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Lockheed L-749 ..... it's released

very nice, just dl'd it!

all this boac reminds me of wayne tudor, who painted the fsdz connie so well. anyone know what he is up to?
 
'Star of America' ready for departure. Man I love this aircraft. :wiggle:

Brian
 
Just for my own pleasure i thought i'd have a go at lively up the VC of Manfred's excellent 749 a bit. In my personal Connie book this venerable old Lady needs to be flown stricly from the VC and i thought the VC textures could do with a little enhancement here and there. Turned out quite a significant project though so i thought if there's enough interest i might try and contact Manfred for permission to upload this 'VC Repaint Kit'.

Here's a shot of what my KLM FLE office looks like now :

749vc1.jpg




It's all layered psd files so at one click on my colorize button i can change the color of just the panel. My old freighter needed a new Captain's panel, no time for painting, will probabely be just the primer for a long time to come :

749vc2.jpg



With a bit more effort it's also possible to repaint the whole cockpit. Here's my N494TW MATS office, just like the real thing, éh ? :costum:

749vc3.jpg


Personally i think it's nice to have a different cockpit appearance with every different Connie. Possible too with Manfred's Connies because there's no common texture folder for the VC textures. They work in FSX as well, in fact the screenies were taken in FSX.

If you like this 'VC Repaint Kit' for your own Connie cockpits we'll see what Manfred thinks about uploading here.

Cheers,
Jan, Connie aficionado pur sang :salute:
 
mjahn said:
My, that looks splendid Jan, go right ahead. And don't forget to drop a note over at Calclassic.
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I just did. :)

Wow, that was quick,Manfred ! Great to know you like what you see and thanks very much for your permission to upload !

Congratulations with your ongoing, superb Connie line-up ! :applause::ernae::applause:

Tschüss!

Jan
 
Hard to believe that a jewel like this still can undergo some improvements...

Excellent work, Jan! :applause:
Hartelijk bedankt!

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Hi,

AFAIK Wayne Tudor has stopped painting for FS (about 2 years ago). I have talked with him via email since then, but he doesn't frequent FS sites much anymore.

Hope this helps,
 
Thanks, guys ! :salute:

As Manfred gave his permission i'll clean up the psd's ( about 35 layers each as it is now.. :) ) and package them up. Will upload here during the weekend hopefully.

Cheers,
Jan
 
Javis said:
Thanks, guys ! :salute:

As Manfred gave his permission i'll clean up the psd's ( about 35 layers each as it is now.. :) ) and package them up. Will upload here during the weekend hopefully.

Cheers,
Jan
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THANK YOU for my first Christmas present this year!
 
Simply GREAT

THANKS a lot

just a little question is it possible to to have a point of you a little forward in order to see outside when we turn the head to the left or to the right at 90° (modification in panel.cfg or aircraft.cfg?);I use FSXand i see the cockpit inside when I have a look at 90°

Merci par avance
 
Hi,

we had lengthy discussions about the 'perfect' VC eyepoint and that's where we eventually decided it to be. Or points were a reasonable compromise between ability to see the outside for landing pattern (the more forward, the better) and the ability to see a reasonable amount of panel (the more back, the better). from the current position, you can still see at least one rpm gauge without having to change viewduring approach.

But feel free to experiment - the eyepoint setting is in the aircraft.cfg, I think.

Best regards,
Volker
 
Volker Böhme said:
Hi,

we had lengthy discussions about the 'perfect' VC eyepoint and that's where we eventually decided it to be. Or points were a reasonable compromise between ability to see the outside for landing pattern (the more forward, the better) and the ability to see a reasonable amount of panel (the more back, the better). from the current position, you can still see at least one rpm gauge without having to change viewduring approach.

But feel free to experiment - the eyepoint setting is in the aircraft.cfg, I think.

Best regards,
Volker
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The thing with eye point settings like Volker pointed out is that in FS it is indeed a compromise. Especially when mixing FS9 and FSX since the two simulators draw the world slightly different on the big canvas outside of your cockpit windows.
It also doesn't treat the old 2D panel which some people still prefer the same as the VC cockpit.

All that means you have to compromise to some extent during the development....and about 50 or so team internal e-mails later this is where we ended up.

FS actually looks at two different places for this one is in the aircraft.cfg which basically defines where the eyepoint is in relation to the center point of
the 3D model in X Y and Z
But there is also the panel.cfg in which FS defines what you see from this point on both the VC panel and the VC.
To make it even more fun FS also treats views accessed via keyboard short cuts separately from the view which you can move around with your hat switch.

So before you do anything make a backup copy of the original aircraft.cfg files and the panel.cfg file.

Stefan
 
Misunderstanding, I have the L749 Paint Kit, I was speaking of Jan's VC Paint Kit, that is layer so one can use different colors for the cockpit. :applause:

Keep us posted Jan.

Caz
 
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