FARP Color Option.. Desert

[Tom P]

Paying users have asked for this option for years. With a ton of focus as of late being on rotorwing and desert style maps. Can we please finally get a option to select a sand colored farp... Even @BIGNEWY said back in 2020 that the team is working on it, It's 2024. It's been requested multiple times in @NineLine "Mission Editor Top User Request" but with no follow up as that topic clearly never gets looked at.
Come on people it can't be that difficult to change the color, you have users that are willing to help improve the game.

 

[Lace]

Far better to just use the single landing pads and some HESCO barriers and create your own FARPs and FOBs rather than use the terrible four place green volcano.  Especially with the newly added static models which really fit well in desert terrains.

[Tom P]

Only if we could save that kind of thing as a template so we don't have spend a lot.of time making little farps/fobs. And another good amount of time to find a level enough area.

[Rudel_chw]

22 hours ago, Tom P said:

Come on people it can't be that difficult to change the color

 

Agree, if @SUNTSAG could do it with a User Mod, then surely ED can too:

 

 

[Lace]

It is possible to create templates, but it is still a bit clumsy, and you can't move them as groups.  There is a 3rd party working on an external ME which might allow that kind of functionality, I've seen some videos but can't remember the name right now.

[Tom P]

There is no reason or excuse why simple stuff like that should take the "team" 4 years to make it happen. 

ED needs to stop worrying about "oh look at our shiny new toy" and fix the bones and stuff they said they would do years ago.

[Exorcet]

5 hours ago, Lace said:

Far better to just use the single landing pads and some HESCO barriers and create your own FARPs and FOBs rather than use the terrible four place green volcano.  Especially with the newly added static models which really fit well in desert terrains.

You can't add members of a flight to different airports (ie helipads) so these only support single flights.

 

We're long overdue for better color options, not just for heliports, but also units where you have to go through one by one to select the appropriate camo. We should also really have map placeable airports.

[SharpeXB]

The green FARP looks like a relic from a 30 year old game too

 

[Tom P]

But hey the brand new shiny toys get to operate from those awful green looking farps in the middle of the desert.  

[Lace]

10 hours ago, Exorcet said:

You can't add members of a flight to different airports (ie helipads) so these only support single flights.

 

I didn't know that.  I generally just operate single ship in my Gazelle.

[Tom P]

Bump. Trying to keep this from fading away.

[Tom P]

bump.....

[Nptune]

Yeah, whole farps need re modeling so they look decent also.

[cfrag]

4 hours ago, Nptune said:

Yeah, whole farps need re modeling so they look decent also.

Agreed - the currently available FARPs look fugly, like a relic from 1990 (which they probably are...). I don't understand why they at least can't have some "livery" - textures to paint on, many vehicles have that already. One texture each for woodland, one mountainous, one desert, one snow, one gravel, one jungle, one "city"/urban.

I'm currently working with the invisible FARPs as a stopgap. The problem with those is that they only have one spawn point, and are heck to integrate with warehouses. 

[Tom P]

Maybe we will get this option with Iraq?? 

[YoYo]

+1, yes, fully agree, we need it too.

[Crash *]

Hello everyone.

For years we have wanted the heliport to be a colour other than grass green. Sand (brown) or stone (grey) would be possible.
Mods are possible, but in multiplayer everyone has to have the same mod and that makes things unnecessarily complicated.

Please fulfil this small request. Or send us a credible explanation as to why such a colour change should take so incredibly long.

I would also ask about the lighting, but then the request goes straight into the shredder. So please just one alternative colour.

[cfrag]

What I find so disappointing is that we have the infrastructure in place, the technology in place. Static objects can have, and support, "Paint Schemes". So methinks that adding "sand", "ice", and "stone" paint schemes to FAPS would be a matter of adding a texture map and a settings (text) file. 

Let us hope that ED find it in their hearts to invest into this request. Maybe the 5th year after acknowledging this will be the charm?

Edited November 8, 2024 by cfrag

[Tom P]

It won't happen anytime soon. They need to make their next shiny new toy to earn a profit. Why give us what we want when they already have us playing. They barely look at the wish list section. Heck NL even unpinned the main thread with thousands of ideas.

[Rudel_chw]

On 11/7/2024 at 7:18 AM, Crash * said:

Mods are possible, but in multiplayer everyone has to have the same mod and that makes things unnecessarily complicated.

 

Yes, the old Suntsag Mod still works, but its corner lights no longer illuminate ... at least on my Single Player missions I can employ it with no complications at all, as its installed at Saved Games:

 

 

I enable it with a Mod Manager, so I can easily deactivate it if I suspect it is affecting DCS, but so far no problems for me.

 

 

Eduardo

[cfrag]

47 minutes ago, Tom P said:

They barely look at the wish list section

TBH, if you see something like this

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We do not have time to read through a 30 post thread of two people arguing why something is bad, in fact most times we will just read the first post for the idea and move on from there

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in the byline for a wish/suggestions forum you know that there's something deeply wrong with how that company views their customers. At least they are honest (or callous) enough to admit that they mainly are annoyed if customer presume to propose, or discuss, ideas. It seems that they cannot be bothered to look at what their customers take time to write. From that I derive that at this juncture ED seemingly have little intention (or need) to mine ideas nor gauge feedback. Methinks experience shows that it's also one of the hallmarks of a company with dysfunctional communication skills. The good news is that ED have a lot of headroom here should they want to improve. 

Edited November 8, 2024 by cfrag

[Tom P]

Just trying to keep this relevant. Also on their Discord Nineline says to just use the invisible farp option but that would require mission makers to search around for even enough terrain.

[Tom P]

@NineLine @BIGNEWY Can we get an update on this please. 

[NineLine]

Nothing new, but I have bumped it once again internally, thanks!

[Tom P]

On 3/10/2025 at 2:25 PM, NineLine said:

Nothing new, but I have bumped it once again internally, thanks!

I'm not trying to start any drama but BN said the team was looking at it back in 2020. I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering but what can possibly be the hold up? I understand there's a priorities of work but this is so easy and has been request over and over again especially with all the desert maps. It was acknowledged in 2020.

Edited March 11 by Tom P