Agreed, the bay animation is great!
Thanks. Other details are in there too such as the retractable anti-collision lights, operating APU doors and the engine nozzle flaps have a start/shut down animation that drives them to a extreme open position on shut down just as the F-22's do.
no worries. That panel you showed is for avionics bay access. It's hard to see clearly but attached shows it's outline. Plus if you look at the door compared to the muzzle it wouldn't work. The reason we made the muzzle door so long is because the projectiles would not clear the forward of the muzzle bay and would hit the aircraft if the door was the size of the the F-22's muzzle door for instance.
It’ll be a while. Eagle Dynamics made some changes that have dramatically affected how mods work. Now we have to create a EFM which requires C++ experience and we are getting spun up on the API.I'm mostly a MSFS and Star Citizen kind of guy. But now I'll have to get DCS, just so I can fly this. Well done!
I’ve thought about it but the commitment to keeping it up to date is daunting. I don’t want to release crap (of which there is a lot on MSFS). I’m not ruling it out but right now it’s not likely.
Watching casually YouTube and spotted a familiar rounded intakes and jumped of my couch!
Thank you for your work BDF
If there is a way to support your work, I will be sure to use it to do so.
Seeing the F-23A fly has been a dream come true.
Looking forward to Growling Sidewinder vids to showcase more or it.
I just wish he stoped commenting. "the F-23 was allegedly more stealth while the F-22 was more maneuverable" ... as if the 1st point is in question and the 2nd one was more important.
Can't wait to see what supersonic performance will the final flight model have.
I've spoken to a couple. They've all have been impressed with what we've been able to do which is very gratifying. None of them can really talk about anything however. I knew that going in as my late father also worked for NG so I know the game. Unless they know it's been declassified or released publicly if it is only proprietary information then they won't talk about it.
I'm trying to make an F-22 EFM model just for the sake of learning to develop EFM models. I don't have access to the 3d model so I've been using ModelViewer to get some coordinates and try and model some of the parameters using AVL. Hoping by the time we know what any of the Blue 6th gen fighters look like, I'll have figured it out so I can program one just for myself to fly around in.
We are going to collaborate with the guy who made the Raptor EFM. He's going to help us get going then we'll take it from there. EFM is high on the list for next phase.
So no disrespect to the other mod makers but I don't think there was any attempt at creating a realistic aero model. One of the guys on our team is a actual aerospace engineer and created some parametric performance models for us to use. There are severe limitations with the current SFM but as we start in on the EFM that should allow us to get much closer to his models. The Raptor mod doesn't super cruise for instance whereas our quick happily does. Even then, we have limitations too, as obviously the F-23 was never built so we had to make assumptions and estimates based on the limited amount of data available and some of the anecdotes and tidbits that have discussed here, Metz's book etc.
So it's there. I was very meticulous with shaping and the artist had a nice tool that we were able to compare the shape with all the cross sections. That area as I recall did require a bit of interpolation but I believe is quite close:
Unfortunately I only took the time to read the extensive help file you've included in your mod release after I posted this.
No because realistically there is no space for the missiles and the launchers. Now I strongly suspect that the launcher technology for the forward bays are more similar to the original AMRAAM trapeze approach The Raptor was going to use, but event he LAU-142's are wide at their attachment points and the hinge points being 171mm wide. So I really am not certain there is enough clearance for the missiles and the launchers. We used LAU-141s which I'm fairly sure they would not have used but they are clearly too wide at the base:
Looking at the Saw Tooth edge of the in the middle of the bay now, yes, no way that missile would fit in the center.
