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F-80 Texture Redux

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Here's a work in progress F-80C. Just the fuselage so far, but the wings and tail will be standard F-80 stuff with no special markings. The wing tanks will be different as well. I messed around with this one last year, but couldn't seem to get the sharks mouth to look right. It's got a few small adjustments to be made, but it's pretty much ready for some new shiny metal.
 

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Excellent work Willy! I just got the new models back from Henk...If you can send me the panel lines for the "C" model, if they are different...then I can make the bumps for It.
 
Won't take but a few minutes. Got to remove one panel & screws on the tail and add a vent on the fuselage.
 
Thanks to all of you guys working together on this! It's beautiful and I can't wait to take it for a flight or 20!
 
mig21bis said:
You are a texture master, so remember that the F-80 was used by The Acrojets, one of the first USAF demo teams. I think the sim world needs a four-ship of those!

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All 4 were done for FS 2004 as a set with a modified aircraft.cfg. I've got them and the credits are for G. Flores of Midnight Aviation but I think I probably got them at FlightSim. I wish I did know who he is as for FS 2004, they're pretty good work. I've had a mind to do them for FSX myself for a while, but there's a bunch more ahead of them if I ever do get around to them. And I'll need to research them a bit more before I could start. It's a pretty simple paint scheme, but I do have a few concerns about coloring etc.
 
Willy said:
All 4 were done for FS 2004 as a set with a modified aircraft.cfg. I've got them and the credits are for G. Flores of Midnight Aviation but I think I probably got them at FlightSim. I wish I did know who he is as for FS 2004, they're pretty good work. I've had a mind to do them for FSX myself for a while, but there's a bunch more ahead of them if I ever do get around to them. And I'll need to research them a bit more before I could start. It's a pretty simple paint scheme, but I do have a few concerns about coloring etc.
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Yes, I'm too busy to produce actual paints for this one outside the work I'm doing now. I'll leave it to Willy and anyone one else to populate the paints...Willy's got some good ones in the pipeline and Toby will likely be able to get TP enabled for a pretty good redux release of this great freeware aircraft. A little TLC goes a long way!
 
Thank you gentlemen for all of the work you are putting into this project. Very much appreciated and really looking forward to it.

Repaint wip....your paintkit is going to be a major help with this.

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I've got several paint schemes that I did last fall "roughed in" for redoing now along with a few new ones.

Guess I need to figure out the Fletcher tank mapping for the ANG ones.
 
The way it stands now:

1. Fletcher tanks and the ANG birds are one model.

2. F-80B is one model with selectable drop tanks by weight

3. F-80C is one model with selectable drop tanks (x3 variants, standard, misawa round tip, Misawa pointed) by weight. And selectable bombs by weight.

The Fletcher tanks are a seperate texture file on their own. I haven figured out the Misawa ones yet. Need to add specuar to those.

The paint kit is almost ready. I'm just need to create the C model bumps for the fuselage. We're almost there!
 
bob407 said:
Thank you gentlemen for all of the work you are putting into this project. Very much appreciated and really looking forward to it.

Repaint wip....your paintkit is going to be a major help with this.

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Bob I want our glass to look like yours currently it does not. That would be my final fix to the materials.
 
000rick000 said:
Bob I want our glass to look like yours currently it does not. That would be my final fix to the materials.
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Greetings Rick. I will PM you in the morning with info on the glass fix. Glad to be of any help. Btw your metal textures are absolutely amazing! Awesome work!
 
Here's how a alpha modified ORIGINAL texture looks now with the new materials in the model and the specular and fresnel added. I think it looks fantastic for such an old model!

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Bob, no problem...I think the glass is fixed now. I got a new model from Henk today. Thanks for the willingness to help out. It's definitely appreciated!
 
BTW, please ensure you are using BananaBob's ENVmap as your FSX default Environment map and Global_AC_Chrome and Global AC Chrome Test files. or the results will not look as they should. I've optimized the textures to use these high contrast files....or at least use one that has a lot of blue/green in the file to provide a contrasting color. white clouds are not going to give you the results you'll be expecting.
 
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Bob, no problem...I think the glass is fixed now. I got a new model from Henk today. Thanks for the willingness to help out. It's definitely appreciated!
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Rick that is looking great! Went ahead and sent you my fix anyway....who knows, might help in some way. I'll definitely check into the envmaps you're suggesting - very interesting. Really like the F-80. Thank you again Rick, Willy, and Henk for putting your excellent skills to work on this project.
 
As a comparison to Rick's screenshot of the original AlphaSim textures and to get feel for how it's all working together now, I did a quick and dirty redo (from scratch) of the same 94FS "Hat in the Ring" aircraft using the new model with speculars and the bumpmaps. The textures were a bit light in color which is just a matter of playing around with it all, but to say I'm impressed is an understatement.

Hope I've got plenty of paint in store room. I think I'm gonna be busy for a while.

Edited to add: This was using my old paintkit just to see how it would work out. I'm thinking Rick & Henk's is gonna work much better.
 

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Here's how a alpha modified ORIGINAL texture looks now with the new materials in the model and the specular and fresnel added. I think it looks fantastic for such an old model!
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Stunning transformation, Rick!

Henk, yes, that wire looks great now! Thanks much!

On FDE, am I recalling correctly that this model developed a flutter at high speed? I think I remember solving that on my copy long ago, using MOI mods.
 
mig21bis said:
Stunning transformation, Rick!

Henk, yes, that wire looks great now! Thanks much!

On FDE, am I recalling correctly that this model developed a flutter at high speed? I think I remember solving that on my copy long ago, using MOI mods.
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The FDE also got an overhaul to adapt it for FSX. Do not expect Bernt Stolle level quality but at least it handles well in the sim and thrust, take off / landing speeds are roughly right :mixed-smiley-010:
 
I was working on a couple of FDEs for it at one time and still have them squirreled away some wheres. One for a early P-80A (or YP-80A) and the other for a late P-80B. I'll have to see if I can find them and dust them off.
 
Got the shiny bit figured out (I think), although I think I went a little overboard with it on this one. Just doing kind of a generic F-80 till I get the paint kit sorted out like I want it.
 

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