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FM-2 Wildcat released by Allen!

Here it is ingame. I had to drop the smoothing from 60 to 30 as 60 was causing bad lighting effects along the fuselage at each cut in the fuselage for the breaking parts and damage texture.

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Allen said:
Here it is ingame. I had to drop the smoothing from 60 to 30 as 60 was causing bad lighting effects along the fuselage at each cut in the fuselage for the breaking parts and damage texture.

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Very nice.I have a dark blue "glossy" texture for F6F-5, based on OH F6F.Would like me to send it to you to see how it works?
 
Won't do me any good. The only thing I took from the F6F Hellcat was the exhast smoke. The rest is edit of the stock F4F4 Wilcat.
 
Nice job Allen,

I started a SCASM one at one time but it stalled at the tail changes.
I as well as many simmers will be very happy with one based on the stocker.
Great frame rates, breaking parts, Etc.

Regards,
B24Guy
 
I have three or four skins I did for a "faux" FM-2 a long time ago. I'm sure they can be made to fit. Let me know and I'll dig them out of the archives. Great work on converting the F4F into the FM-2. I remember the B 24 guy giving it a try. I'm grateful to all of your hard work. Let me know if I can help. Thanks again.
Bob
 
The B24 Guy said:
Nice job Allen,

I started a SCASM one at one time but it stalled at the tail changes.
I as well as many simmers will be very happy with one based on the stocker.
Great frame rates, breaking parts, Etc.

Regards,
B24Guy
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I can't blame ya. It would be no fun to do in SCASM. Frame rates are going to take a small hit as I not doing all of the LODs that the stock model has. The stock model has 8 LODs and I'm cutting down to 5. Each LOD will drop the polygon count by half. So the main LOD is around 3,100 and the next will be around 2,100 and the next will be 1,100. The 4th will be in the 500 range and the 5th around 100.

bub said:
I have three or four skins I did for a "faux" FM-2 a long time ago. I'm sure they can be made to fit. Let me know and I'll dig them out of the archives. Great work on converting the F4F into the FM-2. I remember the B 24 guy giving it a try. I'm grateful to all of your hard work. Let me know if I can help. Thanks again.
Bob
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Here is the texture in PSD format. You can use it on the stock F4F to do the texture.

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Allen,
Thanks for the texture. I have the others done. They may need some touching up. How will the taller tail effect them? I'll give them a look later today and get back to you. I'm at work now, so it will have to wait until I wake up. Thanks again.
Bob
 
The non-moving part of the tail should be fine with some exteding work done. The Rudder will prob have to be a full redo as it is not at the same scale. I plan to go back and put the Rudder at the same same scale as the rest of the tail. Once that is done I will upload a new .PSD.
 
Allen,
No sweat. I'll find one without tail markings and send it along. When its all done we can cross that bridge. If not, I can whip up one that will work for now.
Bob
 
Having made textures I know how bad it sucks when parts are not at the same scale on the texture sheet. It was no big deal to change it.

Attaching the whole FM-2 ready for CFS2. In the texture folder is the .PSD of the current texture and it has a wireframe of the tail and rudder so you can get the placement right. Note all others The FM-2 missing a few of the LODs as I have yet to do them so it is NOT ready for final upload and if you use it in large numbers you will likely see lag.

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Allen,
Just slapped an old skin in to see where I'm at. It needs some adjustments and recoloring and a little TLC. Other than that we're in the ballpark. Give me a few days and we'll see where we're at.
Bob
 

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I think I got the model done. Ran into vary odd part linking bugs that messed up the damage texture logic for the fuselage from nose to tail that took over 3 hours of messing around to fix.

I'll put the whole aircraft up after bub get the textures done.
 
Allen,
Here's the first attempt. Still some work to be done, as it's only half finished. I think I'll take out some of the weathering. I went a little overboard. Let me know what you think.
Bob
 

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Allen,
If it looks good to you, it looks good to me. Here it is, from the USS Kadashan Bay, CVE-76, VC-20. Flown by J W Eash, two confirmed, Ki-44's. After a good "once over" I'll get it off to you.
Bob
 

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