Project "Sky Cradle" Thread - Vector Thrust

aka "Aircraft Skins from Console Arcade Flight Sim Preservation Project"

Done

• Ace Combat 2 (includes terrain textures, HUD/menu fonts, and whatnots)
  Link
• Ace Combat 4
  Link
• Ace Combat 5
  Link
• Ace Combat Zero
  Link
• Ace Combat X2 Joint Assault (all 6 skins for every playable plane)
  Link

• Air Force Delta/Deadly Skies (update: ALL skins including NPC/enemy)
  Link
• Air Force Delta Strike: Blue Wing Knights/Deadly Skies III (all skins including NPC and enemy, excluding aliens, mechas spaceships, and the Seeker plane from the "Confront" level)
  Link

• *Heatseeker (PS2 version, all playable/enemy plane skins except larger planes and helos)
  Link

• *Sidewinder 2 (PSX, all playable plane skins)
  Link
• *Sidewinder MAX/Iron Eagle MAX (all plane skins including NPC/enemy)
  Link
• *Sidewinder F/Lethal Skies Elite Pilot: Team SW (all playable & enemy plane skins except NPC/helo)
  Link
• *Sidewinder V/Lethal Skies 2 (all playable & enemy plane skins except NPC/helo)
  Link

• Deadly Skies (all skins including what appears to be an unused plane/X-29)
  Link

• !Jet Impulse/AirDS (all plane models & skins except for DLC, if there's any. Bonus includes various models & textures of surface vehicles & bosses)
  Link

• *Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters
  Link

• *Choro Q Jet: Rainbow Wings (all playable, enemy/boss and secret planes and skins)
  Link

• !Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (all planes, airborne carrier, models in .obj format and skins including unused skins)
  Link
  Playable plane pack

• Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 (Wii version)
  Link + information

• Top Gun: Hard Lock
  Link

-Strike Commander: lookie here: Moddb.com
-Aerofighters Assault: Look at the bottom of this page

Note: * -> includes screenshot of each paint job for better view
! -> includes model and skins of each vehicle in-game

Following my previous efforts of ripping skins of AFDS/Ace Combat and Sidewinder/Lethal Skies, I've decided to expand my "project" to rip plane skins from even more arcade flight games.

Edited by: Nergal01

REBEL

RAIDERS

MyHatismyFriend wrote: REBEL

RAIDERS

Yesson, I can get those models and skins if you want to. Including those enemy planes.

Here's for the "preview" in 3DS Max .max format. Bonus includes Apalis ripped from ACJA and VF-25 ripped from Macross Ace Frontier. No textures though but I can provide one ASAP.
Mega.co.nz

Edited by: Nergal01

The following Heatseeker skins interest me. Can I get a screeny or two of them? (Preferably just top and belly screens, mostly.)

F-22 (2)
F-35A (2 and 3)
FA-18E (2)
MiG-27 (1)
MiG-31 (both)
MiG-144 (1 and 2)
Su-27 (2)
Su-47 (2)
Yak-141

Thanks!

szboudreau01 wrote: The following Heatseeker skins interest me. Can I get a screeny or two of them? (Preferably just top and belly screens, mostly.)

F-22 (2)
F-35A (2 and 3)
FA-18E (2)
MiG-27 (1)
MiG-31 (both)
MiG-144 (1 and 2)
Su-27 (2)
Su-47 (2)
Yak-141

Thanks!

Dropbox.com
ALL skins included except NPC planes (transports, etc). It's in the 1st post btw

Argh, disregard that. I misunderstood what do you want.

I'll take the screenshot in the next hours. Maybe only the plane selection screen since the emulation sorta either fcked up the graphics or make it too low-res.

update: Here you go, all plane selection pictures.
Dropbox.com
Correction: Looks like the F-35 is C variant. I was under impression that it supposedly *has* the built-in gun port but there isn't.

Edited by: Nergal01

Nnot quite what I had in mind, but regardless, thanks a lot, buddy. Now I can at least figure out the mappings, which is key to making a decent skin.

After all, if you don't understand the skin you're recreating, what's the point?

Edited by: szboudreau01

After all, if you don't understand the skin you're recreating, what's the point?

That's why I put screenshots in my future uploads to let people know how the paint jobs looked like.

Well, maybe except for Ace Combat since most of them follow a quite "predictable" pattern (i.e rehash) and easily understandable mapping and AFDS because there are way too many planes.

Edited by: Nergal01

And because AFDS is slightly predictable in their mapping.

It helps that they put ALL the detail on the top, none on the belly, too.

Lethal Skies is stupidly predictable, too! Literally, it feels like all of their planes are mapped EXACTLY THE SAME.

And then every plane that was from Lethal Skies that made it into LS2? Same exact mapping!

Edited by: szboudreau01

Here's ripped model of Ace Combat/ACJA fictional planes in .obj format. While the plane texture still loads up fine, the emblem/insignia is somehow messed up.
Dropbox.com

Example render of the Falken (3DS Max 2009). Note some details (rudder, COFFIN canopy) show up as black instead, and the insignia doesn't show up (it's still visible in normal viewports however)

Edited by: Nergal01

ooooooohhhh~

Hang on, doesn't Blender export as .obj files?

