What do we want to see/need in CFS2 in 2020?

[fani]

Maybe new Dornier 217 & Me 262
Keepdoing conversions from IL 2 models
Newtextures for the old but eccellent RCS B-25J
Villagesbasis whit streets only

 

[SW]

So come on then?[/B].....

Cheers

Shessi

Weiss Wm 21 Solyom
Repulogpegyar Levente II
Letov S 328
Lockheed Lodestar
Douglas DC2
Supermarine Spitfire VI
Hawker Nisr
Fairey Gordon
DH Vampire F.1
Bristol Bulldog – WW2 skins
Me 262A-2a Schwalbe
Junkers Ju 88P
Junkers Ju 86
Fiesler Fi 167 – Croatian skins
SM79 – twin engine variants
HP Harrow
Fairey Hendon

… I could go on, e.g. Junkers Ju 352 Herkules, a BV 222 etc etc – well you did ask!

Thanks to all the people that have already contributed so much to CFS2 that all the major aircraft are already covered and it is just oddities that are left without a proper CFS2 representive.

Happy New Year to all!

Cheers,

SW

 

[UncleTgt]

I'd most of all like to see a new Philippines GSL set. (Rhumba based or stock mesh - it doesn't matter)
next: Some more GMax US DD classes.

Yes Rami; a new Devastator.

Skins for USS Essex and USS Saratoga airgroups.

USS Essex & USS Saratoga airgroups - which aircraft models?

UncleTgt VF-9 Essex Hellcat skinpack


http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=57&id=22474

 

[UncleTgt]

........and as general as I can be. How about some updating of the aircraft that Talon used in his CBI theater ( as well as some mesh and texs) and the a\c in Korea. I use Mortons swap utility but still would like to see the theaters updated to the standards of present.

BTW: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!!!!!.

That's a great idea - much better than having more & more obscure aircraft that will hardly ever get used. Of course what REALLY needs doing is to bring some of the Asian scenery up to modern standards first, & there's a much smaller pool of resources willing to tackle scenery projects ...

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

.....I do remember that you did those bases. The problem I have is tha for some reason MB won't work on this rig and I can't get the "infrastructure" in place. Nice to fly around though and do some touch, thumb nose, and goes.

Hi. and Happy New Year:

Was the problem with the bases and MB or with your MB in general? If Mission Builder. what OS are you using?

I can't get my MB to work on my PC - it's a pure Win10, not an upgraded Win10 from another OS. I was just wondering if we might have a common problem.

Also, if you get it working, I too would love to get some new Korea missions with updated models. I'm too lazy to do the research.

Cheers
SW

 

[dmaloof]

I would like to see more jets for this sim. I know its not popular but I like what we have already but a lot is dated. I for one would like to see anythign from Saab like the Draken viggen and gripen and all their variants. Also helicpter stoo-preferably a Hind -35 model and all hind variants. Just sayin!

 

[SW]

windows10 and cfs2 mission builder

Hi. and Happy New Year:

Was the problem with the bases and MB or with your MB in general? If Mission Builder. what OS are you using?

I can't get my MB to work on my PC - it's a pure Win10, not an upgraded Win10 from another OS. I was just wondering if we might have a common problem.

Cheers
SW

Hi ShadowWolf/everyone,

I remember having a problem with getting the MB to start in windows10. If memory serves me correctly, it came down to _not_ having any spaces in the path - for example a working path would be:

C:\FlightSims\CFS2_SWPA_43-45\cfs2.exe /BUILDER:

as opposed to:

C:\FlightSims\CFS2 SWPA 43-45\cfs2.exe /BUILDER:

... and run it as administrator.

Having said that, I can only now get it to run on my vanilla install of CFS2 so I've broken something else in the meantime! Anyway removing the spaces might be worth a try,

cheers,

SW

 

[stoney]

I would really like more WWI area scenery and campaigns. A Halberstadt CL II would be great!

 

[Ravenna]

I would really like more WWI area scenery and campaigns. A Halberstadt CL II would be great!

