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FS2004 Screenshots Here!!!
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wolfebee89
SOH-CM-2024
@Airbasil there is of course the Perpignan LFMP in Occitania 1.5 for FS2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20090211172839/http://pagesperso-orange.fr/moustache/fs/occitania_dl.htm - also freeware naturally!
Sbob
SOH-CM-2026
Sometimes they fight you..
Sometimes you kick their ###.
Hawk 511 low and fast near Suwon. Virtavia RF-4 with some old textures by Michael P.
I haven't played around with the Phantom in a while and I forgot that, for some reason, Alpha included some DXT1 "color blank" textures that will positively screw up your scenery textures. Got that fixed and then I wanted to add some subtle "shine" to the bare metal parts with updated alpha channels.
Got all of that done but then I trashed the wrong "donor" folder and had start all over again.
Sometimes you kick their ###.
Hawk 511 low and fast near Suwon. Virtavia RF-4 with some old textures by Michael P.
I haven't played around with the Phantom in a while and I forgot that, for some reason, Alpha included some DXT1 "color blank" textures that will positively screw up your scenery textures. Got that fixed and then I wanted to add some subtle "shine" to the bare metal parts with updated alpha channels.
Got all of that done but then I trashed the wrong "donor" folder and had start all over again.
Sbob
SOH-CM-2026
Something else I've been goofing with over the years..
ROK jet in ROK markings, why should the crew look like they are from London or North Dakota?
Adding just a little diversity to your FS world.
BTW, I mentioned those DXT1 textures really screwing up the ground.
In this shot, its more about haze above the ground.
ROK jet in ROK markings, why should the crew look like they are from London or North Dakota?
Adding just a little diversity to your FS world.
BTW, I mentioned those DXT1 textures really screwing up the ground.
In this shot, its more about haze above the ground.
Airbasil
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Well, I've now been flying the F-4D of Alphasim / Virtavia for over an Hour, without any ground texture Issues...
So i guess, that may only be a graphics Card issue in your Computers System?
As mine runs absolute flawless... even with photoreal paints such as this one from the 49th Squadron of Hollowman Air Base that usually demands higher Specs Computers and i only got a low specs / low end Laptop..:
"No ground Texture Screws what so ever… so i can’t really recreate your issues but i do think it is a graphics card issue… or might be an issue with a wrongly configuered FS9.cfg and or you have not pulled all sliders to the right in the ingame settings… as my sim runs with all sliders to the right…(to 100%) except no AI Traffic at all…
running smooth locked on 60FPS or even when unlocked at over 800 to 1200FPS… (depending on the Areas where I fly and how populated these are with Addon Sceneries)."[Higher Altitude] About 3000ft AGL
[Lower Altitude] about 400ft AGL
I’d say, the results are not too bad, even at higher altitude, the ground textures stay nice and crisp…
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Airbasil
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okey, here we go:
3rd Set of Phantoms... over one of THE MOST SPEC DYNAMICS DEMANDING Scenery there is for FS9...
over Switzerland Professional on a very low end Laptop...
Still no issues whatsoever...
nice and crisp. 
Airbasil
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BTW, that's the first set of Phantoms.
Allthough my Registry sais "3rd Set"… and even "model.3” and if i check the textures it indeed has the DXT1 Textures
Allright, you know what?
Screw that… - let's screw the Ground Textures then
with the Velocity feature Mach 1.0 Flying ballistic lol…Btw. still 3rd Set.
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Smile you're on camera!
As said earlier I started this paint kit because of nostalgic reasons.
I did the all blue version which was by Flying Officer Neville Clark end May 1944. (image on one of the previous pages)
The next step was a June 1944 vesion with full D-Day identification stripes. In this case the Spitfire PL775 flown by 541 Squadron. There are several photographs of this aircraft.
Soon after D-Day the identification stripes on the top surfaces was abandoned, however at the lower surfaces they often remained, but not very well maintained. So the next one is the Spitfire PL883 from 400 Squadron RCAF, as photographed on 30 Novermber 1944 at B78 Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This aircraft was destroyed on the ground by attacking German aircraft during Operation Bodenplatte on the 1st January 1945.
And to please our American friends I also did the Spitfire PA892 called "My darling Dorothy" used by 14th PRS, 7th PRG 8th Air Force. It was damaged during a landing incident on 24 march 1944. But repaired soon, as it took part in the D-Day missions. The aircraft was handed back to the RAF in April 1945.
As soon as these liveries are really finished I will do one other US livery, which will be the Spitfire PA994 flown by Lt.Col John S. Blyth, who made a wheels up landing at RAF Mount Farm after he had technical problems with his undercarriage.
