Military Assets for DCS by Currenthill

[Abburo]

5 hours ago, Joey_Destroyah said:

also here is my tech folder for further reference

Way too many mods, way to many different authors. Me personally I am sticked to CH mods and Massun92... 

[Lazy-1962]

4 минуты назад, Abburo сказал:

Way too many mods, way to many different authors. Me personally I am sticked to CH mods and Massun92... 

Do not miss beautiful Eight Ball, ADMIRAL189 and tripod3 mods

[Abburo]

15 minutes ago, Lazy-1962 said:

Do not miss beautiful Eight Ball, ADMIRAL189 and tripod3 mods

That is so true as there are several absolutely great authors in here. My point is to try to no mix them all as @Joey_Destroyah did . Use specific sets for whatever is needed. OvGME profiler is our friend for this .

And mostly the main problems come from airplane/heli mods ... ground units and statics are usually the safest mods in DCS by now.

[currenthill]

I noticed that my JDAM-ER on the MiG-29MU2 doesn't work anymore. It's reported as a known error by Deka, as they use the same missile scheme for the LS-6-500. 

[Abburo]

Fix one break another 2

[Stratos]

With the incoming avalanche of modules of Cold War birds, will we see any Cold War Currenthill asset??

[currenthill]

Reorganizing

I'm in the process of reorganizing my assets. It needs to be done in order to be able to manage them. Some of you will like it, and some won't. But it is what it is. 

I'm creating packages per country. 

• CH Military Asset Pack USA
• CH Military Asset Pack Russia
• CH Military Asset Pack China
• etc

By doing this I will be able to reuse configurations between assets, as well as managing updates easier. I will consider a whole country package an item for updates, so no more individual updates per asset. This will make it much easier to mitigate compatibility issues and for users to keep their mods at the latest version. The downside will of course be heavier downloads, but that's a sacrifice I will have to make. The first version will more or less be a consolidation of all assets per country, improvements in removing redundant textures and models will be made in later versions. This is to minimize the risk of introducing issues and errors in the consolidation process.

Since I'm primarily using Dropbox for file sharing I'm going to test their Transfer service which will enable me to make packages (like my asset packs) available for download without downloads counting against the daily download bandwidth limit. 

I also just ran a mission with all and every version of my assets spawned at the same time (helicopters, planes, ships, vehicles etc), while my CPU and GPU didn't appreciate the workout I can report that there were no compatibility conflicts among my own assets. 

 

 

 

 

[Hawkeye60]

BEST ASSET PACKS EVER!

Unbelievable!

What did we do to deserve you?

[plott1964]

Just wanted to share a couple creds and other things here:

1. @currenthill, @Spino and @Hawkeye60 - your mods are awesome! I use them on a regular basis and in many, many missions. @BIGNEWY and @Rudel_chw, you guys offer a great amount of support and advice - Much appreciated - keep it up!

2. I agree with @currenthill's reply "I guess one solution would be to share upcoming structural changes in DCS core with mod makers beforehand, ..." 100%. This info does not need to be shared to the entire community, just a few specific modders that create quality mods and request it outside of being in the "3rd-Party club" - you know, make them sign an NDA or something.

For me, I use a lot of the VSN and currenthill mods. They are free, for Pete's sake and just plain functional and fun to fly/use as well as being very reliable. This (along with a boatload of other reasons) is why I spend so much time flying around in DCS. But, better communications with the devs would be key.

[BIGNEWY]

I can not make any promises regarding having access to internal builds or core changes prior to public release, it is only for closed beta testers and official third parties. 
The modding community is huge and we would not be able to accommodate everyone with access or NDA's, if we were to give it to a few it wouldn't be fair to others. 

thanks 

[Rudel_chw]

13 hours ago, xboxshark21 said:

not gonna bother testing the 57, I never use it and it always has conflicts. plus its no longer supported

I understand that @cubanace still supports and improve on it.

[Hawkeye60]

@BIGNEWY

Might you report that any prop aircraft can no longer take off from any carrier?

Either a mod, or the ED CVN

I used the ED carrier mod, created by ED for this purpose.

The P-47 will spawn fine.

At the cat location.

But then it just sits there, engine running.

It never launches.

This all worked fine prior to the last round of patches.

And I would like to mirror the comments above.

You have been a god send to modders with your reporting to the Devs.

Thank you!

The new Helicopter code works a treat!

Gear is working!

[Rudel_chw]

12 hours ago, Joey_Destroyah said:

also here is my tech folder for further reference

My folder is the exact opposite, I use a Mod manager to load just the mods Im actually using, and I always deactivate all mods before a DCS update, and re-enable only after testing the new version for a while.

[plott1964]

@BIGNEWY While I understand completely the "fairness" issue. Ultimately, it's ED's prerogative who they share that info with and some unofficial modders will just have to deal with not getting it shared with them. ED could use criteria like amount of mods available, amount of mods used by the community, length of time modding for DCS, quality of products, etc...

Edited December 20, 2023 by plott1964

[BIGNEWY]

5 minutes ago, Hawkeye60 said:

@BIGNEWY

Might you report that any prop aircraft can no longer take off from any carrier?

