Post screenshots from your favorite sim. Include what sim you were playing when you took the screenshot.

IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 v4.11.1

He almost hit me as I dove away.



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Flanker in action!

FC3 1.2.3.10201

Isn't that the point of this forum? lol

Bloody brilliant observation.

I couldn't think of a better title and description for a generic screenshots thread last night. It still eludes me today.


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I assume the concept is, WRITE also the name of the game in the comment, beside the pictures.
How many times people had to ask?

The very nice cockpit of the Bristol Beaufighter in IL-2.




I've been flying a New Guinea campaign in the Beaufighter, fourth mission, tasked to attack a seaplane base on the southern coast so take some rockets, make several passes, dodge the buzzing AA from two nearby sites, destroy some infrastructure and one AA gun, then on the way home, decide to take out some truck traffic on the main E-W road but those guys are good shots and I got a fuel leak. Check the map, I see I've stirred up a couple of enemy fighters. I don't want to tangle with them, so I hightail it toward home. Check the plane, right aileron is shot through.

My runway is a very narrow strip cut through a coconut grove and my first pass is high and off-center so I go around...meanwhile an enemy fighter is chasing one of my squadron mates back to base. I have the make this next pass work, and I do. As I roll to a stop I hear the air rail sirens going off. Shut'er down and head for the barn! Whew!

From the IL-2 quick mission builder.

Just returned from an early morning mission to bust up some Japanese truck park near a bridge, always a challenge to land on this little strip.

What map has that small airstrip Dervish?


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That's the New Guinea map, but this was created for a campaign.

IL2 with HSFX

Cue William Holden.


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Hey, any landing you can walk away from...

Strike Fighters plane mod I'm pretty sure didn't load correctly.

That picture reminds me of when you're kids and your buddy rides on the handle bar of your bike. Look at him go, he looks like he's having so much fun out there. Watch out for flak buddy!

at least you don�t have worry about spinning props ;=)

I just played this very mission in the same campaign last night. The campaign is called Bush Pigs I believe. Nicely done.

Those planes that chase you home were Rufes. The seaplane version of the A6M2. I initially outran them to base, but then turned to face them because they were harassing my mates. Surprisingly I found them easily handled. They wound up as smoking holes in the ground not far from base. The awesome firepower of the Beau was a big help.

And I'll agree that the makeshift base is a nice touch - but also somewhat of a challenge on landings.

Yes, Bushpigs. Currently stuck on the grounded ship mission.

Well, I had to go into the mission builder and change the weather from rainy to hazy so I could see what the hell I was doing. So I find the grounded ship, drop two bombs low to skip into the freighter, that seemed to work pretty well, then I break right out to see a cruiser of some sort lofting BBs at me like it's the fourth of July, Jap version.

I'm leaking fuel and skedaddle, call Washboard and they give me a heading back to base, worked out real well, I'm swinging around final approach and what do I see but a damn Rufe, closing fast. I clean up flaps and gear and start climbing...he dives and I hose off a strong stream of 20mm, get lucky and nail him, what a rookie. So I'm watching him auger in and damned if he didn't almost take out the approach end of my runway.

Land, brake hard and try to ignore the smell of roasted Nip.

Thanks for the recon report Dervish. I'll have to watch out for that when they send me up on the next one.

SB Pro PE


I'll see if I can scrounge something up from another favorite later.

Looks great Tankhunter.
Cant wait to run the mission.

Ground attack does not get any better than this: IL-2, HSFX

BMS Falcon with the Guam theater add-on. The theater is still in alpha stage, but looks amazing from altitude.

Freefalcon, ODS theater with a self-created campaign file. This is from the pilot seat of the A-6.

This shot is from F1: 2012. I didn't mean to take this shot, I must have accidentally clicked the screenshot button. What's amazing to me, though, is all of the detail in this game. I don't think I really appreciated it until I saw this still shot. Check the reflection in the paint on the car. Amazing.

Last shot. This is Balmora in Morrowind, with the graphics overhaul mod. I still owe Morrowind a proper playthrough.

My Kerbals have finally made it to the mun (moon)! Many Kerbals died in the process

Some shots from my favourite game, Iron Front:







The shots were taken during one of my own high command scenarios.

