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F7F Tigercat New VC for FSX & P3D

Guys,

Gordon's rig doensn't have a power supply. Be patient please! The new psu is on its way.

Priller
 
YoYo said:
This topic is like :biggrin-new: :
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My hair is better than that. :biggrin-new:

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I didn't update this thread when my data was destroyed, so I'll do that now. About a year ago all of my data was destroyed by an errant Windows OS download. The loss added up to about 10 years or 52,000 man hours of dedicated work. Among the files lost permanently were 353 3D Studio files which represented the entirety of my modeling library. The loss of my Gmax library is another conversation. Most of those files were aircraft or scenery in development containing many thousands of hours of poly bending, animation and coding. Included among those files were the F7F Tigercat interior and exterior files. As those files were a complete loss along with most of the Photoshop art developed around the original UVW mapping, it became necessary for me to re-build that project along with a decade of work from scratch.

That being said, the new F7F interior and exterior are well along in the process and nearing beta level.

I apologize if things look like a never ending story, but most folks would simply hang up their spurs and head for the local tavern in a case such as this. Re-building my archive is a agonizingly tedious and slow process. Each model requires its own archive of support data that needs to be re-constructed meticulously. That's what I have been doing for the last year. Only nine more to go.

The Tigerkitty will be updated as soon as I have a viable model to replace the lost work. :encouragement:
 
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Hello Gman5250

About the planes that you rebuilt after your PC crash, what happens to the A-26 / B-26 which seemed very close to liberation, in view of the videos you have broadcast? Do you want to broadcast it?

Alain
 
alain0568 said:
Hello Gman5250

About the planes that you rebuilt after your PC crash, what happens to the A-26 / B-26 which seemed very close to liberation, in view of the videos you have broadcast? Do you want to broadcast it?

Alain
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The A-26 and B-26 are rebuilt, along with a few others. I prioritized the modeling I wanted to recover and tried to organize the work flow that I felt most efficient. The videos you have seen are of the models in their current state of development. The Invaders have a number of different VC configurations, so that modeling and coding are more time consuming. The Tigercat is another example of five different configurations, requiring dedicated modeling for each. It's a process, but coming along better than I had first expected.

My YouTube channel for anyone interested.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxu31_8xSkMZ_xnisGWnEA?view_as=subscriber
 
YoYo said:
Ok, we know this story :), no rush, just questions ;). Fingers crossed for this project! :wavey:
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Thanks Yo Yo. :very_drunk:

The projects are moving forward better than I had anticipated. With me, if the work is not the best I can make it, I won't do it. The new models are even better than the ones that were lost.
 
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