Plus Flight 19's normal multiplayer operations must go on. We're trying to find our way around the Canadian Arctic and the GPS, VOR and ADF are all saying different things up there. And the GPS is wrong.
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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Fixes for the Shupe/Carroll FSX native Beech 18
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Plus Flight 19's normal multiplayer operations must go on. We're trying to find our way around the Canadian Arctic and the GPS, VOR and ADF are all saying different things up there. And the GPS is wrong.
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Ed sent me his updated VC textures and they'll find their way into the next release as a panel and interior variation.
In the meantime, I've been hard at work with the cargo version since the next days at work are going to be s-l-o-w. The original plan was to just rip out the seats and leave the crapper in, but I changed my mind halfway through (so that cargo jocks get the entire available length) and took the longer way around, which required extending the modeled interior past the toilet door and dealing with the portholes. Changing a model's geometry also requires adapting the texture mapping and then carefully editing the .x file at the right places (190000 lines!) to rip out the old and bring in the new.
Anyway, I'm now trying to find an elegant way around having to model a lavatory. A low-poly curtain maybe? Anybody have a texture handy that does not involve downloading an entire aircraft and dealing with its auto-installer?
In the meantime, I've been hard at work with the cargo version since the next days at work are going to be s-l-o-w. The original plan was to just rip out the seats and leave the crapper in, but I changed my mind halfway through (so that cargo jocks get the entire available length) and took the longer way around, which required extending the modeled interior past the toilet door and dealing with the portholes. Changing a model's geometry also requires adapting the texture mapping and then carefully editing the .x file at the right places (190000 lines!) to rip out the old and bring in the new.
Anyway, I'm now trying to find an elegant way around having to model a lavatory. A low-poly curtain maybe? Anybody have a texture handy that does not involve downloading an entire aircraft and dealing with its auto-installer?
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
Which DDS file would have the chrome spinner hubs?
I've been working on the railroad....
It's a fictional scheme on the Twin Beech (Santa Fe flew DC-3s and DC-4s), but with the striping going all over the front of the fuselage, it's a good one to help sort out the mapping. And the rest of the Flight 19 guys would be thinking I'm slipping if I didn't do one.
Thinking about doing a "movie star" next....
It's a fictional scheme on the Twin Beech (Santa Fe flew DC-3s and DC-4s), but with the striping going all over the front of the fuselage, it's a good one to help sort out the mapping. And the rest of the Flight 19 guys would be thinking I'm slipping if I didn't do one.
Thinking about doing a "movie star" next....
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gaab
SOH-CM-2023
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
Hey Willy,
Last night I found it but went looking for it a second time and wasn't paying much attention to the file name. So I am at a loss trying to fine it again.
Would that be located in the main Texture folder? I opened all the Nacelle dds files with DXTBMP and didn't see it there. I thought I had found it in an add on texture
folder; went thru each and every dds file but no luck. So, I guess I must of found it in the MAIN texture folder but I opened all the nacelle dds and didn't see it there.
So, I'm looking for that chrome spinner in this picture. This is the norfolk texture that I think Gordon made before. If memory serves me, the spinners use to be black then
when I applied Dave's fixes from Bjoern. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...xes-for-the-Shupe-Carroll-FSX-native-Beech-18 #5
I remember seeing a sheet with a round chrome dome in the center of the sheet on top of a a square black background. Don't remember other objects that were on that sheet.
TeiscoDelRay
Life Time CM
Anyone have a link to his Lockheed Loadstar for FSX?
TDR, there is not an FSX native version of the Lodestar/Loadstar available but here are the FSX port over links.
There is also a non-reflective model update if interested.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...ction=show&sort=d&literal=1&userid=249&page=2
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
Havent found it yet
I tried to enlarge your attached sheet to see what the name of the dds is and wonder if you got that from the main texture or a paint kit or what?
Here is as close as I come from the main texture, there isn't any thing like you colored in pink that I could find. Hummm....
BTW where can I get the paint kit from?
I tried to enlarge your attached sheet to see what the name of the dds is and wonder if you got that from the main texture or a paint kit or what?
Here is as close as I come from the main texture, there isn't any thing like you colored in pink that I could find. Hummm....
BTW where can I get the paint kit from?
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
I think the sheet was flipped so I flipped it the other way so that it would match:
Now that I found it, how do I chrome that area that Willy made pink? I noticed that a lot of the textures already have the chrome prop hubs yet when I open this sheet, it looks gray.
Just trying to figure out what file/sheet is rendering the chrome hubs or how is this happening?
Now that I found it, how do I chrome that area that Willy made pink? I noticed that a lot of the textures already have the chrome prop hubs yet when I open this sheet, it looks gray.
Just trying to figure out what file/sheet is rendering the chrome hubs or how is this happening?
To make that bit super shiny chrome, just make that area very dark in the alpha layer, the darker the shinier (you can go overboard in this though). You'll also want it to be dark in the spec as well. Just a bit of trial and error.
If you have the original paint, you can "take it apart" to see how it was done using DXT/Bmp. Open it, export the alpha layer as a bmp and save. Save the original texture as a bmp as well. Do the same thing with the spec texture as well. Then you can compare that area in all four texture sheets and duplicate the effect. I learned a lot of tricks to painting that way. Good ol' reverse engineering.
The reason mine is shaped different is I redid the paint kit to my liking using the mesh mapping layer from the original paint kit. I kept the panel lines and rivets though to make the bump mapping work like it should. Normally, I redo those as well, but if there's bump maps, I leave them alone.
If you have the original paint, you can "take it apart" to see how it was done using DXT/Bmp. Open it, export the alpha layer as a bmp and save. Save the original texture as a bmp as well. Do the same thing with the spec texture as well. Then you can compare that area in all four texture sheets and duplicate the effect. I learned a lot of tricks to painting that way. Good ol' reverse engineering.
The reason mine is shaped different is I redid the paint kit to my liking using the mesh mapping layer from the original paint kit. I kept the panel lines and rivets though to make the bump mapping work like it should. Normally, I redo those as well, but if there's bump maps, I leave them alone.
Bjoern has been including the original paint kit in the download. It includes the paint schemes from the original download which makes it easier to see how things are mapped out. It was in the original Dave Carroll download as well (where I got it from).
falcon409
SOH-CM-2026
I think the sheet was flipped so I flipped it the other way so that it would match:
Now that I found it, how do I chrome that area that Willy made pink? I noticed that a lot of the textures already have the chrome prop hubs yet when I open this sheet, it looks gray.
Just trying to figure out what file/sheet is rendering the chrome hubs or how is this happening?
I'm sure you noticed this but just as a reminder, the main texture is flipped but the alpha remains as it should. Make sure they're both correct before saving.
gray eagle
SOH-CM-2026
I'm assuming this is the file in question. This came from the norfolk texture and I circled the red looking object that I guess turns to chrome. Funny thing, it's red;
Sorry, I am a bit behind the curve ball, but how does this translate to the chrome look? Does the texture.cfg file have any thing to do with it?
I noticed that the prop blades are now grayed out.
