The second installment in our Nimitz Class series, Volume 2 features three high detail Nimitz class carriers: Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. These high detail renditions illustrate the visual differences between earlier ships of the class and their newer sisters, such as different hangars, hull, island and masts. Packed with custom animations and features, the SWS Nimitz has something for everyone! Animated shooters will launching you off the deck while the AI plane guard keeps watch. A pitching deck will keep you on your toes before catching the animated 3-wire! Or you can just stay on the ship to manage the 70+ strong airwing and tinker with its many animations and realistic light systems!
OverviewThe second installment in SWS' Nimitz series carriers features CVN-70, CVN-71 and CVN-72 modelled in immaculate detail. Highlights include:
- High quality models of CVN-670 (2017), CVN-71 (2017) and CVN-72 (2019) with their different layouts modelled
- Complete air wing for each carrier, which can be placed using the Dynamic Deck Editor
- Fully animated carriers: raise the catapult bubbles, LSO platform. Control the elevators hangar and fire doors, UNREP poles!
- Animated arrestor cables!
- Animated catappult JBDs, shuttles and steam
- Simulated IFLOLS and MOVLAS which can be placed on multiple stations!
- AI MH-60R plane guard helicopter which launches and lands on deck
- Automatic or manual control over nine separate ship lighting systems
- Carriers Extended v2.0 features:
- SWS Fleet Placer allows placement of fleets anywhere with a few clicks
- Create any deck state you want using our Deck Configuration gauge
- Animated arrestor cables
- Realistic catapult launches
- IFLOLS, MOVLAS & LRLS: realistic simulation of optical landing aids, including stabilisation and scaling
- Weather-based pitching & rolling decks, created using real data
- TACAN & ICLS
- PALS (Autoland) based on the real SPN-42A
- Custom SWS LSO
- Independently controlled ship lights
- Shore-based IFLOLS at:
- NAS Fallon
- NAS Key West
- NAS Kingsville
- NAS Lemoore
- NAS Meridian
- NAS Norfolk
- NAS Oceana
- NAS Patuxent River
- NAS Pensacola
- NAS Point Mugu
- NAS Whidbey Island
- NAWS China Lake
- NALF Fentress
- NALF Orange Grove
- NALF San Clemente Island
- NAF Atsugi
- NAF El Centro
- MCAS Miramar
- NAS JRB New Orleans
The carriers!Included in the package are three ships of the Nimitz Class, CVN-70 Carl Vinson, CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt and CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln. We have implemented new modelling techniques to allow for meticulous intricacy without sacrificing performance.
All ships feature a highly detailed flight deck. From the anti-skid texture to the crowded catwalks, from marking of water stations to the instructions on the life rafts, no detail has been spared.
Two different hangar deck layouts have been modelled to represent the differences between the carriers. A high level of detail has been maintained in the hangars, allowing you to explore them in an avatar without loss of detail or performance!
Additionally, a full assortment of high detail aircraft, vehicles and crew are included with the Nimitz, providing great detail from up close, but also highly optimised for performance!
Crowded deck!Debuting on the Nimitz is our deck configuration technology. Allowing you to get in the shoes of a handler, place crew, vehicles and aircraft from any squadron, anywhere on the ship’s decks in real time, as well as save your custom deck states at will. Experience what it’s like to be a deck handler, trying to squeeze 70+ aircraft in the ship without fouling the decks.
The first carrier-based AI aircraft for P3DIn another first for SWS, an AI guard helicopter is included as a free bonus with the Nimitz!
Launch the MH-60 plane guard and watch it take-off, fly out and orbit near the carrier on plane guard duty. After flight ops are finished, call the helicopter back and watch as it guides itself to land on one of the available helipads.
Get a taste of what's coming down the road!
AI ship managementAn AI system handles the ship’s systems depending on whether it’s in the launch or recovery state. The AI also controls the ship’s lighting based on time-of-day and prevailing weather conditions.
Of course, you may take over control of the ship’s system at any time and handle things yourself!
Expandable animationsCrew are no longer statues and don't appear out of context! A robust system allows us to spawn animated objects on the ship according to the selected operational state. Shooters & LSOs are the first animated objects finding their way onto the carriers, with more coming as the technology evolves.
Of course, our tow truck system from USS Midway makes a reappearance for those that don’t fancy taxying and prefer to tow their aircraft in place.
Realistic NAVAIDs!Expanding on our previous implementation of TACAN, CEX carriers now come equipped with an ILS system and SPN-41 ICLS and SPN-42 PALS (requires aircraft-side integration). Furthermore, accurate simulation of the visual landing aids such as IFLOLS and LRLS is now possible, accounting for ship motion and hook-to-eye corrections.
Our visual landing aids (IFLOLS and LRLS) are simulated with a fidelity second to none. The IFLOLS can be set for a glideslope of 3.5, 3.75, or 4.0 degrees, compensates for aircraft size (hook-to-eye) by rolling the light-box just like the real thing, and has three stabilization modes (point, line, and inertial) with realistic lag and limits. To top it off, you can set up MOVLAS at three separate stations!
SWS Nimitz Class ManualMINIMUM SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
- Prepar3D v4.5 or v5
- Quad Core Processor at 3.0 GHz or better
- 8 GB RAM or more
- 4 GB DirectX 11 GPU or better
- 2 GB of Hard Drive space
- Visual C++ 2017 x64 (included)
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
- Prepar3D v4.5 or v5
- Quad Core Processor at 3.6 GHz or better
- 16 GB RAM
- 8 GB DirectX 11 GPU or better
- 2 GB of Hard Drive space
- Visual C++ 2017 x64 (included)
Changelog of SWS Nimitz Class series - January 31, 2020Carriers Extended! v2.0
- Modifications to allow catapult launches of Aerosoft's F-14 Extended
- Added improved presets for Aerosoft F-14 Extended
- Stability fixes and improvements
- Added options for centerline/approach lights to allow use in other ship classes
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