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Do you actually land Aphibs on runways?

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The Challenger has the black textures issue for sure in Acceleration. Seems like that is an easy fix?

EDIT: Upon further examination, looks like an alias and texture issue...
 
Bill Lyons was such a great craftsman of addons. Got some of the texture issues sorted out, but their are animation problems, panel glitches. It is a wonderful little aircraft, but it was never designed for FSX. I can fix easy stuff, but this one is beyond my skills. Oh well. :kilroy:
 
Dain, check the textures.

I don't know why, but FSX likes DXT3 better for portovers in lieu to 888-8 32-bit.

Props are the hardest thing for me to fix.

Caz
 
Back on topic.... Amphibs (Including the amphibious floats kind) land on runways all the time. When I worked at the airport, I had everything from a Super Cub on Amphibs to a Cessna Caravan and a Turbo Beaver on Amphibious floats stop by.

At KBTV (where I used to work) there is a C-185 on amphibs and the planes home base. There's also a couple of Lake Buccaneers there as well.

I've even seen a Cessna 180 on amphibs operating from a (very smooth) grass strip.

Below are some shots of Amphibs operating from the Basin Harbor Club Grass strip in VT during a fly-in


Brian
 
Cazzie said:
Dain, check the textures.

I don't know why, but FSX likes DXT3 better for portovers in lieu to 888-8 32-bit.

Props are the hardest thing for me to fix.

Caz
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Okay, nothing really pressing this afternoon, so I'll do the conversions and see. Looks like the gauge .bmps need it too
Would really like to have this little amphibian version back in a small corner of the hangar. :mixedsmi:
 
Excitement

You should see how they launch strait float planes off a runway.:cost1: The aircraft is loaded on a dolly and then flown off said dolly. Do not, I repeat do not stand at the end of the runway:eek: I saw this done once at Gimli airfield after a ski to float conversion on a 185. Pretty darn interesting event.

Regards, Rob:ernae:

P.S. A pair of amphib floats can cost almost as much as the airplane sometimes:173go1:. Strait floats are relatively cheap by comparison.
 
Dain Arns said:
Bill Lyons was such a great craftsman of addons. Got some of the texture issues sorted out, but their are animation problems, panel glitches. It is a wonderful little aircraft, but it was never designed for FSX. I can fix easy stuff, but this one is beyond my skills. Oh well. :kilroy:
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It's possible that those areas were coded as part of the model and never actually textured. A lot of Ito Sans models had that and the problem turned out to be just that, no texturing just a color added in the mdl file.
 
falcon409 said:
It's possible that those areas were coded as part of the model and never actually textured. A lot of Ito Sans models had that and the problem turned out to be just that, no texturing just a color added in the mdl file.
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There are parts that are hard coded for color, but they are really small. It really it wouldn't be that annoying, IMHO.
Textures worked great after being converted to DXT3.
Animation issues reported were strictly operator error. :redf:

But gauges are a still an issue. Textures are see through on some.
I think that can be fixed via FS Panel Studio, if I remember while fiddling around with the demo recently, but I don't have any extra money to buy that right now. It's on my list. Hopefully that will be rectified later this week.

I know. How does this all relate to this thread?

Bottomline is I really like amphibians, and this was one of my favorites in FS9 and feeling nostalgic. I've always liked the fact you can land where you want for the most part. Probably why I'm attracted to helicopters too. Kinda wish there was an A2A Cub amphibian, not just floats.

Definitely need more amphibians in FSX... :icon_lol:
 
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