http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1685194&postcount=24

Fortunately we have a real MiG-21Bis pilot(s) in our team. Some of them still fly this bird on daily-weekly basis. :-)

 

So don't worry about tactics. They help us to we create a good tactics and missions for '21. You can't find most thing in books or internet.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1714165&postcount=22

New cockpit textures WIP screens. (It's not finalized yet!!!)

 

The last six pics shown how was looks like before texture enhancement applied.

 

 

Only updated screens

Looks awesome!! I am excited to be able to purchase this when it is done, please keep up the great work!

i read "fishbed" as "finished", and it made me excited for a second. lol

Wow! That is looking excellent. {Searches for his Russian - English phrasebook...} :lol:

 

Rhydian

suspension test

 

http://youtu.be/Dnfm35sUrfk

Beczl ha tenido problemas con los modelos 3D después de la versión 1.2.3, pero parece que los está resolviendo.

 

 

 

Hello everyone. I'll be keeping a 'sort of' build diary of the MiG-21Bis external model.

 

Since the release of v1.2.3 thee model started showing a lot of shading and material errors. So obviously it has to be fixed  In doing so, I am also updating some parts that look closer to the real deal.

 

Cheers!

 

New navigation video test

http://youtu.be/1cbJ4r9ECfE

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1732208&postcount=34

 

Been a delightful couple weeks /sarcasm  It's all good...lol I've been trying to per-fect some smoothing issues along the intake doors, but I'll have to come back too them. In the mean time, I moved onto the front airbrakes and gear doors/blisters. The airbrake actuators wil need some animation adjustment when ready. You'll notice the cutout above the gear doors when a wing gets blown off.

 

Among other things, I had to cut the fuselage in half and mirror it again. It can be a pain when using the scale tool as it moves vertices without notice.  The nose fixed too, not 100% yet.

 

early AFM tests 

 

Old News

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1730146&postcount=291

 

Now the radar can be recognise and shown tracked and recognised target identity. So basically IFF systems work like other DCS planes.

 

In real life this works differently. We have several equipment to achieve correct IFF and radar signals.

 

SOD air traffic control (ATC) transponder equipment/device similar to civilian transponder. It receives Air traffic control (ATC) radar signals, increases aircraft output signal and sends additional data to ATC radar. It’s purpose is to amplify the aircraft signal and enable air traffic controller to identify the aircraft at large distances or in cluttered radar screen. (We can set it up, but in case any other aircraft that has no SRZO-2 shown by MiG-21 as enemy. So we can't be implement fully in current DCSW environment)

 

SPO-10 RWR - It generate a visual and audio signal when any radar paint the MiG-21Bis even it's friendly or foe. (can't be implement fully in current DCSW environment, the current SPO-10 can receive only enemy signals)

 

SRZO-2 IFF system - It send and receive IFF signals for ATC and other aircrafts. If IFF switched off or code is not matched as required radars shown as enemy... (can't be implement at current DCSW environment, we working the solution how we can implement this)

 

 

 

Yesterday News

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=108487

 

DCS MiG-21Bis NewsFlash - Issue No.1

 

New reworked, reshaped and more detailed external model almost complete by -Rudel-. In paralell with other development and according existing plans we'll fully rework plane external textures based one already existing liveries. WIP pics that will be shown new model enhancement will be available very soon.

 

Brand new cockpit textures based on new graphical effects are almost WIP by RAZBAM-Cobra. You can see the these early WIP pics about new cockpit textures below.

Some detal about cockpit rework from Nick (RAZBAM-Cobra)

Hey folks;

 

Hope you enjoyed this little peak at whats' cooking. 

Detail and realism is paramount to the entire MiG-21 experience, and for me- especially so in the artwork and textures!

 

Important to just note once again is that this is still Work in Progress! There are errors, stretched UVs, seams, missing specular maps and normals on various parts etc still. So take them with a grain of salt. 

