Jet Set ;)

[Tahuti]

Thanks Asio, I am giong to need it!

 

[asioasioasio]

Another Jet

This unit was made by asioasioasio with texture from Combat Ace Forum. Texture comes from Gloster Meteror made by Capun, Gramps, Charles & Kesselbrut (SFP1 Dev A-Team)
Check the orginal site:
http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=1663
The textures was slitghly edited to meet the Civilization IV Requirements

You may use this unit only for non commercial projects. Please give credit to all the authors.

It uses standard animation of Stealth Bomber. If you have problems with adding unit you may visit this site:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=139721

Parameters i have used:
<fScale>0.48</fScale>
<fInterfaceScale>1.0</fInterfaceScale>
<NIF>Art/Units/Gloster_Meteor/Gloster_Meteor.nif</NIF>
<KFM>Art/Units/stealthbomber/StealthBomber.kfm</KFM>
<SHADERNIF>Art/Units/Gloster_Meteor/Gloster_Meteor_fx.nif</SHADERNIF>

Model has 815 polygons
256x256 Generic texture supporting team colour as default texture
256x256 RAF texture with RAF Markings as additinional texture
128x128 Gloss Map
128x256 Damage Map (Wich i didn't notieced to be working)
Version with and w/o shaders
Button added

Check first post for download link

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

Very beautifull, Asioasioasio !

 

[GeneralMatt]

Very nice! Love the RAF version!

 

[asioasioasio]

Thank you
One of the next units on the list is Shooting Star

 

[hrochland]

Always when I can see your work, I can see how many I must learn...

 

[adamamri]

Hello, your air unites is very successful. I wondered if you could make me F100 Super Cut down. It would really be brilliant. If a day you have the time can etre will think has you me...
thank you

 

[Wolfshanze]

Fantastic units... has anyone (anyone in the community) put-out same-era jet bombers that would go with these?... ie: early jet bombers?

 

[asioasioasio]

Hi F100 - I don't know i focus mostly on WW2 units and early cold war. I would put it on the list but i could make it when i have more spare time Wich is rare recently.

About bombers there's couple of early jet bombers
Arado Ar234
Horten IX (Ho229)
B-57
Tupolev Tu-95
All in the Download section

 

[Xenomorph]

Could you do some 50's-60's era bombers? Like the Tu-22 Blinder (different from the Tu-22M Backfire), B-58 Hustler, Avra Vulcan, Tu-16/H-6 Badger, Mirage IV, or Yak-28? Of the ones you've listed, only the Tu-95 and B.57 Canberra count as early cold war jet bombers (and even then, the Tu-95 is turboprop, not turbofan/turbojet). There's also an Il-28 Beagle floating around somewhere, along with a B-52, but that's it.
Out of curiosity, why did you choose to make the P-59 instead of the P-80 first? Keep up the great work!

 

[asioasioasio]

Not in plans to make them. But i'll have this units in my mind and it's possible i'll start making them in the future.

I choosed P-59 because i found it in wikipedia as first jet unit for usa - even if it's crap and just prototype i used it (later i red also about sabre and shooting star - both units are now created)
I have finished shooting star - i need to upload it here

 

[Xenomorph]

Not in plans to make them. But i'll have this units in my mind and it's possible i'll start making them in the future.

Cool. I tried to list the bombers that best represented that time period. I don't know what bombers countries like Spain or Germany were using, but I suspect Germany wasn't using any 'cause everyone was still a bit paranoid about giving the Germans big scary bombers just yet.

BTW, does anyone know if there is a generic skin of the F-86? It was pretty heavily exported and license-built.

 

[asioasioasio]

what you mean with license and that it's pritty heavily exported

For german i would use Horthen Ho 229 or the second german bomber - i know it's not cold war equipment but most of them was planned to be built in that era.
Horten Ho XVIII - would fit even better

The Horten Ho XVIII was a proposed German World War II intercontinental bomber that would have been based upon the Horten Ho 229 design. Like the Ho 229, it would have retained the stealth capabilities of the previous design, as well as a large fuel capacity, which would allow it to fly across the Atlantic Ocean both ways without refueling. The aircraft was to be built in huge concrete hangars and operate off long runways. The aircraft was supposed to begin construction near the end of fall 1945, but the end of the war came with no progress.

so if germany wouldn't capitualte and fall under allies occupation (if situation would appear like after WWI) probably they would develop and produce those bombers.

