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IRIS DA-42... a blast!

J

joanvalley

Charter Member
I've had the fortune to fly the new model from IRIS, the DA-42, I believe it looks fantastic, sounds great and flying it feels a bit like driving a compact sport car, fast and manouverable, if that analogy can be made...LOL!

On to the screenies:

DA4201.jpg


DA4202.jpg


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DA4209.jpg


DA4210.jpg








DA4214.jpg


Sorry if these are too many but this baby comes in a lot of colours and flavours, therefore there are more paintjobs that weren't shown. The IRIS website can be found here (still in construction) so you can check it out: http://www.irisfss.com/

I hope you all liked the shots, I am certainly enjoying this bird.

Jose.
 
It's not out yet! :D


It's ready, it's on my backup server and will be sent to vendors first thing Saturday morning.. :) That being about 16 hours from now.


In the meantime, I'm flat out on the new site layout, fixing coding here and there, sorting out forums etc ready for release of the Twin Star. The site that Jose pointed out is our backup site where we do the dev work prior to moving to the active site. Don't bookmark it, and don't take information on it as gospel.. As I said it's the dev site.

Further to my last, I've now password protected the dev site so you can't see what's hiding in there...bwahahaha... ;)



DB.
 
I'm surprised so few developers took advantage of the default G1000. Kudos to you guys for being innovative!! Surely that's saved a bit of time.
 
Wow that looks fantastic. Is it just the screen shot but on the 2nd - the MFDs seem to break through the cockpit reflection - otherwise i cannot wait to purchase :jump::jump:
 
I've noticed that as well.. Not sure why it does it. I can only assume that it's something to do with the fact that the MFD's in the external model are copies of the ones in the VC. (ie working gauges) and they use different material settings than your standard interior textures.

I don't think it's a show stopper, but if its a real pain for everyone I can replace the gauge with a static texture on the MFD's in the external model. :jump:
 
Sideshow said:
You didn't happen to include one of these did you?

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Fugr...12378/L/&sid=dedcdaf822136308312de3ea477d0162
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I guess it's still up for grabs whoever wants to paint that paint scheme, looks great!

And yes, the shot below the Hellenic Force DA42 screenie, is a drone, very cool... There are way more paint schemes that I didn't show because of restrictions on the quantity of screenshots able to post, so I have a lot of flying on the DA-42 to try them all.

One thing that impressed me about this aircraft, is the wing lenght-width, if it wasn't for the engines on them I'd say that it's a sailplane.

Jose.
 
tigisfat said:
I'm surprised so few developers took advantage of the default G1000. Kudos to you guys for being innovative!! Surely that's saved a bit of time.
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This is actually a reason I avoid these types of products. Not really innovative imho...

I'm sure it's great for flying around PNW scenery or wherever, but for online vatsim or ivao it's nice to have updated charts and procedures (ie RXP GNS, f1 Mustang G1000, etc)
 
ryanbatc said:
This is actually a reason I avoid these types of products. Not really innovative imho...

I'm sure it's great for flying around PNW scenery or wherever, but for online vatsim or ivao it's nice to have updated charts and procedures (ie RXP GNS, f1 Mustang G1000, etc)
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Each to their own.. :) That's not the market we were aiming for. Our DA-42 is aimed I'd say more at the casual flyer. The Eaglesoft one as far as I know will use some special aftermarket G1000 which we were looking into a while back, however the licence cost was way to high for our project budget, so if you're after better avionics I'd possibly wait for that one..

Either that or I could consider modding the DA-42 to include reality xp gauges if users have already purchased the gauges... I can't imagine it's a huge task.. :)

Lots of options.. ;)
 
Smudge said:
I don't think it's a show stopper, but if its a real pain for everyone I can replace the gauge with a static texture on the MFD's in the external model. :jump:
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Hi

If I could have the option that would be great as if it is noticable on screenshots then it must be very apparent when in motion.

Does the moving mfds also effect frame rates in external view? MFDS tend to impact my PC.

Keep up the grrrrrreat work!!

Regards GJ
 
tigisfat said:
I'm surprised so few developers took advantage of the default G1000. Kudos to you guys for being innovative!! Surely that's saved a bit of time.
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I also agree, no use for special, custom units when the default works fine for me.

Great looking model! Like the chick in the backseat, LOL.
 
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