When Shessi reads this I think he can confirm the texture layout wasn't excactly done with a US version in mind. The numbers on the tail are created by two differnt textures and in 3 different scales.
And this was just one of the surprises I found in the layout of these textures........
Cheers,
Huub
As said earlier I started this paint kit because of nostalgic reasons.
I did the all blue version which was by Flying Officer Neville Clark end May 1944. (image on one of the previous pages)
The next step was a June 1944 vesion with full D-Day identification stripes. In this case the Spitfire PL775 flown by 541 Squadron. There are several photographs of this aircraft.
Soon after D-Day the identification stripes on the top surfaces was abandoned, however at the lower surfaces they often remained, but not very well maintained. So the next one is the Spitfire PL883 from 400 Squadron RCAF, as photographed on 30 Novermber 1944 at B78 Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This aircraft was destroyed on the ground by attacking German aircraft during Operation Bodenplatte on the 1st January 1945.
And to please our American friends I also did the Spitfire PA892 called "My darling Dorothy" used by 14th PRS, 7th PRG 8th Air Force. It was damaged during a landing incident on 24 march 1944. But repaired soon, as it took part in the D-Day missions. The aircraft was handed back to the RAF in April 1945.
As soon as these liveries are really finished I will do one other US livery, which will be the Spitfire PA994 flown by Lt.Col John S. Blyth, who made a wheels up landing at RAF Mount Farm after he had technical problems with his undercarriage.
When Shessi reads this I think he can confirm the texture layout wasn't excactly done with a US version in mind. The numbers on the tail are created by two differnt textures and in 3 different scales.
And this was just one of the surprises I found in the layout of these textures........
Cheers,
Huub
anels9
Charter Member
Is that the QWSim bae?
Airbasil
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Affirmative!
Like the repaints Huub, especially the US one.
Chris did a great job with this PR Spit and his tex (ha ha!). Chris was very fond of assigning detailed and small texs to specific polys, great way to place small warning signs, nose art, serial numbers etc, but makes things a little difficult to re-tex...as you've found out.
Cheers
Shessi
Chris did a great job with this PR Spit and his tex (ha ha!). Chris was very fond of assigning detailed and small texs to specific polys, great way to place small warning signs, nose art, serial numbers etc, but makes things a little difficult to re-tex...as you've found out.
Cheers
Shessi
AndyG43
SOH-CM-2023
I KNEW I'd seen a fix mentioned for this. Mark Harper explained all the potential issues and their whys & wherefores. You can find it in the "Phantom Set 3" paintkit in the Library, as uploaded by Modelr. The specific part readsSomething else I've been goofing with over the years..
ROK jet in ROK markings, why should the crew look like they are from London or North Dakota?
Adding just a little diversity to your FS world.
BTW, I mentioned those DXT1 textures really screwing up the ground.
In this shot, its more about haze above the ground.
"Some people have been experiencing texture problems with scenery and this is because of a mixture of DXT1 and DXT3 formats. All textures should be DXT3 format and I have included a texture patch folder if you have downloaded the set BEFORE this paint kit was released. Carefully copy the textures from each folder in the patch and replace the originals IN THE SAME FOLDERS.
The textures are basically the areas that would not have normally been textured on the model and are INDIVIDUALLY polygon mapped so if you change these the colour needs to be uniform apart from the chute."
Sbob
SOH-CM-2026
Should I upload the converted/fixed textures here?
The originals were done by Michael Pearson and are available at AVSIM.
Besides fixing the DXT1 textures, I also added the original alpha channels for the bare metal parts. Its subtle, because these are Recon birds and shiny metal wasn't the best way to insure a successful low-level mission over the DMZ, but you can see a nice bare metal effect.
As to why they used DXT1 textures, I think these repaints were mainly for a CFS2 version of the RF-4 by Alphasim. But, that was a LONG time ago. This also explains why some of these repaints didn't use alpha channels.
I'm pretty sure I'm on a short list of the folks who figured out the problem way back when. I know I posted about it over at Flightsim.com.
The originals were done by Michael Pearson and are available at AVSIM.
Besides fixing the DXT1 textures, I also added the original alpha channels for the bare metal parts. Its subtle, because these are Recon birds and shiny metal wasn't the best way to insure a successful low-level mission over the DMZ, but you can see a nice bare metal effect.
As to why they used DXT1 textures, I think these repaints were mainly for a CFS2 version of the RF-4 by Alphasim. But, that was a LONG time ago. This also explains why some of these repaints didn't use alpha channels.
I'm pretty sure I'm on a short list of the folks who figured out the problem way back when. I know I posted about it over at Flightsim.com.