Stoney,
Flanders is just about ready, although we could go on tweaking for ages! There are already new German hangar sheds and Robert John has created a set of Bessonneau hangars which will go to the library soon.
After a few binned efforts I am just about finished a Western Front UIRES set for the Royal Naval Air Service and the German Naval Air Service. More "countries" will come in time (RFC, Luftsreitkrafte, Aviation Militaire, USAS, AFC, Aviation Militaire Belge, RAF and USNAS). The country.cfg is complete for all of these.
BTW, I agree about the Halberstadt CLII. I'd also love to see a Caudron VI and a Short Bomber.

 

[Fibber]

SW..........

........sorry I missed your reply. It is not your bases, it is this rig and the CFS itself. I think when it was reloaded, somehow, I reloaded it without the MB. Besides this rig is gasping for bytes. It is a old Dell Dimension 9100, running win xp sp3. Keep planning on buying a new one and real life throws curves and derails those plans.

WHOOPS! Forgot there is a "SW" and a "Shadow Wolf". Guess I will have to stop some abbreviations in the names!

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

........sorry I missed your reply. It is not your bases, it is this rig and the CFS itself. I think when it was reloaded, somehow, I reloaded it without the MB. Besides this rig is gasping for bytes. It is a old Dell Dimension 9100, running win xp sp3. Keep planning on buying a new one and real life throws curves and derails those plans.

WHOOPS! Forgot there is a "SW" and a "Shadow Wolf". Guess I will have to stop some abbreviations in the names!

LOL I forget myself sometimes.

 

[AcWai]

Just because they are multi-lod doesn't necessarily mean they are frame-rate friendly. Witness his German Dorniers. And the Yaks are serviceable. The P-51D Mustang isn't really accurate either, though AcWai's new version did redress this to an extent.

Happy New Year!

I would like to know if there are any frame rate issues with some of my aircraft that were released last year. I have found a new way to make it run faster by switching in the lowest multi-lod model sooner at a distance four time closer. For example, with 16 P-51D in the sky running in the window mode at 1600 X 1200, I could see frame rate of over 125 fps, but it fluctuates wildly between 50-150 fps. I like to use the full frame mode, which has a consistent frame rate of 58-62 fps.

Anyway, here is my new FW-190A8 before it is painted by Alessandro.

 

[Captain Kurt]

We need a more accurate Hellcat. Current models are reasonable facsimiles but not accurate.

AcWai has a good FS2004 model but it has a very heavy poly count, no LODs, and isn't frame rate friendly - wasn't meant to be. But it is beautiful.

Andrew kindly offered it to Team Daedalus to reduce the poly count, add LODs plus of course some other updates to get it working for CFS2. We've not been able to get to it because of the work load queue on the Bf109 family and maybe even getting to an Me 262. It could be more than a year out.

Shessi and AcWai, perhaps if Shessi is willing, it might make more sense to transfer the project?

BTW Andrew, your Fw is looking good, although I was kind of hoping your Focke-Wulf would be an A-3 or A-4. We have many good A-8s already but absolutely none of the earlier versions

 

[Ravenna]

We have quite a few anti-aircraft guns which happily fire with no gunnery crew. It would be good to see a project upgrading AA guns so that each has at least a gunner. Alternatively, a set of figures would be useful if one was seated and one loading. Robert John's excellent Maxim 37mm cannon and Pen32Win's Bofors gun need no such upgrade.

 

[Maxstuka]

I need a Me-410 with breaking parts

 

[SW]

That's a great idea - much better than having more & more obscure aircraft that will hardly ever get used. Of course what REALLY needs doing is to bring some of the Asian scenery up to modern standards first, & there's a much smaller pool of resources willing to tackle scenery projects ...

I may have misinterpreted Shessi's original request, but do we need to limit what is on the want/wish list to things that are not obscure? No-body is suggesting that all wanted/wished for aircraft/scenery/campaigns etc etc have to be built??

Can I make the observation that obscurity depends very much on context? For example we have available in CFS2 the Do335, which AFAIK never became operational, and while some may have been seen by allied pilots airborne, the Do335 never engaged in combat. There are many other examples of really obscure aircraft that have made it into CFS2, even some fictitious aircraft.

