Boeing/SOAR MH-47E

[konyo 14]

As an appreciation for the work you've put into this baby konyo, I did a little photoshopping to bring to life (as much as possible with photoshop) your creation.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9356/outoffocusbeast.jpg

Wow.. that is truly brilliant! Thanks very much for this, I'm sure to use that as an release photo. Any chance you can send me the full, high res photo of it please? :D

Konyo, on the MH-60L, is there the fastrope?

Haha ;) I see what you did there. Your have to ask Yura for that :p

[slatts 1978]

Gets better every day :D

[konyo 14]

Gets better every day :D

Thats the advantage of it being "delayed". I can add more & more stuff :D

If it wern't for norrin's hardrive crash, we wouldnt have troops sitting on the ramp :p

[dbelnomi 4]

I feel a Operation Neptune Spear mission coming on :)

[sup3r6f0ur 2]

I feel a Operation Neptune Spear mission coming on :)

It's number 2 on my list of missions to make with this. I'm in the early stages of a "SEAL Recon" mission on Hazarkot with a MH47 Insert/extract.

[slatts 1978]

Hm...I was making my own stealth Blackhawk before it got lost in a hard drive fail :p

[konyo 14]

Hm...I was making my own stealth Blackhawk before it got lost in a hard drive fail :p

If thats the one i think it is, i remember reading that & thinking it looked good. Sorry to hear it got lost in HD crash.

Edited November 13, 2012 by konyo

[scarecrow398 43]

Hm...I was making my own stealth Blackhawk before it got lost in a hard drive fail :p

and so you've sunk your self into a pit of requests...

[konyo 14]

and so you've sunk your self into a pit of requests...

Indeed you have lol. Get ready for stacks of PM's :p

[slatts 1978]

None so far :p

[konyo 14]

None so far :p

Wait for it :p It would look good flying with the MH47E & heck easy to build with its flat/square body in O2 :D

[soldier2390 0]

None so far :p

Dont make me be the first ;) lol

But yeah it would make for some good Operation Nepton Spear Missions, being that the stealth blackhawks and the mh47 was used in that mission in RL!

[konyo 14]

Dont make me be the first ;) lol

But yeah it would make for some good Operation Nepton Spear Missions, being that the stealth blackhawks and the mh47 was used in that mission in RL!

Myself the 2nd ;)

I cant wait to play some of these missions your all planning, they sound awesome :D

[slatts 1978]

Well no one's first....yet :p

[[frl]myke 14]

It's fun to read through the posts but lads...take care not going too far Offtopic. ;)

[konyo 14]

Myke;2252382']It's fun to read through the posts but lads...take care not going too far Offtopic. ;)

Sorry :o

Right back on topic. A little snippet of news for you, tonight I've added up the radio chatter sounds. It now has a total of 20 different chatter sounds to use at random.

[TXcc 10]

EDIT: Yura asked me to take some pictures of his MH-60L & my MH47E together in a mission. So here they are :rolleyes:

More screenshots can be found at the ArmA II & OA Photography I Thread.

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/konyo-napster4/MH-47E/B97922E2-1355-4079-BBAB-9EAD1A769FA0-10536-00000B339AA04173.jpg

Excellent work all around! I’m gald you were able to implement the moving gunner animation! When I compare your latest batch of screenshots to the ones in the OP, it really shows how much you’ve progressed. Well done indeed.

However, I do want to address one issue that Nodunit briefly mentioned before. Namely, that of the color scheme.

Kind of sort of but not really, the sand builds up but it doesn't change the color, washing the sand off might however that makes the paint job more greyish and reflective in spots. just check out these kiowa's for example just check out this kiowa that got sanded http://media.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_OH-58Ds_Kirkuk_Iraq_lg.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/OH-58D_2.jpg/741px-OH-58D_2.jpg which is supposed to be an olive drab http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/-images/2010/10/20/89273/size0-army.mil-89273-2010-10-20-171043.jpg

Camera and sun setting also effect the color greatly

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6822/mh47echinook160thsoar.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Defense.gov_News_Photo_120320-A-JF456-076_-_A_U.S._Navy_SEAL_with_Naval_Special_Warfare_Group_1_fast_ropes_from_an_Army_MH-47_Chinook_helicopter_onto_the_aft_deck_of_the_fast_combat_support.jpg again here it's more about the sun that the paint, since normal daylight would look more like this http://i38.tinypic.com/nl4ydz.jpg

But the lighting in OA mimics this very well, the sun set gives a reddish orange-y brown hue when rising and setting, and if you made the scheme grey as above, it would appear that way on a clear day, but change the weather to overcast and you'd actually get this http://www.patsyconstruction.com/sm/images/products/MH-47E%20conversion.jpg

I’ve noticed some discrepancies between your and Yura’s paint schemes. While Yura’s mh60 doesn’t seem to have the weathering effects applied yet, its base color seems more realistic. Now I must confess that I’m ignorant of the real life color differences between the mh60 and mh47 models, but at face value they seem to be the same (or at the very least extremely similar).

