Possible new DCS World 3rd party ports

[Grimes]

Harrier would be loads of fun. It'd have to come with a Florida Keys and Falklands map though.

[RoaringBones]

Airbuster why don't you send them an e-mail? you seem to always find third partys for those videos only one i sent was to Milviz :).

Edited May 21, 2012 by RoaringBones

[Airbuster]

^I did that already, but it seems that ED's producers are the one who decide to invite 3rd party devs. So here's some new suggestions. Two "lone wolfs" like Beczl, who are doing great add-ons for FSX just by themselves - Dino Cattaneo and Rollus.

 

Dino Cattaneo's Blog: http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.com/

He did F-14D, T-45 and now he is doing one great looking F-35 in all vairants:

 

 

 

Rollus's projects:

 

 

 

DCS: World can use some french made jets 8)

Edited June 8, 2012 by Airbuster

[kokoweems]

C-130, F-4, and A-7

 

:)

[Teapot]

The SAAB Viggen. I would love to have a Viggen.

There's a bunch of Euro guys who model a Viggen (among other Euro jets) for X-Plane.

And *just in case* ED/DCS dev people might think these ppl are worth contacting; these are the guys who make the X-Plane Viggen. :)

 

http://gsainz.free.fr/pages/contactpag.html (Viggen X-Files)

 

From their Contact page:

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You can contact us by mail at contact-viggen-xfiles@1s.fr

Send your e-mail in international English.Be advised that we do also speak Swedish and French.

(Si vous ne parlez pas Anglais il est toujours possible de nous envoyer un message en Francais ou en Suedois :))))

You can expect a short (and miraculous) answer if you speak German or Spanish onlly. Not a chance of reply if you speak any other language....sorry.

You can also post a message at Viggen-x-files forum (click on the banner).

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Edited June 8, 2012 by Teapot

[Airbuster]

^ nice sugestion, I would love to see more eurobirds, especially from Sweden.

[NRG-Vampire]

Are you kidding me? I just made the DCS Strike Eagle flyable. Wow..... :music_whistling:

 

you know Blaze thats an old story and you were not the first DCS: Mudhen driver ;)

 

 

and do you know what's changed since then?

almost nothing ;)

he has corrected: landing+taxi lights, blinking anti-collision lights,

made adjustable (brightness level): navigation lights, formation lights, vertical tail flood lights

corrected-working-seperated (per engine) air inlet system: ramps, diffusers, bypass doors,

repositioned pylons and chaff+flare launchers, working arrester hook and refueling door with slipway and flood lights, fuel dump outlet, removable pylons and CFTs,

tweaked FM, sharpened collision model, corrected-repositioned-(gauges)-converted to edm kabina-f-15 for incockpit shadows

working weapons with 9X, AGM-130, GBU-15, 82SE and more

 

should be a nice "done" list to IRIS-sim also :)

how can i know?

i saw, i was sitting next to him in his study

 

and the extra: he made Bad Boys' 433rd Wsqn-ACC F-15D WA 83-050 - if i remember well - (from C+E)

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-15D/2072927/L/&sid=37588dbcfefddb4dfb525c938b4aedc8

that was few months earlier. at that time he was playing with bones of eagle pilots in the model files :D

at present he's tweaking FMs of new 30-40 added planes :music_whistling:

 

some old pics

http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=1060278&postcount=2348

http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=1060270&postcount=2347

 

some of my old posts:

http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=1260339&postcount=3757

http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=1260594&postcount=3768

 

 

 

and some probably unposted pics from 2010:

 

 

 

 

[Suchacz]

What do you think about this?

 

 

Derek Guiliano June 2012 04:02

Hey Flex, is it possible I could send a suggestion your way? Look at http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com. They have officially started supporting third party development, and I believe for profit. They actually provide assistance on the project I believe also. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to port your work over, but most of their scripting is done via LUA also. I just found your work and I must say, it's quite impressive how far you have come with this project. I would love for it to live on.

 

And before you ask, no, I do not work for them, but I own everything they have released and will release as the products they are putting forth are amazing.

 

Robrand June 2012 09:38

I'd be careful with DCS: on one hand having the Apache model would be great, but on the other there are a series of limitations that have to be considered, the main two being the way missions are set-up in DCS (dynamic campaign? That's how they did it in the stone age) and that there might be some legal problems down the road if the CH project reaches fruition, since TFC might take issue at the development of a new game with a model that they use for their title.

 

 

 

Richard Hawley June 2012 10:45

There's an expectation that anything with a DCS badge would be pretty accurate. They have user base, a proportion of which is borderline nuts and will issue violent verbal assaults if they think your are compromising THEIR idea of what is right or wrong. It's not something I want to be subjected to.

 

Combat-Helo is the sum of thousands of hours of conversation, video and image research and code experimentation. A lot of information isn't in the public domain it's impossible to meet those expectations.

 

I'm told most of what we've done it is pretty close but that's down to our peculiar development method of educated guess work, blog, feedback and revise cycle. Not sure that counts as Agile. But it's not just about an aircraft, it's about a game, the thing that keeps you playing. All the stuff I dare not blog or post about because I want to release my vision before it gets ripped off. I don't worry about anyone else releasing a D model sim because I THINK I know what it is folks really want even if they don't. That's what I'm committed to delivering however long it takes. And if I'm wrong, well I can live with that.

 

It's possible to do a snapshot campaign in DCS, I made one for Black Shark to test a C# class that converted LB2 missions. Worked as an external app, it had many problems.

 

 

 

Druid June 2012 11:02

 

From what I understand of third party developers in DCS you can do 1 of 2 things. Release a DCS aircraft_x or you can release a CH aircraft_x for DCS. So you are thereby not constricted by a level of fidelity and control from ED.

 

I don't think anyone wants you to drop CH but rather quite possibly a AH64 add-on to DCS without the development of a dynamic campaign, mission editor etc wouldn't be as large a task & provide some funds which would allow CH to reach fruition.

 

Of course I have little idea how much work creating a 3rd party AH64 for DCS would involve but I think you will find that if you did it would be very popular. Of course the forums have their nuts but in general I think they are a friendly lot in comparison to most forums I have visited. They have certainly welcomed the 3rd party developer IRIS Flt Sim Software with open arms. Worth a look imho flex.

 

Note: AFAIK Richard Hawley is one of the devs, aka Flex

Edited June 8, 2012 by Suchacz

[Sierra99]

can I has new planes now please?

 

Not till you eats cheezburger! :D

 

Harrier would be cool... Not as many hard points as the Hawg (6) and kinda limited in range without externals... But the flexibility in operations( dirt road to carrier deck) would make for interesting missions for sure.

[Blaze]

you know Blaze thats an old story and you were not the first DCS: Mudhen driver ;)

 

Like I didn't know about all of that going on. ;)

[Slayer]

Now the final questions can be: Who is making the F-16 and/or F-18 - I would venture a guess that one of these would be at the top of any 3rd party dev...that is unless ED is working on one of them. My guess would still be an F-16 for ED. With all the 3rd party announcements talk of the next DCS fighter aircraft is quiet for a while...they probably don't want to suck the wind out of the other teams sails.

[Sukhoi18]

It would be nice to see the new russian SU-35S included into the dcs world community so the russian side has a modern aircraft And if that isnt possible then id be even happier to see an Su-33.

 

SU-35S

 

http://www.defensasur.com.ar/imagenes/noticias/2012/MAR/200312_SU-35.jpg

Edited June 10, 2012 by Sukhoi18
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