TeTeT's Vietnam War Vessels

[Slippa]

Haven’t looked in here for a bit, glad I did now, thanks for all the goodies everyone involved .

Congrats on the littlun TeTeT, Happy Easter all.

[navyBtown]

11 hours ago, minar said:

I noticed when flying some A4 skyhawk missions that they will not load because they say they need tetet fletcher destroyer, and several other tetet mods. I downloaded this mod but it does not seem to fix those skyhawk missions? Still says those assets are missing?

It could be that when the mission was set up, they were using an older version of the mod, and the assets were not updated to the current version. It's always good to make a default backup of your mission before you start using mods, just in case this happens.

[sinzov]

@ Tetet

thx for your hard work and the updates. unfortunately, the updated Mig-21mf is worse than the previous one:

 

[Urbi]

[TeTeT]

6 hours ago, sinzov said:

thx for your hard work and the updates. unfortunately, the updated Mig-21mf is worse than the previous one:

Hmm, not sure what's going on there. I'll have to double check the model and textures, stay tuned! 

@Urbi nice skin, how did you overcome the problems shown by @sinzov ?

[flanker1]

vor 15 Stunden schrieb Urbi:

Hello Urbi, well done - amazing skin result and picture. Regarding cod war Germany map - can you please do some soviet VVS skins or NVA skins for this beautiful bird? 

[TeTeT]

The victory by North Vietnam over South Vietnam in the American war was celebrated a few days back in Ho Chi Minh city:

 

Let's not forget about the massive problems that this victory brought, from the boat people fleeing the country over the sea, to today's human trafficking, which still targets the poor areas of Vietnam. If you enjoy this mod and if you have a dollar or two to spare, consider donating at

https://bluedragon.org/

Cheers,
TeTeT

[TeTeT]

With help from RamaMarines and NodUnit, we were hopefully able to overcome the texture/models problems of the MiG-21MF. It seems the normals were badly broken, we reset and recalculated normals for different parts of the plane. There were also some triangles which were sort of collapsed on a single edge. We dissolved and re-triangulated those areas and it looks better now. Right now we're waiting for tests to be undertaken.

On the ships, a certain class of Destroyer Escorts will make it to the mod, thanks to James - once more. We're looking forward to publish all updates as Vietnam War Vessels 1.1.0 later this month (May 2025).

[TeTeT]

And some screenshots from Whiplash:

 

 

 
 

 

[Woogey]

Is that a Knox class, hell yeah!  I’ve been hoping for one of these for a long time.  She looks good!  

[TeTeT]

1 hour ago, Woogey said:

Is that a Knox class, hell yeah!  I’ve been hoping for one of these for a long time.  She looks good!  

Yes, James has provided the early 70ies Knox class Destroyer Escorts in three variants. We're looking forward to release them in Vietnam War Vessels 1.1.0.

Meantime more texture oddities of the MiG-21MF was fixed. Also three digit bort numbers have been added to the Fishbed. We're also trying to reduce the number of errors and warnings logged in dcs.log, so real problems stand out better.

 

[Woogey]

My Dad served on USS Brewton FF-1086 in the late 70's stationed at Pearl.  Excited to see them come to DCS. 

 

Edited May 13 by Woogey

[TeTeT]

We've assembled now the release candidate for update 1.1.0 of Vietnam War Vessels - if no major carnage is found, expect a release later this week. The list of changes is longish this time around, with focus on the Destroyer Escorts of Knox class, and the MiG-21MF. Shoutout to all team members as well as community testers Sinzov and Turbine! We appreciate all the work you put into the mod!

We've touched quite a few assets with this update, hopefully not too much breaks

The link to the Changelog on github

https://github.com/tspindler-cms/tetet-vwv/blob/main/Changelog.txt

Or as copy paste since 1st of May:

