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The SAAB Viggen released!

JensOle said:
The paintkit is not made available as it is very big... The texture mapping is made in a way that the model is covered with many smaller textures and when they went up to 2048x the size of the paintfiles become very big... And I must confess they are a bit of a mess... I'll see what we can do.
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I would be satisfied with just PSD layers of the panel lines. Would that be possible?
 
There's a link earlier in the thread it's at Avsim, although i couldn't access in a moment ago!
 
JensOle said:
The paintkit is not made available as it is very big... The texture mapping is made in a way that the model is covered with many smaller textures and when they went up to 2048x the size of the paintfiles become very big... And I must confess they are a bit of a mess... I'll see what we can do.
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Oh yeah, I forgot how he textured his models. They're very much a patch work of files.
 
Thanks guys!



The Viggen was one of the candidates to replace the F104 in the seventies, but the F16 was chosen instead. With all international mission I assume the choice for the Viggen would have caused a logistic disaster. But I really considered it a missed chance for the Royal Netherlands Air Force that they didn't choose to fly this Swedish beauty queen!

And Flyboy is correct, the model is available at Avsim and simviation.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Good to see the Viggen getting virtual flight time!

The same here in Norway, it was a contender for the F-5/F-104 replacement program together with the Mirage F1. The JA37 would have brought a more advanced interceptor capability with both radar link and BVR capability at a much earlier time frame compared to the F-16. The Jakt Viggen was pretty bad ass as an interceptor with both the radar and weapon capability it had from the late 1980's. The F-16 turned out to be an perfect fighter for the European partner nations, but it used almost 20 years to mature as a true BVR fighter. Of course the type of operations we have taken part in with the Americans have also played a part of showing how important it has been to fly a similar platform. Have said that there are some major differences between the early European F-16A and the later blocks of the C/D models which the USAF have been flying. Weapons wise the Viggen already was using US weapons, so that would not be a problem.
I'm also quite sure the short take off and landing capabilities of the Viggen would have been very welcome in Norwegian service during the cold war.
 
WIP

Been tweaking around....Added 3 additional fresnels, very rudamentary bumps and enabled diffuse alpha.

You can see the difference in lighting...whether realistic or not for this paint I'm having a lot of fun!!

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Very beautiful! Nicely done all around. I guess I'll have to buy a few more TB- I'm maxing out my memory on all the new toys.
 
Tacpack Prototype is available here:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4B4745D8612A4C3!760&authkey=!AFYbe0DPfY63myM&ithint=folder,jpg

There is a small glitch that i couldn’t fix; weapons are fired one at a time but they disappear two at once. Tried to fix the MDL with an hex-editor to no avail.

Made two versions for now:

- Attack, with four rocket launchers and two AIM-9
- Air defense, with four AIM-9 and two AMRAAM

Not much more can be done with current weapons configuration.

These are lightweight standalone variants, aliasing most of the stuff from the main version, since they require custom Aircraft.cfg and Panel.
Now They need some serious beta-testing … any volunteers?

Please report to MC5834@hotmail.it

Corrado
 
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