The Unofficial "Official" SH3 screenshot thread!

[Onealex]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Great images! Can you tell us what is your environment mod?

Many thanks!

Fitzcarraldo

This is my compilation from different environment mods + my work with scene.dat, colours of the sky and sea...

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by Onealex

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthrea...=44659&page=19

Thank you very much.

kovall does some nice conversions from SH5 to SH3.

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by Onealex

This is my compilation from different environment mods + my work with scene.dat, colours of the sky and sea...

Could I request you this combined mod for download?

Many thanks in advance!

Fitzcarraldo

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by VONHARRIS

Thank you very much.

VonHarris:

In this link:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ighlight=Brown

You have the Kovall ships for scripting in SH3 campaign (GWX or other). I have these ships in my campaign!

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

VonHarris:

In this link:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ighlight=Brown

You have the Kovall ships for scripting in SH3 campaign (GWX or other). I have these ships in my campaign!

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

Thank you for the link

[VONHARRIS]

I came across this :



July 27 , 1941 19:12 hours Grid CG 57

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by VONHARRIS

I came across this :

July 27 , 1941 19:12 hours Grid CG 57

I believe they are Portuguese markings on that plane. I can't remember the aircraft type but I believe an american one landed in Portugal during the war and it was commandeered by their air force and used for coastal patrols. Presumably that's why it appears in GWX.

Nemo

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[Raptor]

That's a P-38 Lightning, arguably the second best fighter the USA had in WW2, second only to the P-51 Mustang.

The firepower was impressive and was comprised of one 20MM cannon and four .50 caliber machine guns.

Known by the German Luftwaffe as "Der Gabelschwanz Teufel" (The Fork-Tailed Devil) and to the Japanese as "two planes, one pilot", the P-38 Lockheed Lightning was light years ahead of its time. Designed as a high-altitude interceptor and contrary to what some think, the P-38 was not just a fighter; it also carried high explosive and incendiary bomb loads -- competingwith the early WWII bomber aircraft (with bomb loads of up to 4000 pounds). It was the fighter of choice for pilots.

Approximately 10,000 P-38's were built, and they flew in every combat theater, around the world during WWII.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Raptor

That's a P-38 Lightning, arguably the second best fighter the USA had in WW2, second only to the P-51 Mustang.

Or arguably not. Against the Japanese, and used properly, it gave us the two highest scoring American aces, but it killed one of them. Against the Germans it was so inferior that it ended up being relegated to bombing and reconaissance roles. The P-47 was certainly better.

The problem with the screenshot is the Portugese markings.

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The problem with the screenshot is the Portugese markings.

My earlier post refers, but here's a quote from Wikipedia "Two interned Lightnings were forced to land in Lisbon, Portugal, while on a ferry flight from England to Algeria. Both were used by PoAF".

Nemo

[Onealex]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Could I request you this combined mod for download?

Many thanks in advance!

Fitzcarraldo

Ok. I'll upload it soon. This is my version of storm. But I must tell you about little problem: In every ship's .val file, you have to put the value of depth = -0,5 (see screenshot #1)
During the storm (wind speed 15 m/s) appeared the lifeboats when the wave covered the ship...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

My earlier post refers, but here's a quote from Wikipedia "Two interned Lightnings were forced to land in Lisbon, Portugal, while on a ferry flight from England to Algeria. Both were used by PoAF".

Ah. Thanks.

[SubConscious]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Or arguably not. Against the Japanese, and used properly, it gave us the two highest scoring American aces, but it killed one of them. Against the Germans it was so inferior that it ended up being relegated to bombing and reconaissance roles. The P-47 was certainly better.

From what I read, the British ordered the P-38s made with propellers that rotated the same direction (the standard had contra-rotating propellers) and without superchargers. This would certainly help to explain the poor performance they realized with this plane. If I find the source, I'll post it.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by SubConscious

From what I read, the British ordered the P-38s made with propellers that rotated the same direction (the standard had contra-rotating propellers) and without superchargers. This would certainly help to explain the poor performance they realized with this plane. If I find the source, I'll post it.

I wasn't talking about the British. After a good initial start P-38s fared poorly against the Germans.

On 25 August 1943, 13 P-38s were shot down in a single sortie by Jagdgeschwader 53 Bf 109s without achieving a single kill. On 2 September, 10 P-38s were shot down, in return for a single kill, the 67-victory ace Franz Schiess (who was also the leading "Lightning" killer in the Luftwaffe with 17 destroyed). Kurt Bühligen, third highest scoring German pilot on Western front with 112 victories, recalled later: “The P-38 fighter (and the B-24) were easy to burn. Once in Africa we were six and met eight P-38s and shot down seven. One sees a great distance in Africa and our observers and flak people called in sightings and we could get altitude first and they were low and slow.” General der Jagdflieger Adolf Galland was unimpressed with the P-38, declaring, "it had similar shortcomings in combat to our Bf 110, our fighters were clearly superior to it." Experiences over Germany had shown a need for long-range escort fighters to protect the Eighth Air Force's heavy bomber operations. The P-38Hs of the 55th Fighter Group were transferred to the Eighth in England in September 1943, and were joined by the 20th, 364th and 479th Fighter Groups soon after. P-38s soon joined Spitfires in escorting the early Fortress raids over Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhee...ropean_theater