EA had the license and owned Origin at the time. I don't believe they licensed the name but I remember some headaches regarding such things at the time. If they did there should be some brand or something on the box or at least in the manual. For JF-15 (and later for JF/A-18) I seem to remember that since we were a US company and the aircraft was paid for with US tax dollars that the look, the "F-15E" ID and a bunch of other stuff was in the public domain. "Strike Eagle" not being an officially tied into things I think was more problematic. Of course EA having an impressive legal team didn't hurt since they could stand up for a lengthy court battle. If you don't have the resources, even if you're in the right, you can lose to attrition. Of course I'm not a lawyer and this was a long time ago so my limited details could be in error or things could have changed over time.

Yes, it was built as a purely entertainment product. I don't know if anyone tried to use it for more than that after the fact. JF/A-18 was the same thing but I heard at one point the RAAF was looking at possibly using it for some sort of training and someone in the forums said they used it for something like basic systems familiarization. Part of the Jane's deal is that it gave us access to all their books and I think we were able to bump ideas off of their experts as well, particularly regarding campaigns.

Elf

Funny billboard! Your own creation?

Note #33

Paved roads are starting to look more likely.





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Looks great...

since we have roads, any chance of catching some bad guys planting IEDs?

Note #34

Not really much to say other than I've been testing various smoothing filter settings to remove sharp bumps and terracing from the terrain. I've also been looking at different terrain texture tiling slope angles to get in some extra variation.

A very odd area north of Herat city.



The endless sea of sand and rock.



Another super micro sized greenzone. Lots and lots of these added with hundreds more to add.



The road to Herat.



Need to add a couple of mosques to this village.



To the left, a new town, to the right, a greenzone, in the middle, not much of anything.



The new, yet to be named town.



And a little industrial center leading off from the town.



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Note #35

A couple of shots from Herat city.

Very nice work AD!!
At around 13:30 a feature about Herat in this Dutch documentary... http://documentairenet.nl/2010/08/exit-afghanistan/
It's also worthwhile to watch as a whole

Thanks for the link, watching it now.

The following link is a very interesting documentary about Herat during the Soviet/Afghan war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0GgqQoZy0

Cheers

Note #36

A couple of atmospheric shots.

















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Is that a Tornado I see through the concertina wire two pictures above?