 

[Xenomorph]

what you mean with license and that it's pritty heavily exported

The F-86 was heavily exported to a lot of countries. It was also license-built in quite a few as well. License-building is just one country getting legal permission (by paying a fee) to build the aircraft in their own country instead of buying it from the country that originally made it. For example, Australia license-built the F-86, which means they got legal permission to build the F-86 in their own factories instead of buying them from the USA. Countries like to do this because it gives them experience in making aircraft (or whatever it is they are producing) and provides jobs for its citizens.
Sorry if you already know what license-building is. I'm not completely sure what you meant there, so I kind of assumed. And the question wasn't so much directed at you as it was just a shout out to anyone that might have made a custom reskin for your model.
That Ho XVIII sounds a lot like the Northrop XB-35 and YB-49. Not surprising, since the Horton brother's design heavily inspired John Northrop and caused him to champion the flying wing design up until his death in 1981.

 

[asioasioasio]

OK so it was misunderstanding - check the .zip it contains generic version with team color

I thought you mean about license file (i put sometimes to the .zip that it may be used in noncomercial purpose ) and about heavily exported - that it's something wrong with texture (tough it was weird cause it was standard .dds file )

About YB-49 (Ho XVIII was also jet-powered) it's probably what people saw in Area-51 - ppl talked about weird flying triangles

 

[GeoModder]

BTW, does anyone know if there is a generic skin of the F-86? It was pretty heavily exported and license-built.

Yes, there is one. IIRC in an air warfare mod or something.

 

[Wolfshanze]

I just wish we had more Jet bombers...

Unless I'm mistaken we have three models (four if you count the non-jet Tu-95).

1) B-52
2) Canberra (and don't try and convince me the 30 differant skins of the Canberra count as differant models).
3) IL-28... okay, I'm barely counting this one, because it's just a Soviet copy of the Canberra.

The way I see it, we've got umpteen-million Jet fighters of various time-frames, but we've got two... maybe three differant jet bombers.

I wish I had 3D model talent (but I suck at it)... we desperately need more varied custom Jet Bombers... not more reskins of the Canberra.

P.S.
I'm aware of the two German jet bombers for Civ4, but I really count those as WWII aircraft, I'm talking post-WWII jet bombers.

 

[Xenomorph]

3) IL-28... okay, I'm barely counting this one, because it's just a Soviet copy of the Canberra.

The Il-28 was a contemporary aircraft of the Canberra, but it was not a copy. It had a similar configuration because it was based off captured German technology, just like the Canberra.
I should note that there is also a Tu-22M and two Tu-160 models floating around. One Tu-160 is actually a B-1B with a white skin (have yet to find one with the original skin) and the other is a rather poor Tu-160 model.

 

[Wolfshanze]

The Il-28 was a contemporary aircraft of the Canberra, but it was not a copy. It had a similar configuration because it was based off captured German technology, just like the Canberra.
I should note that there is also a Tu-22M and two Tu-160 models floating around. One Tu-160 is actually a B-1B with a white skin (have yet to find one with the original skin) and the other is a rather poor Tu-160 model.

I haven't seen the Tu-22 or Tu-160 models... wouldn't happen to know which packs have them, do you? I haven't seen them in the downloads section by themselves. I'd like a good Tu-160 model, but if the two suck... well... that's too bad...

Speaking of which... I haven't noticed a B-1 model... you say one exists?

I've been looking around for jet bombers to complement the jet fighters (of which there are plenty).... the best I've been able to come up with is the IL-28, B-52, Canberra and (if you want to count this) the Tu-95... which is a good model and appropriate for the time-frame (but isn't a jet... not that it matters).

I'd just like to see more jet bombers... especially those that nations OTHER then Russia and the United States would use.

I just don't feel right handing out B-52s and Tu-95s to anybody outside the Americans and Russians, and Canberras and IL-28s for everyone else seems like a rip-off.

 

[Xenomorph]

To be fair, there weren't that many other countries making long-range bombers besides America and Russia. Britain made a few in it's V-bomber aircraft, and France had its Mirage IV, but most countries opted for strike/attack aircraft. I should mention that while the Tu-95 isn't a jet bomber in the technical sense, it does use Turboprops, which uses a form of jet engine with propellers attached to the turbine through a gearbox, which gives much better fuel economy at the expense of top speed. It is also the Russian equivalent in range, bomb load and performance to the B-52. They both entered service at about the same time, and are both still serving well past their originally planned service life.
The Tu-22M can be found in the Diversica mod and the Air Forces v0.3 mod. The modified B-1B-turned-Tu-160 can be found in the same Air Forces mod. The custom-made Tu-160 can be found in the MaxRigaModBTS.