The MANW submission wasn't the greatest

[sly gazelle]

We had great plans, but art took way longer than we would have hoped, and an issue with blender exporting put a halt on us fixing some of the glaring issues you see in the submission. We have fixed a ton already, but will wait till we feel it's ready to release on the workshop.

[muted fable]

God damn 🔥 🔥

ENEMY AC 130 ABOVE !!

[wet trail]

This is honestly the coolest thing I have ever seen in reforger

Actually might be my new favourite mod

[main atlas]

It's functioning like an actual plane right? Not like another helicopter?

[wet trail]

It flies like a plane feels a lil fast tho for in game

[sly gazelle]

It operates like a true fixed wing aircraft.

[weak bone]

Oh man i feel like ive been hearing about this since the early days of reforger, Glad im still around to see it come out

[sly gazelle]

It took that long to find an artist willing and capable of creating it. This model took two artists to complete over the course of about a year. Rand Williams initially created the HP but was unable to finish due to other obligations, and we finally contracted with one of my old co-workers from the studio I work at. Tyler took Rands work, redid much of it, and the final product is what you see. Admittedly still too high poly, but we got the final version of the model around midnight the morning before the competition ended, so corners had to be cut.

I'll rework things once we have more time. The version we were working with till then was about 700k verts all together, with the cockpit separate from the body and cargo bay, much of the object slotted in to the cockpit had pretty aggressive lods. Will always be an expensive Hero aircraft, but should still run just fine in small numbers.

[cloud otter]

C-130 my beloved

[blissful briar]

Suggest using decals for markings and rivets. You can get much higher detail for much lower texture resolution. e.g. think of how in MSFS all cockpit and exterior markings are perfectly crisp even when the camera is right up close.

[little quartz]

We are aware but did not have time to get that done properly. As you can see the art deliverables were dragging this project back...

[sly gazelle]

We know. Artist was running out of time. No time to setup properly for that. So we got it the way it is now and will fix it sometime soon.

[weak bone]

Well either way I’m happy to see it come to fruition!

[harsh hound]

Woah

[mossy basin]

Love it and can wait to see it

[coarse bronze]

Love the work, redline has always been pushing the limits and you all have done it again. Don’t play reforger much anymore but check back every now and again from updates on projects like this.

Thank you ❤️

[warm spindle]

Good job guys it looks awesome 🤘

[warm spindle]

The battery and APU start up is a breath of fresh air, its been needed for a long time in this game

[glad flint]

@brisk wolf

[brisk wolf]

Wowzers

[glad flint]

with the hotas support added to experiemental, when it comes to base will it work for the fixed wing?

[little quartz]

Amazing screenshot! And thanks, I knew I wanted a "more realistic" startup sequence for this mod. More improvments will come when we release the Non-MANW version.

[warm spindle]

I look forward to it man 🤘

[sly gazelle]

Oh yes

[sly gazelle]

Just sharing some of the renderings the artist sent us when the cargo bay was finished. Will look a bit more like this in game once we get some things fixed and add the light portal.

[harsh hound]

Once the full mod comes out do you think that parachute guy will introduce static line?

Because I’m gonna be doing some BANGER ops with this

[warm spindle]

Really looking forward to this, artist has done a brilliant job 🤘

[sly gazelle]

Yes, there will be static line as well as user operated, steerable and non-steerable.

[harsh hound]

How do you load vehicles?

[little quartz]

Broken rn but there's an action in the back of the aircraft for the loadmaster to use.

[warm spindle]

Yeah being able to load a few thousand supplies with this thing would be neat, paradropping the supplies out the back would be unreal 🔥

Same with para dropping humvees, would be a nice touch if its even possible

[outer trail]

At 10 minutes time, there it is!
https://youtu.be/90BjhPTk0mE

[sleek vortex]

Will this have weapons and ISR capabilities? Or is it just troop and vic transport

[tight snow]

It's an c130 not an ac130

So no guns or anything

Just troops

[sleek vortex]

Only difference is a letter

[tight snow]

The AC130 is the gunship

[sleek vortex]

😂

[tight snow]

U see? 2 different thing

A literally means "Attack"

[sleek vortex]

I know

[tight snow]

To make an ac130 u would need to make a new 3d model

For everything

• adding 3d models and scripting for guns, the cameras system like the Wcs apache

Canons

Radar

Etc

[sleek vortex]

Sounds good, looking forward to it👍