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Shaders edits to make some effects (afterburner, rockets exhausts, flares) a little bit more realistic
Less visible in daytime, glowing white/purple at night
*** UPDATED FOR 2.7 ***

Ultra realistic and dynamic sound mod for the F/A-18 Hornet. v2.0

**Note: While you can use this mod if you wish, I highly recommend to use my new "Hornet Ultra Realistic SOUND mod" also in this section.

An improved sound mod for the Hornet!

the "afterburner.dds" file in the "Werewolf's Re-Heat Afterburner Mod 2.0" was not align properly in center and tainted with extra visible line. I had fine tuned and clean up certain dirt for the texture.  Since the License was listed as Freeware "Free version, Unlimited distribution" in "Werewolf's Re-Heat Afterburner Mod 2.0". I up-load it here as "Free version, Unlimited distribution" as well and most of hard work was "Werewolf1025".

Zip file contain the fixed "afterburner.dds" texture file that was mainly from "https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/1941517/?sphrase_id=8014114".

and tuned "afterburnerCircle.dds" was from "Werewolf's Re-Heat Afterburner Mod - Shockwave 1.0" to match the current "Werewolf's Re-Heat Afterburner Mod 2.0" profile.
"https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2123809/?sphrase_id=8014114".

Install method was same as described in Werewolf1025 's afterburner mod.

UPDATED September 26th 2017

Watch every flyable aircraft take-off.  

It’s a 2.5km (1.5 mile) oil refinery you can fly through while it blows up. I put it on an airbase and timed 2 Lancers to do a runway bombing over your head while you're flying through.

Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiobWd_ihTU

*Requires the Syria Map

-Take out the Su-27 Flanker, Tu-22 bomber, and the Russian Landing Ship at Wypt 3. Be careful not to get shot down by the Buk (gadfly) system.

*Mission Track included if you want to Replay my Run instead of playing it yourself to use it as a stress test or benchmark.

Youtube Video of the Mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2GDVC6SxVQ

MISSION TRACK MAY NOT WORK WITH SUPERCARRIER UPGRADE

This is a Mission I fly when I want to test new DCS settings, hardware or OBS settings. The explosion is really consistent when the SLAM-ER missiles hit the bridge and S-300/Buk Air Defence systems. I put them really close together bottlenecked on a bridge and with fuel trucks all around. It's not meant to be realistic. It makes the explosion always happen about the same so it's a great stress test. It's also a fun mission.

I included a Track file you can open in Replay from the main menu if you just want to benchmark with it, not fly the mission.

*Sometimes the S-300 system blows itself up. Smoking carelessly I guess.. Just make sure you check F7 before setting up your missiles.

The purpose of this track is to provide a unified and consistent way to benchmark GPUs.
You'll be flying a TF-51 in the Marianas. These two modules have been chosen because they are free and are pretty demanding compared to some others.


How to :
- Copy the file to your C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Saved Games\DCS\Tracks
- Launch DCS and run this track from the Replay menu


You can use MSI Afterburner to calculate the average FPS you are getting while playing the track.


Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaMTqSylxbk

This is a load-heavy benchmark. Flying in a F/A-18C over the city of Beirut, which is the most building dense city in the DCS World. The mission file is enclosed alongside with the corresponding track file. Updated on 2023-03-18