[Vehicle] RAF Tornado GR4

Post by **Rhino** » 2008-04-01 19:45

The RAF Tornado GR4 is a Fighter-Bomber, 2 seater twin engine class of Jet which is capable of low-level, super sonic flight and comes with a few other neat features like sweep back wings and capable of delivering a wide variety of weapons.

Myself and a few other Dev/Cons have been working over the past few months with converting the OPK, German Tornado IDS into a RAF Tornado GR4, aswell as tweaking its performance to be like the other jets in PR, which is still in progress

Thou they are more or less the same aircraft, there is a few differences thou most of them being software and bits under the skin that you cant see, there is a few small difference like the TIALD (Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator) pod, the Sky Shadow-2 electronic countermeasures pod and a few other small things, which have been modeled, UVed, imported and attached by myself.
The skin tweaks have been done by [R-CON]Geze which has been doing a really nice job on lots of our skin tweaks as to date

The new Paveway II LGB (Laser Guided Bomb) and Brimstone Air to Surface AT Missile where modeled and skinned by [R-DEV]Stigger (which you can also see on his Harrier renders) and Imported by myself.

Thanks for OPK to let us use there excellent model which you can see more of here: Operation Peacekeeper - A Battlefield 2 Modification : Tornado IDS - strike aircraft

This is still WIP with lots of fixes still to be done but its in a good state now to show to you guys, hope you like it

CodeC.Seven · Post by **CodeC.Seven** » 2008-04-01 20:45

OMFG OMFG HOW NICE OMFG O.O I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!

KP · Post by KP » 2008-04-01 20:47

If this is an April Fools joke, I swear to [R-DEV]Eggman that someone will die for it.

=Romagnolo= · Post by **=Romagnolo=** » 2008-04-01 20:49

Beautiful !

So, what is the new chinese jet to balance the game ?

SuperTimo · Post by **SuperTimo** » 2008-04-01 20:51

i have been waiting for this ever since i joined PR! makes you all goey inside!
i know its mainly germn but it makes you want ti sing:

God save our gracious queen
Long live our nobel queen
God save the queen
Send her victorious
Happy and Glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the queen

thank you devs!!!

(also i love the new national anthem guitar riff when we win a round, reminds me of sex pistols: god save the queen.)

charliegrs · Post by **charliegrs** » 2008-04-01 20:53

wow the brits are really gettin loaded up with goodies in this mod. im curious where this aircraft slots in though because now we have for the UK:
the Eurofighter - fighter jet
the harrier - i think this is for ground attack? like the A-10?
the tornado - i guess this is also for ground attack? im sort of confused but regardless its still awesome. but i thought britain was phasing out the tornado?

Smegburt_funkledink · Post by **Smegburt_funkledink** » 2008-04-01 20:54

Awesome Jet, Excellent Photography!

Good work Chap(s)

Post by **Rhino** » 2008-04-01 20:58

=Romagnolo= wrote:Beautiful !

So, what is the new chinese jet to balance the game ?

The SU-30MMK which was only used in 1 map on vBF2 (Darqin Oilfileds) so no one really noticed it

charliegrs wrote:wow the brits are really gettin loaded up with goodies in this mod. im curious where this aircraft slots in though because now we have for the UK:
the Eurofighter - fighter jet
the harrier - i think this is for ground attack? like the A-10?
the tornado - i guess this is also for ground attack? im sort of confused but regardless its still awesome. but i thought britain was phasing out the tornado?

3 main classes of Jet in PR, well only 2 in the current release since we dont use the 3rd class at the moment.

Fighter jet, like the EF2000, J-10, F-16 etc.
Attack Jet, like the A-10, Harrier etc.
Fighter-Bombers, Tornado GR4, F-15, Su-30MMK etc.

Sgt.Smeg wrote:Excellent Photography!

nothing that the battle recorder and the debugger cant do. I did cheat a little I forced the debugger to run all the objects (apart from the trees) in there highest LOD and always be culled aswell as the normal disabling nametags and HUD

Technoelite · Post by **Technoelite** » 2008-04-01 21:03

if it is two seater would it be possible to have the weaponssystems operator in teh abck seat liek in real life to control missles and stuff

Post by **bosco_** » 2008-04-01 21:03

It has tactical nukes, too!

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » 2008-04-01 21:03

OMG almost hotter than the typhoon but not quite! I was hoping for some other goodness but airplanes look pweeety

Waaah_Wah · Post by **Waaah_Wah** » 2008-04-01 21:07

KP wrote:If this is an April Fools joke, I swear to [R-DEV]Eggman that someone will die for it.

Yep... If this is some sort of sick joke, me and KP will murder someone and berry him together

Post by **Bob_Marley** » 2008-04-01 21:16

Considering the fact that it has been stated that we're not allowed fighter bombers because they carried far too much ordinance, even for PR's big maps, this might end up being a disapointment.

LtSoucy · Post by **LtSoucy** » 2008-04-01 21:18

Its a joke, Who wants to die first?

Mora · Post by **Mora** » 2008-04-01 21:19

Ooh man we need bigger maps like wake island remake

Viper5 · Post by **Viper5** » 2008-04-01 21:20

[R-MOD]Bob_Marley wrote:Considering the fact that it has been stated that we're not allowed fighter bombers because they carried far too much ordinance, even for PR's big maps, this might end up being a disapointment.

A beautiful model and skin but Bob brings up a good point...

I recall Eggman saying that PR doesnt want fighter bombers but instead for two definitive classes, air to air (Typhoon, Mig, J10, F16) with a JDAM on the air and Air to Ground (Harrier, A10, Su-) with *maybe* a sidewinder or 2

Post by **Rhino** » 2008-04-01 21:24

[R-MOD]Bob_Marley wrote:Considering the fact that it has been stated that we're not allowed fighter bombers because they carried far too much ordinance, even for PR's big maps, this might end up being a disapointment.

I think you will find that he said that before we had LGBs working and all sorts of other tweaks we have done to jets since then which has balanced them out alot. And no, this is not a april fools joke, if it was I would have posted it this morning, not at 9pm and we wouldn't have spent so much work modeling new parts and re-skinning for it

[uBp]Irish · Post by **[uBp]Irish** » 2008-04-01 21:34

WTB tornado Bomblet Dispersal bomb thingy.

Post by **Bob_Marley** » 2008-04-01 21:52

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:I think you will find that he said that before we had LGBs working and all sorts of other tweaks we have done to jets since then which has balanced them out alot. And no, this is not a april fools joke, if it was I would have posted it this morning, not at 9pm and we wouldn't have spent so much work modeling new parts and re-skinning for it

So the Tornado still can't designate targets for its self, eh? I'm pretty sure they've got TIALD on them now, but I may be wrong...

Guess its time to model them buccaneers!

@Irish - the British no longer use the JP233 because of the fact it incorporated anti-personell land mines and that nowadays its much easier to use stand off weapons like storm shadow to blow up runways. Though the Jerries still have the MW1, AFIK

And if we had it in PR, I don't think the Chinese airfield would ever actually get repaired, either due to the engineers getting blown up, or the 215 APERS mines causing a server crash.

Post by **Rhino** » 2008-04-01 22:01

'[R-MOD wrote:Bob_Marley;643923']So the Tornado still can't designate targets for its self, eh? I'm pretty sure they've got TIALD on them now, but I may be wrong...

Guess its time to model them buccaneers!

in real life they do, like most other jets. If you read my first post i state that.

If they can in PR will be anouther matter.