DC-4 Skymaster

[Hollister56]

Thank you Didier, for all your time and effort you put into this classic propliner!

I came across this video today!

Ed

 

[lagaffe]

For all: I deleted all the files that were no longer useful on my Dropbox and I managed to revalidate the links. However, this solution is not sustainable since this company blocks the bandwidth at 20GB, so if 20 people download at the same time, it risks recurring.

I will see if Priller agrees so that we can upload this same WIP version in the Resources section of SOH, knowing that there should at most be 1 or 2 updates to reach the final version 1.0

As for the remarks made by Gray Eagle:
- no, I will not remove the flame effects because they are too embedded in the XML code and for the following reasons:

1) these effects appear on some videos of DC-4 when starting the engines, so they are realistic​

2) the display of these effects is managed by the level of mixture; after takeoff, the mixture must be set to 10 or 15%, and under these conditions the effects disappear on their own, so if they persist, it’s because you are using the engines at full-rich level.​

- for the "tail boom", I will try to change the code so that it appears after landing when all 4 engines are off, the parking brake is engaged, and the plane is parked ...
- for the pilot with helmet ... it is just some lines in the aircraft.cfg to change:

Current aircraft.cfg PILOT section for C-54

[PILOT]
pilot = "Pilot_Male_Military"
copilot = "Pilot_Male_Military"
instructor ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
pilot_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
copilot_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
instructor_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
pilot_attach_node="PILOT_0"
copilot_attach_node="PILOT_1"
instructor_attach_node="PILOT_2"

You can change and take the lines of the DC-4 which are that:

[PILOT]
pilot ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
copilot ="Pilot_Female_Uniform"
instructor ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
...

For DennyA: in fact, I have remove this repaint because I need to recreate it from scratch, I have used an old repaint for FSX finded on AVsim library but with MSFS it should be redone entirely.

Thanks Hollister for your video: this one I hadn’t managed to find

 

[ftl818]

Thank you Didier, the aircraft gets better and better. I noticed a couple of things:

- the elevator trim tabs do not move, not animated?
- the trim indicator has a red triangle that probably should move and indicate the trim setting. For me it is just set fully forward and does not move. This makes setting take-off trim a guess.
- the aircraft at cruise flies not level but somewhat nose up.
- The metallic shine on painted surfaces sometimes overpowers the color. You just see the shine. Like the red propeller tips of the SAAF model.

 

[lagaffe]

So far, I haven’t had time to take care of the trims, whether it’s the exterior animations or the three indicators in the cockpit. That’s something I wanted to address after the PBR textures.

The FDM (flight model) were not processed either: they should be at the last moment, after the sounds are finalized.

All the points I addressed are described in the ChangeLog provided and updated very regularly. What is not addressed in this file has not yet been processed, but very few people read this file.

 

[gray eagle]

Here is video of what those R-2000 engines sound like from inside the aircraft. Would be nice if you could import some of the internal sounds
to your project. I am searching for exterior sounds.

 

[gray eagle]

C-54 engine startup sounds. I would of liked to have these startup sounds somehow patched to your existing sounds.

 

[gray eagle]

Here is authentic internal C-54 sound. .

 

[diegoxs]

C-54 engine startup sounds. I would of liked to have these startup sounds somehow patched to your existing sounds.

The most accurate R-2000 startup sound

 

[lagaffe]

Thanks ... but all theses videos are yet on my hard disk, and precisely the last one from which I started to isolate the sound track to extract the engine start-up sounds.

For the tail boom, I have make some flight this morning with the C-54 and this tail boom is displayed ... when the user use CTRL+SHIFT+E to shutdown the engines not when the "normal procedure" i.e. the reverse procedure of cold & dark startup is used.
In fact the automatic shutdown set automaticly the parking brake and in this case all the conditions to display the tail boom are present and it's displayed. So I changed the C-54_Enhanced.XML (and also DC4_Enhanced.xml) scripts to remove this setting of the automatic parking brake in case of CTRL+SHIFT+E.

For the Reeve Aleutian Airlines, this afternoon I have worked on a new set of textures: the overall color is much less dark and it finally looks like polished metal


The new yoke to be integrated in the Firefighter in the next release. It is bigger (10%) than the standard one and supports the buttons necessary for releasing retardant/water and a watch for fire-fighting operations. 3D is finished, now I have to create the UVs and go to Ucupaint to the texture creation step.

 

[Tom Clayton]

Could it be Tom Cruise?

He looks too tall...

 

[gray eagle]

As for the remarks made by Gray Eagle:
-

You can change and take the lines of the DC-4 which are that:

[PILOT]
pilot ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
copilot ="Pilot_Female_Uniform"
instructor ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
...

I /// out as shown below - I thought doing that would remove tom cruise but he is still there.

////[PILOT]
////pilot ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
////copilot ="Pilot_Female_Uniform"
////instructor ="Pilot_Male_Uniform"
pilot_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
copilot_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
instructor_default_animation ="Idle1_PosePropeller","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
pilot_attach_node="PILOT_0"
copilot_attach_node="PILOT_1"
instructor_attach_node="PILOT_2"

 

[gray eagle]

C-54 Start Up and Take Off From Hagerstown MD

 

[DennyA]

For the Reeve Aleutian Airlines, this afternoon I have worked on a new set of textures: the overall color is much less dark and it finally looks like polished metal

Oh, thank you for rebuilding the paint! Excited to fly it soon! Looks great in the screenshot.

I really appreciate you doing it!

If we ever end up in the same place, I would love to buy you beverages of your choice. The fantastic work you're doing on this, the Canso, etc. is so appreciated.

 

[ftl818]

Something wrong with prop 2?

 

[lagaffe]

Most likely an object that had been "hidden" for investigations on the spinners: there are two that I wanted to reduce to one for display issues.
Forgot the sacrosanct sequence ALT+H just before compiling to make all the hidden objects appear.
I just recompiled the exterior C-54 model

For @gray eagle,
You put the 3 lines in comments (///) instead of replacing them with those I had indicated, which are in the aircraft.cfg file of the DC-4.
In this case, it is likely that FS will look for the missing information in the cache (done during the last upload) and therefore display military pilots to you again.

 

[Tom Clayton]

Let me suggest one change:

copilot_default_animation ="Idle2_PosePropeller"

If both pilot and copilot use the same animation, then both heads move the same way as if they were joined with connecting rods. With the copilot set to Idle2, their heads move independently.

 

[lagaffe]

Exact, you are right.

 

[gray eagle]

Let me suggest one change:

copilot_default_animation ="Idle2_PosePropeller"

If both pilot and copilot use the same animation, then both heads move the same way as if they were joined with connecting rods. With the copilot set to Idle2, their heads move independently.

Not sure what is meant by that comment.
I guess it would help if I modified the correct aircraft.cfg file. I found it (C-54 folder) and poof Mr Cruise is gone.

 

[Tom Clayton]

If both the pilot and copilot are running the same animation, (as defined by the "Idle1_PosePropeller"), you can watch both of them from outside as they move in unison. If the copilot is on a different animation sequence, it looks much more natural and realistic.