ETO Lancaster Project

Since the TOW Lancs are more up to date and cover many of the AvH and ETO lancs, would it not make more sense to use the TOW Lancs as the basis of any other Lancs not in the TOW collection, by just porting over the textures from AvH or ETO on to TOW based aircraft. Permission from Ted would be needed and probably an alternative prefix to their names. Is that in fact what you are trying to do with Ted's permission?
 
Effectively, yes!

My intention was originally just to get the ETO Lancs some cockpit/forward turret glass and to give them new versions of their skins using a TOW skin as a base. With 17 Lancs, I thought ETO didn't need any more! I've already done 15 of the 17 skins and I'm already in communication with Ted about the models (over on FB). I was doing it on my own (although I was always going to ask permission) until I realized that TOW1 essentially has only two Lanc models, the standard one and one with the ventral gun (understandable given the time period covered). ETO by contrast has seven (Standard, Bulged Bomb Bay, Grand Slam, H2S, Upkeep, Mk II, ABC)! I'll be talking to Ted about that!
 
Question though: What is the function of a MOS file? In two cases so far, removing the MOS file has fixed a problem I was having.
 
The .mos file is a layered image that allows CFS3 to display bullet holes, damage, nose art and codes etc. The aircraft work perfectly well without it but you won't see any of the above mentioned.
There's a .mos editor in the AVSDK if you want to take a look.
 
Major,

Yup! That's how I first discovered it, on Lanc SR-W. The texture was just a little bit pixelly and I don't know what struck me remove the MOS file, but I did and it fixed it. I'm also running into an issue with the one pictured above, with the spinner tips displaying differently with and without the MOS file.

Thanks for the info all!
 
Threedp said:
Effectively, yes!

My intention was originally just to get the ETO Lancs some cockpit/forward turret glass and to give them new versions of their skins using a TOW skin as a base. With 17 Lancs, I thought ETO didn't need any more! I've already done 15 of the 17 skins and I'm already in communication with Ted about the models (over on FB). I was doing it on my own (although I was always going to ask permission) until I realized that TOW1 essentially has only two Lanc models, the standard one and one with the ventral gun (understandable given the time period covered). ETO by contrast has seven (Standard, Bulged Bomb Bay, Grand Slam, H2S, Upkeep, Mk II, ABC)! I'll be talking to Ted about that!
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Any models that TOW doesn't have are welcome WRT Bulged Bomb Bay, Grand Slam, Upkeep, Mk II, AFAIK TOW has H2S, and I know we will use the dambuster version, if the dams can be sorted; hint,hint...!
 
While I'm sticking strictly to the original aircraft chosen for ETO and using the original skins as a guide, I'm doing a bit of research for each, primarily to find out if they had the row of windows (what a can of worms!), and enhancing things where I find them. It's tricky because some of them are depicted in 1943, but later had yellow outlines on their codes in 1944, etc. Similarly, some seem to have had their bomb bays bulged later in life. This particular one comes from Osprey Publishing's 'Lancaster Squadrons 1942-43' by Jon Lake, Profile 2. The serial matched, and it was more unique and interesting, so I went with it.
 
I have that and also the 44-45 one if you want a copy from the latter. For TOW II 43-45 is the main time frame, and then most have H2S when very few 43 ones do, so maybe I need to see what Ted feels about that..................
 
The bulged bombbay doors were for the models that carried the 12000lb bombs. The 24000 had to have the doors removed, they also had the top gunner position removed as well. I am glad you are redoing the ETO planes. I have really lost interest in ETO since James and I are doing the TOW work. Currently we have 14 Lancasters for TOW2 including the bulged, the dam busters, and Grand Slam.
 
Ted,

If you haven't already, see my Facebook message for what I would need to bring the ETO Lancs up to speed, at least visually.
 
Message him in what context? Is there a 'Message' here that I'm not finding (assuming 'Conversation' replaced it). I messaged him on FB.
 
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