2025-05-19
  BB-62 New Jersey
    - Add new house to deck, probably for refuel helo
    - Process model surface differently, new textures
2025-05-18
  Destroyers
    - Change Oerlikon 20mm params
  USS Kirk
    - Fix hangar
  H-2 Seasprite 
    - Revert to 1.0.0 version, restore old edm  
2025-05-15
  H-2 Seasprite
    - Use new bounding box
  F-8, MiG-17 refactoring, kudos Hawkeye
    - Remove flyable files
    - Restructure textures of Mig-17F
  MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J"
    - Add DisplayNameShort
    - Fix fire positions
  USS Bigelow
    - Add replenishment post to 1st & 3rd turret of Bigelow
    - Bigelow's Front & rear mast modification
    - Add port side DESRON 19 insignia to USS Turner Joy
  USS Maddox TI
    - Add Gulf of Tonkin incident version USS Maddox
2025-05-13
  MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J"
    - Shadow on rudder fixed once more
    - Inverted normals on right wheel box
2025-05-12
  USS Fletcher FRAM II
    - Revert to version 1.0.0
  MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J"
    - Shadow on rudder fixed
    - Lower wing shadows fixed
    - Nose wheel now touches ground
    - Added 5th pylon, thanks Sinzov
    - Added bort numbers (3 digits)
2025-05-11
  buildings
    - Change names from VVW to VWV Prefix
  MiG-17F, F-8 Crusader
    - Move READMEs out of livery folder
2025-05-09
  USS Knox, Gary, Kirk
    - Make weapon and ammo names unique
2025-05-07
  USS Bigelow, USS Forrest Sherman
    - Fix third turret mesh
    - Add insignia to Turner Joy 
  USS Knox, Gray, Kirk
    - Add Knox class Destroyer Escorts (Later Frigates)
  MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J"
    - Fix texture problems
2025-05-04
  Ships
    - Make ammo unique per ship to remove DUPLICATE error in dcs.log
  A-1 Skyraider
    - Fix config errors
  H-2 Seasprite
    - Fix config errors
    - Remove unneeded textures
  MiG-17F "Fresco-C"
    - Fix config errors
  RA-5C Vigilante
    - Remove unneeded effects table
2025-05-01
  BB-62 New Jersey
    - Fix runway and routes file, missing opening bracket, kudos Turbine

 

[Woogey]

Hey Guys, any chance of the Knox class getting a Dynamic livery system  IE:  nameplate/numbers, maybe a Desron Logo option.  Or will it be a only one or two ships?   It would be handy to have the whole class available in the same way that ED has done for the OHP, Tico and such. 

 

Looking forward to the Update, thank you all in advance! 

-Preston

[western_JPN]

Hi.

An Essex generic scb125's livery "CV-9 USS ESSEX" folder isn't updated from 0.4.1 time.
 

Quote

tetet-vwv / TeTeT VWV / mods / tech / vwv USS Bon Homme Richard CVA-31 / Liveries / essex_scb125 / CV-9 USS ESSEX /

and other four ships' liveries folders (CV-14, 16, 19, 34) have each dds files but not loaded by each description.lua files.
I don't know these description.lua contents (only one line "cv31_ship_registry_number" is written) are correct as planned or not. 
When correct one, other unloaded CV-XX Clean.dds, CV-XX OUTLINE.dds and island_signs BLACK 2.dds files are needless to be placed --- better to remove.

If those one line description.lua are temporary file and planned as drawing different deck lines or tones in the future, I think better to write loading those dds files in description.lua by false flags.

[TeTeT]

8 hours ago, Woogey said:

Hey Guys, any chance of the Knox class getting a Dynamic livery system  IE:  nameplate/numbers, maybe a Desron Logo option.  Or will it be a only one or two ships?   It would be handy to have the whole class available in the same way that ED has done for the OHP, Tico and such. 

...

We haven't looked into dynamic numbers for ships yet, I just added the BORT number system to the MiG-21MF. If this is somehow similar, we'll need to do some research how to achieve this and go ahead with it. No promises, though.

Keep in mind though that you will get three different variants of the Knox class Destroyer Escorts, plus some liveries with different hull numbers: 

1. USS Knox
2. USS Gary
3. USS Kirk

It ought to be achievable to use the hull number template mechanism to add more liveries.

2 hours ago, western_JPN said:

...An Essex generic scb125's livery "CV-9 USS ESSEX" folder isn't updated from 0.4.1 time.
 

and other four ships' liveries folders (CV-14, 16, 19, 34) have each dds files but not loaded by each description.lua files.
I don't know these description.lua contents (only one line "cv31_ship_registry_number" is written) are correct as planned or not. 
When correct one, other unloaded CV-XX Clean.dds, CV-XX OUTLINE.dds and island_signs BLACK 2.dds files are needless to be placed --- better to remove.

If those one line description.lua are temporary file and planned as drawing different deck lines or tones in the future, I think better to write loading those dds files in description.lua by false flags.

Thanks! The CV-9 Essex was meant to be retired from the mod by 1.0.0 as its quite different from the CVA-31 Bon Homme Richard. My oversight that it didn't happen.

I believe the dds image files in the scb125 directories are left over from early tests. Excellent suggestion to remove them! For adding the remaining images to the central zip and setting the appropriate flag, good idea as well. Thanks for raising this observation!

