Update 2.9.21.16362 adds Refueling Probe Visuals and Greek AUP - How do I view these?

[Super Wabbit]

Probably a silly question but I'm not see the refueling probe on any of the Israeli liveries nor do I see an option in the mission editor under aircraft additional properties.  

Regarding the Greek AUP - what am I looking for?

[RallyNH]

I’m wondering the exact same thing 

[Zabuzard]

Currently they have been added to the module but not to the corresponding liveries (yet).

So at the moment you have to do livery-modding to see them. Sounds more scary than it actually is. The liveries have a file called description.ext, at the bottom of it you can find an area called custom_args. In there you can essentially hardcode certain animation values for the aircraft.

For the Probe you want the animation 4010 and for the AUP stuff its 4020, value 1 for both of them. So you would add something like

[4010] = 1,

to that file and then, when you select the livery, it will have the refueling probe enabled.

(Technically you would also need to put [4010] = 0 on all other liveries, otherwise the probe sticks with you when you pick another livery afterwards - thats a DCS thing)

You can also find details in our Discord where people talked extensively about this topic and even in our manual:
https://f4.manuals.heatblur.se/dcs/modding/liveries.html#character-customization

A list of all animations in the model can be found in the draw_args.lua file. You can view and play with them in DCS ModelViewer.

Edited Thursday at 07:54 AM by Zabuzard

[NoPro]

What differences do you see on the AUP? I mean mostly, if not everything regarding the upgrade Programm is internally right? So what to expect to see from outside?

[gabuzomeu]

AUP : new antennas, notably a long bar (2m) each side of the air intakes

 

For the curious, here is the refueling probe

 

Edited Thursday at 08:22 AM by gabuzomeu

[Super Wabbit]

12 hours ago, Zabuzard said:

Currently they have been added to the module but not to the corresponding liveries (yet).

So at the moment you have to do livery-modding to see them. Sounds more scary than it actually is. The liveries have a file called description.ext, at the bottom of it you can find an area called custom_args. In there you can essentially hardcode certain animation values for the aircraft.

For the Probe you want the animation 4010 and for the AUP stuff its 4020, value 1 for both of them. So you would add something like

[4010] = 1,

to that file and then, when you select the livery, it will have the refueling probe enabled.

(Technically you would also need to put [4010] = 0 on all other liveries, otherwise the probe sticks with you when you pick another livery afterwards - thats a DCS thing)

You can also find details in our Discord where people talked extensively about this topic and even in our manual:
https://f4.manuals.heatblur.se/dcs/modding/liveries.html#character-customization

A list of all animations in the model can be found in the draw_args.lua file. You can view and play with them in DCS ModelViewer.

Thanks!  That's similar to the F-14's refueling door option.  Very cool.