile model, and have it declared in a lua, and you should have it visible/working.

[McFly29]

8 hours ago, Oban said:

You should be able to just add their line of code to yours and it should work, as long as you have both mods running.

If you can't then you need to create your own missile model, and have it declared in a lua, and you should have it visible/working.

Thanks both. 
 

Without wanting to derail Admiral’s forum any further I’ll have a tinker and see what’s what. It’ll be a good learning exercise.

[Dargaard01]

Hello Admiral,

I noticed today on your home port page that you have deleted the announcement for the Italian FREMM frigate and instead announced a new ship, the Comandanti Class Italian Frigate. Do I understand correctly that the Italian FREMM frigate will not be appearing for the time being and that you are cancelling the Comandanti Class Frigate instead?
I'm already waiting for the Italian ships, especially the Covour carrier and its escort ships.

 

Thank you very much for your great work. 

 

 

[Beldin]

On 8/17/2024 at 4:27 AM, toan said:

As a side note, the La Fayette (neither any other French Navy ship) does not fire Harpoon missiles IRL, but the Exocet MM38 or MM40 missile. I think Admiral189 and Beldin have good definitions for them (check Beldin's recent FREMM Mod update). Enjoy !

I got the Layette reworked over the week. It will require the Admiral's Normandie frigate mod for the Exocet missiles. I hope to post in a separate thread later tonight

[lomatoq]

Hi @Admiral189 ! I remember you wrote that you will release marine drones! Very, very much looking forward to test scenarios close to modern times!

[Admiral189]

Happy Friday everyone. Sorry, I have been absent but I needed time to concentrate on finishing the Italian Mod Pack. The Bergamini and Comandanti Class frigates are finished with the exception of the ITS Cavour. I will work on the Cavour Carrier next. Thanks for your patience. 

With that said I need a mod tester. The first person that responds to this post. I will send you the Bergamini and Comandanti Class Frigates for testing. Thanks.

It just happened that one of the Youtubers I follow posted a video of the ITS Cavour and the ITS Alpino entering Yokosuka, Japan Naval base where I learned to Pilot ships and operate US Navy Tugboats.

Lomatoq, I will send you a PM regarding the Marine drones. Thanks.