MVG3d's historical 2d panel for Quai/D'Attomo's FS9 S.M.82!!

[kelticheart]

2d panel update pack for Quai/D'Attomo FS9 S.M.82 Canguro converted to CFS2.zip

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Panels Add-Ons

Description: Addon pack containing Manuele Villa's (a.k.a. MVG3d) historical S.M.82 2d panel reproduction for the CFS2 conversion of Capt. Giovanni Quai/Capt. Italo D'Attomo's FS9 Savoia-Marchetti S.M.82 Canguro (Kangaroo) cargo aircraft, included in Skylane's "Defense of Sicily" campaign pack.

Historical gauge layout by kelticheart.

Included are alternative full disc and single blade prop textures, plus propeller blade textures that add yellow safety tips, matching the blurred prop disc.

Besides, a damage profile payload array created with MVG3d/Blood_Hawk23's Italian WWII historical bombs.

Enjoy!
KH

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit 2d panel update pack for Quai/D'Attomo FS9 S.M.82 Canguro converted to CFS2.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

 

[kelticheart]

A good day to everybody!

As promised earlier, I just uploaded an update pack containing Manuele Villa's (a.k.a. MVG3d) historical 2d panel reproduction for the Savoia-Marchetti S.M.82 Canguro (Kangaroo) cargo aircraft.

Manuele and I worked on this 2d panel upon request of our good Peperez last fall, as a complement to his CFS2 conversion work-in-progress of the same aircraft model, built by Francesco Giuli for FS2004. While Manuele painted the 2d panel, and touched up several Italian gauge bitmaps I had previously worked on to produce more Italian WWII gauges, I worked on the historical panel gauge layout.
Sadly for Peperez, he experienced a massive pc breakdown and everything went on hold.

We decided to make all of the new gauges available to the SOH community and to all of the panel builders here, so I uploaded separately the entire library:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=46&id=20221

and its related Pilot's Handbook:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=17&id=20168

to take full advantage of the new gauges.

When our good Skylane uploaded recently his "Defense of Sicily" MTO campaign pack, it seemed to me that Manuele's work of art could also fit very well the CFS2 conversion of Quai/D'Attomo's FS9 S.M.82 included in the upload.

I took the opportunity to include also alternative full disc and single blade blurred prop textures, plus propeller blade textures that add yellow safety tips matching the blurred prop disc.

The work didn't seem complete to me without an alternative damage profile file, where I replaced stock US payloads with MVG3d/Blood_Hawk23's Italian WWII historical bombs you can find here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=17&id=20645

You will find two 2d panel versions, a classic 1024 x 768 bit, adapt to old 4/3 monitors, and a 1600 x 1200 bit, a Win7-safe format.
Besides, a nice metric bombardier-sight, developed by Peperez.

As usual, I hope you will enjoy it!

KH

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Kelticheart,

Great! Now to keep a promise I made to Collin before he passed...

 

[No Dice]

Wow, That is a real beauty, My hat is off to ya'll.
What a great piece of work.

Dave

 

[kelticheart]

Thank you very much, my friends, for your praises.

Let me stress again that, without MVG3d's painting skills and the work done originally by MAPE and several others (I hope I duly credited everybody, the list is big!) gauge programmers/designers, all of this work to provide CFS2 virtual pilots and aficionados with authentic looking Italian WWII gauges would have not been possible.

I only regret I wasn't able to do a better job with Quai/D'Attomo's SM82 VC panel. I fought with it to obtain a better look and reading ease for almost three days in a row, until I gave up. The mapping issues of this converted VC are way beyond my skills to compensate for them.
Peperez's conversion of F.Giuli's S.M.82 VC works like a Swiss watch. This one doesn't.

If anybody here feels they can do a better VC job here and tune this one up, please be welcome to it: there's always room for improvements.

In all truth, I think "there's always room for improvements" should be the motto of this CFS2 forum. The hard evidence supporting it is considering where CFS2 was turned into, thanks to the volunteer work of so many talented people here.

KH

 

[skylane]

Very nice, Kelti! Thank you!

 

[kelticheart]

An overdue correction

Hi everybody!

Although Peperez and Francesco Giuli called the SIAI-Marchetti S.M.82 "Canguro (Kangaroo)", I always thought there was something amiss with such name. Over the years, I always read the real name of this cargo aircraft was another one.

After a careful research of original documents and thanks to a beautiful book recently published in Italy, celebrating SIAI-Marchetti 2015 centennial anniversary of its foundation, I determined I was right.

You can all check the above mentioned book here:

http://www.fromtheskies.it/piu-cent...-di-uomini-e-aeroplani-di-luciano-pontolillo/

it was published Italian-English bi-lingual, I was lucky to receive it as a precious gift for my recent birthday.

Manuele Villa, with his huge library of original Regia Aeronautica documents, just confirmed to me as well the real name of the SIAI-Marchetti S.M.82 is not "Canguro" but "MARSUPIALE".

The name in English is "Marsupial" and the kangaroo belongs to this class of mammal animals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial

You can get F. Giuli's FS9 creation here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=205&id=19515

The reasons for choosing a name referring to an animal species, which carry their pups in a ventral pouch, to baptise the largest Regia Aeronautica cargo plane designed to date in the late 1930's, are quite evident.

I am sorry for having carried forward this mistake when I uploaded MVG3d's 2d panel, at the time I thought I could have been wrong. Now everything is clear.

I am going to correct the name in the library entry.

KH

 

[skylane]

Hello Kelti!

I have heard the name Marsupiale before, but always thought it was the earlier SM-75, but of couse you are right!

I just looked it up in the book "Courage Alone" by Chris Dunning. According to this source, the name Canguro seems to have been used for the SM-75, and the SM-82 is referred to as the Marsupiale.

 

[kelticheart]

Hello Kelti!

I have heard the name Marsupiale before, but always thought it was the earlier SM-75, but of couse you are right!

I just looked it up in the book "Courage Alone" by Chris Dunning. According to this source, the name Canguro seems to have been used for the SM-75, and the SM-82 is referred to as the Marsupiale.

Thank you, Skylane!

Thanks to Captain Kurt, I know the book "Courage Alone", it's very nice.

If you can get in your neck of the woods “Più Cento. SIAI Marchetti. Dal 1915 storie di uomini e aeroplani” written by Luciano Pontolillo and published by Aviani & Aviani, of which I posted the link above, by all means get it! It's bi-lingual.

KH

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Stefano,

That's one of the two books I used for The Balkans Project!

 

[kelticheart]

Lucky pup!

Stefano,

That's one of the two books I used for The Balkans Project!

This means you got it before I did!

BOY, I'm so envious!

Did you check your e-mail box?

Stef