Yes i see what you mean with that, however I'm not good with texturing so i wont be able to get it that colour :(

That's why VXR helped weather it etc.

You have mentioned before that texturing wasn’t your strong suit, but perhaps you could use the aforementioned delay to tweak the textures a bit? Perhaps yura could help you out a bit. While not the most important issue, it would sure improve consistency a bit.

Between your mh47, yura’s mh60s and Nodunit and Franze’s ah64 it’s good times for chopper enthusiasts!

PS If time permits it, consider making a release video featuring prodigy music. For nostalgia’s sake ;)

[kz106 1]

can someone please link me to a stealth blackhawk WIP thread or can somebody PLEASE MAKE ONE!!!! IT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!! Konyo, I think you and Yuru should make it together!!! :cool:

[konyo 14]

Excellent work all around! I’m gald you were able to implement the moving gunner animation! When I compare your latest batch of screenshots to the ones in the OP, it really shows how much you’ve progressed. Well done indeed.

However, I do want to address one issue that Nodunit briefly mentioned before. Namely, that of the color scheme.

I’ve noticed some discrepancies between your and Yura’s paint schemes. While Yura’s mh60 doesn’t seem to have the weathering effects applied yet, its base color seems more realistic. Now I must confess that I’m ignorant of the real life color differences between the mh60 and mh47 models, but at face value they seem to be the same (or at the very least extremely similar).

I agree, after you saying this i did try to simply make it darker by applying a Black Transparent layer ontop of the current texture file. I did work.. kinda! It does also look a bit darker than original, but however i loose the weathering marks and details colours? Because its masked over the weathering marks etc.

See this picture below of how it looked with a Black Transparent Layer.

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/konyo-napster4/MH-47E/08394201-00C0-4B71-BD09-0A1BF38C1067-12984-00000DFDB883C6A1.jpg (111 kB)

can someone please link me to a stealth blackhawk WIP thread or can somebody PLEASE MAKE ONE!!!! IT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!! Konyo, I think you and Yuru should make it together!!! :cool:

There isan't a WIP thread as Slatts lost it, so its now non existent :P

Maybe someone will make one though? You never know. I would like to but myself and Yura are busy with our MH-47E & MH-60L's.

Edited November 15, 2012 by konyo

[kz106 1]

I agree, after you saying this i did try to simply make it darker by applying a Black Transparent layer ontop of the current texture file. I did work.. kinda! It does also look a bit darker than original, but however i loose the weathering marks and details colours? Because its masked over the weathering marks etc.

See this picture below of how it looked with a Black Transparent Layer.

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/konyo-napster4/MH-47E/08394201-00C0-4B71-BD09-0A1BF38C1067-12984-00000DFDB883C6A1.jpg (111 kB)

However after looking closely at the original texture file, you can see that inbewteen the weathered sand marks the texture is the blackish colour it should be. (Picture Below) But the game appear's to make it look brownish? Any idea's why?

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/konyo-napster4/MH-47E/43922E29-3FD3-4175-984B-D06858328894-12984-00000DFDC2C0B552.jpg

There isan't a WIP thread as Slatts lost it, so its now non existent :P

Maybe someone will make one though? You never know. I would like to but myself and Yura are busy with our MH-47E & MH-60L's.

well i mean maybe when you guys are finished with the mods? Yura makes some awesome blackhawks!!! and you do some awesome mods too!

[konyo 14]

well i mean maybe when you guys are finished with the mods? Yura makes some awesome blackhawks!!! and you do some awesome mods too!

Maybe, who know. I will talk to him about it.

Anyway we're steering off topic again :p

[konyo 14]

Made this too, it's nothing special and isan't my best video work but i thought I'd share it with you all.

http://youtu.be/R4SdumQtZCs?hd=1

Edited November 15, 2012 by konyo

[yurapetrov 0]

Awesome movie, mate!

[konyo 14]

Awesome movie, mate!

Thanks buddy :D

[TXcc 10]

I agree, after you saying this i did try to simply make it darker by applying a Black Transparent layer ontop of the current texture file. I did work.. kinda! It does also look a bit darker than original, but however i loose the weathering marks and details colours? Because its masked over the weathering marks etc.

See this picture below of how it looked with a Black Transparent Layer.

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/konyo-napster4/MH-47E/08394201-00C0-4B71-BD09-0A1BF38C1067-12984-00000DFDB883C6A1.jpg (111 kB)

There isan't a WIP thread as Slatts lost it, so its now non existent :P

Maybe someone will make one though? You never know. I would like to but myself and Yura are busy with our MH-47E & MH-60L's.

I'm afraid my technical knowledge on texture making is slim to non existent, so I can't be of much assistance in that regard. The ingame picture looks nice colorwise, but as you yourself said, the details are becoming less pronounced. Perhaps one of the other addonmakers around here could help you with this? That being said I must commend you for constantly trying to improve your bird!