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Well....I got sidetracked from Piglet's planes and attempted the impossible.... adding details to an aircraft that is essentially only 3 images...yet is native FSX. Started as messing with AB effects that differentiated between 2 engines...ie...shut one down and only one 'light'/smoke goes out...
This thing is a Yak-130 ... and it suffered from almost zero 'detail'.... no lines/rivets/etc.
Now...while trying to reverse engineer from model openings/animations to the 'paint' it is all going pear-shaped when you find symmetry/center-lines aren't even perpendicular to the image.....
It's going to be several 'months of sundays'...
Here's one issue...not the green bit on the fuse....that's the spoiler...I cannot see any logical reason in the paint why it has that grey section inside its boundaries.
The burner effects are just for 'bling' ...but can be switched to staged smoke effects [for different throttle] ...It's cool that you're working on the YAK, but an FYI; it doesn't have afterburners, they're just standard run of the mill turbofans. It looks like you've got a lot of work to do there, but the 3D modeling wizards might be able to help you out. I was very excited just to see pics of one of those here.
Just a suggestion; I think it would be a good idea if (when a screenshot is posted) the poster could add a line (either above or below the screenshot) - identifying what the aircraft is? Also, the location of the airport (if applicable...i.e. many of the screenshots are inflight). But often the scenery is quite beautiful, such as anything from ORBX! Just a thought. I see a lot of great screenshots posted, but so often I do not know what the aircraft is, or the scenery. Thanks, NC
For post.8981 : Freeware scenery Val d'Aosta (Italy) at Simviation : http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=Val+d'Aosta&categoryId=63
Planes : Alphasim/Virtavia Harvard and A2A Texan