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Aero L-39 Albatros

JayKae said:
Well, I had a good play with it and all I can say is that you have come out of nowhere and created an instant classic mate, it is absolutely fabulous, is all I can say
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Ditto, I'm short for words. Will take some while to discover all the goodies. And she's a handfull to land.:kilroy:

R.
 
Thanks very much guys! Again I am quite humbled. I was hoping people would enjoy it, but I didn't expect such a reaction. Thanks to you all. :)

Yago... are you physically connected to your computer with a fibre optic cable or something? The plane's been out for what.... 8 hours?.. and you've already done a paint...

I'm staggered. It's gorgeous! Well done sir. :)
 
very nice, well done!!

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Is this L-39 the C varient by chance? If it is it has has my attention for purchase and will get the cuba Treatment:jump:.
 
LOL..i needed about an hour from the purches to that shot..it,s in the ruff but I had to get a quick feel of the texture layout. Anyway, I can,t describe what joy your aircraft gives me specialy flying from the back seat. It,s a masterpiece indeed.I wonder what it would be next.Hopefuly another two seater.
 
It's a real beauty!

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I have two questions:
I've seen pics of fantastic looking landing lights, but I can't see them. Did I do something wrong?

One small disappointment: in one of the views, the textures are so blurry:
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was this meant to be? Love that backseater btw

Other than that, WOW!!
 
Some freaky colours going on in #1 and #3 but all straight out of the box, no editing done on any of these shots :)

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jankees said:
It's a real beauty!
I have two questions:
I've seen pics of fantastic looking landing lights, but I can't see them. Did I do something wrong?

One small disappointment: in one of the views, the textures are so blurry:

was this meant to be? Love that backseater btw

Other than that, WOW!!
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jankees, the landing lights operate based on time. Meaning at dusk they will be barely visible, completley invisible during the day, and the brightest at night. Similar questions may also be answered in the FAQ at the lotus sim support forums.

The blurriness may be the result of the mipmaps in the textures. If you have a nvidia graphics card, then you could try changing the Texture Filtering - Quality to High Quality in 3d settings.

As for the pilots in C-GOZA, I think I prefer the front seater on that specific variant ;) But the chick is pretty cool. Especially her pony tail.

Nice shots btw.
 
I guess I should ask, do the landing lights appear like I posted in DX9? Or is this a DX10 effect only? I never fly DX10 that's why I'm curious....
 
DX9. I only fly DX9 and they show up the same as on there. Like I said, the effect is hard coded into the model so it shouldn't change in DX10.
 
Just to ease your worries, here is a screenshot I just took in DX9 mode with the landing lights on.

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Enjoy!
 
Fantastic!!!

Hey Mike, it's Shalomar from Gamespy... told you I'd buy it!

I see more than a few job offers in your future LOL!!!

Donald T.
 
Rezabrya said:
Just to ease your worries, here is a screenshot I just took in DX9 mode with the landing lights on.

Enjoy!
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Thanks, are you in XP or Vista? I run Vista and know there's usually some differences with effects between the two OSes
 
Nah there shouldn't really be any difference between the two but just in case I am wrong, I am running Vista 64 bit.
 
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Nah there shouldn't really be any difference between the two but just in case I am wrong, I am running Vista 64 bit.
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hah there shouldn't be but with the effects I noticed in various planes there are differences between the OSes.... I also run Vista x64 :jump:
 
Hi Ryan. You shouldn't see any differences between OSes or DX9 and 10 on the plane. Myself I run XP but about half of the testers run Vista, and we were meticulous in making sure everything looked the same between them. Lots of screenshots going back and forth for examination during beta. :) DX10 gave me a few surprises early on, it doesn't handle some materials quite the same way, but they were all fixed and made consistent.

The plane doesn't really use any effects in the traditional sense, FSX .fx files etc. All of the lights are built right into the model itself. I was getting pretty tired of all the problems the .fx files create, like lights separating from wingtips or clipping into them, or just disappearing etc, so I decided to avoid using them altogether and build them myself. The only .fx files used in the plane are the cockpit flood lights, and the signal flares from the dispenser. Everything else is totally custom and rock solid... and married to the airplane for life. :)

Donald, hello again! (waves) Good to see you. One day soon I will have time to fly again for fun. See you in multi!

Cheers,

-Mike
 
Jankees, your textures should be sharper than that. As TopDollar said, definitely check your texture filtering settings in your graphics card's control panel and make they are set to the highest possible, but also make sure that your Global Texture Resolution slider in FSX's settings -> display menu is also set to maximum. That should cure the problem. It looks like it might be set on normal, and not allowing 1024x1024 textures to load.

On the landing lights, if they aren't showing up, please make sure you have your "Advanced Animations" check box ticked in FSX's settings > display menu. They will not work without that.

Nice shots btw. :)

-Mike
 
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