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CV-6 USS Enterprise - now on shakedown cruise

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a minor nocrash attachpt was found and corrected , cables work in SP and Multiplayer for those with Acceleration -pretty stable water dynamics tested at full realism , top speed 25 kts. hangar deck textured and hardened , screws animated as ambient (but they're under water?) - deck lighting , smoke and night textures - custom wake effect - just needs the railing re-worked in low poly (removed for sea trials) , to get under the dang vertex limit -

based largely on her 1942 configuration for the historians out there - artistic license taken by freeware developer
... soon for me means under a week

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Excellent!

Ya know I think if you convert the rails to Poly you can kill off a lot of the vertices while keeping the structure of the rails intact?
 
... being a pilotable model - yes it is possible to convert this to either AI boat traffic or a scenery bgl or even add your own VC aka interior model
 
Is 25 knots a boat limit in FSX? Should be able to get about 32 knots out of her on a good day in a steady (fairly flat) sea state.

Cheers: T.
 
fliger747 said:
Is 25 knots a boat limit in FSX? Should be able to get about 32 knots out of her on a good day in a steady (fairly flat) sea state.

Cheers: T.
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Yes, essentially its an AI aircraft on water and FSx limits AI taxi speed to about 25Knts, its not fast enough for flank speed but.....it moves and that sort of out weights the lack of true speed :).

Thats my understnading anyway, I could never get the Essex or Reagan to travel at more than 25Knts either.

Best

Michael
 
N332DW said:
a minor nocrash attachpt was found and corrected , cables work in SP and Multiplayer for those with Acceleration -pretty stable water dynamics tested at full realism , top speed 25 kts. hangar deck textured and hardened , screws animated as ambient (but they're under water?) - deck lighting , smoke and night textures - custom wake effect - just needs the railing re-worked in low poly (removed for sea trials) , to get under the dang vertex limit -

based largely on her 1942 configuration for the historians out there - artistic license taken by freeware developer
... soon for me means under a week

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Looking good, personally I'd keep the 3d railings at the expense of poly count, truth is they dont amount to more than say 500 or so polys, and you might save 0.5 FPS by converting to transparent polys with painted railings. The biggest problem with the latter is that the shadow becomes a solid block and not a see through railing effect.

Best

Michael
 
That's sweet N332DW.
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N332DW,

Were you planning on a scenery only version? I'm currently working on a WWII Navy/Marine South Pacific scenery and having such a wonderfull aircraft carrier which could be moveable as either a simobject or static display would be great!

Awsome modeling job,

Regards,

MoCat
 
michael davies said:
Yes, essentially its an AI aircraft on water and FSx limits AI taxi speed to about 25Knts, its not fast enough for flank speed but.....it moves and that sort of out weights the lack of true speed :).

Thats my understnading anyway, I could never get the Essex or Reagan to travel at more than 25Knts either.

Best

Michael
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If you drive the ship as an AI boat, you should be able to go significantly faster than 25 knots. In FSX Acceleration I have the ocean racers doing about 90 and the Ekranoplan is moving along at a very high rate of speed. Those examples are when running the AI in a mission, so maybe it's different outside of a mission for some reason, but I don't think so considering the same sim.cfg is being used.
 
P-12C said:
If you drive the ship as an AI boat, you should be able to go significantly faster than 25 knots. In FSX Acceleration I have the ocean racers doing about 90 and the Ekranoplan is moving along at a very high rate of speed. Those examples are when running the AI in a mission, so maybe it's different outside of a mission for some reason, but I don't think so considering the same sim.cfg is being used.
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Paul, thanks for that, I've relooked at the files and although I have the ship.cfg set to 50mph and the Boatnnn.txt set to 35knts it still chugs around at 25knts ?, I still think its seeing it as a AI aircraft as when it gets to a turn it slows to about 7-12knts, executes the turn then speeds back up to 25knts ?.

These speeds are outside of a mission and are just moving landable carriers, as 1st person driveable then they can go much faster if required.

Best

Michael
 
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