Milton's A-26 in FSX

stansdds said:
Outstanding news!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the SOH A-26 in FS9 and the port over has been "ok" in FSX, but having one that is fully FSX is going to be great.

A revamped VC for FSX sounds good. Will it also be possible to upgrade the external model of the B-26K to include "C" series R-2800 engines? Sounds silly, but the reduction gear case of the C-series looked very different from the B-series R-2800's.
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I'll see what I can I do, but for the initial release, it will just be the variants covered as they were in the original FS9 release (with possibly the earlier gun-nose variant added, like the one I made using Milton's source files shortly after the original FS9 release). Any B-26K/A-26A work, if done, will be seperate/done at a later date, though I also don't want to step on any toes over at Razbam, as they have a very nice FSX B-26K already under development. With 'phase 1', it will allow anyone interested in a FSX-native SOH A-26, to not have to still wait for months to have it. Honoring the original idea (by the community, for the community), I'll only be providing these releases through SOH.

I'm a stickler for trying to only give/take credit where credit is due (much more so in recent years than in the past). When I eventually start posting screenshots/updates of the work (so as to show all who are interested that things are progressing on it/that I'm not slacking on the job : ) ), if you like what you see, please say so, but at the same time I don't want to take any more credit, for what will be done/shown, than I really should. For me personally, it is Milton's baby, and always will remain so, and on top of the fact that a number of other members have their work in the aircraft as well (for whom I will try to get in contact with soon). I do however appreciate any and all of the interest in the task at hand, and thank you for it!
 
God bless you, John and Milton. As far as I'm concerned the A-26 esthetically compares to the Spitfire as being the most beautiful aircraft that ever flew. Although I have a hard time with the B-26 designation. We already had a great Martin B-26 flying during the war. It always will be the beautiful A-26 to me.
 
Helldiver said:
God bless you, John and Milton. As far as I'm concerned the A-26 esthetically compares to the Spitfire as being the most beautiful aircraft that ever flew. Although I have a hard time with the B-26 designation. We already had a great Martin B-26 flying during the war. It always will be the beautiful A-26 to me.
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He's alive!!!!!!

Welcome back, Helldiver! You were missed. :applause:
 
Hey I missed this somehow, outstanding that this great bird will be upgraded!
Knowing John, we can expect great things...
 
Thank you for expressing an interest in this! As of right now I have been going through the exterior model, and replacing all of the FS9 materials with FSX materials. After that I will go through and assign all of the animations/coding. Once the exterior of the aircraft has reached this point, I will be re-doing the main exterior textures, in much larger resolution, from scratch, and thus by doing so I will also be able to more easily build up the specular and normal maps, which I hadn't planned on doing on this first release, but have decided to do so. I hope to post some screenshot evidence of all of this, soon enough. ; )
 
I'm sorry, but it has turned out to be not quite what I expected I'd be getting into (I'm not going to go into detail) and its fallen by the way-side over the past few months. However, as I mentioned to Milton a couple of weeks back, I've re-started the project just to get at least a no-fuss, bare-bones conversion done.
 
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The original panel and gauges were done by Rich Murray (Real old Salt) which I always liked a lot. Rich was enjoyable to work with and sadly he fell out of the FS community due to serious family issues.

John: Thanks for taking this up!

Regards: Tom
 
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