WIP: F-14 B/D
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I hate to be “That guy” but that jet isn’t Thief of Baghdad, its Camel Smoker.
ToB looked like this:
Otherwise great work on your Cat, looking forward to seeing more progress!
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@sobo-87 said in WIP: F-14 B/D:
I hate to be “That guy” but that jet isn’t Thief of Baghdad, its Camel Smoker.
ToB looked like this:
Otherwise great work on your Cat, looking forward to seeing more progress!
You’re so right, I stand corrected. I had both decals (Thief and Chief of Baghdad with the Camel Smoker insignia) on the same texture set. I like the smooth edges of the camo on the Camel Smoker better.
By the way, the cooles gimmick is visible on the picture you posted (looks like David F. Brown image) - the painted canopy on the bottom side!
Here it is in the editor…probably the most difficult yet most rewarding skin I’ve done - ages ago.
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DUDE, NICE!
Great to see you back, Stingray!
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Happy to join the 5th iteration of a Falcon forum in 15 years…sorry I missed the move but now I’m all set. Maybe on this forum I end up actually contributing a model that goes in game
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Sharp like the point of a spear
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@stingray_SIX_TWO
Is the model still alive? I would love to work on it Dont get me wrong not add/remove or whatver just some experiments on skins! It looks fabulous! -
Manos, I’m so glad you’re interested in the F-14. This is the best news of the day for me.
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@buraktunahan
Since the original Top Gun movie is one of my favorites and this model is top noch by stingray and i hope we can see it in Falcon someday. And i would love to make some experiments on it skinwise at least -
@Manos1981 said in WIP: F-14 B/D:
@buraktunahan
Since the original Top Gun movie is one of my favorites and this model is top noch by stingray and i hope we can see it in Falcon someday. And i would love to make some experiments on it skinwise at leastI’ve had the opportunity to shoot some photos of the last combat cruise of the VF-31 and VF-213 Tomcats in the Arabian Gulf during OIF, I’m happy to help with any photos where I can.
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@Manos1981 My biggest wish is to see this fighter on BMS one day. I even had the cockpit ready a few years ago.
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@Manos1981 said in WIP: F-14 B/D:
@stingray_SIX_TWO
Is the model still alive? I would love to work on it Dont get me wrong not add/remove or whatver just some experiments on skins! It looks fabulous!Once the unwrapping is done I’ll be happy to share with you for some skinning experimentation. Not that I lack any ideas myself…
On the modeling front I compiled my todos for the winter season…among others
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anti-collision and position lights on the wingtips
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the ominous refueling probe
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main landing gear linkage for animation (see youtube video below, posted 2 yrs after I modeled it and finally helped me realize which part of it rotates and why)
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set up 3DS and load model for DOF animation and textures (DOF will be used as far as possible for flaps, slats, spoilers, cove door and moving surfaces logic as well as wing flex and flutter if I can figure it out)
3DS…no comment.
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model geometry correction, lots of uneven areas, flipped normals, etc. I need to clean that up
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pilots need to be modeled, other than that I don’t see anything missing
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weapons will most likely be there already if not I’ll model them as well
I’m focusing on Delta Cat only for now, any A/A+/B configuration needs to wait.
Watch at .5x speed
@Turkeydriver @Mike-Metcalf Are you guys still active here?
@Tazz You may not remember but you shared those with me already years ago. VF-31 final cruise right? I remember there only being 8-10 pics so anymore you have would be greatly appreciated. Just send me a DM.
@buraktunahan That looks awesome!!
This has been going on for too long and I need to see an end so it won’t be perfect but at least I can bring an amateur model that is better and more functional than the current one to BMS and that would make me very happy.
Also there’s been countless valuable contributions over the years especially when it comes to flight model characteristics, combat capability, history and details of the big cat in my threads and @mykinge’s pit thread (I’m sure he won’t mind) by various individuals and I’ve compiled a .pdf that I will share in the coming days so at least we have some documentation should anyone ever try this again.
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@stingray_SIX_TWO
The way i work nowadays will need the mesh as well. You know where to find me -
You 3D paint in PS? I think we talked about this years ago
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Model is in much better state than I remember. Landing gear and refueling probe ‘animation’ are coming up!
On another note, is the sound logic in BMS 4.3.6+ still the same as in Free Falcon 5.5.5 11 years ago?
Always planned to bring some authentic sound to the model as well.
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@stingray_SIX_TWO said: Not that I lack any ideas myself…
Your extensive collection of skins back in the FF days was amazing, dude.
(Hat still off to you)
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@Aragorn said in WIP: F-14 B/D:
@stingray_SIX_TWO said: Not that I lack any ideas myself…
Your extensive collection of skins back in the FF days was amazing, dude.
(Hat still off to you)
You need to up the doseage dude, you are way too nice.
Yes, the skinning days I definitely went way overboard with that. Thank goodness I saved all the stencils as scalable vectors in PSD format and did a redraw of the panel lines based on original blueprints in 2019 so that’ll save some time.
Lo-Vis VF-103 with Phoenix Award…still my all time favorite!
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Why is every moving part on this bird connected to the fuselage through another moving part with a second attachment point? They really love these ‘rotate one part and then rotate another through linkage to that part and a fixed attchment point’ > see the main landing gear and the refueling probe in question
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@stingray_SIX_TWO If a 3D model looks a lot like a real aircraft, it’s really high quality. I superimposed your F-14 3d model image in the screenshot you gave, with a real F-14 photographed from the same angle. The 3D F-14 model you have modeled is almost identical to the real aircraft. I think your 3D model is excellent. I hope it will be in BMS as soon as possible.
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Some initial experimentation with the refueling probe. Took me a few hrs to get back into Blender. I think I’ll smooth out and simplify most of the frontend fuselage as it is overly full with unneeded geometry.
The base axis for the probe still needs to be finalized to create accurate rotation as the fuselage cover part is attached to the probe so they move together.
Probe will get a few (A FEW) more details like the light and some actuator and compartment details. Nothing too wild. It does look cool when deployed.
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@buraktunahan said in WIP: F-14 B/D:
@Manos1981 My biggest wish is to see this fighter on BMS one day. I even had the cockpit ready a few years ago.
Beautiful pit. If you would be willing to share your F-14 style pit, I would love to incorporate it into my OFM Theatres.