VPA Rafales revisited

[anels9]

Thank you! Superb repaints!

 

[VPA TEAM]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your interest in the Rafale VPA.

Franck, contacted me in order to be able to provide the Rafale in all its versions, Rafale C B and Marine.

This should allow those who have made changes, to be able to make available to all, additional textures, as well as patches related to the proper functioning of the aircraft under FS9.

Good day to all.

 

[Navtech]

Hi,

@VPA TEAM

 

[huub vink]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your interest in the Rafale VPA.

Franck, contacted me in order to be able to provide the Rafale in all its versions, Rafale C B and Marine.

This should allow those who have made changes, to be able to make available to all, additional textures, as well as patches related to the proper functioning of the aircraft under FS9.

Good day to all.

Thanks VPA team! Highly appreciated and welcome at the SOH.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[anels9]

Thank you VPA for giving the greenlight. Would be such a shame to lose this unique and well made aircraft to the history of fs2004

 

[VPA TEAM]

Hello all,

Alex, thank you for showing so much interest in the Rafale.
In all honesty I would never have believed that more than 10 years after its release, that it would still be improving, and above all used.
In France, as soon as a new simulator comes out, everyone switches to the new one, to the point that in some virtual companies, the simulator used changes every 4 mornings.
I don't know if Franck got my message.

Regarding the Marine version, I had established it in a large number of variants, including 2 versions with Buddy buddy pod, for in-flight refueling.
Under its 2 versions, there is a difference that has been established in order to make it visible in multiplayer, the output of the BOOM being animated under the opening key of the canopy.
Once the Rafale Marine is available, you can have fun doing in-flight refueling.

Are many of you still flying on FS9?
Are there still networks usable in multiplayer on FS9?

See you soon.

 

[anels9]

i personally havent used any other sim, even after all these years. and yes there is still a fairly large and active fs2004 community. i have no desire to move on.

 

[anels9]

Any more updates on this going ahead with being released here at SOH?

 

[Motormouse]

Any more updates on this going ahead with being released here at SOH?

The C version is up on Frank's Mirage4fs website already

Ttfn

Pete

 

[huub vink]

Thanks, l'iguane, VPA team, Frank and all others involved. I didn't know this model, but it really a great addition.

I have used this handy video to get familiar with the aircraft and to learn how to start and operate it.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[huub vink]

Missing AB effects

In the Rafale single seat C version package which Frank made available on his site, the afterburner effects are not included. (Hopefully, Frank will be able to upload the B versions as well)

A while ago, one of the regular members here, was so kind to make his VPA Rafales available to me. Sadly also in this package the effect "fx_Rafburner" was missing.

So I decided to replace the entry in the aircraft config file with an effect I already had. After some testing I came out with the "fx_ALPHA_S39_AB" effect, which is included with the now free Alphasim SAAB Grippen.

You can also make a copy of the Alphasim efffect and rename that into "fx_Rafburner", which will save you changing all aircraft configuration files. (But I only realised that after I had already changed all the aircraft configuration files )

It is of course personal whether you like it or not, But I think it looks quite nice

Cheers,
Huub

 

[l'iguane]

Hi Huub,

I didn't like the original AB effect, so I replaced it with IRIS Mig-27 AB fx, slightly modified in scale to fit inside the rafale.
I removed the flame as the real rafale AB isn't that flamy.

Here it is :

Cheers
L'iguane

 

[huub vink]

Hi l'iguane,

When I'm not mistaking there is another repaint on its way....

Until this evening I had never seen a Rafale taking off, but thanks to Google and YouTube, I have seem the images now. And I must confess after looking at these movies I must conclude your afterburner effects look spot on.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[huub vink]

And while you are flying the Rafale, try this! When you manage to land like this, you can already consider it a miracle

Cheers,
Huub

 

[l'iguane]

Hi Huub,

Yes a couple of liveries are on the way. The one pictured above and another tigermeet livery !

Should you be willing to try, here is my A/B config :

aircraft.cfg :
light.8 = 2,-19.3, -2.02, 0.17, fx_rafale_aniburner
light.9 = 2, -19.3, 2.10, 0.17, fx_rafale_aniburner

Light.txt :
2,-24.27, -2.02, 3.48, fx_rafale_aniburner
2, -24.29, 2.10, 3.47, fx_rafale_aniburner

fx_rafale_aniburner enclosed here, add to effects.

This effect is the IRIS Mig-27 burner, scaled down to rafale exhaust. All copyrights belong to IRIS, not mine.
You shall have the Mig-27 effects installed for the effect textures to show up.

Best
L'iguane

 

[huub vink]

Thanks l'iguane!

In one of the packages I found an afterburner effect, which most likely was from an Eurofighter. Although it needed some re-alignment, and didn't produce a huge flame as well, so it looked quite nice as well.

But your modded IRIS Mig-27 afterburner effect is definitely much better. So I will stick with that

Huub

 

[huub vink]

Comparison

With an afterburner effect called fx_efaburner

And the modded Mig-27 effect modified by l"iguane

I like both, but I think the last one looks more "alive"

Cheers,
Huub

 

[anels9]

Any chance for a, A and C prototype livery?

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Fra.../1wz9TTA5fFP4hwDo42C6XKPPxXrlwwHnUmnbdre+MTo=


https://www.airliners.net/photo/Unt...vb5qgvwkm3TeHfwiA3jvT6Rx9ytYKdwecc6F9/wK4djE8

 

[huub vink]

You can find a lot of trees in Aquitaine!

And when you are looking for a challenge l'iguane......

Cheers,
Huub

 

[anels9]

Will the rafales be hosted here at soh huub?