Harrier Loadouts

[beczl]

Good work! I'm working on the US skin at the moment. :-) So we'll have a nearly complete US and UK Harrier.

[crazyeddie]

Here is my Harrier Mod for DCS.

 

I have converted the Vinson into a hybrid UK CVN (HMS Furious) and the Kutz into a hybrid UK Ski Jump Carrier (HMS Hermes), and I have tried to improve the skins on some of the other ships as well. My ships carry the usual range of aircraft and helos and I have included a few skins for those as well, mostly converted to UK types. Also included are the files to get rid of unwanted markings on ships and aircraft, if you instal them you loose that marking on everything - that might not suit all of you, think before you overwrite/delete !! Just pop the skins into the Temp Textures folder.

 

Included is my UK Harrier conversion, including most of the weapons our Harriers carry, and a couple they don't !! (Just for my own amusement !!)

 

There is a new Harrier Lua file which you can simply replace the original with and my revised Countries Lua, you might want to look carefully at that first before you install it over yours, I am still modifying that and its still pretty experimental.

 

No criticism of the skins please chaps, I'm getting on and the hands are pretty shaky these days, this is the best I can do. You are welcome to change anything you like without asking.

 

Much praise to people like 666 Birdy and Beczl above, he/they did the donkey work and found out the best ways to change things, I just made use of their advice and followed their guidance.

 

I will upload the 2 zip files to the site later today

 

Time I did some pretend flying.

 

ps: Most of what you see are existing files - all I have done is tart them up a bit. The credit for 99% of this must belong to nameless others.

 

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Edited February 20, 2009 by crazyeddie

[beczl]

I'm working on the LAU-127 and LAU-7 pylons. Not only for the harrier, but any plane will more authentic with these pylons.

 

LAU-127 is almost done. The LAU-7 is waiting for texturing.

 

[crazyeddie]

Brilliant - keep them coming Mate.

 

I posted my stuff to the site last night, long waiting list so no idea when it will become available.

 

As it is I have already changed some skins - changed the GBU 10 into a 1000 lb LGB Concrete Bomb used by the RAF/RN - to reduce colateral damage they say - Yeh right !!!, Further modified the HMS Hermes Deck skin, still working on that. Removed the Sea Eagle from the Harrier Loadouts, it will not launch them until we find a way to change all the Task options.

 

Any ide how to activate the guns on the Harrier, I have played around with that for hours today but cannot get it to work.

Edited February 20, 2009 by crazyeddie

[beczl]

Don't worry about this. I'll try to fix the Harrier Gun issue.

 

For antiship task just insert the

aircraft_task(AntishipStrike),

code into the end of the BAE_Harrier.lua file. :smilewink: It should be working.

 

I finished the LAU-7 @ LAU-127 pylons mod. Available at the LockOnFiles and my site too. :thumbup:

 

Edited February 21, 2009 by beczl

[ntonis]

Here is my Harrier Mod for DCS.

 

I have converted the Vinson into a hybrid UK CVN (HMS Furious) and the Kutz into a hybrid UK Ski Jump Carrier (HMS Hermes), and I have tried to improve the skins on some of the other ships as well. My ships carry the usual range of aircraft and helos and I have included a few skins for those as well, mostly converted to UK types. Also included are the files to get rid of unwanted markings on ships and aircraft, if you instal them you loose that marking on everything - that might not suit all of you, think before you overwrite/delete !! Just pop the skins into the Temp Textures folder.

 

Included is my UK Harrier conversion, including most of the weapons our Harriers carry, and a couple they don't !! (Just for my own amusement !!)

 

There is a new Harrier Lua file which you can simply replace the original with and my revised Countries Lua, you might want to look carefully at that first before you install it over yours, I am still modifying that and its still pretty experimental.

 

No criticism of the skins please chaps, I'm getting on and the hands are pretty shaky these days, this is the best I can do. You are welcome to change anything you like without asking.

 

Much praise to people like 666 Birdy and Beczl above, he/they did the donkey work and found out the best ways to change things, I just made use of their advice and followed their guidance.

