Dogs Of War Vu

Introduction
@amalhama is a freaking genius! He reversed engineered the original source code of Digital Integration's Tornado 1.0e with the European campaign and Operation Desert Storm with the help of the original Tornado 1.0a source code and an amazing LLM. He was kind enough to share the SVGA source code with me. I've spent the better half of my Saturday weekend here is haze-afflicted Kuala Lumpur to add in features into his already fantastic SVGA Tornado 1.0e. Features which I never could have dreamed were possible in the original Tornado. All because we now live in an age where one can create an open source version of Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite. In an age where it makes my 10 years of slaving over hand-crafting assembly mods look like a waste of time. An age where one can work on software development at the speed of The Flash. If only the original Digital Integration development team of Tornado had their hands on such tools! What an age to live in!


As if the SVGA Tornado 1.0e wasn't already awesome news for Tornaholics, here's SVGA Tornado 1.0 modded.


Below is the list of working feature enhancements.

• More clumps of trees, each with their own shadow!
• Flyby view with Doppler sound effect.
• Spectator View (F4) and Remote Views (F3) now have the Doppler sound effect
• Pitch-adjustable views of the Tornado
• Full-screen Pilot Panel view with working HUD
• Full-screen TIALD view with launching LGB 1,000 pounders
• Pilot NVG (green-phosphor) for ease of night-time situation-awareness
• Improved 2-seater 3D Tornado model, but still limited to the game's mesh format of only 128 vertices per object
• Sun and moon which appear in the sky as per the game's Tornado clock
• Shadows for ALL airborne and ground-based objects. That's planes, buildings, the whole works! Never before. Shadows are responsive to the angle of the sun or moon.
• Target waypoint locator in full-screen Pilot view, with reverse padlock view of Target POV to Tornado
• Incoming SAM (missile) locator in full-screen Pilot view, with reverse padlock view of SAM to Tornado
• Enemy ground-defence unit locator in full-screen Pilot view, with reverse padlock view of enemy unit POV to Tornado
• Explosions louder and with larger pyrotechnic effects and shock wave concentric rings, flying debris
• Persistent 25-hour rising smoke trails (as in SVGA Harrier)
• SAM smoke trails (persistent from launch to contact with plane/ground/air)
• Sharpened image of Tornado 1.0e Splash screens and menu screen pictures
• Allowed use of the keyboard to scroll up/down and to select menu items of the SVGA frontend menu
• Horizon roll with the Tornado
• Cinematic/Movie view
• Shilka observer view
• Enemy Director view
• ALARM to Enemy Unit reverse padlock view
• Tornado skin chooser in the Lookdown view
• Nap of the earth 30' and 50' Terrain Following Radar
• Pause Everything Bullet-time mode
• SAMs and AAA now target friendly Tornados of a mission
• Friendly Tornados of a mission can now actively target the enemy with ALARM Air-to-Surface missles
• Improved realistic rear "Check-Six" view
• Wingman assignment by player, of "T" target waypoint to hit with ALARMs (indirect)
• Use of keyboard up, down and Enter keys when using the SVGA GUI frontend menu
• Framerate indicator
• Built-in Time-compression ala Kenneth Larsen's TTC.EXE (Time Compression Utility)
• The rear external view currently is showing from the right wing, looking backwards. Create the complementary rear-view showing the the right wing, looking backwards.
• Ordnance bomb blasts and special effect proportionate to weapons weight
• In ODS missions, skins of the Huey Gunship and A10 are changed from olive green into desert pink as well.
• Weapons mode, all the way from delivery to a crater, has more view angles with Alt+PgUp to tilt the perspective of looking downwards from above the Tornado, and key Alt+PgDn to tilt the perspective looking upwards from underneath the Tornado.
• Applied to Drones the following views: F3 (Remote view), F4 (Spectator view), Ctrl+Alt+F3 (Flyby view), Alt+Shift+M (Cinematic view) with engine sounds as per doppler effect rules.
• Catastrophic Tornado crash are rendered as total damage, with a fireball, a huge pillar of smoke and a large crater.
• Rear View mirrors for Pilot Panel
• Rear View mirror for overhead Pilot Panel
• Added RAF Camo GR1 Livery (skin)
• Added Italian IDS Operation Desert Storm and Royal Saudi Air Force Liveries (skins)
• Wingman Management Panel
• Added Previous Waypoint key so that you can skip the Previous Waypoint on the Flight Plan TAB display
• Added an option to turn off trees shadows to increase framerate (fps)

New Keystrokes Added to Tornado 1.0E

01. Hold Alt + Page Up/Down		Raise/lower camera smoothly
02. Ctrl + F1		Reset camera view to normal tracking view
03. Ctrl + Alt + F3		Flyby camera view with Doppler effect
04. Alt + Shift + F9		Forward pilot full-screen view with HUD and nose-direction marker
05. Alt + Shift + F10		Full-screen TIALD with existing targeting and mouse controls
06. Alt + Shift + F11		Pilot's NVG (Night Vision Goggles)
07. Alt+Shift+F9, then Shift+T		Target waypoint locator view
08. Alt+Shift+F6		Incoming SAM (missile) locator view     - Next nearest SAM missile: Alt+Shift+F2     - Previous nearest SAM missile: Alt+Shift+F1
09. Alt+Shift+F7		Enemy ground-defence unit locator view         - Next nearest unit: Alt+Shift+F2         - Previous nearest unit: Alt+Shift+F1
10. Alt+Shift+F8		Toggles the reverse padlock view of Enemy target to ALARM
11. Alt+Shift+F8		Toggles the reverse padlock view of Enemy target to Tornado
12. Alt+Shift+Backspace		Togggles "Rear Check Six!" View; Hit Alt+Shift+Backspace again to toggle right/left rear views
13. Alt+Shift+H		Togggles Horizon Bank / Roll View
14. Alt+Shift+A		Shilka observer view
15. Alt+Shift+S		Enemy SAM director view
16. Alt+Shift+M		Cinematic view
17. Alt+Shift+F12		Show FPS
18. Alt+Shift+B		Hide/Show Pilot Panel rear view mirrors
19. Alt+Shift+I		Framerate (FPS) on-screen display
19. Alt+Shift+M		Move to previous waypoint

Wingman attack orders

Left-click mouse in Map MFD		Create T target waypoint
Alt+Shift+W		Cycle available airborne strike wingmen
Alt+Shift+O		Order an attack on T
Alt+Shift+C		Cancel the order

Pause and Bullet-Time mode

Hit p		Pause all action
Ctrl+Up		Move camera viewpoint upwards
Ctrl+Down		Move camera viewpoint downwards
Use usual arrow keys		Move left, forwards, backwards, right
Use usual arrow keys with Shift key		Move left, forwards, backwards, right FASTER

Built-in time compression

Ctrl+Alt+1–9		1×–9× speedup
Ctrl+Alt+0		10× speedup
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace		immediately return to 1×

Download link to SVGA Tornado 1.0e latest modded FLIGHT.EXE and DESERT.EXE:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/137tqf1f5WK2mlDpfn8C_eHYZ4zyXfsIv?usp=sharing


Stay tuned for more improved DESERT.EXE and FLIGHT.EXE in all their SVGA glory and modded madness of goodies.

I asked the AI to redesign the palette colors of Tornado, in the spirit of Saving Private Ryan and WW2 movie cinematography. Here is the result.

















It's essentially the same 1994 Digital Integration Tornado 1.0e, but with SVGA graphics, swappable in-game colours and revamped colours, with quite a number of modded features. Hope you like these pics!

Cheers!
Frankie Kam