Excuse my nosing in....
Shessi,
I tried using your old skins on the new model...not a bad fit, all in all. The prop textures are pretty good too...but I can imagine these pics are gonna make Stefano gnash his teeth because they highlight one of his pet peeves, if memory serves me correctly.
Rami,
excuse me for sticking my nose in, but aren't those Morton's repaints of the previous Ted Cook's Wimpy conversion?
I am sure of it, because I just adapted the whole pack to the new conversion. If you watch carefully, the back of the top antenna fairing behind the cockpit remains untextured and I corrected that. I can re-upload the pack with Morton's permission if you liked me to.
As to the prop discs, something happened to the model during the conversion, or the bug is being carried forward from the FS9 model, that causes the prop disc to displayed "behind" some parts of the aircraft.
I wrote about this glitch already in the past and it depends on the compilation hierarchy of all parts of the model. William Dickens, aka Bismarck13, found the way to cure it, way back then, when I worked on his models prop textures.
He explained to me that the prop discs must be compiled as the last part of the model. If any other part is added afterwards, it will be displayed in front of the blurred disc. Do not ask me what's the meaning of
"hierarchy compilation", because I never ventured into building an aircraft, but I do understand the terminology from my Jurassic programming background.
Fact is that William was able to go back to the models he had released with this defect and correct them all. Other builders who uploaded models with the very same problem, contacted by me, either did not understand the concept or simply did not bother to correct it.
It's an hideous effect to look at and my light grey blurred textures enhance it greatly. I had the definitive proof William was right when Tango turned his updated B-25C Mitchell into a "J" version, by adding the rear gunner turret and the .50" gun packs on both sides of the cockpit.
Well, the in the "C" version the blurred discs are displayed correctly, in the "J" the discs spin behind the gun packs.
I can recall other models with the same problem, all of Merlin66's YAS production for example, Wolfi's SB2C Helldiver and, I believe, his beta Ki-44 Shoki are some examples that I remember.
I have replaced blurred discs on every aircraft I downloaded for consistency, but I only uploaded the discs which do not display any defect like the above or with the disc spinning lopsided. The B-25 I just spoke about has also wobbling prop discs which look very bad, so I never uploaded replacement discs for her, I would not like my work to be blamed for such display defects. After all, as a repaint cannot correct a faulty model, I have no control over prop discs animation. If a modeller places the axis center of the disc off, the sim engine will spin the prop lopsided. Period.
Thicko is another great modeller who accepted my observations and went back correcting the spinning center of his model props. He actually found out I was right every time and the few models of his I had found faulty were uploaded with perfect propeller animation.
Last but not least, I have the original Ted Cook's conversion pack which had the original textures in. Such textures had the usual propeller blade tips painted yellow as all Allied aircrafts had. With the conversion, they cannot be displayed because the blade texture is mapped to the spinning spinner. It sounds like a joke, but when I tried to have my Wellington with her prop blade tips painted yellow, it was ok with the engines off, but she started displaying streaks of yellow all over both spinners as soon as the props started spinning.
So, I left the whole blade texture solid black.
Please, Rami if you were thinking to upload "kelti-style" prop discs for this plane, please do not because they will not display correctly. Unless someone steps in and cures the problem, which I don't think it's possible since it would imply disassembling completely Ted Cook's original work. A clear no-no.
Cheers!
KH 