Edgley Optica now released! (21.December)

[Daveroo]

i allready have a paint request,yellow overall,with a block type lettering with a shadow,not sure how to describe it properly..but the "N" id like on it..fake one ocfourse "N430DK"...the main body of the letters/numbers in a blood red/dark red...and black shadowing/highlighting..on the vertical tail surfaces..id like "Dirty Daves air service"

id really apprieate it if someone could do this for me, i cant even figure out how to paint a plane....i did do a paint once on lionhearts kodiac....looked nice..but it had a "chrome" appearance to the paint..like the paint had been put on in a tinted chome plating....and it was purple.....i had tried to make it blue....people told me to use DTX program and use the alpha channel....but i dont understand the alpha channel thing at all....how do you change it ect?...

 

[big-mike]

Thank you very much!
A lot of fun flying this "thing"
Michael

 

[warchild]

Thank you very much!
A lot of fun flying this "thing"
Michael

Kinda grows on ya dont it??

 

[big-mike]

yupp---she is really amazing.
Michael

 

[stovall]

Thanks Craig, very nice work and really fun to fly. Merry Christmas!!

 

[Warrant]

Very nice bird. Many thanks!

 

[dvj]

 

[FentiFlier1]

Brilliant! :salute:

And perfect for people like me who love the view from helicopters but don't "like", cough, flying them.


Owen.

 

[ryanbatc]

Neat plane! Thanks for making it freeware.

I've got a few minor bugs on my end.
1) Using the gear function (I pressed the button by accident on my joystick) I hear a gear sound and if FSX thinks my gear is up (even though this plane is fixed) I will crash on landing. Can gear be disabled?
2) "S" is backwards on the DG
3) There's no little carrot on the attitude indicator that would line up with the degrees of bank near the top

And a question about the throttle and mixture levers... When I idle them they appear only halfway back in the VC.

 

[Sieggie]

in the aircraft.cfg the 12th and 13th parameter for the 0,1 and 2 contact indicate the extension and retraction time for the wheels. change them to 0 and the wheels will not retract.

Is:
point.0 = 1, 7.8939, 0, -4.0463, 1181, 0, 0.6, 30, 0.15, 2.5, 0.6, 3.5, 3.5, 0, 165, 165
point.1 = 1, -1.38, 5.7, -3.8, 1575, 2, 0.7, 0, 0.468, 1.932, 0.65, 5.2, 5.2, 3, 165, 165
point.2 = 1, -1.38, -5.7, -3.8, 1575, 1, 0.7, 0, 0.468, 1.932, 0.65, 5.2, 5.2, 2, 165, 165

Should be:
point.0 = 1, 7.8939, 0, -4.0463, 1181, 0, 0.6, 30, 0.15, 2.5, 0.6, 0, 0, 0, 165, 165
point.1 = 1, -1.38, 5.7, -3.8, 1575, 2, 0.7, 0, 0.468, 1.932, 0.65, 0, 0, 3, 165, 165
point.2 = 1, -1.38, -5.7, -3.8, 1575, 1, 0.7, 0, 0.468, 1.932, 0.65, 0, 0, 2, 165, 165

The other two will take a little more work

 

[full]

very cool plane....but is there anyway to make the glass more shiny or reflective? On my system its almost as if there's no glass showing at all. I love the ambient shading...I wish more dev's would use it.

I'm guessing this is on the external model ? as I deleted the interior glass as It had some weird effects when viewed at night with the VC light on.

@ryanbatc

I will have a look into No 2 & 3 for you.

thanks Sieggie must have missed that one

I will also try and do a basic paintkit for this but It may take some time....

@Daveroo

If you could draw my a picture of what and send it to me I'm sure I could do something....

 

[CG_1976]

Thank you Craig. The Optica works well in Prepar3d. Gonna take another flight out of Jim's Corpus Christie CGAS. She's a excellent SAR Patrol Mission aircraft.

 

[full]

Ok guys I've made some fix's including

1. Landing gear retraction issue (posted earlier)
2. The "S" is now the right way around
3. Added a carrot to the attitude indicator
4. Increased glass reflectivity
5. Edited animation of throttle and mixture controls

Anyone downloading the Optica from this post on will not need to download the fix ZIP, but for those who have here are the update's...

http://www.classicwings.net/freeplanes/Edgley_Optica/Edgley Optica_fix.zip

Many thanks for the comments and suggestions.

 

[ColoKent]

Oh my gosh...

....this is a FANTASTIC airplane. Any chance of a paintkit (that includes textures for the pilot)?

This airplane is a LOAD of fun-- especially in ORBX scenery.

Regards,

Kent

 

[Roger]

Ok guys I've made some fix's including

1. Landing gear retraction issue (posted earlier)
2. The "S" is now the right way around
3. Added a carrot to the attitude indicator
4. Increased glass reflectivity
5. Edited animation of throttle and mixture controls

Anyone downloading the Optica from this post on will not need to download the fix ZIP, but for those who have here are the update's...

http://www.classicwings.net/freeplanes/Edgley_Optica/Edgley Optica_fix.zip

Many thanks for the comments and suggestions.

Thanks Craig; brilliant service; now go and enjoy yourself :ernae:

 

[ColoKent]

Cocaine...

....that's what this little baby is. I normally don't like "low and slow" at all, but this thing is just addictive as h$ll. I suggest touring Oahu in it....just AMAZING. Thank you!!!!

Kent

P.S. I'm actually depressed that there are only a few flying in real life...what a cool little airplane.

 

[warchild]

If Mr.Edgleys dream comes true, there will be more..

 

[warchild]

Thanks Craig; brilliant service; now go and enjoy yourself :ernae:

I agree Craig.. you deserve a party. Go enjoy. I'll watch the store for you

 

[IFlySWA]

Happy holidays Craig! And thank you very much for all the pressies/presents you give us all year round.

Brian

 

[Naismith]

Typical, all this great stuff coming out and my FSX dedicated HD went tits-up today. It started the other day simply vanishing from the File Manager. It would reappear on a reboot. But now it doesn't even do that. 1TB WD Caviar Black 3 years old. The bios won't even display it nor in wifes PC.