AI Seaking mod (SH-3H / Mk.48)

[Eight Ball]

2 AI variants of the Seaking (Sikorksy SH-3H and Westland Mk48) as well as 2 static ones with folded rotor and tail to place on a carrier deck

 

In the mission editor, the AI Seaking can be found under the helicopter tab (it should appear at the very bottom of the list)

The static object variant can be found under Static Object -> Helicopter -> "Static - Seaking"

Credits :

Original 3D model by Julialt (CGTrader)
US Pilot 3D model by CombatSystem3D (CGTrader)
US Navy Liveries by Gunslinger22
German & Iranian Navy liveries by Neo47
UK, Canadian, Spanish and Australian Liveries by CrazyEddie
Belgian Coast Guard livery by Eightball
Special thanks to Admiral189 and CrazyEddie for allowing me to use their AW-101 as a template, to Backy51 for helping me with the lua as well as Tobi for the Blender exporter.

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Paintkit by @Neo47: DOWNLOAD PAINTKIT

 

US Navy Liveries by Gunslinger22:

German & Iranian liveries by Neo47:

UK, Canadian, Spanish and Australian Liveries by CrazyEddie:

Edited April 11, 2024 by Eight Ball

[andyc]

thank you so much for doing this. Got to ask any plans for updated westland sea kings as per my post in the other forum ?

[rato65]

absolutely beautiful! Thank you!

[joey45]

Very awesome. Thank you.

[Tengah]

EightBall, you are a Gentleman, Sir.  Thank you very much indeed.

[currenthill]

Very nice!

[Otulf]

Hello Eightball!

Very nice indeed!

Thank you!

 

Best regards:

Otulf

[rem27]

Very nice thank you, 3D model are very nice!

[Eight Ball]

On 4/7/2024 at 9:19 PM, andyc said:

 Got to ask any plans for updated westland sea kings as per my post in the other forum ?

Nope, sorry, I'm not planning any update.

[clanitho]

Sorry, I use stable,  I unzip into mod/tech but I don't find anywhere the Seaking , nor in Helicopter tab or Static tab (structure...)

Any idea ?

[Fisherman82]

Would it be possible to get some kind of Paint Kit for the Westland? Some layered texture file so I can remove the base colour and do a Norwegian livery. 

[RaisedByWolves]

5 hours ago, clanitho said:

Sorry, I use stable,  I unzip into mod/tech but I don't find anywhere the Seaking , nor in Helicopter tab or Static tab (structure...)

Any idea ?

Did you do this in the main DCS folder or the saved games folder?

[clanitho]

1 hour ago, RaisedByWolves said:

Did you do this in the main DCS folder or the saved games folder?

Saved games folder, I'm used to installing mods, especially those from CH.

[Fisherman82]

7 hours ago, Fisherman82 said:

Would it be possible to get some kind of Paint Kit for the Westland? Some layered texture file so I can remove the base colour and do a Norwegian livery. 

You guys must have had a layered texture file when you made your skins for this? @crazyeddie  @Gunslinger22 @Neo47

[Neo47]

No, I created a texture template by hand. Everything is a work in progress and needs to be edited individually for each texture. Maybe I can send you something so that the beginning isn't too difficult.

[Eight Ball]

34 minutes ago, Fisherman82 said:

You guys must have had a layered texture file when you made your skins for this? @crazyeddie  @Gunslinger22 @Neo47

I got the wireframes and the pbr textures if you want

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CSeDPtlVic5RF9iUgauZkGqaRW5pEGw8/view?usp=sharing

[RaisedByWolves]

1 hour ago, clanitho said:

Saved games folder, I'm used to installing mods, especially those from CH.

As far as a static. It wasn't in structures, but helicopters on mine. Not sure why it doesn't show up in the AI helicopter category. Could it be a historical filter? I dunno. 

[crazyeddie]

All my 12+ liveries were hand made using PhotoImpact10 - I didnt have a template or a wireframe to work from when I did them, there were nothing available apart from the basic Belgian camo textures when I did mine.  No point in explaining to you how I did mine, its would take pages on pages.  

Edited April 10, 2024 by crazyeddie

[andyc]

anyone know why the static  helicopters don't show up in game when you link it to a naval vessel - like hms hermes / invincible etc ?? am i doing something wrong here ??

[Neo47]

Did someone say Apollo?!

[clanitho]

2 hours ago, RaisedByWolves said:

As far as a static. It wasn't in structures, but helicopters on mine. Not sure why it doesn't show up in the AI helicopter category. Could it be a historical filter? I dunno. 

No , it's not a historical filter, I suspect maybe a conflict with another mod.

[crazyeddie]

1 hour ago, andyc said:

anyone know why the static  helicopters don't show up in game when you link it to a naval vessel - like hms hermes / invincible etc ?? am i doing something wrong here ??

 

Your doing something wrong Andy - just tried the Sea King on Ocean and it works fine.  

 

Edited April 10, 2024 by crazyeddie

[andyc]

41 minutes ago, crazyeddie said:

 

Your doing something wrong Andy - just tried the Sea King on Ocean and it works fine.  

 

 

let me give it ago on ocean tomorrow and see. Can you confirm is all you did was in the static object - link it to the naval id of ocean ?

[crazyeddie]

Yep, thats it. Make sure you get the link number right and it should work.  I dont know about other models though, there could be issues with the ships collision shells etc, that caused problems on some ship models with flight decks. 

[clanitho]

On 4/10/2024 at 10:39 AM, clanitho said:

Sorry, I use stable,  I unzip into mod/tech but I don't find anywhere the Seaking , nor in Helicopter tab or Static tab (structure...)

Any idea ?

Problem solved, Seaking was simply disabled in the module manager. Thanks for your help.