I am totally putting off bringing in F5e into sabow. I feel the pain just thinking about it. No easy way to test aircraft that I know of. TOTAL PITA!.

For days now I have been searching the net for how Iran used their F5E during iran/iraq war. Finding photos seems to be near impossible as is what the load was back then. Vary annoying. So I guess I am going to take my best guess at it.....

Think I am going to just shotgun the problem. LAU 61 pod (or whatever the 19 rocket version), MK82 snake eye bombs, Maverick A model, and maybe Mk83 bomb or MK81 with the 3 deal bomb rack. If more info comes to light modify as needed. I know they had mk82 bomb, LAU rocket pods of all sorts, and maverick missles (they where for sure used on F4E during war....dont know if it was A or B model). Probably had MK81 and MK83 bombs. Already started on the LAU pod and will probably model mk82 snake eye bomb tomorrow. Oh and of course the sidewinder...........even if it will not use them.

Currently attempting to rig the F5. Only a vague idea of what needs to happen. This should be interesting.......

Well got the thing to show up in the in game model viewer.....yay.

Hmmmm interesting problem.............My Iranian air spotter does not want to call in his f5e air support. WIERD. Must be a line of code I don't know about/missed.

DAMN.........something is majorly wrong with config files.......001 crash to desk top....

So ya, 1st attempt at bringing this into sabow to test flopped..... But did not know that SABOW/APOS support working rudders, flap, etc. When I made the model did not include working bits for that. Went back and updated all that. Also started on the weapons.





All the basics are now covered with model and basic load out for weapons. OK the middle bomb is me screwing around. But now everything should be set and the real texture work can begin as I more or less figured out color and such. I left room on the texture sheet for more things that go bang for later .

Started the more serious texture work.... Does not look like much now, but it will. But I am not putting every damned panel and rivet into texture. I WANT too, but for something that will zip over head REALLY fast........why?


Hmmmm making zillions of lines gets really boring. I think small steps with boring lines.

Just leave it the way it is, man! The only thing you're going to get to see are the rockets as they fly toward bad guy tanks.

LOL I know! But I can't help myself! Will do a reduced detail texture. Just SOME panels and such, but mainly on the under side. The top looks ok with just camo and a few smudges.



More line hell.........Some on the top as well. A few problem areas, but easily fixed. Should have line hell finished up some time later tonight. These hellish boring lines will be the primary basis for the normal map. Should look pretty good when rendered out. But also are the starting points for much more fun (well for me) dirt, smudges, and crap. Wish I was not so broke that I can not afford printer ink. Would simply print out the template I made and make lines on paper. WAY faster and easier IMO. Just to hard to use my wacom and a sraight edge. So I have to use the damned pen tool, and that just is not any fun. lol


Obviously did not model the mk82 snake eye......just a regular mk 80 series bomb. Something to do later. Should be able to fit maverick A model and snake eye textures on space left on texture sheet. More than that do not think I have the room. Time will tell if thats what I end up doing. But for historical reasons this is a vary likly load out during IRAN/IRAQ war.

One totally unrefined 32 second normal map. Obviously some problems.....not suprised at all. But ya, I think this should look neato when done.

Yep, going to work out just fine after I refine and fix some stuff. Can pretty much finish out the normal map from this point in a couple hours. YAY! Getting real close to be being totally done....well with the F5E anyways. Got to get that playable m113a1 done next. But next release of my mod will have a few nice things in it =).



More or less doing what I want it to do. Needs a few more things added and some more refinement. But at least as far as my normal map goes.....almost none.

Just found a bunch of unwelded vertexes screwing up my normal map.......now fixed.
AND yes that is a bomb sticking out of its nose..... my bad....

I love working with normal maps..........so many neat things you can do.

Everything is starting to come together. Hope SimHQ staff dont kill me for the amount of pics I put on their web sight.




Another screenie with a REAL bad spec map.



Think I will roll with some version of this normal.

Burnard

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Good work

Skimbo

I bought this game about as soon as it was released in English. I've only just installed it last week and ...ohh yes.

Then I find all this. The reason I love PC gaming

Keep up the good work!

Now if only we had a playable BMP-1
I think somebody would deserve a donation button for sure lol

You are scaring me.




Be sure to patch the game up with graviteam betas. SO MUCH BETTER than when released. Yes playable bmp1.....me wants bad. I keep hoping someone in Ukraine/Russia will do justice to one. I could get the out side right, but have little idea of what looks right on the inside of the thing. Plus, no real idea how to model auto loader etc. I do have a bunch of photos of blown up Iraqi AMX 10 IFV's i took when passing thru Taji (I think it was Taji). Could get that some what right I think. But its not the same.


Oh on another note.... I so wish I had took some photos of all the blown up MIG 21's around Al Asad. Quite a few of them. But I was always busy doing stuff to do it. Funniest thing was tail section of a MIG 25 on the out skirts of Al Asad's air strip........mixed in with lots of blown up air plane bits. With these cute little pyramid blast walls and bunkers. Vary epic........lol.


A bit of muck. If I have any hope of getting everything I want none before next SABOW patch I am going to need to wrap this project up tonight. It should be "good enough" for now, but I most certainly will improve stuff if time allows.