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NICE - NightIntruder's Creations Expanded [Vietnam]

NightIntruder

BHR has gotten a simple catapult bridle system. It was not planned at all, just happened, like a side project while CATs operations have been refined for CVA. So far, two models of bridle systems have been made - one for Skyhawks and one for T-Planes. It's more for eye candy than for something else.

CHARLIE

Any Chance on tentative realease?

NightIntruder

CHARLIE wrote:
Any Chance on tentative realease?

Indeed, the addon is scheduled for "alpha" release and is on the MP test phase, now. We are polishing the last small issues together with TeTeT. The aircraft carrier is incomplete in terms of all features I would like her to have, hence "alpha" state, but otherwise her essential functionalities work as intended.

Short footage from SP test flight recorded today. My apologies for the music in the background and the debug comments. The flight is sort of "fictional" as Phantoms haven't been regularly flown from small CVA-class carriers.

NightIntruder

As we are at the stage of completing the initial development work, today I thought what is an aircraft carrier without the appropriate support ships? Lonely, not building immersion. a ship taken out of context. From today it will be accompanied by an Allen Sumner-class escort destroyer and a Cimmarron-class Fleet Oiler. Tomorrow two more ship-classes are scheduled to be added.

NightIntruder

At this stage, I'm gonna leave the TF77 with four types of vessels - Essex-class CVA, Cimarron-class fleet oiler, Sumner-class destroyer, Knox-class guided-missile frigate. Later I might add another ship from 60s or 70s. These support ships are just floatable props anyway, with aggressive LODs switching to be easy on FPS so any playable features in the vessels shouldn't be expected in the nearest future. At this moment, it is just something to complement a scenery, like lines of sandbags in a FOB 😉

NightIntruder

The USS Bon Homme Richard (CV31) - Carrier's Strike Group addon found its way to the Steam Workshop.
Link to the item:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2536035098

PS. What an embarrassing moment! It may turn out the BHR hasn't got the correct dimensions (ie. it's enlarged). I thought the source material is correct in this regard and haven't cross-checked that. You can subscribe if you want, but if it's true, the ship might mess with your scenarios if it will go through downsize modification in a shipyard. You would be forced to redo all the items on its deck after the update was released so keep that in mind, please.

snoops

Wow well done! What awesome additions! Will test ASAP!

NightIntruder

@snoops Hyh, no need to rush 🙂 We are working on the downsized version. It's shorter and narrower which means a lot of fun and even more "bolters" for the Navy's pilot candidates 😉 I just thought it would be nice to have the Navy's two-seater from that era... some Buckeyes, ah... I went into a dream... 😉

PS. Just to give you a heads-up, the update with the CVA downsized has been pushed on Steam now.

eggbeast

really awesome to see your work here NI
keep it up 🙂

NightIntruder

You're very welcome, Beast 😉

NightIntruder

The BHR addon got another ship - this time it's a Kaiser-class replenishment Navy's vessel by Javier Fernandez, ported to the Arma 3 game. It's a ship that was introduced to the Navy in the early 80s. Also, the PhysX of the supporting ships were fixed, sort of.

Beachhead

Night, are the support ships helicopter land-able and walkable? I know some of them were drivable versions. Would be cool to have some static versions along the line of the carrier as well, if they aren't already in there. Similar to the BI vanilla destroyer. Great work!

NightIntruder

Well, they were invented to be just background props for the aircraft carrier. Their "moveable" feature is there so that the ships look OK during stormy weather. They're supposed to be landable and walkable, but the fact you can land and walk on them (at least to some extent) is just a bonus. Making their static versions, similar to the default BI's destroyer and with that attention to detail, would require tremendous work. It'd go beyond the scope of the addon and capacity of the whole 3-man dev team.

Beachhead

[MENTION=368]NightIntruder[/MENTION] All good, thanks for the reply.
Also, I was testing out the carrier yesterday and there still appears to be a hole in the deck as you are taxing up to catapult #2. (left front) As soon as the wheels get over the blast shield my plane fell right through. Just in singleplayer editor. Haven't tested MP yet.

NightIntruder

Beachhead wrote:
Also, I was testing out the carrier yesterday and there still appears to be a hole in the deck as you are taxing up to catapult #2.

It happened to me once when it comes to BHR, IIRC. I had the problem with other addons (which were multipart structures spawned by script) too, tho. Usually, moving such an addon a bit in either direction helped in those cases. I have no idea what may cause the issue. Again, it's a very rare case and you are the only person reporting it so far, apart from our dev team member but in that other case the problem with the geometry was fixed by the release. I will check the addon anyway, thanks for reporting the bug!

NightIntruder

When the new custom rope technology hits the RC ARMA3, I'm going to be ready for it with this piece of gear. which is the pressure refuelling hose & nozzle:

It took me a few hours to make this model yesterday, and today it's my first time painting the model in Substance Painter exclusively. No tutorials, instead I was exploring the software with the old-school way of mouse clicks and observing the effects😉 I have to admit that this tool has a fairly intuitive manipulation interface and it's quite user-friendly. In fact, this was the primary goal - to find out how easy to operate this software might be.

NightIntruder

This is a BHR addition that will soon be included in its next update on Steam - an organic SAR asset. I am aware that this boat isn't historically correct, but I don't have access to more relevant source material that works. The boat will be supplemented with a davit and functions facilitating the launching / recovery operations, thanks to which no pilot swimming in the sea will be left behind😉 Model and its textures by Pixel.

NightIntruder

We are slowly moving forward 😉

F/A18's screen with working refuelling by TeTeT.

NightIntruder

Always wanted this to have in the game for kinda Air America style of gameplay. The fact they had it in their inventory (at least on a paper 😉 made it even more important to me as I consider myself a huge fan of the movie. To prove it can be done just added a feeling of achievement, sort of.
Enjoy the movie:

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