Static Airliners McCarran

Waited a while for things to settle down before I downloaded DCS2. Just spent my first two days looking around the new Nevada map, very impressed with the overall feel to it, the city blocks do not look too 'blocky', the terrain looks great, the airfields look fantastic and it really is a major achievement in my humble opinion.

A few niggles still to sort out but I expected that, nothing serious.

Is there an intention to change some of the static airliners skins at McCarran, with possibly a bit more variation in types as as well, currently they appear to be all one type with just one skin.

Not a deal breaker if there isn't, but it would look better.

Well done DCS, this ancient Jedi is really impressed.

Different airliners and companies would be a nice addition but it's most probably very far from the top of the list if it's even considered as a future development.

At least, it should be easy to replace the default livery. Southwest airlines would be more realistic and pleasantly colorful.

The textures are here:

\DCS World 2 OpenAlpha\Mods\terrains\Nevada\Models\Aircrafts

it would be great if they really make taxi and take off and landings around.

they can be spawn at the edge of the map as if they are arriving from somewhere and make their landings, or the can take off then disappear from the edge of the map

This is very much a side project but when I have time I'll keep knocking it out. I started this last night so hopefully I can get these done in a short time. Again, these are secondary modeling projects and will be static.

A-319/320

-Frontier's Grizwald the Bear and I'll also do Virginia the Wolf

-United

Possibly a Jetblue and USAirways

737-800

-Southwest

-United

I don't know the file structure of static objects on NTTR map, but the question is - can these airliners be repainted with different liveries anyway? I mean, is there a single texture template for all of them (like for some standard buildings), or are there separate ones?

It's probably just one template.

it would be great if they really make taxi and take off and landings around.

they can be spawn at the edge of the map as if they are arriving from somewhere and make their landings, or the can take off then disappear from the edge of the map

That would be added realism if we had such shared airspace considerations for NTTR. +1! :thumbup:

That would be added realism if we had such shared airspace considerations for NTTR. +1! :thumbup:

This is something I would greatly appreciate seeing!! Randomly generated AI for McCarran that would taxi takeoff and land. A few 737's 80s, some 319's or 320's and a few 747s would definitely add to the realism. It can even be scripted based on time of day or something but to see such a major airport and class B airspace empty is kind of bizarre!

At the moment there appears to be just one skin for all of the airliners, at least I can only find one, and I expect that will not be a high priority to do anything more with.

Hopefully somebody will come up with a skin that looks better than the white one in game, its a bit too bright for my old eye's. I might even have a go at that myself later, if Acoustic does not beat me to it, see his skin above - Nice.

Just a very quick test.

It's definitely possible to modify the default A300s texture:

I changed the aircrafts.varyhouselod4.1.diffusetexture.tif.dds from Aircrafts.texture.zip located in \Mods\terrains\Nevada\Models\Aircrafts

For some reason the default specular texture is from another company and does not match the default diffuse texture as it should.