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Of possible interest to those who like Vietnam era jets

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I am working on a revamp of the freeware Alphasim RA-5C Vigilante. I am doing new skins, have the 2D and VC panel fully gauged out and functional. Added some specular shine to the MDL file to give the plane a bit more pow!. I have 4 new skins done (well, one is actually a redo of the stock USS Ranger skin). I am working this update for both CFS2 and FS2004. Doing the initial paints in hi res 32 bit format for FS2004, then saving them in DXT3 format for CFS2. I want to get a couple more skins done before I upload the initial packages. More new skins to follow. You can see some screen shots of two of the fresh skins over in the FS2004 Forum in the thread I started there a few days ago (Does Anyone Fly the Alphasim RA-5C or something along those lines). Need to a light to the VC...it's dark in there...and possibly some engine exhaust smoke effects (adding effects to planes is so much easier in FS2004, and much more flexible).

OBIO
 
Please don't tease this animal .....

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Sure thing Obi

But .... dare I ask if they're built in multi-LOD?

If not ... then I can't use 'um in V-4-CFS2 View attachment 4680

Thanx anyhow


- Bruther Durt
 
Nope...no multi-LOD. Can't ad LODs to a plane with Photoshop. All I could do was make it look better, give it gauges.

OBIO
 
You have to multi-lod in the MDL program used - GMAX etc. It's pretty silly to not LOD models these days, many a tutorial on it and only way to allow many in a Mission if you don't was FPS crawling, not everyone has a killer rig....
 
This plane is from 2002 and was originally done as a Flight Sim model. Alphasim released a CFS2 version of the plane...but it is just the standard FS2002 model made to work in CFS2.

And given that the RA-5C was a fast recon bird, it was not used in formation, was not really even given an escort (reports show that the F-4 had a hard time keeping up with the RA-5C). This plane is not a fighter, not a bomber....it was made to go in, take pics, and get out.

OBIO
 
True enough....

Saw one 15 years ago out at USAF base in Georgia when I was on a business trip. (work for Boeing)
 
OBIO said:
Nope...no multi-LOD. Can't ad LODs to a plane with Photoshop. All I could do was make it look better, give it gauges.

OBIO
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Yeah ... I kinda figgered that. Thanx anyhow Obi .... yer still my Hero!!!

......... :medals: :salute: :medals:
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OBIO said:
I am working on a revamp of the freeware Alphasim RA-5C Vigilante. I am doing new skins, have the 2D and VC panel fully gauged out and functional. Added some specular shine to the MDL file to give the plane a bit more pow!. I have 4 new skins done (well, one is actually a redo of the stock USS Ranger skin). I am working this update for both CFS2 and FS2004. Doing the initial paints in hi res 32 bit format for FS2004, then saving them in DXT3 format for CFS2. I want to get a couple more skins done before I upload the initial packages. More new skins to follow. You can see some screen shots of two of the fresh skins over in the FS2004 Forum in the thread I started there a few days ago (Does Anyone Fly the Alphasim RA-5C or something along those lines). Need to a light to the VC...it's dark in there...and possibly some engine exhaust smoke effects (adding effects to planes is so much easier in FS2004, and much more flexible).

OBIO
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Buddy, if you put the plane up for download I'll grab it and save it. I'm looking forward, not to dogfighting in a semi against a VW, to someone writing some bombing missions/campaigns against North Vietnam where I can go in and blow the living hell out of those darling little dialectic materialists of Oriental extraction.

Bones
 
Personaly I don't see a problem using the non multi-LOD Viggy there shouldn't be more then two over a target area anyway. I don't think that would bring a guys rig to its knees???? :sheep: if it does just look some were else :bump:
 
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