Then why couldn't I open the files in it..?

Hang on, doesn't Blender export as .obj files?

Supposedly, by default. It's "Import>Wavefront .obj"
Here's proof, notice the texture's still pretty messed up.

Another "random" stuff, Fighting Thunder ME-2 (Raiden Mk-III?) from Raiden III/IV in .obj format (including textures).
Dropbox.com

Snaps, for some reason it always rotated 90 degrees when I export it to VT:

Technical spec:

FIGHTING THUNDER ME-2 (raiden III/IV)
Overall width: 14.2m
Total length: 19.1m
Height: 7.25m
Wing area: 54.0m
Empty weight: 13,540kg
Engine: R111-ME-004 × 2 groups
Maximum speed: M9.8

Edited by: Nergal01

Anyway, I'd just like a single extra Heatseeker thing.

Could you give me roundels/country logos and their respective country names, plz? I like recognizing what I see.

Thankz.

I can.

This is International Council (IC for short), a USAF\UN\Eagleland type of nation\alliance. Player side.

This is the Federatioh, a Russia\USSR\Reds with Rockets type of nation. The third roundel only appears on MiG-1.44 (I think it's Federation, because of colors)

This is Vertana, a "South American" dictatorship with ex-Fed equipment.

This is the Oligarchy of Kamcha, a "North Korea with nukes".

This is Smugglers, or mercenaries or whatever. The only time you see this roundel in the campaign it is on smugglers' MiG-27. While Su-47 and MiG-1.44 with this logo are both player-exclusive.

Edited by: John_Silver

Ah, thanks a lot, bud. Helps quite a bit.

Wheee. (hint: a NDS game)

I´m starting to believe your are the Master of Rips, but how it looks in the VT?

timeSymmetry wrote: but how it looks in the VT?

Not yet. I haven't getting there so far after all.

As for Heatseeker, maybe I'll rip NPC plane skins (helos, An-225, A-50, etc) once they're available in VT.

update: Wheee. (still has wrong orientation however, it's reversed)

update2: In case you want to take a look at the skins and models, I've ripped basically all plane, surface vehicles, bosses and stuff.

update3: if I may request, here's a list of my personal requsest with the respective screenshots. In-game name == skin name
-Plane: F-5A
Skin:


In-game name: AZX-02 "Firelizard"
-Plane: F-4J
Skin:


In-game name: AZX-03 "Machaira"
-Plane: F-16AFTI
Skin:


In-game name: YZX-04 "Stromlizard"
-Plane: any "normal" F-16 variant
Skin:


In-game name: ZSR-11 "Drui"
-Plane: Su-47 or F-14
Skin (meow)


In-game name: YZX-07 "Hippogriff"
-Plane: F-35X
Skin:


In-game name: XA-438 "Hektor"
-Plane: Su-37
Skin:


In-game name: MB-395 "Frey", "Crimson" version

-Plane: MiG-29OVT
Skin:


In-game name: MA-279, "Cactus" version

Update4 : just ripped stuff from Rebel Raiders, plus I found that the early concept implies it originally has more realistic tone-ish with the character portraits are actually live-action instead of anime style as we know now. And apparently there's a Mirage-2000 and F-14 tucked somewhere in the game file, implication it's originally intended to have real jets instead?

Also, concept arts

Update 5: various ripped skins
Especially I'd like to request of this skin for F-14D

Edited by: Nergal01

^

As for the F-16 variants.
AFTI seems it'd work well for the Machaira, so I will do that.
But, Stromlizard looks like it'd feel more at home on a SCAMP.. I'll be sure to do a double-edition, then.

Do not worry. All those requests will be done by me... or at least attempted. Sure woud help me figure out the mappings.

it'd feel more at home on a SCAMP

That's what I'm thinking of at first. Especially for SCAMP 2.

oh god. how do any of these Rebel Raiders skins fit eachother

also "AISAF"? hehe, you are not hiding anything there buddy.

Anyway, Aerofighters Assault skins (minus the X-29 since I still yet to unlock it and VT still doesn't have X-29 yet)

PROJECT BLUE

• F-14B
  Default
  
  Alternate (Jolly Rogers)
  
• FS-X (use YF-16CCV instead)
  Default
  
  Alternate (JASDF test type)
  
• Su-35 (use Su-37)
  Default
  
  Alternate (generic Russian blue camo)
  
• A-10
  Default
  
  Alterrnate (generic green)
  
• F-15J
  

FATA MORGANA

• Su-25
  
• Kfir
  
• MiG-31
  
• Eurofighter
  
• Rafale
  
• (Y)F-22
  

Edited by: Nergal01

Nergal01 wrote: Eurofighter

Edited by: szboudreau01

welp, my bad. I was half-drunk half-sleepy.

its okay, we all get that

Semi/non-related: I managed to rip/import aircraft models from VT, maybe I can post here in TS allow me and case any of you modelers interested.

Might be useful for size references/comparison or whatnots.