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Mig-21Bis Update #8

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?...77&postcount=1

DCS MiG-21Bis NewsFlash - Issue No.8

External Model

Rudel still working on the exterior model UVW and texturing. Now he placing thousands of rivets for the full '21 experiance. More pics and info can be found here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?...59&postcount=1

Cockpit

Razbam-Cobra is finished the new cockpit, now he's working on to port/test it into the game and very soon he will create a video how it looks like in the game.

AFM

At coding side Dolphin and Roland working on the radio as the last system to be implemented. With this last system finishing our code migration so moving to c++ allowed us greater control over implementation, and as a result our already complex base received a general overhaul. After Radio is finalized we will start final bugfixing and test than we reach internal beta.

AFM + Coding

Not significant changes on the roadmap. Later on we should post the possible schedule of our project remaining actions.

Others

Diveplane working on the MiG-21 sound creation. Here it is an early wip progress video of the engine samples completed and mixed beautifully ingame, authentic Tumansky R-25-300:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.ph...59#post1898559

Afternoon pilots! Big update today; for me at least.

Between Newsflash 7 and 8 a lot has changed on the model with regards to accuracy and how the damage model works within ED's engine.

The entire time spent creating the three 3D meshes for just bullet damage, has been scrapped. Although time wasted, the best part is knocking of nearly 80,000 polys to free up space for more detail in other areas.



As such, UV & texturing has begun. While I was laying down panel lines a lot of areas were not matching up. I took the opportunity to reshape the landing gear doors. A small glitch came about using the bomb-racks. They interfered with the gear doors. The team came up with a solution to use custom arguments to set slotted or non-slotted gear doors based on the payload you choose. Proper holes and framing were added as well.

The landing lights are now in the correct locations and resized. Detailed hinges were added along with a new light holder shape based on real photos.





The external model's HUD has also been cleaned up.




And now what most of you have probably waiting for! Do keep in mind, these are still very much WIP with no Normal or Spec mappings. The best part once it's finished, is that I just practically copy it to the right wing and change the weathering.