 

I will upload the 2 zip files to the site later today

 

Time I did some pretend flying.

 

ps: Most of what you see are existing files - all I have done is tart them up a bit. The credit for 99% of this must belong to nameless others.

 

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nice skins is it ready ??? for download ????

[beczl]

VMA-513 "Nightmare" skin available.

 

[ntonis]

DECZI great work as always thanks!!!! pls can you make a nice defailt skin for AH-1W and UH-60A

thanks

Edited February 22, 2009 by @ntonis

[crazyeddie]

Beczl

 

I had tried inserting the Anti Ship in tasks in the Harrier Lua but it did not seem to react to any ship threats.

 

Will try it again, might have done something wrong.

 

Great Skin buddy, just downloaded it, I posted my stuff to the site 3 days ago, still not there !!!

[beczl]

Well, I tried the Antishipstrike too. It's worked. The Harrier attacked their target with bombs, rocket and missiles (except Sea Eagle) succesfully.

[crazyeddie]

Beczl

 

I set it up again and they just ignore any active ship targets, regardless of what weapon load I give them. They will, sometimes, attack a Static Object Ship target, but often as not they ignore that as well.

They fly over the target and only react when they are fired at, dumping thier bombload and doing a quick exit stage left !!!

 

I assume all you have done is put Anti Ship into the Lua, or have I missed something ?

Edited February 22, 2009 by crazyeddie

[Esac_mirmidon]

Is possible to make a mod for the harrier with a skin for GB and a skin for USMC both at the same time?

 

The USMC skin, wonderful one, replaces the UK one in bazar/temptextures.

[beczl]

@crazyeddie:

 

Check the plane WorldID into the BAE_Harrier.lua

 

WorldID = 43,

 

The correct one is = 43

 

Check the task is Antishipstrike and the AI skill set to Excelent.

 

I attached my testmission.

 

 

@Esac_mirmidon:

 

I already tried it, but the second skin doesn't visible with argument 70 in the .skin file. :huh:

Harrier_test.miz

[beczl]

And I tried with Sea Eagle. It's working too.

 

[crazyeddie]

Cheers mate, will try that tomorrow, I never doubted your comments, just could not figure out what I was doing wrong - you are the man !

[Esac_mirmidon]

Thanks anyway beczl, nice USMC skin. One at a time .XD

[beczl]

Cheers mate, will try that tomorrow, I never doubted your comments, just could not figure out what I was doing wrong - you are the man !

No problem! :pilotfly:

[the_soupdragon]

any chance of a modman compatable version of this?

 

cheers

SD

[beczl]

any chance of a modman compatable version of this?

 

cheers

SD

Sorry. Nearly impossible due some difficulties.:joystick:

[crazyeddie]

Finally uploaded my UK Carrier Battle Group (Version 2) to the site. Version 1 has not even made its way into the download section yet, if it does ignore it and wait or this.

 

Rather a big file, loads of junk in there, 2 carriers, a complete UK Air Wing package of Harriers, F18A (pretend Bucaneers), Ka 50 (pretend Lynx),Training Command Hawk, UK Predator, UK/RAAF C-130, RN/RAF F4's and some upgrades for the weapon loads to look a bit more like UK versions of the GBU's and Iron bombs, AGM 65G2, 2 x USN F18C Visiting Squadrons and other odds and ends.

 

Did not include my Tornado skins, that is still a mess and I am waiting to see if ED are going to sort it out in the next upgrade. If not I will do it after that upgrade.

 

Have included a couple on Indian Naval Ships (Moskva pretending to be the INS Mumbai) and my Su30 and Naval Mig 29 based on the Mig 29A.

 

Bit of a hotch potch of skins, all done by other people mostly and all I have done is put UK Badges etc on them, all credit to the many brilliant texture creators on the site and none to me at all, all I did was pull it all together to create this UK Monster.

 

Have included the related aircraft Lua's and db_country sections for UK and India.

 

Now, how do I get another skin or three on this Harrier beast ?

