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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Dino's Cat is out!!

Wow they look amazing Yago mate, can't wait to get them, even those helmets are a work of art!

Version .95 had made a huge difference much better now all round!
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REMEMBER TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS FELLAS AFTER THAT HACK ATTEMPT.....they got me, so mine is changed!
If you got asked for a login name and your password this morning then they got you too!
 
BOOM said:
Tom,That looks Beautiful!! Love the weathered look!!:medals:
Cheers!
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Besides being a "weathered look", that is the way USN aircraft carrier-type aircraft normally do look. It is da...n near impossible to keep them clean at sea; hence the dirty, splotchy paint. I am so glad to see more of this type of paint scheme. It is much more realistic!!!

NC
 
AB gauge XML - uses smoke not lights

ab effects contollers for afterburners, that control lights, may conflict with Dino's light assignments so....

i thought i would use ab effects tied to smoke effects.
works good for single color afterburners

heres a link to the xml gauge thats been zipped
http://fitzgeba.home.comcast.net/~fitzgeba/smoke_ab.zip

unzip and drop into the F-14 panel folder ...

and then add to the panel.cfg ...
===
...
[Vcockpit01]
Background_color=1,1,1
size_mm=512,512
visible=1
pixel_size=512,512
texture=$vc
;1 = left DDI
;2 = right DDI
;3 = center DDI
gauge00=fa-18!MFD, 36,36,440,440, 4 NOSCANLINES
gauge01=smoke_ab, 10,10,1,1

===

and then add your chosen effects to the smoke section of the aircraft.cfg ... I.E.

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0 = -56.00, -4.5, -0.2, burner effect
smoke.1 = -59.00, -4.4, -0.5, flame effect
smoke.2 = -56.00, 4.8, -0.2, burner effect
smoke.3 = -59.00, 4.7, -0.5, flame effect
 
Mr. Lucian "Yago9" and Mr. Tom Stovall,

Looking good Gents :ernae:

And, ...
I'm going to try out those Burner/smoke effects too; Thanks!

BTW: the "Secret" payware you guys are talking about (a.k.a IRIS Pro Series F-14A/B Tomcat) is pretty good, too. Stephen and I talked a lot about what "customers" wanted/FSX could do (during its early DEV) before he went out made it a reality and he did far better that I expected. But why is it a "Secret" to you guy?


Also,

I just updated F-14D's (BETA v0.95) Tailhook Settings Here: Aircraft AI Carrier Configurations v1.0 by James F. Chams

Post: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?p=204707#post204707

Enjoy! :)
 
piperarcherpilot said:
Oh. Yeah...looks like it was because it was part of a copyrighted package.

Well, your best bet then is to take Yago's advice with the lights section code and apply it to an afterburner effect from a plane from flightsim.com, simviation.com or another site...

I did a quick search at flightsim.com and found f14dburn.zip which looks promising, and has full install instructions.
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Hello there,

I am the author of that f14dburn effect. It was illegally uploaded to flightsim.com. As the readme states, it is only available from SurClaro.com, and AVSIM, when they are ready to receive uploads.

If you have it, and think it needs some work, let me know by PM.

Thank you.

RD / Ardie
 
Here is another Afterburner project being worked on by a good friend of mine who posts in another forum. He gave me permission to post these shots of his beta work. This as I understand is the 4th and nearly final variation of the beta
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Hopefully within a few days the work will be done and uploaded as an alternate Afterburner effect for Dino's F-14D after all permissions are cleared and technical assistance has concluded. I have tested the third variation and found it to be excellent. The end package may include different options for color/effect. All the effects and gauges used are freeware with custom tuned effects. I will post the release here when I get word the pack is ready.
 
Those burners look good !
But could you ask your friend if he could make them a little bit longer ? Take a look at this video, you can see very well the length of the real Tomcat afterburners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUwUtJVnOI

Compared to this video, even the CORAL F-15 burners are still too short:
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JamesChams said:
Mr. Lucian "Yago9" and Mr. Tom Stovall,


BTW: the "Secret" payware you guys are talking about (a.k.a IRIS Pro Series F-14A/B Tomcat) is pretty good, too. Stephen and I talked a lot about what "customers" wanted/FSX could do (during its early DEV) before he went out made it a reality and he did far better that I expected. But why is it a "Secret" to you guy?
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ok..so now that you know what effect I use here,s what you have to do..

1.You need to have the payware model effects installed
2.Get the gauge folder named "KO_F16_FX" from Kirk Ollson F16, like Stovall recomended,and put it in the gauge folder.
3.Add this line to each panel.cfg for the effect to work via throttle ( I have no idea why we have three panel folders )

[Vcockpit07]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=32,32
visible=0
pixel_size=32,32
texture=$exhaust
gauge00=KO_F16_FX!F16_AB_THROGGLE, 0,0,1,1

4.my aircraft.cfg for lights looks like this:

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
//Lights encoded into MDL file
light.1 = 10, -13.50, 0.00, 4.00, fx_F14_vclight,
light.2 = 10, -19.00, 0.00, 4.00, fx_F14_vclight,
light.3= 9, -48.5, -4.50, -0.30, fx_iris_f14a_aniburner
light.4= 9, -48.5, 4.98, -0.20, fx_iris_f14a_aniburner
light.5 = 5, -14.0, 0.0, -1.30, fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow

5.Stovall recomends to remove the original F-14 effects except this file
fx_navorange_t45.fx wich is probably shared with the T-45 Goshawk.