From my absolute favourite Sim Over Flanders Fields Phase 3

Deploying a Rover as a scout before the lander (shown in the forward bay) is sent down with crew to Duna (Kerbals version of Mars)

KSP 19.1 with many, many mods...

IL-2

CMSF

CMSF?

Combat Mission Shock Force

Jason

From "Welcome to the SUK" on Eno's Firehouse last night:

Strikefighters2 and mods under - represented here so ill fix that

Forgot one.




Jason

DCS A-10C

IL-2 with HSFX

IL-2 with HSFX

Jeb knows

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) v0.20.2

Lifting Nautilus into orbit



Perfect orbit around the home planet(Kerbin) before leaving towards the outermost planet (Eeloo)



"These are the voyages of the star ship Nautilus. Its nine-year mission: to explore strange green worlds, to seek out different life and odd civilizations, to boldly go where no Kerbal has gone before."

Raw Kryptonite, those Screens look great. What are the Games?

My guesses are

1) World in Conflict

2) The Eurofighter from HAWX II

3) GRID 2

Thanks! That's the best part of Hawx 2, the game itself isn't very good. LOL
The first is World in Conflict w/Soviet Assault, the racing ones are NFS: Shift 1, a few mods, but mostly for the cars/racing.

And I score!

2 out of 3 ain't bad, but I'll give you extra points for including the fighter name.

I should probably be honest and admit that since I actually work with the Eurofighter it was waaaay too easy.
I can also point out all the things that differ from the real one, but that would be bragging.

A few screens from a recent flight over the Maritimes and into St. John's (X-Plane 10):

Lighting up the water tower.


IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 HSFX 7.03.


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The new FW190 that just came out for CFS3

That is a nice looking plane.


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More aircraft for CFS3 are being updated to the latest standards.

Looks fantastic!

That looks amazing Major.


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It's mostly the normal mapping capability that now comes with AnKor's Shaders. It provides the illusion of small scale bumps and grooves to the surface of the textured polys.

So, is that what the WOFF's "Wings Over the Reich" is going to look like? It's amazing how these private little teams get so much out of some of the graphics engines in these old games.

Like CFS3 as it now stands because it is easy to mod as WOTR most likely not be easy to mod as it is payware. I'm sure it will be worth it and i'll be first in line to get it. If WOFF is any indication WOTR will be outstanding. Still enjoy CFS3 and have all the expansions and some custom ones too . Also into IL-2 1946 . The best two sims for WWII to me. Regards,Scott

Sim Out House is the best place to get started with CFS3. There are many more sites and you can find out more about them or get help at SOH forums.

IL-2 1946 HSFX 7.03



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Returning from an overnight mission to drop off OSS operatives and supplies to the resistance.



CFS3 with ETO mod and AnKor's 2018 shaders.

Nice one Major.


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Some dusk shots
IL-2 1946 HSFX 7.03 - 352ndVFG Cross Channel map


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Only have a couple p-40 Flying Tiger skins screenies from an EAW flight last year..





wasn't a China scenario - used intercept mission files from default EAW defending England - but showing results good I got 3 109G-2 's !




Another one of my favorite screenies I made by chancer:
lagg3 in EAW


You might notice I got an amazing 71 fps on Linux running EAW on Linux when I took the shot!


EAW is faster on my machine running under Wine on Linux (Mint 1,8 ~ ubuntu 16.04 LTS - intel video laptop 2.23 GHZ) than anyone else has ever reported on Windows

A Chinese P-43 Lancer, and a JAAF Ki-44 Tojo. They had surprisingly similar performance, and did meet in the CBI theater on a few occasions.


CFS3 - PTO with AnKor's Shaders for specular, reflectance, and bump map effects.

IL-2 1946 HSFX 7.03 - Kanto map (Mod map)
Not a bad landing considering both fuel tanks were on fire.
It ended on it's top after the fuel tank blew up. Everyone in the crew survived to become guests of the Japanese.


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Nice series of shots wheelsup and great job getting her down in one piece. It was nice of your plane to wait to blow up until you got on the ground.

Lol, I agree Coot. At the altitude I was flying bailing out was not an option. As it was the aircraft engines quit just as I touched down making the landing even more lucky.


