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    Library How to

Boeing B-50 converted for PBR

DaveQ

DaveQ

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Manfred Jahn has very kindly given me permission to upload a conversion of his B-50 model to take PBR external textures. Just posted in P3D Military Aircraft, there are nine textures, including most of the originals reworked, plus a few others of mine and Jens-Ole's. Personally I think it looks best in P3Dv4.5, but the toned-down propdisk files are worth changing to. As far as I can tell all works properly in v4.5 and 5.3, though somebody is bound to find a glitch...!

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Hope you get as much fun out of flying it as I did doing the work:very_drunk:!

DaveQ

PS: I know Gordon Madison (gman5240) was working on a conversion in early 2020, but this is a separate project. It's mine, I tell you, ALL MINE!!:devilish::devilish:
 

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Make sure you have the B-29's gauge .cab file is in the panel folder. You'll find it in the B-29's panel folder.

DaveQ
 
DaveQ -Very nice conversion to PBR - a must have to spruce the old girl up! Good work thanks! No problems with the Virtavia VC graft - oh if your doing that don't forget to copy across the sound files and config of your choice.
 
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MrZippy said:
gray eagle said:
The monitor screen is HUGE....How can the image size be reduced?

Hey, Butch! Can you click on a corner and move it in to make it smaller? If you want it to be permanent, what does this popup look like in the panel.cfg?
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I think I have sorted this. I copied the panel cfg file from V1 and seems it to display the monitor size better.


Edit: anyone have any luck with the start cart showing? Maybe that is a FSX thing. All I see is a folder in V 1 that has a jeep and crew bus in the extra folder (V1).

On the monitor there is a BAT and GPU option, I tried the GPU and nothing happened.

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For anyone who doesn't have the original installed, I've posted the missing sound folder in the library. I resized the monitor and GPS pop-ups because I have a UHD monitor and they come out really small, and neglected to put them back before publishing.. Here are the original settings for the panel.cfg file.

[Window03]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=924,150
pixel_size=924,150
visible=1
ident=10001
//position=2
window_pos= 0.50, 0.05
type=special

gauge00=Monitor!mon, 0,0,924,150


//--------------------------------------------------------
[Window06]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=456,378
pixel_size=456,378
//window_size_ratio=1.000
position=2
visible=0
ident=GPS_PANEL
window_size= 0.500, 0.480
window_pos= 0.000, 0.090

gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0,456,378

DaveQ
 
gray eagle said:
MrZippy said:
I think I have sorted this. I copied the panel cfg file from V1 and seems it to display the monitor size better.


Edit: anyone have any luck with the start cart showing? Maybe that is a FSX thing. All I see is a folder in V 1 that has a jeep and crew bus in the extra folder (V1).

On the monitor there is a BAT and GPU option, I tried the GPU and nothing happened.

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It comes up on mine. Press the centre wheel to make it appear and the left or right button to get it to start (P3Dv4.5)
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Often PBR textures add glossiness to painted surfaces but dullen chrome and metal. These PBR textures however highlight the metal surfaces well and look terrific - thank you!
 
Shrinking monitor screen B50

When ever I load a previous flight in P3D V5 which was one of the B50's sessions, the monitor screen has shrunk. If I start a fresh flight of the B50, then the monitor screen size is ok.

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gray eagle said:
When ever I load a previous flight in P3D V5 which was one of the B50's sessions, the monitor screen has shrunk. If I start a fresh flight of the B50, then the monitor screen size is ok.

Oh, Oh! Shrinkage. It must have been in the pool!:dizzy:
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Any thoughts on the monitor functionality in P3DV5. It all works for me except the right hand info buttons to bring up the power charts, speeds etc are not functional other than that it all works. I note from the screenshot by greyeagle that his monitor exhibits the same blue squares in this area but clicking on them does not do anything. I checked all the relevant files for the monitor and they are all there and the xml contents seem or look ok to me.
 
BendyFlyer said:
Any thoughts on the monitor functionality in P3DV5. It all works for me except the right hand info buttons to bring up the power charts, speeds etc are not functional other than that it all works. I note from the screenshot by greyeagle that his monitor exhibits the same blue squares in this area but clicking on them does not do anything. I checked all the relevant files for the monitor and they are all there and the xml contents seem or look ok to me.
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I get the check screen and reference screen to come up but the ref sheet is blank as there's no ref file in the directory.

DaveQ
 
Ok resolved the data is there you have to click on the Help box (small box with a H on it) in each specific area that then brings up Help and the relevant data for that section is in that section where you see a little gold panel next to an item, such as speeds, stall speeds, engine power setting etc. There is no check list as per the C-47 which you can click on the very right hand column - it seems that was not included. The B50 Check list is in the Kneepad not the Monitor.
 
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