Military Assets for DCS by Currenthill

[Chap2012]

So I went through all my other mods...

First I finally took the time to separate them by era. WW2, Korea-Vietnam, and Modern. Considering Currenthill has not made WW2 and Vietnam mods yet, I figured no reason to run them together. 

Then onto the testing of modern aircraft mods. I found that the Jas39 and the Su30 pack are the culprits. It does seem to be a weapons conflict. So just a heads up for anyone that uses those. Maybe there will be a compatibility fix in the future! I will post on the Jas39 and Su30 pages as well so those authors know. 

[currenthill]

13 minutes ago, Chap2012 said:

So I went through all my other mods...

First I finally took the time to separate them by era. WW2, Korea-Vietnam, and Modern. Considering Currenthill has not made WW2 and Vietnam mods yet, I figured no reason to run them together. 

Then onto the testing of modern aircraft mods. I found that the Jas39 and the Su30 pack are the culprits. It does seem to be a weapons conflict. So just a heads up for anyone that uses those. Maybe there will be a compatibility fix in the future! I will post on the Jas39 and Su30 pages as well so those authors know. 

It regards to the Gripen, it's well known. Here is the tempfix: https://discord.com/channels/809729166790361088/852631912539226113/1188066155068391486

[Chap2012]

Apologies for not knowing. 

Thanks @currenthill

[toan]

13 minutes ago, currenthill said:

It regards to the Gripen, it's well known. Here is the tempfix: https://discord.com/channels/809729166790361088/852631912539226113/1188066155068391486

Sorry CH, the discord link does not seem to work.... 

3 minutes ago, Urbi said:

The attitude of the Tu-95MCM is too steep in straight flight. can that be changed.

Nice shot !  I didn't know that Crusader livery. Is it available somewhere ? Thanks Urbi ! 

Edited December 30, 2023 by toan

[Chap2012]

6 minutes ago, toan said:

Sorry CH, the discord link does not seem to work.... 

Look at the Jas39 Comm mod page. The fix is posted towards the top of the last page. Just a couple file changes on weapons 

Edited December 30, 2023 by Chap2012

[toan]

3 minutes ago, Chap2012 said:

Look at the Jas39 Comm mod page. The fix is posted towards the top of the page. Just a couple file changes on weapons 

OK, thanks so much Chap ! 

[currenthill]

50 minutes ago, toan said:

Sorry CH, the discord link does not seem to work.... 

Works fine for me, but you have to be logged in to your discord user.

[currenthill]

8 hours ago, Wild_Weasel_31 said:

 

P.S. if @currenthill can make an upgraded Ukrainian AGM-88 capable Su-27, it will perfectly complement an MiG-29MU2 asset

I've added the Su-27P1M to the Ukraine pack. It features the slightly upgraded N001 radar and the confirmed western weaponry like the JDAM-ER, AGM-88 HARM and ADM-160B MALD. 

[CambridgeTiger]

That Swedish chopper HKP 15B would be sweet with an "AIRWULF" Livery

[currenthill]

5 hours ago, Urbi said:

The attitude of the Tu-95MCM is too steep in straight flight. can that be changed.

I did some testing, it looks like the weight has an impact. A max weight Tu-95MSM will give around 4 deg pitch and with a light weight it will be more straight. I also checked other prop aircraft and it's the same with them. So it's nothing unique with my asset. But I haven't looked deeper into it to see what we can configure yet.

[Joey_Destroyah]

4 hours ago, currenthill said:

I've added the Su-27P1M to the Ukraine pack. It features the slightly upgraded N001 radar and the confirmed western weaponry like the JDAM-ER, AGM-88 HARM and ADM-160B MALD. 

Can't seem to find it

[virulosity]

 

2 hours ago, currenthill said:

I did some testing, it looks like the weight has an impact. A max weight Tu-95MSM will give around 4 deg pitch and with a light weight it will be more straight. I also checked other prop aircraft and it's the same with them. So it's nothing unique with my asset. But I haven't looked deeper into it to see what we can configure yet.

 Try increasing the speed

The TU-95 is way too quiet!  It is half the volume of the AN-26!  Do you know what sound files to modify?  I assumed it would be \Saved Games\DCS\Sounds\Effects\Aircrafts\Engines\Tu95FontEngine and TuBackEngine.....   But these seem to have no effect?  It is the same as the E-2D after the 2.9 update.

