F15E's from 494th FS 48FW Operation Inherent Resolve -2018

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494th FS nose art from 2018 deployment..

[NRG-Vampire]

 Nice job  

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Just for you sir..

[NRG-Vampire]

 

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[NRG-Vampire]

 

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I updated the Boss bird to show just 3 CFT unit patches

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File has been uploaded to the forums

[NRG-Vampire]

...and still not in the User Files

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2 hours ago, NRG-Vampire said:

...and still not in the User Files

Yeah, they're taking their time this time

[NRG-Vampire]

Well, I don’t want to look for reasons, however I would have a couple of "theories" for that, nonetheless you can/should upload those skins elsewhere also. Mediafire maybe ?
TY 

Edited December 6, 2020 by NRG-Vampire

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Here you go... enjoy!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13QTRxkeuZHGaa6vtTZIBMW-akFGCN0Ab/view?usp=sharing

[NRG-Vampire]

Thanks, nice job  
However you don't need to save (4097 KB) the new textures as BC3/DX10 format. DXT1-4bpp-no-alpha is OK for the F-15C/E (2731 KB), what is lower in size (both on "disk" and in gfx-memory)
Moreover: coz there are no alpha channels you can save the texture files as JPG (500-700 KB per 2K textures)... and DCS will use those properly.

Edited December 7, 2020 by NRG-Vampire

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6 hours ago, NRG-Vampire said:

Thanks, nice job  
However you don't need to save (4097 KB) the new textures as BC3/DX10 format. DXT1-4bpp-no-alpha is OK for the F-15C/E (2731 KB), what is lower in size (both on "disk" and in gfx-memory)
Moreover: coz there are no alpha channels you can save the texture files as JPG (500-700 KB per 2K textures)... and DCS will use those properly.

Actually when I was initially saving them, the compression was causing issues on the tails, they were very blotchy, so I watched a youtube video, tried it out and liked the results a lot better, so that's why there's a mixed back of .dds files..

The Tails I used the default texture template, and used the intel compression, the others I used nvidea..

Glad you liked them though.

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What the fuck... suddenly all my Tail Bort Numbers have stopped working and I have no idea what's caused this, on both 494th packs, it's showing up now as missing textures..

[extender72]

Hi,

 

first great job for all skins, really good.

 

second, I wanted to point out a problem that occurs when adding the tanks from the editor, I don't know why but the SIM loads a wrong file, it's not the original, I've never been able to solve it.

The correct file is f15e_ptb.bmp.dds, you can also see it from your screenshots (that file is wrong)

 

Can you fix this DCS error ???

 

Thank you.

Cheers,
Michele

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32 minutes ago, extender72 said:

Hi,

 

first great job for all skins, really good.

 

second, I wanted to point out a problem that occurs when adding the tanks from the editor, I don't know why but the SIM loads a wrong file, it's not the original, I've never been able to solve it.

The correct file is f15e_ptb.bmp.dds, you can also see it from your screenshots (that file is wrong)

 

Can you fix this DCS error ???

 

Thank you.

Cheers,
Michele

I dunno to be honest, as the line that's in the description.lua is the default one from the AI F15E.

I will see what I can do though, I never really paid much attention to it in the past to be honest.

[extender72]

It's a mistake that has always bothered me, I hope you can solve it.

You have also corrected the fuel tanks but in the end the file is not loaded from the SIM.

 

Thanks for answering me and for your help.

 

Michele

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9 minutes ago, extender72 said:

It's a mistake that has always bothered me, I hope you can solve it.

You have also corrected the fuel tanks but in the end the file is not loaded from the SIM.

 

Thanks for answering me and for your help.

 

Michele

I might has resolved this, I have added the ptb files to each airframe, and changed the argument in the decription.lua from "true" to "false" so that it reads the folder file, and not a generic one..

Will test shortly

[extender72]

OK, let me know, thanks

[extender72]

In the latest update "OIR-IR 2019", the AF-91-329 "Havoc" skin is missing

Edited December 11, 2020 by extender72

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I have no idea if there's a difference or not?? I never paid any attention to the peripherals before.

[extender72]

No, the file is the wrong one, I had tried your system but it doesn't work, I don't understand where is the problem.

Edited December 11, 2020 by extender72

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56 minutes ago, extender72 said:

No, the file is the wrong one, I had tried your system but it doesn't work, I don't understand where is the problem.

 

Nothing I can do then, as the file I'm using was part of the PSD F15E template set, and the one I have should be over writing the default one..

[extender72]

What a strange thing!!!