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FR B-24 Liberator Released

John, Re: the nose gear doors...thank you for pointing that out to me. Much appreciated.

Question, where can I find paints for FSX?
 
mongo55 said:
This plane is beautiful, but I have a question about the supercharger controls and settings in P3D V5. The manual states that "n P3Dv4.5 and up, these controls do not work, but the supercharging option in the aircraft.cfg will give the necessary MP." The aircraft.cfg has the following entries by default: "turbocharged=1" and "supercharged=0." Should these be changed to "turbocharged=0" and "supercharged=1." Mike Gutierrez, North Hollywood, California.
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Hi Mike. You don't need to do anything, it's already been done for you. It's my explanation that needs changing. :)
 
I'm slowly posting mine, like this one:
Daedalus, as you all probably already know, was the father of Icarus, the inventor of the Labyrinth, and the first man to successfully land after flying from Crete to Sicily. Icarus unfortunately did not make it...

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the ones on Mike site work for FSX/P3D up to V4.
The ones I'm uploading are for P3Dv5, but they might work fine in earlier sims, I just don't know.
 
Historic Realism

Mike just emailed me to let all of you fellow sim pilots who want to really fly Mike's fantastic B24J what it was designed to do...virtual USAAF is accepting pilots to become a part of the virtual 461st Bombardment Group (H) and fly the real missions in real weather to real custom-designed targets using FSX@War and JoinFS. Here is where to check it out: https://tgycgijoes5.wixsite.com/liberaiders you've seen the first 10 repaints of the 764th Bomb Squadron here and at Flight Replicas. Help us to honor "the greatest generation" of WWII USAAF pilots and aircrew. :loyal:
 
Thanks Mike for Reply

Mike: Thank you for replying to my question about the supercharging. It's a lovely airplane. Mike Gutierrez, North Hollywood, California.
 
Problem Here with F.R. B-24

From first install of the B-24, flipping the battery switch or any lighting switch except the compass light switch causes FSX to shut down and restart; the compass light switch does actually illuminate the compass. I've reinstalled the B-24 and FSX a few times also uninstalled and reinstalled my Nvidia graphics card drivers. No matter what I do the problem persists. I've been in touch with Mike at Flight Replicas and he's at a loss too. It's past 3 A.M. and I'm tearing what little hair I have left out:adoration: Any help would be greatly appreciated !
 
Ghost rider 78 said:
From first install of the B-24, flipping the battery switch or any lighting switch except the compass light switch causes FSX to shut down and restart; the compass light switch does actually illuminate the compass. I've reinstalled the B-24 and FSX a few times also uninstalled and reinstalled my Nvidia graphics card drivers. No matter what I do the problem persists. I've been in touch with Mike at Flight Replicas and he's at a loss too. It's past 3 A.M. and I'm tearing what little hair I have left out:adoration: Any help would be greatly appreciated !
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Resolved. Turned out to be some corruption during the download.
 
Problem Here with F.R. B-24

Ghost rider 78 said:
From first install of the B-24, flipping the battery switch or any lighting switch except the compass light switch causes FSX to shut down and restart; the compass light switch does actually illuminate the compass. I've reinstalled the B-24 and FSX a few times also uninstalled and reinstalled my Nvidia graphics card drivers. No matter what I do the problem persists. I've been in touch with Mike at Flight Replicas and he's at a loss too. It's past 3 A.M. and I'm tearing what little hair I have left out:adoration: Any help would be greatly appreciated !
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Problem resolved. Mike at Flight Replicas came up with the answer, corrupted download. Redownloaded the package and everything in the B-24 now works as it should. A heartfelt Salute to Mike, he went above and beyond helping me resolve this problem.
 
Any chance of B24 repaints for FSX. Hi

jamminjames said:
Jankees please do your B-24's for FSX! There must be a larger following for FSX than for P3D.
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Hi JKB. Re the above. I am stuck with FSX Acceleration for the foreseeable future, and I realise it is a different platform, but any chance of your B24 reprints for FSX.

Very Best Regards.
 
There's no reason not to use any of the released repaints for either FSX or P3D - they are the same files. Any repaints made for the P3D version are perfectly useable with the FSX version, and vice-versa. All of the repaints I've released so-far (more to come) are for use in FSX just as much as they are for P3D. The only difference would be changes to affect the look of the reflection/shine in P3D vs. FSX (but it's really not a big deal), and in my experience things are similar-enough to not garner making unique versions for each sim.

Here's an example of the exact same repaint in both FSX and P3Dv5:

(FSX)
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(P3Dv5)
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I originally did all my paints for FSX/P3Dv4.5, but when I installed P3Dv5 I discovered two things:
- my harddisk was too small for v4.5 and v5, so I went for v5
- my paints looked slightly different,shinier, with small adaptations to the alpha channel being necessary.
Since I now run only P3Dv5, I can't check what my paints look like in FSX/v4.5.
However, the layout is exactly the same, so there's no reason not to use them in FSX/v4.5, they may just be a bit duller, as John has shown.
All paints on Mike's Site (Flight Replicas) are the FSX/v4.5 versions, the ones I'm uploading now are the P3Dv5 versions, which you can use in FSX/v4.5, which is why is was showing them here, but since I made them for v5, I listed them under P3D in the library.
John has shown the different looks of a bare metal paint, perhaps someone can also show pics of the difference with camouflaged paints?
 
The way in which any aircraft/repaint looks in P3Dv5 can vary greatly, since there is a range provided of lighting/atmospheric options in P3D. If you have HDR lighting and advanced atmospherics turned off in P3Dv5, it still looks very much like FSX. However, with HDR lighting and enhanced atmospherics on in P3Dv5, it looks like a completely different sim. There is just a different level of contrast/colors, all dependent on individual settings, and a different level of power given to the diffuse alpha channels in P3D vs. FS.

Using the same files in both P3Dv5 and FSX, I like the appearance either way.

Here are the Collings Foundation's B-24J & Me-262 in FSX DX10 (unedited, with no shader addons):

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This is same exact repaint in P3Dv5 (unedited, and with no shader addons, using P3Dv5's built-in HDR lighting and enhanced atmospherics).

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FSX/P3Dxx

Thanks all for that information. Then all MY 461st repaints available at the Flight Replicas site will work in P3Dv5 too and will look even better than on my computer. BTW JanKees created Mr. Period for the 461st BG 764th BS generously at my request to complete our 10 original 764th Bomb Squad aircraft that started at Torretta AAF in Italy.
 
Speaking of Torretta Airfield, one of my Facebook friends and a former Collings pilot, Jim Harley, has been sharing photos from a trip he and other members of the Collings Foundation took to Italy in 2007, where they were able to locate a few of the 15th Air Force B-24 bases from WWII, including Torretta AAF (461st Bomb Group), San Giovanni AAF (454th and 455th Bomb Groups) and Pantanella AAF (464th and 465th Bomb Groups). The first paint scheme worn by the Collings Foundation B-24, through the 90's, was that of "All American", loosely based on an original 461st BG B-24 by the same name, done to honor of one of Bob Collings' friends who was an original crew member.

These are Jim's photos from Torretta AAF:

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