Community A-4E-C v2.3 (May 2025)

[JNelson]

23 hours ago, Mars Exulte said:

 The sun won't necessarily come up tomorrow, but statistically, it probably will. Also, in all this, people are continuing to ignore the developers themselves. You know, the people who own it and developed it.

 Unless they made some grand announcement lately I missed, they specifically said they don't want to because it is expensive, time consuming, legal headache (many people besides just the few currently involved have come and gone, they would ALL have to be contacted, so realistically all this they've done would go in the trash and they'd start from scratch, most mods do NOT make suitable ''professional conversions'' for this very reason), and they don't want to deal with the community demanding crap all the time.

 The first and foremost reason, legality and ''feasability'' aside, is because *they don't want to*. That is literally the single most relevant point, and that people don't get that reallllly drives home the part about them not wanting to deal with the community.

 

I was just pointing out that the licensing is rarely an issue to modules and definitely not the cause for the lack of official A-4. It's definitely less certain than the sun coming up

You are certainly correct a lot of the assets from the mod are unusable due to people's involvement (and licensing of the base assets for the 3d work) a lot of work would have to be redone. The module requires a lot of work regardless. It wouldn't all go in the trash but at the end of the day the A-4 for a lot of people was a hobby project and not every hobby can be turned into a monetised product. I say that as someone who wrote 60,000 lines for the A-4 project.

It's understandable that people want the opposite to be true because they really want their A-4 as an official module. It's hard to fault people for their enthusiasm for the project and wanting it to be official.

Edited January 9, 2023 by JNelson

[Hiob]

By now - I can't but ask myself if ED did a disservice to the A-4E by honoring it into their clips. Both parties made it very clear that has no implications and was just a nod to a wonderful community project and still... here we are pointlessly speculating and discussing .

[Ithronwise]

I love the A-4E-C and I like that it is and will stay an open source community project. Everybody is able to download and install it at will. So, in fact it is an (inofficial) free module already.

The only thing what ED could do (if they are really love this community mod as it seems to be), is to open the DCS SDK for the A-4E-C developers, so they could enhance the capabilites of the mod (e.g. AGM-12 Bullpup or AGM-62 Walleye).

[plusnine]

On 12/31/2022 at 3:31 PM, yufighter said:

 

I think these screenshots can help to solve this problem present in the last version as well. I hope that the creators of mods where visibility is not possible in the entire range from 3 to 140 degrees (A -4, SK 60 and others) will fix the bug and solve the problem.

Sorry for my Google English!

 

Унтитлед 3.ави
Унтитлед 2.ави  

 

 

 

This is a strange an unusual, but pernicious bug. It happens only very rarely and we don't have a good explanation as t why. My best guess is it has something to do with video cards or drivers interacting with DCS and the module's cockpit construction, but since it's so difficult to replicate, we've never been able to identify the source and attempt to address it.

[yufighter]

4 hours ago, plusnine said:

This is a strange an unusual, but pernicious bug. It happens only very rarely and we don't have a good explanation as t why. My best guess is it has something to do with video cards or drivers interacting with DCS and the module's cockpit construction, but since it's so difficult to replicate, we've never been able to identify the source and attempt to address it.

I didn't have this problem with previous versions of the A4. I had the same problem before with some other mods and currently with SK60 and A4. I'll try to find an older version.

[yufighter]

Version 1.4 works normally

2023-01-09 21-25-56.mkv

Edited January 9, 2023 by yufighter

[buur]

vor 40 Minuten schrieb 4eyes:

Hmmmm.........no one home to answer my question?

I sure wish I could get the radio knob volume to work. 

Maybe it is best to ask at the a-4e discord. There are also the developers. https://discord.gg/tQZbkTQ

[SkateZilla]

Your Display Adapter does not meet minimum requirements to run the sim.

On 1/9/2023 at 2:17 PM, yufighter said:

I didn't have this problem with previous versions of the A4. I had the same problem before with some other mods and currently with SK60 and A4. I'll try to find an older version.

 

[yufighter]

Yes, unfortunately I have an older computer model, but still all official models work fine. Only these two mods in the new versions have this specific problem.

Edited January 26, 2023 by yufighter

[SomethingAncient]

On 1/25/2023 at 8:05 PM, yufighter said:

Yes, unfortunately I have an older computer model, but still all official models work fine. Only these two mods in the new versions have this specific problem.

 

To start with, one of the updates came alongside an open beta update, and you need to run at least that version of the open beta for the latest 2.xx A-4e release (and vice-versa, if I'm not mistaken).

Second, it's a miracle you're running this game on an HD6670. The minimum requirement for 2.8 (which is the current stable build now), from the website page, is an "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / AMD R9 280X". (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/world/stable/)

Third, the official models use official source code that isn't available to modders, and that means they don't need to use workarounds. The A-4e, being nearly as good as an official module, probably needs better than minimum specs because it uses some workarounds that aren't as efficient, and that's assuming it also isn't just because a modding team isn't as 'on top' of keeping code perfectly efficient.

Quite frankly, I think DCS ought to already have it's minimum specs at a GTX 780 and Sandybridge (2nd gen) i3 CPU, and drop the AMD FX requirements as AMD doesn't have anything in that performance range (they have way better or worse).

Keep in mind, everyone is begging ED to become multi-threaded, so I suspect, along with the necessary engine overhaul required to do this, the new minimum specs might be something like a 4th gen i3 and a GTX 970 equivalent with at least 4GB VRAM. Just a guess, I don't actually know.

