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A couple of nice AI-quality B-17's

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Ettico

Charter Member
I found these at Simviation. They're fairly well detailed and are very FR friendly. With a bit of tweaking they make nice AI, good for big bombing raids. They also have a panel and a basic VC.

But you'll need to remove gunstation.9 from their DP's, or they will drop clusters of what look like orange spears every time they fire their guns. When a flight of them start firing their guns without this fix, they will slow CFS2 down to a crawl and maybe even crash it. But get rid of the orange spears and you've got yourself a pair of the best AI-quality B-17's I've seen, and I've checked out a lot of them.
 
they are also the same .mdl as the AvH B-17, ...so you can just use the skins on the 1% bird.

(That's what I do, ...ACM of course...)
 
Ettico, were they the whole plane or just repaints??

that's my old B-17 (I'm purty sure anyways), no ones asked to upload it.

not that I really care, just curious
 
Hmmm...

They are complete planes, Sir.

Nicely done, I might add. Thank you very much !

BTW, the only error I could find in the DP file was a duplicated 1,000lb bomb load...

SC
:kilroy:
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Here are the Read-Me Details Verbatim:

Paanel Read Me:

Discription:
CFS2 2-4 Engine Bigbird Panel with all modern gauges, readouts,
CFS2 GPS, auto pilot, working wipers, audioable gauges, MP3 player,
a can holder, and other gagets for the long hauls across the Pacific, also a removable Yoke

Shift+1 will remove Panel, hit again and its restored
Shift+2 will install a yoke

note add 4 MP3's to your main CFS2 sound folder and
name them: song0, song1, song2, and song3
you are ready to rock and roll

By: Ickie Berleim.........[ berleim@hotmail.com ]
http://ickie.homestead.com

Update*********
I added all the GPS's (stock,Pacific add on,Far east, Etc.)
Hawk@immortal.com
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Read Me TXT

B-17E Thunderbird& B-17F Hells Angels With Multiplayer Bombing Capabilities: Use cannon Button to release bombs in Multiplay
Dedicated to the 303rd BG (Both Authentic & Sim)
The B-17's E & F Versions ThunderBird & Hells Angels.
The Thunderbird Completed 112 succesful Missions And the
Hells Angels was 1st to Complete 25 Missions, Many Crew Members
Lost their Lives to win this campaign in Europe, they fought for their country, our country and the rest of the world against tyrants who literally tried to
have the world at the palm of their hands.
Repaints By Robert "Hawk" Hawk@immortal.com
 
Yeah, purty sure that's it. Especially if it's the same as the 1% fortress. They're old as dirt, an were the second plane I'd ever made. sc7500, think ya might be strechin it alittle when ya say "nicely done" ,LOL. Reckon they're not to bad for AI's tho
 
Gramps said:
Yeah, purty sure that's it. Especially if it's the same as the 1% fortress. They're old as dirt, an were the second plane I'd ever made. sc7500, think ya might be strechin it alittle when ya say "nicely done" ,LOL. Reckon they're not to bad for AI's tho
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Makes a fine one, ...thanks.

W/ all the nice, ...but a little FR hungry, ...B-17's out lately, ...it's nice to have a "sky filler".

...'course, ...a little .mdl/texture clean-up would be appreciated...

Thanks.
 
Gramps said:
Yeah, purty sure that's it. Especially if it's the same as the 1% fortress. They're old as dirt, an were the second plane I'd ever made. sc7500, think ya might be strechin it alittle when ya say "nicely done" ,LOL. Reckon they're not to bad for AI's tho
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Well, Gramps, if that's your bird, then you have the distinction of having built the best AI-quality B-17 I've ever found.:trophy: Really, all you left out was a DVC, fancy paint job, and poor frame rates usually found in the high end models.

I don't know what the deal was with those orange spear thingies. Every time I triggered the guns a cluster of them would fall out and head earthward, soon to disappear with no other visible effects. In missions, they would all start dropping the things when they fired at attackers. I figured out that gunstation.9 was causing them and deleted it from the DP.:confused:

I put a stick of AI bombs in them. Now I'm going to look for some skins to expand the fleet.
 
Gramps said:
Yep, that's my ol bird. Here's the original, been right here at the OH the whole time,lol.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.p...&FileUploadName=gramps&ammm=15&pap=2#download


The dp might be ok in it, can't remember

all the ones in the archive are very a old an not very good by todays standards, but might make good Ai's
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They do make good AI's, Gramps. I checked them out in a couple of DCG test missions. There were no collisions, they dropped their bombs, and the FR's were OK with 24 of them and a couple of escort flights.:medals:
 
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