Similarly, in a different context, Hungarian members of SOH would (I think) not say that Solyom was obscure, used as it was by the Royal Hungarian Air Force in various roles throughout the war.

On my wish list I would submit that these aircraft are not obscure (except the Hendon!)- all of them were operational in WWII except the Vampire and Hendon:

Weiss Wm 21 Solyom - Operational (Royal Hungarian Air Force), used in combat sorties, 128 built

Repulogpegyar Levente II - trainer/liaison (Royal Hungarian Air Force), 100 built

Letov S 328 - Operational (several air forces including the Luftwaffe), used in combat sorties, 412 built

Lockheed Lodestar - Operational with multiple air forces, 625 built

Douglas DC2 - Operational with multiple air forces, used in combat sorties, 192 built

Supermarine Spitfire VI - Operational (RAF), used in combat sorties, 100 built

Hawker Nisr - Operational, used in combat sorties, 34 built

Fairey Gordon - Operational, used in combat sorties, 186 built

DH Vampire F.1 - missed WWII but of the might-have-beens included in CFS3 it was the one most likely to have been actually used in an extended WWII - over 3,000 built

Bristol Bulldog – Operational (with Finnish air force in WWII), used in combat sorties, 443 built

Me 262A-2a Schwalbe - Operational, ""Sturmvogel" Definitive bomber version retaining only the two lower 30 mm (1.181 in) MK 108 cannon." All the existing CFS2 Me 262s are fighters I believe.

Junkers Ju 88P - Operational, used in combat sorties, more than 40 built

Junkers Ju 86 - Operational with multiple air forces, used in combat sorties, around 900 built

Fiesler Fi 167 – Operational with Croatian forces, used in combat sorties, 14 built. JR Lucariny FS2004 version has been converted for CFS2 by Misson, Peperez and Phil Perrot - but no Croatian skins that I know of.

SM79 – twin engine variants - this has been done by IS4G (I4JRS79B.ZIP), but no Iraqi skins that I know of. Operational with Romanian and Iraqi air forces, used in combat sorties, around 100 built

HP Harrow - operational with the RAF, used in transport sorties, around 100 built - "Seven Harrows were destroyed by a low level attack by Luftwaffe fighters of JG 26 and JG 54 on Evere airfield as part of Operation Bodenplatte"

Fairey Hendon - OK, I admit it, this one is obscure. Operational with the RAF but retired before WWII. 15 built.

... so based on operational status, number built, combat engaged in, I'd say these are all better than the Do335 (etc etc). I'm aware that not everyone will agree!

Anyway ... if I have understood the original question by Shessi, let everyone feel free to say what is on their wish lists!

 

[Roxane-21]

SW

Shessi made a Ju-88P-4.

 

[BoeingvsAirbusNKL]

brace yourselves, here's my ideas.

Here are my ideas for new cfs2 planes.
DE: Ju-290/Ju-390, a He-177B and/or a much improved Heinkel HE-100
IT: Caproni-Vizzola F.4 and/or F.6
FR: a cfs2 native conversion of Erwin Welker's Bugatti P110
JP: Nakajima G5N and G8N or fully gmax J7W1 Shinden with vc
GB: cfs2 native Avro Lincoln and Shackleton, Slingsby Hengist, and/or Spiteful and Seafang
SE: FFVS J-22 and/or Saab J-21 piston fighter
FI: Mörkö Morane... why not?
RU: more accurate Yak-3 with radial engine, Petlyakov Pe-8, Pashinin I-21, Moskalev SAM-13 (not a surface to air missile) or improved Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1
US: Lockheed XB-30, Boeing B-50, cfs2 native seversky P-35, gmax P-43 Lancer (sorry), Bell P-63 KingCobra, NAA P-64 and/or Gmax P/F-82.

(Whew) my mouth is now mush.

 

[codeseven]

Been away for awhile but, has the ‘AI aircraft landing, and stopping, on an aircraft carrier riddle’ ever been solved?

 

[Maxstuka]

there are two Me-262 of 1% Team. Me262A-1A and Me262B-U1 all breaking parts.they need to rework the damage setting in .dp meaby I will work in it.