Cheers,
TeTeT

[TeTeT]

Welcome to Vietnam War Vessels 1.1.0!

 

Download: https://github.com/tspindler-cms/tetet-vwv/releases

 

A series of improvements and fixes have been rolled out across naval and air assets:

 

Naval Units

 

Knox class Destroyer Escorts: New model introduced by James J Jackson, sports three different variants and comes with different hull number liveries.

Forrest Sherman Destroyers: Improved model smoothing and cleaned the DCS log for connectors error.

USS Bigelow: Updates to the ship model

USS Turner Joy: Updates to the ship model and insignia added.

USS Maddox: Introduced Gulf of Tonkin incident variant.

USS New Jersey: Deck structure updated, textures reworked and config fixes

 

Aircraft Updates

 

MiG-21MF "Fishbed-J": Multiple shadow, texture, and model fixes; added 5th pylon and bort numbers.

MiG-17F & F-8 Crusader: Refactored textures and cleaned file structure.

RA-5C Vigilante, A-1 Skyraider: Configuration and cleanup improvements.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Buildings: Standardized naming from VVW to VWV.

Documentation: Updated and relocated READMEs across several assets.

Log & Config: Some log entries addressed.

 

Special thanks to the team and external contributors western_JPN, Sinzov, and Turbine for their valuable input.

 

KNOWN PROBLEM

Last minute testing detected a problem in the O-1 Bird Dog: The static stationary propeller is shown at all times. Unfortunatelty this problem exists since several versions (0.7.0 was last known good).

 

Release video:

 

[TeTeT]

We discovered a problem with the distance lods of the Knox class and subclasses:

1. The Knox class distance lods are broken, and the Knox disappears after 1km
2. The Gray and Kirk subclasses distance lods are never called

Further we got an enhancement for the H-2 Seasprite engine code.

All changes have been integrated and are available on github ( https://github.com/tspindler-cms/tetet-vwv ). We are testing the hotfix currently and the updated parts of the mod will be made available once testing is complete.

Cheers,
TeTeT

[TeTeT]

The hotfix is now available at https://github.com/tspindler-cms/tetet-vwv/releases/tag/VWV_1.1.1 

Changelog:

2025-05-22
  Knox class Destroyer Escorts
    - Fix distance lods for Knox
    - Fix lods definition for Kirk, Gray
  H-2 Seasprite 
    - New engine definition, kudos Admiral

 

[Reccelow]

Cant thank you and your team enough, having the Knox class show up just when I'm making a Praying Mantis mission set is miraculous! As a token of appreciation, have this small script the runs under MOOSE and gives you a F10 menu selection to ask your wingman for his fuel state.  Once used, never fly without it...

Couple grabs...April 1988....USS Bagley shelling the Sirri Oil Platform

CheckState-Any.lua

Edited May 29 by Reccelow

[TeTeT]

On 5/29/2025 at 12:46 PM, Reccelow said:

Couple grabs...April 1988....USS Bagley shelling the Sirri Oil Platform

 

Glad to see the mod being put to good use! Even though it's not exactly Vietnam, lol

We've now fixed the pylon numbering of the MiG-21MF and reverted the Bird Dog propeller, removing the issue. Depending on available time, 1.1.2 will be out next week.

We have quite a few aircraft under development and also plans to improve and expand the ship line further. It's too early to tell what lands in 1.2.0, but I hope for a red fighter, a blue recce bird, and an update to an existing helo

Cheers,
TeTeT

[Tengah]

RF-101C per chance?    Excellent!

[TeTeT]

12 hours ago, Tengah said:

RF-101C per chance?    Excellent!

Nice one   Meantime rigging the MiG-21PFM "Fishbed-F" has started. Wish me luck so I won't butcher the gear as bad as that of the MiG-21MF ...

 

 

 

[Woogey]

Good day Gentlemen, I just installed the latest version and was a little disappointed to see the new Knox class had the rear weaponry removed.  Did I miss something?  Is there a configuration option, or maybe a loadout in the mission editor?  

[TeTeT]

3 hours ago, Woogey said:

Good day Gentlemen, I just installed the latest version and was a little disappointed to see the new Knox class had the rear weaponry removed.  Did I miss something?  Is there a configuration option, or maybe a loadout in the mission editor?  

Hmm, did you check the Kirk and Gray subclasses as well? I think only one of the three has the rearward air defence system, the Gray: https://github.com/tspindler-cms/tetet-vwv/tree/main/TeTeT VWV/mods/tech/vwv USS Gray DE1054