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I Said One Thing But

All The Models

ToniJH said:
Hi, i hope it will work in 4.5 too. Most of the models in package are converted to work P3d v4->
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All the models open up perfectly in MDCx including the terminal but when I install it in Prepar3D V4.5 there is no terminal just some terminals. I tried to open up the AFCAD in ADEx but because it is V5 I imagine it won't open so I can't see why it's not there. I know that Butch is using V5 too.
 
Richard,

Are you have issue like I posted in #15 ^? If so, then Toni provided a fix for that see post ^16. That was two extra files that were to be added to the scenery folder.
I haven't tried it in P3DV4...yet. I tried a flight in a EC-121 from Larado to NAS Corpus, just headed almost straight east to get there.





tgycgijoes said:
All the models open up perfectly in MDCx including the terminal but when I install it in Prepar3D V4.5 there is no terminal just some terminals. I tried to open up the AFCAD in ADEx but because it is V5 I imagine it won't open so I can't see why it's not there. I know that Butch is using V5 too.
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Breaking News.......

KLRD works swimmingly well in P3D V4.5


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Another Glitz

Just another glitz in my system. Since I had to put it in this stinkin' Windows 10 the whole operating system does what it wants when it wants.
 
Wrong Side

I forgot that most of what's going on at Laredo is on the cargo side of the airport and I opened up the top down view and moved out and then I saw the terminal. All is well. Thanks Butch

Richard

PS: I am waiting for help with the PR background for CWAR for the different seasons. Having problems that I can't figure out and I asked for help in a couple places. Now Good Night All!
 
NAS Argentia still under construction

With a few more Sketchup building additions like the Admin center from a photo as best as I could decipher, all the seasonal bmps are completed but blend mask was just not working no matter what help and threads I looked at or got. So I turned it over to Falcon409 who has helped me with photoreal backgrounds so much in the past. He can't see why bmp's resample but tiff's won't so he is redoing all for me and I will get it back when he gets a chance to work on it. In the meantime, I am going to fly from NAS Alameda to NAS North Island today and then maybe onto NAS Lemoore. NAS Alameda is mine and working beautifully in Prepar3D V4.5 though created for FSX(A) and the other two NAS's are MAIW sceneries. Gonna use my Virtavia P2V7 downloaded for free--thank you Virtavia for sharing it.I'm not going to use the AI provided for Lemoore though because I want this to be early 60's not 2020's. I may try and see what ai I should have for that time and create new flight plans in AIFP. Gonna have some fun today and put the scenery work aside.:loyal:
 
NAS Argentia

Here is the complete package for NAS Argentia complete with the photoreal background and autogen by Falcon409. With much thanks Ed. Included is a README. It's a simple install and works both in FSX and Prepar3D V4.5 with a very nice fps at least with the Virtavia HU-16. I figured to test a payware since most often freeware aircraft are not a "frame-hog". At least in my case. Please try it out on your flight sims and you can post here what you find or if something needs "fixin' ". I hope you enjoy it. :loyal:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/inzqts2lgel362k/CWAR+NAS+Argentia.zip/file

THIS DOWNLOAD I JUST FOUND OUT WHEN MY FSX BLINKED TO DESKTOP IS FOR PREPAR3D V4.5 AND V5.X I will in a little while after I convert the ADEx files to FSX and make an FSX Folder post a Mediafire link for that sim.
 
Thank you very much Sir. Any US military base is surely appreciated. And your attention to detail is simply outstanding. Again thank you.
 
Thanks Rickard,

When I first pulled up the airfield with my WV in the Spring setting, I noticed that the tires were throwing snow chunks, in the Spring? This is with P3d V5.4

What is that patch of red I see there?
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Photoreal Scenery

When photoreal scenery is too white, the simulator, all of them except maybe MSFS or X-plane, put red splotches on top of it. AND you don't know it until you create all the seasons and resample it It's another one of those stupid simulator things because the ACEs team didn't anticipate or create photoreal scenery and P3D bought Microsoft Flight software from them to create P3D with. You will also find snow patches in the Spring. I researched the months seasons, snow accumulation, temperatures and daylight hours in Argentia New Foundland and I adjusted our four seasonal textures accordingly. That is why you "throw snow clumps" in the Spring.

[FONT=&quot]From [/FONT][FONT=&quot]April until June[/FONT][FONT=&quot] stormy weather is less frequent. Fair and dry weather periods occur with slowly increasing frequency, but occasional bouts of wintry precipitation occur until at least mid May in most years.[/FONT]
 
R5D Over NAS Argentia

This new scenery made me grab my Flight Replicas DC4 aircraft from P3D V4.5 and installed in it to P3D V5.4. The red (poppy field?:biggrin-new: ) is in view.

