Mike Stone's PBY 5A has a hole in it

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I just downloaded Mike Stone's Consolidated PBY 5A Catalina, installed it, a new panel set, several nice repaints. Fired the sim up, selected the 5A, got it into the air, only to find that there is a huge retangular poly-glitch in the bottom of the tail. I went back to Flightsim.com and then to SimV looking for a fix/update for the plane but found none. Is there a fix out there somewhere for this poly-glitch?

OBIO
 
it's not a glitch, it's a feature....Actually, that was the muzzle end of the "tunnel" for the belly gunner.

Jeff
 
OBIO said:
I just downloaded Mike Stone's Consolidated PBY 5A Catalina, installed it, a new panel set, several nice repaints. Fired the sim up, selected the 5A, got it into the air, only to find that there is a huge retangular poly-glitch in the bottom of the tail. I went back to Flightsim.com and then to SimV looking for a fix/update for the plane but found none. Is there a fix out there somewhere for this poly-glitch?

OBIO
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Do you have a screen shot of this glitch? can't seem to find it on my PBY. maybe you have an old copy from fs2002 days? don't know if he changed anything in the model to bring it to fs9.
 
This is what Obio is referring to...

mikes_pby.jpg


I had Mike's PBY on my FS2002 install and I seem to recall there was a fix for the hole in the tail.
 
Tarpsbird's screenshot shows exactly the hole I am referring to. Is there an FS9 version...I thought I grabbed it.. Will have to swing back by Flightsim.com and make sure. The zip name I grabbed is spby5a.zip.

OBIO
 
Turn off your Render to texture. Some of Mike's models have problems with certain video cards. The cat is a fairly old model of Mike's as well. It's actually a FS 2002 model, slightly updated.


Brian
 
OK, here's Mike's PBY from Garry Smith's site. No more hole. :)

mikes_pby_2.jpg


Garry's d/l is an update of the same USN version as spby5a.zip that Obio got from Flightsim.com, no other models were in the package.
Oops, my mistake, there are AI and no-turret mdl files provided.
 
Good to know that the d/l from Gary's site has the hole "removed"...that doesn't make sense does it..how do you remove a hole. I guess it would be more correct to say the hole was filled. I have the package downloaded but not installed yet. Will do that now.

Thanks for the help folks. I can always count on someone on this site knowing the answer to what ever question/problem is presented.

OBIO
 
Obio,
Maybe you or some other guru here can figure out how to fix the super-dark glass on Mike's PBY. It is apparently controlled by material colors in the mdl file but I have no idea how to adjust those values.
 
TARPSBird said:
Obio,
Maybe you or some other guru here can figure out how to fix the super-dark glass on Mike's PBY. It is apparently controlled by material colors in the mdl file but I have no idea how to adjust those values.
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Can do and will shoot you the revised MDL files (will do the turret and non-turret models...the AIs can wear sunglasses at night if they want to...rock on Cory Adams!)

Maybe I should contact Garry and see if he would want to include the tweaked MDLs in the download for those who do not know how to mod material settings. I had the glass tweaked in the original MDL, took maybe 2 minutes to fix, so I know what lines to look for in the MDL files to fix the glass.

OBIO
 
I wouldn't mind having that pair of models either. I used to fly the Cat quite a bit in BFU colors. My email is fs dot tom dot clayton at earthlink dot net.
 
any catalina repaints even personalised ones just let me know, just finished my Catalina Masters for mikes cat.
 
Is that a HE-115? Doesn't really matter in the long run, I want it! Where can I get it (please please please don't say AVSIM or Payware).

OBIO
 
Tom Clayton said:
I wouldn't mind having that pair of models either. I used to fly the Cat quite a bit in BFU colors. My email is fs dot tom dot clayton at earthlink dot net.
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Ask and ye shall receive. Will be a day or two. Have a full schedule today. Might be able to tweak the MDLs tonight....I think.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
Is that a HE-115? Doesn't really matter in the long run, I want it! Where can I get it (please please please don't say AVSIM or Payware).

OBIO
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Flightsim

Name: he115.zip Size: 776,197 Date: 03-14-2007 Downloads: 692
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FS2002 HE115B Seaplane. The Heinkel He 115 was a World War II Luftwaffe seaplane with three seats. It was used as a torpedo bomber and performed general seaplane duties such as reconnaissance and mine laying. The plane was powered by two BMW 132K 960 hp (720 kW) nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines. Some later models could seat four, Had different engines, or used different weapon setups. Model and textures by Richard Alexander van Hien.

Its for 2002 needs a few tweaks
i had to change the textures to DX3
and the panel
but its the only one i could find
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