 

Important to note is also that these are not renders, they are completely 100% realtime viewport screenshots in 3ds max. Basically, what you see here is what you'll get inside the sim as well, but with the added bonus of realtime shadowing, making all those mesh-details pop even more.

 

Can't wait to show you more as we progress, and bring the new VC into a state of completion.

 

Cheers!

Nick (RAZBAM-Cobra)

 

AFM implementation it's almost done by dolphin887. Will need to implement better dumper model and correct some coeficcients. After that we make final tunning and if everything work as expected we will have finalized alpha AFM at this weeks.

 

 

Minor changes occur at several sub-system side to align our mod to DCS World and implement other new features in relation with weapon system and radar modes.. Also we're eliminated dozens of bugs as business as usual.

 

 

Some preview about one of the possible DVD design. See below.

Basic manual are finished. Just need to refresh their pictures and attachments due we have new external and internal models.

Unfortunately the www.dcs-mig21.com still unreachable due the host provider still don't able to fix DNS resolving issue..(No comment) They working on to fix that as soon as possible, but if they don't able to fix it we need to move our host and need to be find an another hosting. Meanwhile you can reach site through http://74.81.191.200/~dcsmigco/

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1790584&postcount=84

 

To coincide with the weekly news flashes now here are my updates on the external model.

 

As some know, the American summertime can be hectic. Especially in my condition. (I'm quadriplegic) I recently moved houses and have been plucking away at vertices when I can.

 

At the moment I'm near the last stages. I'm currently going over the cockpit (not to be confused with the virtual cockpit) fitting it into the new hole. Before hand, I spent many late nights adjusting the canopy and windscreen to fit the new fuselage. In the screenshots below, you'll see that I practically exploded the cockpit. This is helping me find layered polygons and stray vertices that took up rendering time.

 

The other screenshots show details added to the main gear bay, fixed stabilizers, and centering object symmetrically.

 

Once it is finished, animations will be reworked so that they function properly with EDs updates. The damage model will also need adjusting to the updated model, but should not exactly take a long time to do. Afterwards, I can finally work on rematerializing it and creating new skins.

 

new -Rudel- Mig-21Bis exterior model update

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1798084&postcount=86

 

Once again, to coincide with the weekly news flashes, here are my updates on the external model.

 

The cockpit is nearing completion. I took a dumb-down version of the virtual cockpit and scaled it to the external model. I used it as a template to create a low poly version. Afterwards I remodeled the dash-board to rid of unwanted faces that allows for detailed avionics to show instead of an image.

 

From here on out it should be smooth sailing fixing the little things such as air scoops, lights, and animation.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1798849&postcount=134

 

 

DCS MiG-21Bis NewsFlash - Issue No.2

 

External model:

 

The last part of the external model enhancement is the canopy area. Rudel do a very good job at this part. So after external canopy is finished we need to realign textures, and damage model. You can see some new WIP here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1798084&postcount=86

 

Cockpit:

 

The cockpit retexturing progress well as you can see on RAZBAM-Cobra pics. Step by step, one by one all cockpit part will a new texture in paralell with some other 3D enhancement for example KM-1M ejection seat harness. At the last cockpit pics at sidepanel you can check how texture looks if you have an avarage artist (like me), and how other parts looks if you have pro... (like Cobra)

 

AFM:

 

Now basically the AFM is flyable, but still we have some minor issues espacially during at land and high speed, these issues inrelation with MiG-21 ARU vertical stabilizer system.

 

RoadMap:

 

We just do bugfixing as usual. Roland work hard to implement remaining things and eliminate all aircraft system bugs in relation with AFM than he work on additional systems check as we planned..

 

Other: 

 

After several week the www.dcs-mig-21.com is now reachable again. (Thanks the avahost 1st-2nd level support in Bangalore :-( ).

I posted some other random pics that I take during tests. http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1798846&postcount=27

 

Cockpit:

 

exterior:

Looks AMAZING!! Really looking forward to it.