Daube
SOH-CM-2024
Hi all,
Today I checked the Nemeth website for the first time, and went into the freeware section.
In there, they have mainly some old FS9 models which seemed to look good on the screenshots, especially for the VCs. Altought the gauges were all obviously 2D, the VCs seemed to be well detailled and nicely textured all around.
So then I thought it would be worth a shot to check how these birds would display in Prepar3Dv3. As most of you know already, Prepar3Dv3 does an excellent job in displaying FS9 aircrafts, with no "prop/rotor/windows behind the clouds/autogen" issues, self shadowing, cockpit shadows, etc... So I downloaded the Kamov Ka-26, which is probably the only existing decent model of this aircraft in the whole FS world... and it was displaying perfectly !!
The model does not have any transparency issues. The gauges are all in XML so they work correctly I think. More than that: all switches (I mean 99%) in the virtual cockpit are in 3D, so they are still clickable and I was almost able to perform a cold and dark startup!
Almost, because that bird is difficult to start and I didn't read the manual. 2D Panels are working fine as well. The exterior model looks excellent honnestly, I'm impressed by the quality of the exterior modelling. The VC looks quite good too. Of course, the 2D gauges look a bit dated, and the FS9 limited texture resolution is not helping, but despite this the VC still looks excellent and detailled. The sounds are not bad. Can't evaluate the flight model, but it flies like a tail-rotor-less, non-powerful copter as I expected.
Today I checked the Nemeth website for the first time, and went into the freeware section.
In there, they have mainly some old FS9 models which seemed to look good on the screenshots, especially for the VCs. Altought the gauges were all obviously 2D, the VCs seemed to be well detailled and nicely textured all around.
So then I thought it would be worth a shot to check how these birds would display in Prepar3Dv3. As most of you know already, Prepar3Dv3 does an excellent job in displaying FS9 aircrafts, with no "prop/rotor/windows behind the clouds/autogen" issues, self shadowing, cockpit shadows, etc... So I downloaded the Kamov Ka-26, which is probably the only existing decent model of this aircraft in the whole FS world... and it was displaying perfectly !!
The model does not have any transparency issues. The gauges are all in XML so they work correctly I think. More than that: all switches (I mean 99%) in the virtual cockpit are in 3D, so they are still clickable and I was almost able to perform a cold and dark startup!
Almost, because that bird is difficult to start and I didn't read the manual. 2D Panels are working fine as well. The exterior model looks excellent honnestly, I'm impressed by the quality of the exterior modelling. The VC looks quite good too. Of course, the 2D gauges look a bit dated, and the FS9 limited texture resolution is not helping, but despite this the VC still looks excellent and detailled. The sounds are not bad. Can't evaluate the flight model, but it flies like a tail-rotor-less, non-powerful copter as I expected.