I made a xml so that it would keep all the other folders (effects/guages) in one location namely P3D5 addon folder. This particular was made by Matt Levi (Jeansy) awhile back.

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This is image of an R5D that was stationed at NAS Argentia - A repaint of that one would be nice.

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I'll consider it, it IS cool

gray eagle said:
This new scenery made me grab my Flight Replicas DC4 aircraft from P3D V4.5 and installed in it to P3D V5.4. The red (poppy field?:biggrin-new: ) is in view.

I made a xml so that it would keep all the other folders (effects/guages) in one location namely P3D5 addon folder. This particular was made by Matt Levi (Jeansy) awhile back.

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This is image of an R5D that was stationed at NAS Argentia - A repaint of that one would be nice.

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I am not a good artist. I use free clipart for stuff like this and could not find any that would work. I would like it too. If you reach out to Jan Kees Blom maybe he would do it if he is interested in the aircraft.
 
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Here Is An Update

I worked all day on a seaplane ramp from drawings and information from the 1930's I found and IMO it turned out beautifully. Then I had to go back into Model Converter X and add a platform so that it doesn't sink into the water or the apron. No matter how hard I tried and it was ALL DAY, the inclined ramp just didn't work so I went and had dinner and pondered the problem. I was almost ready to give up and went back in and removed the incline and sadly the beautiful pilings because you can't see them in any flight simulator I know of because the water is opaque not translucent. I positioned them onto aprons and they work. Here is the update for Prepar3D V4 and 5. FSX tomorrow. I've had all the fs I can take for one day LOL! They detail the apron like a seaplane ramp. It is water-level and a "hard deck".

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kp5q64xwku0gyht/CWAR+P3D+Update.zip/file
 
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I know he is a great artist but I think he is into mainly MSFS; I guess it wouldn't hurt to ask. I think he or whomever would need additional screenshots to make that livery.


tgycgijoes said:
I am not a good artist. I use free clipart for stuff like this and could not find any that would work. I would like it too. If you reach out to Jan Kees Blom maybe he would do it if he is interested in the aircraft.
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With the seaplane ramp that would be a chance for me to try out my PILOTS Clipper Pro I also have a HU-16 that may be appropriate for that area as well.

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tgycgijoes said:
I worked all day on a seaplane ramp from drawings and information from the 1930's I found and IMO it turned out beautifully. Then I had to go back into Model Converter X and add a platform so that it doesn't sink into the water or the apron. No matter how hard I tried and it was ALL DAY, the inclined ramp just didn't work so I went and had dinner and pondered the problem. I was almost ready to give up and went back in and removed the incline and sadly the beautiful pilings because you can't see them in any flight simulator I know of because the water is opaque not translucent. I positioned them onto aprons and they work. Here is the update for Prepar3D V4 and 5. FSX tomorrow. I've had all the fs I can take for one day LOL! They detail the apron like a seaplane ramp. It is water-level and a "hard deck".

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kp5q64xwku0gyht/CWAR+P3D+Update.zip/file
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gray eagle said:
With the seaplane ramp that would be a chance for me to try out my PILOTS Clipper Pro I also have a HU-16 that may be appropriate for that area as well.

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My research said that the Navy flew the HU-16 and also the USCG had one or more stationed there as well. I am going to research and see if any Mariners flew from there before the HU-16. They did but pre-WWII from the markings in the photo I found. I also found out that a full squadron of 8 of the P5M Marlin of VP56 was stationed there in the 1950's and have a photo and comments from one of the crew on their website.. Virtavia has a native FSX that is on sale at PC Aviator that I am contemplating. Looks nice. I love seaplanes. My Dad was stationed aboard an AVP patrolling the Caribbean and the Panama Canal Zone in WWII. He talked about Baranquilla Colombia and I just found a paper online that there was an NAS there. His ship serviced PBY Catalinas.
 
Like one of these?
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tgycgijoes said:
I am going to research and see if any Mariners flew from there before the HU-16. They did but pre-WWII from the markings in the photo I found. I also found out that a full squadron of 8 of the P5M Marlin of VP56 was stationed there in the 1950's and have a photo and comments from one of the crew on their website.. Virtavia has a native FSX that is on sale at PC Aviator that I am contemplating.
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Richard, Here's what I did at Twitchell. . .besides the main airport it also had a float plane area along the river. I made a wedge (your slant and length would be lower and longer) and in MCX I set the texture as "auto-platform" allowing airplanes to come off the water, up the ramp and into the hangar.


Ramp_Suggestion by Ed Wells, on Flickr
 
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