Jet Fighter: MiG-21 (with 10 Skins!)

[snafusmith]

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name "Fishbed") is a supersonic jet fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Early versions are considered second-generation jet fighters, while later versions are considered to be third-generation jet fighters. Some 50 countries over four continents have flown the MiG-21, and it still serves many nations a half-century after its maiden flight. The fighter made aviation records. At least by name, it is the most-produced supersonic jet aircraft in aviation history and the most-produced combat aircraft since the Korean War, and it had the longest production run of a combat aircraft (1959 to 1985 over all variants).[1] - Wikipedia

The MiG21 includes buttons and skins for 10 countries: Cambodia (for Khmer), China, Egypt, Ethiopia, 2 for India, Iraq, Mali, Mongolia, and Soviet Union. The unit uses the jet fighter animations, and the skin needs to be called 'MiG21.'

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ENJOY!
-Smitty

 

[mamba]

Nice, finally some new modern units from you, I almost thought you had disappeared

 

[snafusmith]

Nice, finally some new modern units from you, I almost thought you had disappeared

I basically had. I've had a lot go on in the last year IRL, and it took me away from Civ modding. I had a long trip in Feb with not much to do and started making models again, and here I am. Trying to get into Civ5 and see how it works, but it's tough going. I can always make my models to work in Civ4 at least!

 

[dacubz145]

Nice plains Love seeing modern units for ancient civs like Mali and Mongolia

 

[dacubz145]

Are you still doing requests for units as I'd particularly like to see the following:

BTR-80A
Gaz Vodnik
T-90A Vladimir
Antonov-12/22 Series
BMD-4M
Gaz Tygr
Nimitz Class Carrier
MT-LB Series
Gaz-66
Zil-157/153
Ural 4320/375D
Zil-130.

Yeah he will have all that done within the hour

 

[snafusmith]

Welcome back Snafu. Great work on the Mig-21 series and I appreciate that the Mig-21 series includes China's PLAAF J-7G variant.

Snafu please keep making these great units. You are one of the best Modeller/Skinners in the community and I appreciate your works of art

Are you still doing requests for units as I'd particularly like to see the following:

BTR-80A
Gaz Vodnik
T-90A Vladimir
Antonov-12/22 Series
BMD-4M
Gaz Tygr
Nimitz Class Carrier
MT-LB Series
Gaz-66
Zil-157/153
Ural 4320/375D
Zil-130.
2S25 Sprut-SD.
2S31 Vena.
2S23 Nona-SVK.
S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler).

Thanks! It's good to be back. I've got some of those on my list. I've made the BTR-70, which is pretty similar to the BTR-80. It's one of my older units and you can find it here.

I have plans to make the T90, Antonov-12/22 Series, MT-LB Series, 2S23 Nona-SVK., and S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) though I don't know when. I'd say 'eventually' but that's not always true. There are a ton of different units on my list and it ultimately depends on what I'm interested in at the time. I'll keep them in mind though.

 

[Simon_Jester]

I think the History Rewritten crowd will be quite grateful for this. Thank you!

 

[snafusmith]

I think the History Rewritten crowd will be quite grateful for this. Thank you!

What's History Rewritten? Sounds cool.

 

[stolenrays]

I always wondered where the egyptian mig-21 skin was, thanks. I've made, but unreleased 2 skins for your mig-21. An Afghan DRA & a Afghan Resistance version. You'll find them in my IIW Mod.

 

[Xyth]

What's History Rewritten? Sounds cool.

My mod, see my signature.

I'll definitely be putting these in the next version, good work!

 

[AbsintheRed]

Wow, you are back!!
Awesome

 

[Bospor]

Gents,
Now, how do I add these jets to a mod? F.e. I have Diversica and I want to add these to the Russians as the early jet?

 

[mamba]

First, you will have to create an entry in CIV4ArtDefines_Unit.xml (in Diversica, I have a separate file for each unit, so in this case, copy <Diversica>\Assets\Modules\ModernUnits\ArtStyles\Civilizations\Russia\EarlyJetFighter_Mig15_RUS_Civ4ArtDefines_Unit to a new file).

In it, you have to define a new art type (has to be unqiue), e.g.

			<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_JET_FIGHTER_MIG21_RUS</Type>

replace the art with the one you want to use (change path, nifs and possibly animations, though in this case the latter should not be necessary)

			<NIF>Art/Custom/Units/Russia/Modern/Air/JetFighter/Mig21_Nautil_Team/mig21.nif</NIF>
			<KFM>Art/Units/JetFighter/JetFighter.kfm</KFM>
			<SHADERNIF>Art/Custom/Units/Russia/Modern/Air/JetFighter/Mig21_Nautil_Team/mig21.nif</SHADERNIF>

You also might want to change the button and the scale (size) of the model. The size is model dependent

			<Button>Art/Custom/Interface/Buttons/Units/btn_EarlyJet.dds</Button>
			<fScale>0.53</fScale>
			<fInterfaceScale>1.0</fInterfaceScale>

Everything else can stay the same

Then you have to create an entry in CIV4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml (in Diversica, these again are separate files per unit, so change Russia_EarlyJetFighter_CIV4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml), replace the occurrences of ART_DEF_UNIT_EARLY_JET_FIGHTER_MIG15_RUS with whatever type you used)

 

[Bospor]

Thanks Mamba, I'll try it