 

 

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Edited February 23, 2009 by crazyeddie

[jib]

Sorry I cant find were this is uploaded,

could you post a link please.

[crazyeddie]

Its in here under Downloads

 

http://www.lockonfiles.com/

[the_soupdragon]

Eddie

I have downloaded your UK carrier Mod from Lockon files but there is no installation readme. what do I need to do to install it? where do all the files go?

Looking forward to trying this out.

 

cheers

SD

[crazyeddie]

Little bit complicated, if you have never played around with the files in LFC and BS before. I designed this with experienced players in mind but happy to help out.

 

First bit of advice - Back up every file you alter BEFORE you put things into it, so at least you have the original to put back if anything goes wrong. If you do not do this you WILL screw up your game and loose an 'activation', and you only have a few of those to play with

 

The skins files for all the different things in here ALL go into the Ka 50 - Bazar - Temp Textures, just drop them into the folder. As long as a skin is in this folder it will replace the original skin set up by the game, to revert to the original skin you have to remove it from the Temp Texures file.

 

The Aircraft and Helo Lua files go into Ka 50, Scripts, Database, and either the 'planes' or 'helicopter' folders. Once again these will replace the original Lua files - so back up the whole folder first.

 

The BAE Hawk and the M117 bomb. You need to find the Lom files for those and insert those into Ka 50, Bazar, World, Shapes folder, this will replace the original M117 with a better model of it and the Hawk will completely replace the Russian Mig 23, so you loose that from the game. The Lom files for the Hawk are all marked Mig 23, just leave them as they are. DO back up the whole Shapes folder first.

 

There should be 2 Notepad Readme's in the UK Carrier Battle Group zip folder. One tells you what its all about, the basic idea behind it. The other contains two very complicated bits of data that you need to put into a folder called db_countries, which you will find in Ka 50, Scripts, Database, it should be amongst a few other db_ files of different types, again I would back up the whole Scripts folder first, make a couple of copies, always a good idea to have something spare.

 

Open db_countries with Wordpad, scroll down until you find the entries for the UK, and if you want to put the India Stuff in as well, Belgium. Do them one at a time. Highlight the lines in my Readme file and simply copy them exactly into the UK or Belgium sections. You now need to delete what was in there originally, in effect you are replacing like with like but you MUST be careful here, these folders have to be exact otherwise the game will not run. This is the bit that puts ships like the Kutz into the UK selection in the Mission Editor, the actual name chages for Sqns etc is done in the Lua files - you replaced those earlier.

 

The first line MUST be:

 

country("{67A95888-8FE1-46CC-BC30-95F2BC772551}", _("UK"), "UK", "UK", "UK.png", 4,

 

And the last line MUST be:

 

color_scheme("{F4FE8642-0E60-4def-BA9A-30371C4E7B3E}", "Royal Navy"),

}),

},

},

Fortifications = I have put this line it to show where the next bit of the existing script starts, do not put it in twice, it will stop the game.

 

Do the same for Belgium and you will get the India stuff as well.

 

See all those }), type things above, they have to be in exactly the right order, miss one out, use the wrong symbol etc, and it wont work. They can be anywhere on the line they are in, but they have to be in order. If you have a fault look carefully at each line and see what is done in the country above it, you did not change those so as long as your new entry looks the same and everything is where it should be, it should work.

 

One other thing - the GBU 10 skins, pick which one you want to use and remove the bits (concrete) or (HE), that is simply to tell you which is which.

 

There is also a Harrier loadout picture that needs to be put into Ka 50, Blackshark, Data, Images, Loadouts, Units folder. That just shows the loadouts in the Mission Editor.

 

I think thats it. Too damn complicated to set up as a Modman package, so you have to do the hardwork yourself, sorry.

 

REMEMBER - MAKE A COPY OF EVERYTHING FIRST.

 

ps: I am working on new skins for the smaller ships as well, hope to get them looking more like Indian warships, will post them in a week or two.

Edited February 26, 2009 by crazyeddie

[the_soupdragon]

Thanks mate.

 

Cheers

SD