F-14 Tomcat

[Eble]

With kind permission of IkaR I will porting this fine Opf addon, work is at about 85% complete so beta 1 shouldn't be too far off barring any problems that come up.

Still have the multi weapon loadout scripts to sort and some minor texture tweaks.



By far the most requested Opf to Arma conversion, I did listen just had a backlog of other aircraft to finish first.

Most likely there will be two Pbo's one for thr US Navy and one for the Lost Brothers Mod in Iranian colours (shown).

Re-skins by eddyD

I made a quick cheesy video here:

Southy

F14 Youtube Video

edit - 25/10/08

Ok the F 14 is probably a favourite for a lot of poeple, and out of those we all, or maybe most have a different colour scheme we like.

With that in mind I'll release the texture template early so you guys that want to can get cracking on your favourites.

in the template I will include all the original skins from the opf model, so you can either remake the one you want or start a fresh.

lets see what you guys can do, we could have a little competition with the best skin getting inclusion in the beta 1/2 release.



Southy

download the PSD here:

F14 Texture Pack PSD and OFP original decals

last thing for today is the youtube video showing the LANTIRN system (Laser targeting and TV system for the ROI gunners position)

Gunners optics video


27/10/08

Probably an oversight on my part, here below you will find a MLOD version so you can can texture the F14 correctly apologies for that.

download here:

F14 MLOD for texture pack

Southy

[bravo 6]

nice, i love this aircraft

[Stewy]

Thank you so much for all of your hard work Eble and EddyD - Thanks to Ikar for his permissions as well!

A great looking bird, and those effects you've added just make it look stunning!

[Panda[PL]]

Great thanks. Been waiting for a tomcat for so long I was seriously considering simply making one.
"Bombcat" please? With 2 man crew this thing can be a great platform for mando bombs system, once released.

Just because it might intrest you: you're flying it wrong. :P
Tomcat's engines in afterburner would stop getting fuel after 10 seconds of zeor or negative G, 20 seconds in normal operation (no ab).

The technical notes:
You need to add the aerlions to the selection in shadow lod. Yes, shadow LOD is animated together with the resolution lods, therefore it needs named selections.

the cloud of water vapour that appers at high SUBsonic speeds is formed IN FRONT of the rear shockwave (which is attached tot he plane) the vapour dissapears behind the shockwave, so it cannot be seen behind the plane.
Many people think this is actually a shockwave, but they are wrong, you cannot see the actual shockwave (unless you use special photography techniques or visualise it in another way).

The wings swift back automatically (unless overriden). They start to swing at Mach 0.7 and are completely sweeped back at 0.9.
The small triangular thingies in front of wings are there to shift the aerodynamic center of wing at supersonic speed. They expand only above Mach 1 (and probably only when turning, I might be mistaken but supertomcats have them removed).

I'm a great fan and have red the entire manual once.
Would be nice to have the jet nozzle animated.(Now I do not expect the air inlet ramps to be moving etc., there are limits to how much realism is rational).

Good luck with finishing the project.

[Kolt]

good work!

Armaholic Topic can be found here:
http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=4675

[Average Joe]

Asmuch as I cant stand halfbaked ofp ports, looks like you've done a goodjob, Eddys spiced it up and the effects are VERY sweet. Nice-one

[blazer01]

man i can kiss ya for this ya baby topgun and will ya do a bombcat aswell

[ArmaVidz]

Man...just....so cool.

[Eble]

Small update, got the US navy skins from eddyD now so working those into the addon.

The F14 will come with 3 combat loadouts:

CAS – 38 FFAR, cannon, 2 x AIM9 and 4 x AGM65
CAP ***- 6 x AIM 54, 2 x Aim9, Cannon
Strike – 5 x GBU (LANTIRN system), 2 x Aim9, Cannon ***(Bombcat)

Working ROI (Gunner position) target selection etc.

I’m finding it hard to find out exactly what the ammo count on the M61 vulcan cannon was, I have a figure of ***964 from the opf config but I can’t verify this.

Trying to get working exhaust nozzles before release.

Working with the Lost Borthers mod for a joint release date as at the moment the PBO will include both the US and Iranian versions.

Southy

[Eble]

apologies double post.