Violet's Sketchbook

[waspe414]

Getting some ground objects done for my challenge maps.

Carrier built on the body of an ore transport ship




Integrated optical landing system (OGL1 and 2 only. D3D doesn't like my abusing lights)


A mobile SAM using the TOS-1 rocket platform


A train with SAM/AAA cars

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Some more work on the new UCW pack







Making some custom weapon skins too:

I decided the GAU-8 wasn't enough, and slapped some GUV-8700s on the Hog



And the Su-24 gets the funky SPPU-6:

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In preparation for next year's WW2 RvB event, I've been developing a radar using animations. It uses the thrust vector buttons to set aircraft altitude to properly calibrate range, and a whole bunch of turrets to do the actual tracking.

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I have completed the radar system. It can distinguish targets with a separation greater than 3.75 degrees, and can track up to 24 targets if perfectly spaced. On the left is the radar view from the nose showing a 45deg cone around the centerline of the aircraft. The righthand scope is a top-down view from 45deg left to 45deg right and a maximum range of 18 miles from 20,000ft, with an altitude calibration. Altitude is set with thrust vector keys, and night mode is on bomb bay animation.

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Building the glass panels for Ping's upcoming Bonanza. Only 2900 faces

[Gordo]

2900!?!?! This thing is going to be a beast to fly, and a lagfest too!

[waspe414]

My current estimate is 11k faces for all the glass displays. I think the rest of the cockpit is floating around 10k too

[Gunny]

This is going to be some epic eye candy at the very least

[Luisitoo]

My current estimate is 11k faces for all the glass displays. I think the rest of the cockpit is floating around 10k too

+7k faces of cockpit detail

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Switched from one ridiculously detailed project to another. Decaff needs a J75, so I set to working on a J79 by accident.

Casually adding 28000 faces to the stock Phantom



Doing some multiaxis animation


Better colours, more blending


Internal paint and better weathering



It's sitting at 15000 faces right now, and that's probably where it'll stay

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There's been a bit of a push into more HQPGAC stuff.
I scratchbuilt a Tejas



And converted an HDish mesh for the C-17



Along with intermittent HD Yak-130 work

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With the Sukhoi LTS now public, it's time to HQPGAC it

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Working on the UCW pack. The Hornet is 50% panel lines by face count

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Some more UCW work


Windigos Jet Team transport, with lighting



Electronic warfare is go


I needed a stealth attacker and accidentally plagiarized Scaled Composites




UHD Hornet gets another functional instrument



In other instrument news, PLAAT camera


And an OLS

[decaff_42]

Does the OLS work with all of the different ysflight renderers?

[waspe414]

Yes! Unsure how easy it is to see at long range in OGL2 because of the light sprite fade, but because it uses the tracker mechanic and not a quirk of rendering order, it's solid in all versions. The downside is it tracks the glideslope of the nearest aircraft, so won't work if someone's on the deck. The PLAAT doesn't really have an alternative, but the OLS could be switched over to a different IFF turret system instead, which would limit it to a specific tracking cone and solve that issue, until someone picks the same IFF as the OLS

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I built a tunnel in Scenedit


Managed to tweak it for sea-level use

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Doing some carrier work.
Made a light CTOL carrier inspired by the Visby class destroyer:




And a combination of Nimitz, Kuznetsov, de Gaulle, and Shandong:


A functional hangar deck with conveniently oriented elevators:


Automatic JBD actuation:


Functional multi-wire action with an elevator:


Working to add the OLS and PLAAT cam from earlier into this carrier as well

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Afterburning J65 coming soon to an engine pack near you

Might finish up the J57 too while I'm at it