[currenthill]

11 minutes ago, Joey_Destroyah said:

Can't seem to find it

It's not released yet. 

[Joey_Destroyah]

Just now, currenthill said:

It's not released yet. 

That explains it. Thanks

[currenthill]

4 minutes ago, Joey_Destroyah said:

That explains it. Thanks

No problem. Since I now have my country packs I will make all kind of changes per pack before releasing. It will be a combination of fixes, new assets, changes etc with every country pack release.

For example, here is the current state of the ongoing changelog for the Military Asset Pack Ukraine:

Changelog Military Asset Pack Ukraine 1.1.0

• Added MiG-29MU2 removable pylons
• Added Su-27P1M (JDAM-ER/AGM-88/ADM-160B)
• Fixed JDAM-ER flight issue
• Fixed MiG-29MU2 damage model error messages
• Fixed MiG-29MU2 missing lights
• <more to come>
   

[Chap2012]

1 hour ago, Zahnatom said:

there appears to be a collision with the Gripen mod which makes the ships not spawn...

Did you use the updated weapons script on the Jas39 forum page? Or from the discord Currenhill posted. Its on the last page of the forum. I have the Jas39 and all currenthill mods without issue. 

[gabriel]

currenthill, your TU-95 mod does not appear on the radar of the SU-27 fighter, could you fix the bug?

[currenthill]

29 minutes ago, gabriel said:

currenthill, your TU-95 mod does not appear on the radar of the SU-27 fighter, could you fix the bug?

I don't see the issue. I was able to search, track and fire a missile at the Tu-95MSM from a Su-27 without any issues. 

[AvgeekJoe]

Perhaps inappropriate to ask here but:

 

a) Do cruise missiles work in 2.9?

 

b) Do @currenthill's Shahed's work in 2.9?

 

If the answer's yes to both, then I must upgrade to keep up with all my fav developers.

[spikef22]

17 hours ago, Urbi said:

The attitude of the Tu-95MCM is too steep in straight flight. can that be changed.

Where is that F-8 asset from? 

[currenthill]

49 minutes ago, AvgeekJoe said:

Perhaps inappropriate to ask here but:

 

a) Do cruise missiles work in 2.9?

 

b) Do @currenthill's Shahed's work in 2.9?

 

If the answer's yes to both, then I must upgrade to keep up with all my fav developers.

a) I can only speak for my assets and their weapons. I can get all my missiles and guided bombs to work in 2.9 (disclaimer: as far as I'm aware of). I just fixed the CJ-10, 3M14T, 9M729 and the SPEAR 5 LACM. But I still have to release the updated packs with these last cruise missile fixes. 

b) Yep, works fine.

[Finnisher]

Atleast for me, OvGME doesn't see the large Asset Packs (China, Russia, Sweden and US) as valid mod zip files, is this happening to anyone else? Germany, Iran, Turkey, UK and Ukraine where recognized normally just by dropping in to the OvGME mod folder...

[currenthill]

1 minute ago, Finnisher said:

Atleast for me, OvGME doesn't see the large Asset Packs (China, Russia, Sweden and US) as valid mod zip files, is this happening to anyone else? Germany, Iran, Turkey, UK and Ukraine where recognized normally just by dropping in to the OvGME mod folder...

Yep, that's a known error which we discovered a couple of pages back in this thread. It turned out that OvGME doesn't handle files over around 4 GB, i.e it won't recognize it as a valid mod package. The solution/workaround is to unzip the main folder in the zip and it'll work fine. 

3 minutes ago, Zahnatom said:

the SPEAR 5 AShMs work really well

their pitch-up moment is kind of perfectly timed for when CIWS starts firing at it so it dodges all of that and hits the ship

Thanks, yep, since it's a modern/futuristic missile I made it harder to hit in the final maneuver. Modern antiship missiles have evasive maneuvers built-in, but since there aren't any way to implement those in DCS I have to create these kind of workarounds/emulations of the actual thing.

[gabriel]

When will the 3 mods you mentioned recently, Su-27 P1M, Tu-160M1 and the 2S35 Koalitsiya, be released?

[currenthill]

3 minutes ago, gabriel said:

When will the 3 mods you mentioned recently, Su-27 P1M, Tu-160M1 and the 2S35 Koalitsiya, be released?

Check my FAQ for information about my process: https://www.currenthill.com/faq

I will also update the FAQ with a lot of the questions I've been getting more than once in this thread.