Manfred Jahn's freeware in MSFS ?

mgr said:
Which version did you convert? A true FSX version or a P3D version? For example the "windscreen.ddl" of the P3D version could be a problem?

Marcel

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Should we not notify Manfred and Javis for this conversion proces? Atlease that they approve.
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If Manfred approves i'd surely do too of course. The thing is though that i deffinately agree with Bazz when he says that it would be kind of a waste to put 'old technique aircraft models' aka FSX models, into our shiny brandnew virtual flying world. They'd probabely stand out like a sore thumb against all the totally amazing looking dedicated MSFS models. I mean, who'd want that ??... Sneaking you and your sorry looking plane in on the sly hoping that nobody sees you ? Hey, everybody look at that !!.... :loyal: :biggrin-new:

Nah, beautiful things will come to those who wait. Give it time to see what the possibillities are. Lets not rush in with half baked 'port over' models from a long gone FS era just because we can't wait for a dedicated amazing looking MSFS version.

I can only say i'll try to follow Manfred wherever he might be going. :)

Cheers,
Jan
 
Even a bowl of Onion Soup looks delicious when you sprinkle a bit of parsley on top. What I'm seeing is a lot of disappointed people, being disappointed at the incredible lack of depth in functionality. The A320Neo for example has so many overhead switches that dont work it isnt funny, and this philosophy of "shove the throttles all the way and fly" Is rather insipid. The love, care and dedication we put into our work for FSX just isnt there. Its all been slimed over by makeup and fancy bells that only work half the time. We NEED the FSX aircraft. Even old and in need of a new paint job, they are cherished and essential simply because we gave a damn, and they work.. I'd Love to see mine and Roberts P-61, Or Lionhearts Pasped, or any of a hundred other FSX aircraft brought up to date and put in game..
 
Javis said:
If Manfred approves i'd surely do too of course. The thing is though that i deffinately agree with Bazz when he says that it would be kind of a waste to put 'old technique aircraft models' aka FSX models, into our shiny brandnew virtual flying world. They'd probabely stand out like a sore thumb against all the totally amazing looking dedicated MSFS models. I mean, who'd want that ??... Sneaking you and your sorry looking plane in on the sly hoping that nobody sees you ? Hey, everybody look at that !!....

Nah, beautiful things will come to those who wait. Give it time to see what the possibillities are. Lets not rush in with half baked 'port over' models from a long gone FS era just because we can't wait for a dedicated amazing looking MSFS version.

I can only say i'll try to follow Manfred wherever he might be going.

Cheers,
Jan
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I tend to disagree in some parts.
There are a few good old treasures thats worth to take a look at it,
because they don't look too shabby in some case IMHO.


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If they are fully flyable, so why not?
And how long will it taken to build such model from scratch ?

Cheers
Ulrich
 
Am I wrong in thinking it'll only be a matter of time before a library of 3D gauges exist to replace the ones that have been 2D for so long?

Too me, that's the only sticky point. There's tons of really nice FSX Native models out there. And I imagine A2A is hard at work...
 
Found this video of Manfred's C-47...


Might add that guys over at Discord are doing a bang-up job on the C-47. They love her because she has a soul and better than a lot of payware aircraft.
 
TuFun said:
Found this video of Manfred's C-47...


Might add that guys over at Discord are doing a bang-up job on the C-47. They love her because she has a soul and better than a lot of payware aircraft.
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I was gonna ask if anyone had seen a rainbow in MSFS :)
 
TuFun said:
Found this video of Manfred's C-47...


Might add that guys over at Discord are doing a bang-up job on the C-47. They love her because she has a soul and better than a lot of payware aircraft.
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Well, powder me in sugar and call me a cupcake :cupcake:

Interesting find, Ted ! :encouragement:

The cockpit doesn't even look half bad. I suppose it's mainly the external textures that need to be lively-upped (if that's a word..) And isn't it like because it is native FSX PBR materials cannot be a applied ?.....

I do wonder about the T-6 Harvard in the first page ? I believe i recognise the A2A version so FSX too, right ?
 
