Military AI Works

Above is a photo of A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4J Phantom II of Fighter Squadron VF-74 Be-Devilers escorting a Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 over Gulf of Sidra in August 1981.

Mike asked me to see how well I could duplicate this real life scene in FS9. Since there were obviously two VF-74 Be-Devilers' F-4J's escorting the Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and Mike had supplied me with both, I included them both in the following screenshots.

Enjoy!









Note: The AI aircraft and textures in these screenshots were all created by Mike Pearson.

"Art imitates Life far more than Life imitates Art", with apologies to Oscar Wilde.

Hope nobody notices that "V4-74" glitch on these un-released paints.......

mikeblaze wrote:Hope nobody notices that "V4-74" glitch on these un-released paints.......

Not until you mentioned it

Glitch, smitch! They look great!!!!

mikeblaze wrote:Hope nobody notices that "V4-74" glitch on these un-released paints.......

Yes, but the overall subject matter is more important. Something I've tried to do over the years with AI, replicate a real world pic.

mikeblaze wrote:
Hope nobody notices that "V4-74" glitch on these un-released paints.......

Sorry Mike. I should have caught that glitch and got back to you for texture updates prior to taking and posting these screenshots. My bad!

That's why they call it beta-testing......... Even an old dog like me can screw up a paint now and then (still, after over 5,000 of them)

This is the last shot I post here, don't want to get too side-tracked on Martin's thread........

These are Gypsy 202 and 207 (ironically the same suffix numbers as VF-32 eight years before). These are the MiG-23 killers from 1989. Please note a couple of very small changes to the NBAI Tomcat, smoother nose, MPAI ordnance, and some unseen cockpit enhancement. Again, more on this later, and on another thread....

mikeblaze wrote:That's why they call it beta-testing......... Even an old dog like me can screw up a paint now and then (still, after over 5,000 of them)

Mike,

I guess I proved that I am just as bad a beta tester as I thought I was.

mikewmac wrote: Mike,

I guess I proved that I am just as bad a beta tester as I thought I was.

I did not notice it either, Mike. I think that I never challenged any inscription or label as long as it looked reasonable convincing ...
And I fear that might be the case in the future as well