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IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 HSFX 7.03.
Random shots from a mission I am building for our squad to play on the "Northern Spain winter" (Jir_Northern_Spain_1936/load_win.ini) map. I had the High Gore settings enabled.

This one was for the Doolittle raid. (Task Force 16 returning from launching the raid/)



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Thanks to BorekS a new capability is coming to CFS3 - Animated Bombsights!

Nice ones Major.


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And now a BZG-2 Bombsight is being created by BorekS.

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A few more from IL-2. 1946 HSFX 703.
Taking a silk ride is what happens when you forget the bombers have an escort...


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Night landing. IL-2. 1946 HSFX 703.



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Nice one Wheels. Here is one of my all time favorites from IL2 Pacific Fighters. It was a little mission I made with opposing Carriers on either side of an island and the fight to the death of the planes that launched from it. It would be either Wildcats, Hellcats or Corsairs against Zeroes. Me and a buddy of mine would spend countless hours in a privately hosted Hyperlobby Coop match. Ah, the good old days!

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Even a model from 2004 can look pretty good in CFS3 these days.



I've been using AI Gigapixel to complete quick and easy increases in the old textures from 1024 to 2048, or even 4096.

Description of AI Gigapixel.

Nice one Major.

Moonshot.



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Uploaded the images to SimHQ:

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IL-2 1946 HSFX 7.03 - Solomons August 42 map (MAP Solomons/load_0842.ini)

Felt like doing a little airfield building today.

Found a small clearing on Vella La Vella that looked promising.
This area is close but it is not the same location used on later maps for the historical airstrip.




I liked the runway and taxiway layout of Version 1 but I hated the look of the hard points.
The runway length was 800 meters. Just about 2625 feet. Pretty short but good enough for a fighter strip.


I liked Version 2 even more but I still hated how the hard points were falling in place.
By rotating it more I got the runway to be 1 kilometer long. Just about 3281 feet.


I discarded all the hard points I had already placed and went another direction with the hard points.
This is the final version. The runway is still 1 kilometer long and there is a fairly large parking area too.




It was designed to be a functioning Dogfight HomeBase for Player flown aircraft. It will work in that capacity for takeoff and landings quite well.
It will also work with the AI for takeoffs if you use the taxi to takeoff option. Landings are much more problematic so I fly AI aircraft to another airfield to land.

I just need to add a tower and some building to give it its final look.


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"Break!"

Is the ultralight shot from FS2004? I miss playing that one. Nice shots Vince.

I like the Corsair, cool and interesting aircraft. Was their last combat use Gulf War 1?

Thanks Coot! Those shots are from FSX!

We (USN, USAF) retired the A-7 in 1991 mdwa, don't think it was used in Desert Storm. Not entirely sure though.

MD-11 (FS9)

All nice additions Vince.

IL-2 Great Battles screenshot. (Low Pass)



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Not exactly an original caption, but...Achtung! Schpitfeuer!



Aussie ace Gordon Olive's YT-A in my current 65 Squadron campaign in Wings over the Reich.

And the 110 on the receiving end:

Low Pass 2



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From my IL-2 Great Battles: Battle of Bodenplatte sunset series:

Nice ones Docjonel.


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Some Great Action Shots By Gecko From CFS3 With The Latest Shaders And Water Files

Cool screenshots everyone. Keep them coming.


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Reacted too slowly and I got may tail feather shot off.



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Fantastic pics there MajorMagee! And that Spitfire skin is gorgeous!

What mod, campaign or mission were those taken with?

Mowing the Lawn

That is low as I dare go.


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First steps with Il-2 Battle of Bodenplatte...

Nice pics Sir!

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It's thanks to you they were taken!

Dora 9, Blue 2, IV/JG3, Prenzlau, spring 1945, as seen in Il-2 Bodenplatte's Rhineland spring terrain.

The real aircraft:



The magnificent Il-2 version:

IL-2 Great Battles. Flight flown Sunday May 05, 2024 on the Danger Dogz mod server.
A little too close for comfort. The cockpit view that sees the Me-109 in its windscreen is from my cockpit looking at the Me-109. The Cockpit view with the Hurricane flying directly in front of it is from the pursuing aircraft. I had two near mid-airs in less than two seconds.





I flew underneath the Me-109 and went vertical in front of the Hurricane that was chasing it.


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