Either a mod, or the ED CVN

I used the ED carrier mod, created by ED for this purpose.

The P-47 will spawn fine.

At the cat location.

But then it just sits there, engine running.

It never launches.

This all worked fine prior to the last round of patches.

And I would like to mirror the comments above.

You have been a god send to modders with your reporting to the Devs.

Thank you!

The new Helicopter code works a treat!

Gear is working!

No worries, please create a thread with a bug report and example we will take a look or link it to me. Lets not derail this thread.

feel free to PM me, I have been reporting issues all day. 

thanks

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, currenthill said:

I'm in the process of reorganizing my assets. It needs to be done in order to be able to manage them. Some of you will like it, and some won't. But it is what it is. 

I'm creating packages per country. 

• CH Military Asset Pack USA
• CH Military Asset Pack Russia
• CH Military Asset Pack China

Thank you, this greatly helps on the practical use of your assets, may I suggest a single entry.lua for each pack, so that on the dcs module manager there is a single line for the pack, instead of one per each asset? 
 

Having these packs will make it easier to share missions that use your assets, as you need to reference just a single Mod as requirement. 

[BIGNEWY]

Just now, plott1964 said:

While I understand completely the "fairness" issue. Ultimately, it's ED's prerogative who they share that info with and some unofficial modders will just have to deal with not getting it shared with them. ED could use criteria like amount of mods available, amount of mods used by the community, length of time modding for DCS, quality of products, etc...

In the future we may see better modding support, but I have no news to share currently, but it is something we have discussed internally. Obviously we are very busy at the moment with huge changes to DCS like MT, vulkan ect ect. 

again I dont want to derail currenthill's thread

[Scotty Rotten]

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CH Military Asset Pack USA

CH Military Asset Pack Russia

CH Military Asset Pack China

 

This is a great idea.

[currenthill]

20 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

Thank you, this greatly helps on the practical use of your assets, may I suggest a single entry.lua for each pack, so that on the dcs module manager there is a single line for the pack, instead of one per each asset? 
 

Having these packs will make it easier to share missions that use your assets, as you need to reference just a single Mod as requirement. 

This is how it looks

[Rudel_chw]

13 minutes ago, currenthill said:

This is how it looks

Seems great to me, but I wonder if this will impact any prior missions that people may have edited with your Mods? … it imagine that it shouldn’t, as long as the individual assets keep their original designation.

[Joey_Destroyah]

2 hours ago, currenthill said:

Reorganizing

I'm in the process of reorganizing my assets. It needs to be done in order to be able to manage them. Some of you will like it, and some won't. But it is what it is. 

I'm creating packages per country. 

• CH Military Asset Pack USA
• CH Military Asset Pack Russia
• CH Military Asset Pack China
• etc

By doing this I will be able to reuse configurations between assets, as well as managing updates easier. I will consider a whole country package an item for updates, so no more individual updates per asset. This will make it much easier to mitigate compatibility issues and for users to keep their mods at the latest version. The downside will of course be heavier downloads, but that's a sacrifice I will have to make. The first version will more or less be a consolidation of all assets per country, improvements in removing redundant textures and models will be made in later versions. This is to minimize the risk of introducing issues and errors in the consolidation process.

Since I'm primarily using Dropbox for file sharing I'm going to test their Transfer service which will enable me to make packages (like my asset packs) available for download without downloads counting against the daily download bandwidth limit. 

I also just ran a mission with all and every version of my assets spawned at the same time (helicopters, planes, ships, vehicles etc), while my CPU and GPU didn't appreciate the workout I can report that there were no compatibility conflicts among my own assets. 

 

 

 

 

This seems to be quite convenient for those who don't want to spend all day clicking download on a ch asset 

Edited December 20, 2023 by Joey_Destroyah
Placed my comment outside of the quote box

[Kappa-06MHR]

40 minutes ago, currenthill said:

This is how it looks

Hi @currenthill!
You should think about getting closer to Dimitriov, who founded the French pack.
The development of this one seems to have been stopped for almost 2 years. Perhaps it would be interesting for you to contact him to find out if there is a way to recover his work and add it here (or even complete it with the Caesar for example)

Edited December 20, 2023 by Kappa-131st

[RichCotte]

1 hour ago, Rudel_chw said:

My folder is the exact opposite, I use a Mod manager to load just the mods Im actually using, and I always deactivate all mods before a DCS update, and re-enable only after testing the new version for a while.

May I ask which Mod Manager?  I use OVGME, but haven't managed to get it to point at my Mods folder, only BAZAR and COREMODS so far.

[toan]

2 hours ago, currenthill said:

This is how it looks

Hi Currenthill, All your work is definitely amazing !  A potential problem I see with this approach is that sharing textures could mean missing textures for some assets, when you only need some Mods for your missions, and don't want to load all the countries' specific Mods. Thanks 

[Rudel_chw]

3 minutes ago, toan said:

A potential problem I see with this approach is that sharing textures could mean missing textures for some assets, when you only need some Mods for your missions, and don't want to load all the countries' specific Mods.

 

I guess you will have to load all assets of the country pack, you wont be able to load them piecemeal like it currently is. In the end, this texture sharing will save you disk space (when compared to loading all assets separately).