Comments - Dantofu

Limitations make the effort not very feasible.

After Arsenal Bird introduction cutscene in mission 19, look directly up and you'll see a flight of friendly B-2s and B-1s.

There's a setting in NPC material assets that lets the object glow, as well as change the glow color.

I've released this ahead of the upcoming guide that'll cover it.

I made it for CFA-44 first due to an urgent need.

I had to edit the model as a workaround, and doing this for every aircraft doesn't seem to be a realistic solution at the moment.

Do you happen to have F-15 Drop Tanks mods loaded as well? Other F-15C textures may be overwriting the Galm textures on load.

Ace Combat 7 has had 2 years to sort this out. If an honor system is all it takes to keep the MP from falling apart, then it was a mess from the start.

It'll be the first scenario. The 6AAM change will also be reflected on F-15J's HCAA, which uses the same model for the weapon.

Yeah, that's possible. The extra planes won't have any animation or effects, and its center of rotation would be tied to the player aircraft itself.

The guide I'm developing will explore this very concept.

The problem is, many planes share the same weapon models, so changing a weapon model will often affect every plane that uses them in their loadout.

For example, replacing R-60 (Standard missile for Russian aircraft) model will be reflected on every Russian aircraft, some ground units, and every single NPC aircraft including US, EU, and Japan types.

That's not something AC7 modding can achieve.

A handful of misplaced muzzles sounds like the least of MP's problems...

Thanks! I originally had an aircraft texture planned to go along with this, but shifting priorities caused it to be pushed back until I decided to just release the finished model alone.

Yes, but with this I won't have to touch the hangar menu ever again!

You're asking for a completely different thing from what I did on this mod, which I cannot do.

The crash is a known issue. I will try to fix it, but can't exactly promise anything at this moment.

Don't mind the image ModDb wouldn't let me upload without one aaaaaaaaaaa

I don't think I made guide towards texture extraction specifically. I sent you a DM so we can discuss this further.

That would require a significant amount of effort that I don't see myself committing towards.

I'll have to start over, as changes made to the model for this mod can't be used on F-15E.

Wiseman F-15C files have f16c in folder name instead of f15c, which is probably why the mods won't load.

Swapping SASM causes problems, as multiple aircraft uses the same model.

I don't see why not. I've added the blank options for #1-3.

The pilot data should be kept somewhere in game files. Problem is the game files are obfuscated, making inspection impossible unless conversion method is found that makes them readable.

Or get lucky through trial and error.

It depends on how the game assigns model type for pilots, which come in four variations: Pilot, Drone, Mihaly, and Mihaly's drone (with no side lights).

Right now that's not something I can do.

I would have thought the tags would let it show up in search, but I guess not. I'll go ahead and add it.

Sorry for the late reply (gg ModDB notification), but Alpha Mask should work in coloring the body while leaving the rest alone. Overlay the mask over the texture and delete anything in the black area.

NPC textures for new enemies are already in. Folder structure indicates that player version will be released eventually, probably after all 3 missions are out.

Yeah, the game has no setup whatsoever for alternative special weapons textures, so the method used to split aircraft textures will not work there.

Are you the same person that commented on my YT page? If so I posted my reply there but I will copy and paste here as well for others:

It appears that replacing DLC content textures need "_P" added to the end of .pak filename (Example: Modname_P.pak). I just tried this and ADF-11F texture mod loaded successfully. Source tweet: Twitter.com

It'll be easier to communicate on r/acecombat Discord, as it has a channel dedicated to modding.

Making a guide on using 3d modeling program to help with texturing has been on my to-do list, but realistically it won't be done for a while.