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F6-F aircraft
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Chuck_Jodry-VJPL
Charter Member
They did no such thing, there is one little spot just behind the canopy i am told where there is a possible glitch , there are no mirrored textures on any of the included paints.
SpaceWeevil
SOH-CM-2024
Chuck - much respect as I love the Hellcat to bits, but there appears to be mirrored writing on at least two of the Fleet Air Arm paints. The 'NO STEP' 'GUNS' and 'AMMUNITION BOXES' stencils are back to front on one wing. I can't upload pics just now but I'm not imagining it!
Still and all, the deep shine and the sense that this is a stressed-skin aeroplane are done amazingly well, probably the best I've ever seen.
Spaceweevil, In my opinion the wings aren't mirrored, they are just a "flipped version of the other wing. The right wing uses the same texture sheet as the left wing. As you problably noticed on those 2 FAA paints that the camoflauge is the same on both wings.
I may have this backwards, but I believe the right wing texture is just a "flipped" version of the left wing, that is why the lettering is backwards on the right wing, and that the camoflauge is the same on both wings. Just a minor oversite by the painter.
I caught this and fixed the writing on the repaints that I have done for the RF Hellcat.
I can't wait to get my replacement video card today, so I can fly her some more. Thanks again Real Flight!!:ernae:
SpaceWeevil
SOH-CM-2024
That makes sense, and it's only the FAA paints anyway - a minor blemish on a real stunner.
From what I have seen a couple of the re-painters saw that and corrected it on their releases. Seemed simple enough to fix.
BTW IMHO it is a great release and was long overdue.
My thanks to all those who were involved in its creation.
VCN-1
Interesting discussion about the “shinnyness” of the F6F, both real and the one from RealFlight. My RealFlight Hellcat sometimes appears to be quite shinny indeed, under the right light conditions, as can be seen in this pic. The shinny effect here is not “photo real”, where the reflective effects are “baked” into the texture file, they are “real”, meaning the FSX graphics engine is doing it, and it changes as you move the plane around, as it should, and “photo real” does not. In other lighting conditions, it does not appear shinny like that at all, but appears more like the photos posted here of real Hellcats in WW-II. So I wonder just how dull those dull F6Fs really were, in real life living color..?
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yago9
Guest
Gibbage,a mirrored textures is a mirrored texture and it doesn,t belong on such a sweet model or any other payware for that matter.If i need to paint any spot of that aircraft I should be able to do it correctly .
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yago9
Guest
It is one of my favorites also!
There is a program by Ivan Hsu
that will shine the model also
but i do not know if it works on true fsx models
ill tinker
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Great tool for Fs9 but no,it doesn,t work on true FSX models.
If I was blessed enough to own a Hellcat in real life, like I pretend to do in FSX with the Real Flight Hellcat, I would lovingly polish that sucker with pride. What I see in the sim is pretty much how I would like it to look. That to me is more important than how it looked in theatre. If this were a combat sim maybe I would feel slightly different, but it wouldn't be a show stopper for me. I have seen Hellcats in museums and I was lucky enough to see one fly over my house one day doing touch and gos for almost an hour and what I see in the Real Flight Hellcat is as close to perfection as I could ever want.
The way the external textures came out raised the bar for others to follow. That doesn't happen too often.
The way the external textures came out raised the bar for others to follow. That doesn't happen too often.
What I was pointing out is you made it to sound like the entire aircraft was mirrored, and that it was on all models, when in fact, its just a very small section on one model.
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yago9
Guest
No I didn,t said anything to make it sound like that.I even posted a shot of a small portion of the aircraft and just for you I circled the problem with white color..I quess that still wasn,t clear enough still. Size is your best arqument ? Again, mirrored textures shouldnt be used as shortcuts in a payware unless it,s stated in the product description so I should make an informed purchase decision based on all the positive and negative facts.If I paid 40$ for a model I should be entitled to re-texture it correctly. Instead of defending this practice you should assure us it,s not becoming a modeling habbit with Aircraft Factory.
Dino,s FREEWARE F14 had the canopy textures mirrored and without anybodys complaint he fix the issue in couple of days instead of saying non-stop" it,s just a small portion ".
Honestly, your not "entitled" to anything other then flying around an F6F. Paint kits are a bonus, or gift if you will. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth.
First, im not defending the practice. Im just stating that you make it sound like the entire aircraft is mirrored, its not. Second, I dont know what Aircraft Factory does. I dont work for them. But I try to keep things un-mirrored as much as possible. There are limitations to game engines that us artist's need to deal with, and also sometimes we make errors. To blast a very well recieved product like you have just because of a small error is really not cool. Did you try to submit the issue through proper channels first? Or do you just vent on forums when you dont get everything you feel entitled too?
krazycolin
Banned
Hello Yago9...
First off, things like this should be pointed out to Realflight whose product this is. That way, you have a chance at getting it fixed. Gibbage doesn't have the right or the capacity to do so. Though he may have modeled and painted the plane originally, he didn't have anything to do with creating and then selling the package.
Second, Gibbage doesn't work for Aircraft Factory (A2A), he works for Milviz. Neither of us will ever do another model for A2A.
Thirdly, if you paid 40 bucks for the Realflight F6F, someone ripped you off.
Fourth, I will have to take responsibility for this one as it is, in the end, my fault. I am the one who approved the model and the UV's. Not Gibbage. We didn't know at the time that this "mirroring" of UV's would cause this much trouble. It's a standard method of working in 3d as it saves time and effort and it's extremely effecient. Nonetheless, I do hereby apologize to you and all those who had an issue with the mirrored texture.
Fifth and finally, I personally guarantee that this practice has been stopped and will not happen again.
I strongly suggest that you contact support at Realflight and ask them for a fix. I am sure that Dean would be glad to assist you in that.
kc
First off, things like this should be pointed out to Realflight whose product this is. That way, you have a chance at getting it fixed. Gibbage doesn't have the right or the capacity to do so. Though he may have modeled and painted the plane originally, he didn't have anything to do with creating and then selling the package.
Second, Gibbage doesn't work for Aircraft Factory (A2A), he works for Milviz. Neither of us will ever do another model for A2A.
Thirdly, if you paid 40 bucks for the Realflight F6F, someone ripped you off.
Fourth, I will have to take responsibility for this one as it is, in the end, my fault. I am the one who approved the model and the UV's. Not Gibbage. We didn't know at the time that this "mirroring" of UV's would cause this much trouble. It's a standard method of working in 3d as it saves time and effort and it's extremely effecient. Nonetheless, I do hereby apologize to you and all those who had an issue with the mirrored texture.
Fifth and finally, I personally guarantee that this practice has been stopped and will not happen again.
I strongly suggest that you contact support at Realflight and ask them for a fix. I am sure that Dean would be glad to assist you in that.
kc