[Beldin]

Hello all, and thanks for this great mod. I thought the A-4 pilots here might enjoy a little 21st century fun with the A-4.

I've got 20 AI A-4 launching from and 10 landing on the Brazilian carrier Sao Paulo.

After arriving very late to the DCS world sim and seeing all the great Naval Aviation Mods out there I thought how cool would it be if all these mods could be used together.

So I've been working on making that happen :). Yeah I'm a little crazy...........  But because of the wonderful mod community here on the site I've made surprising progress.

Updates to follow

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by Beldin
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[Beldin]

I would think so, it's been a fairly active mod I believe. 

[Calabrone]

Speriamo !

Edited February 7, 2023 by Calabrone

[buur]

vor 3 Stunden schrieb 4eyes:

Are there any more updates coming for this aircraft?

 

Anything soon?

What are you missing? Anything special?

[Dauntless]

https://discord.gg/tQZbkTQ

[Beldin]

On 1/31/2023 at 2:43 AM, Beldin said:

Hello all, and thanks for this great mod. I thought the A-4 pilots here might enjoy a little 21st century fun with the A-4.

I've got 20 AI A-4 launching from and 10 landing on the Brazilian carrier Sao Paulo.

After arriving very late to the DCS world sim and seeing all the great Naval Aviation Mods out there I thought how cool would it be if all these mods could be used together.

So I've been working on making that happen :). Yeah I'm a little crazy...........  But because of the wonderful mod community here on the site I've made surprising progress.

Updates to follow

 

 

I've add updated lua files for the French carrier Clemenceau. When used with the Sao Paulo livery included in the mod you get a historically correct aircraft carrier for 21st century A-4 fun. The Original mod and updated lua files can be found here (update file at/near end of thread). No changes were needed for the A-4.

 

Edited February 11, 2023 by Beldin

[DD_Friar]

Salute,

I have an appeal to the makers of this mod. I have found what I believe to be a conflict between this mod and Combined Arms tank engine sounds and was wondering if there is any chance of it be reviewed? Please have a look at my video below. 

 

[AdrianL]

3 minutes ago, DD_Friar said:

conflict between this mod and Combined Arms tank engine sounds

There is a open github issue for this https://github.com/heclak/community-a4e-c/issues/580  

Might want to add your report there

Edited February 20, 2023 by AdrianL

[DD_Friar]

@AdrianL - thanks. I have made a post with a link to my video.

[Caldera]

Hey All,

Just started flying the A-4E and love it. 

Where would I post bug issues?

With the TACAN in REC or T/R trying to increase the channel past 90 (tens) will cause DCS to crash.

Caldera

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

Where would I post bug issues?

 

Post them on the developer's Discord:

https://discord.gg/3dMauJQq

[buur]

Best for bug reporting is their discord server @Caldera 

Checked directly for you bug... other reported that the problem occurs if you use the 2.01 A-4 version on the DCS 2.8 version.

For the DCS 2.8 version you need the 2.1 version of the A-4 mod

[Bog9y]

On 3/3/2022 at 3:53 AM, RealA4EPilot said:

Hi, Gianky,

Yes, it did depend. I can't remember the exact terminology, but there were areas in South Vietnam that were so infested with communist Viet Cong that they were almost free fire zones. The Navy A-4s never were in direct contact with the troops on the ground. The only radio in an A-4E of the time was an AN/ARC-27 which was an AM UHF-VHF radio. I believe troops had a VHF FM radio. The FACs could talk to us and to the troops. I don't recall working with a ground FAC, but I know that the Marines had some FACs with frontline units.

There we two different classes of FACs fast movers in something like an F-100F in the high threat areas of South Vietnam, but most FACs were in slower prop aircraft. I do remember one mission off the Independence where we ended up in a stack over a FAC along with a flight of A-6 Intruders from the Indy. We were loaded with either 250lb or 500lb bombs. The FAC was working a tree line next to a stream and calling us in one at a time.

All of a sudden he announced that he was taking fire from the other side of the stream and wanted to know if anyone was in position to roll in. The A-4s were all out of position but an A-6 called, the FAC fired a rocket with a white phosphorus warhead where he wanted the bomb and cleared the A-6 in Hot. All four A-6s were loaded with five 2,000lb bombs. When the bomb exploded, the FAC went wild . . . "Holy <profanity>! What was that? Do you have any more?" The Intruder driver told him he had 4 more and each of the three remaining A-6s had five of those bombs.

The FAC had each of the A-6s lay down a stik of bombs 50 meters down the tree line from the last bomb impact. A total of 20 tons of bombs tore the trees apart. If the Viet Cong soldier survived, I am confident he was more circumspect about choosing his targets after that. That wasn't the only time on a close air support mission that some Viet Cong soldier had the sky fall on him or her because a FAC was targeted.

 

 

 

RealA4pilot, are you still around?  Or have you joined the Discord channel? Just want to say thank you for all the informative posts. It's been a real treat to read them all. 

[Beldin]

I recently came across an article in an old Flight Journal magazine (Sept. 2017) by Eric Hammel about Marine A-4s working with an Amry O-1 over Hue. Great read if you can find it. especially if you are a fan of the A-4. The call sign for the A-4s tin the story was "Helborne 513"

 

[WaffenCat]

Hello. 
How to correct work with RWR? 
No message missile launch. (REC position) 

 

Sorry for my English.