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That was discussed and may be an added option to the pack. The issue he is mulling over is to make it a night time or day time type effect. That video is in twilight conditions which the burner plume are going to be fully visible whereas in the day time you see less of the flame and it often appears shorter. Regarding the color, once again some video and still photos show different colors under different light conditions. Most sunlight conditions show the F110 engine AB plume as reddish orange and some low light to night conditions show up more of a grayish blue(like whitehot) . So I am not sure what he is going to include. He has 4 different color options so far but in the end may use only one which is nominally the all around better one.
 
Question: I know we are technically still in beta mode, i.e. and a manual has yet to be done, but does anyone know if the HSI in the MFD has a heading bug you can move, e.g. to set and change the heading also on the AP? I can get the HSI up on the MFD but can't see what control or click spot moves the heading bug - if there is one. The analogue HSI from the default Beechcraft does not seem to have a working clickspot for its heading bug. Lastly, anyone manage to do a manual engine start or is everyone using Ctrl + E?

This bird sure is addictive. Really enjoying the FM.

expat
 
Daube said:
Those burners look good !
But could you ask your friend if he could make them a little bit longer ? Take a look at this video, you can see very well the length of the real Tomcat afterburners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUwUtJVnOI

Compared to this video, even the CORAL F-15 burners are still too short:
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What I find interesting in that video, is that during all that time he's at full throttle, the wings don't sweap back. My version doesn't act like that i'm sure.
 
Because when using afterburner your speed increases very fast, and pretty soon you reach the speed at which the wings start to sweap.
Now, try pulling some turns like the guys on the video, your speed will not increase that fast anymore ;)

Also, I don't know if it was corrected in the latest releases (I still have the 0.91, didn't have the time to download the 0.95 yet), but the Tomcat is severely over-powered !
I could take off from the carrier without catapult, with full fuel load...
 
the Tomcat is severely over-powered !
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Suspect this may be so. Have to ask a former Tomcat driver (doesn't post here but may have been beta testing this for Dino) his view. On my system the power comes full on very early on in the throttle range compared with most other modern fighters.
 
yago9 said:
ok..so now that you know what effect I use here,s what you have to do..

1.You need to have the payware model effects installed
2.Get the gauge folder named "KO_F16_FX" from Kirk Ollson F16, like Stovall recomended,and put it in the gauge folder.
3.Add this line to each panel.cfg for the effect to work via throttle ( I have no idea why we have three panel folders )

[Vcockpit07]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=32,32
visible=0
pixel_size=32,32
texture=$exhaust
gauge00=KO_F16_FX!F16_AB_THROGGLE, 0,0,1,1

4.my aircraft.cfg for lights looks like this:

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
//Lights encoded into MDL file
light.1 = 10, -13.50, 0.00, 4.00, fx_F14_vclight,
light.2 = 10, -19.00, 0.00, 4.00, fx_F14_vclight,
light.3= 9, -48.5, -4.50, -0.30, fx_iris_f14a_aniburner
light.4= 9, -48.5, 4.98, -0.20, fx_iris_f14a_aniburner
light.5 = 5, -14.0, 0.0, -1.30, fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow

5.Stovall recomends to remove the original F-14 effects except this file
fx_navorange_t45.fx wich is probably shared with the T-45 Goshawk.

I didn't know if it was copyright to tell people to do this or not obviously not lol, so I just didn't say how to do it at first!
This adds the payware Iris pro F14B HUD to your tomcat
follow yago's instructions above for the Iris burners too!

Add this to [Vcockpit01] section in your panel .cfg
gauge00=F-14_Systems!HUD-V14, 36,36,440,440,
and add the F-14_systems.CAB to your panel folder
thats it!
It really is much better!
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Shift+E 1-2-3 Problems

Just beautifull, a wonder to fly...got.095 now, had all the others before.
Got this small problem...
Only item ok with shift+e 1 2 or 3 is cockpit an ladders oppening...previous versions completely erratic...something I should configure? tried other planes, and they seem to be ok.
BTW, is it ok to use the new textures with this version?
Any ideas? Thanks
Best regards
 
Time for the "thank you´s" again.

First of my list to thank is EgoR64 for his mission with the carrier and the f-14. It is so much fun to just sit and watch the tomcats take off and land again. Thank you very much. :applause:

Next thank you goes to Yago9 for posting detailed information of how to edit the afterburner. Thank you very much :applause:

And the last one goes to Peter12213 for the information about the hud exchange. It do looks good. Thank you very much. :applause:

I am very happy to see that kind of information sharing, my opinion is that this is one of the main purposes of a board like this.
 
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