Grumman F-14D v0.95 release

F-14D in flight over the Californian coast

EDIT: This post is outdated. Version 0.95 has been superseded by version 0.99 on July 20th 2009 (post left for the record).

Ok, the version 0.94 of the tomcat was not a good one. Many glitches here and there...well...all I can say I warned you it was not finished :-)

Unfortunately I do not have much time to work on it in this days, nor I think I will have anytime soon... But I did what I could to get rid of some of the most annoying issues (namely the a/b bleed and the misplacement of the formation lights).

I also did some adjustments to the nose and canopy geometry, while missiles have been redone from scratch.

I know that the model is still far from being perfect, and there will surely be many users which will be still unhappy...But I expected this kind of reaction for a much loved bird like the F-14 :-)

Please find the download link to the latest Tomcat version (0.95) below:

OUTDATED VERSION: LINK DELETED (see newer posts for upated link)

Older download links will be deactivated immediatedly. Changes from previous release as follows:

VERSION 0.95

• Fixed formation lights
• A/B effect coding redone (effect bleeding through fuselage when a/b is off should have been fixed)
• Fixed non working pitot heat switch
• Cleaned several cockpit texture glitches and added shadows (courtesy of Brandon Templeton)
• Reworked nose and canopy geometry
• Redone AIM-7 and AIM-9 models-Fixed minor glitches in the cockpit geometry
• Minor tweaks to the flight model (reduced maneuverability)
• Closed minor openings in the cockpit model (scenery bleed through geometry)
• Removed smoke effect call (smoke effect presence was a mistake - this was left there from an early F-14A build, but afaik GE engines do not produce so much smoke. I had removed the effect on my system but the entry was still there...)
• Fixed wing sweep indicator behaviour (but will not yet detect oversweep)
• Fixed flap lever animation (reversed)