So many aircraft I would love to see imported into this sim; not the least of which would be a LOT of Cold War USN jets! But I am waiting for a tool to do it! NC
 
Postbaer61 said:
I tend to disagree in some parts.
There are a few good old treasures thats worth to take a look at it,
because they don't look too shabby in some case IMHO.


PD4M9Dg.png


If they are fully flyable, so why not?
And how long will it taken to build such model from scratch ?

Cheers
Ulrich
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A loooong time, you bet.

And sure, this doesn't look too shabby at all. But does this hangar scene provide some sort of extra fancy treatment of the external textures ? Can you taxi out without losing these reflections and shine ?... Certainly Manfred's C-47 external model in the video that Ted provides a link for looks very dull, no shine, no reflections at all.
 
Javis said:
I do wonder about the T-6 Harvard in the first page ? I believe i recognise the A2A version so FSX too, right ?
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I think it's the Wozza Texan. But I might be mistaking. This thread is about freeware in MSFS, not?

Priller
 
Yes it is the FSX-native Wozza Carter T-6 (originally modeled by David Eckert (of FS2004 Stearman and B-26 fame), and with a pilot model by our own Mike Flahault (Flight Replicas)). When the A2A Texan came out, it did look very similar, and with a similar-looking pilot too (it never has had the tailhook option though, like the Wozza T-6).
 
Priller said:
I think it's the Wozza Texan. But I might be mistaking.
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No, i think you're right and i was mistaken. :drunk:

My first thought too, Wozza's.... but i can't even remember if that actually is a native FSX model so i guessed it must be A2A. But it isn't so well done. :encouragement:
 
Manfred Jahn,s ported

Hi,
Would it be possible to distribute a link of a library somewhere where all ported complete aircraft can be found for downloading?
Could Simouthouse e.g. create such a library?

With kind regards,
Piet de Geus
Netherlands
 
degeus said:
Hi,
Would it be possible to distribute a link of a library somewhere where all ported complete aircraft can be found for downloading?
Could Simouthouse e.g. create such a library?

With kind regards,
Piet de Geus
Netherlands
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Hi Neighbour,

Greetings from Belgium!

I think that is somewhat soon. I don't think the developers in question have given their permission for their creations to be shared in ported form.

They would all have to be contacted and they would have to give their permission.

Maybe, just maybe, they're already working on converting their creations to the new flight sim. We can dream can't we? ;)

Cheers,

Priller
 
I wouldn't upload any of the conversions that I have done for two reasons: I don't have the developer's permission and they are incomplete or non functional. What people need to realize is that Asobo's promise of backward compatibility wasn't exactly truthful. While the models (FSX not P3D) are usable, pretty much everything else isn't. The only gauges that work are 3D modeled gauges. No GAU,DLL, or CAB files will work. Another issue that we're running into is that the SDK is incomplete. Asobo hasn't even started on the gauge section yet. Flight dynamics are also screwed up on many conversions. Many of you seem to think that "Port Over" to MSFS is as simple as it was from FS9 to FSX. It just ain't so. If you download one of these conversions, you WILL be disappointed. It will be incomplete and buggy.
I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but it will be quite some time before I would expect full functionality from these models.
 
Navy Chief said:
So many aircraft I would love to see imported into this sim; not the least of which would be a LOT of Cold War USN jets! But I am waiting for a tool to do it! NC
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Well, just take it easy, Chief, gonna be a loooong night. In the mean time you might wanna settle for this:


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I did see the download for the free F/A-18, but am not going to bother with it. Way too many bugs and overall things wrong with it. I am sure there will be plenty of addon aircraft made available soon. I am not in THAT big of a hurry! NC
 
Sooo... in the meantime, I've been investigating liveries. One thing I'd like to do is replace all those silly ASXXXX N-numbers to more realistic ones. I figure for those planes that no one has developed liveries for, I can just create a liveries directory in Community, copy the appropriate files over find the aircraft.cfg and edit it appropriately and...


But I'm noticing the Asobo planes don't have an aircraft.cfg file like the livery files I've downloaded do. Not even in a split up form as far as I can tell. But do they and I just can't find them?

How are people building these aircraft.cfg files? Where are they if they exist?

Editing existing ones to my liking is easy, but nobody has created liveries for the SR22 for instance, where is its aircraft.cfg file?

Thanks,

Tom
 
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