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P-38 nut
Just sharing a little here, mostly for those old timers who remember my P-38s.
You know the old saying, never say never... In 2008 I retired from FS development and then from simming altogether not long thereafter. Two months ago, I decided to get back into it a little, at least the flying part. But now, as of today, I've come out from development retirement a little bit.
A few days after re-installing FS9 I spent some time getting reacquainted with my each of my P-38s. Visually primitive by today's standards, I think they've held up rather well. Then..., as I panned around the exterior of my favorite (the M) I noticed that it was missing two rather obvious external features. I couldn't believe it! I examined each sub-variant in the M package an d each was missing the same features.
I then found that my L, J and F-5 were each missing the same features. THese were developed over a span of about 14 months, and In all the times I tested and flew them in 2007 and early 2008 I never caught it.
Major face palm.
Tracing back through my development history I figured out how the omission likely occurred. Very embarrassing, especially since it's gone unnoticed all these years.
This started nagging at me, and I found myself avoiding those models. Well, last week I forked over a tidy sum to a computer repair shop and had them recover what they could off my old, dead PC's hard drive that had all my FS files. Fortunately the P-38 files were all still intact, along with lots of family photos that I also really wanted to recover.
This evening I finally got FSDS 3.51 up and running, pulled up the old models and within a few hours had fixed the first of many. Now I can enjoy the models again.
First one to identify what is missing gets a prize. Not sure what that will be, other than being the first one
At some point I'll post the fixes if anyone is interested. I may tinker with the models a bit while I'm at it.
- dcc
You know the old saying, never say never... In 2008 I retired from FS development and then from simming altogether not long thereafter. Two months ago, I decided to get back into it a little, at least the flying part. But now, as of today, I've come out from development retirement a little bit.
A few days after re-installing FS9 I spent some time getting reacquainted with my each of my P-38s. Visually primitive by today's standards, I think they've held up rather well. Then..., as I panned around the exterior of my favorite (the M) I noticed that it was missing two rather obvious external features. I couldn't believe it! I examined each sub-variant in the M package an d each was missing the same features.
I then found that my L, J and F-5 were each missing the same features. THese were developed over a span of about 14 months, and In all the times I tested and flew them in 2007 and early 2008 I never caught it.
Major face palm.
Tracing back through my development history I figured out how the omission likely occurred. Very embarrassing, especially since it's gone unnoticed all these years. This started nagging at me, and I found myself avoiding those models. Well, last week I forked over a tidy sum to a computer repair shop and had them recover what they could off my old, dead PC's hard drive that had all my FS files. Fortunately the P-38 files were all still intact, along with lots of family photos that I also really wanted to recover.
This evening I finally got FSDS 3.51 up and running, pulled up the old models and within a few hours had fixed the first of many. Now I can enjoy the models again.
First one to identify what is missing gets a prize. Not sure what that will be, other than being the first one
At some point I'll post the fixes if anyone is interested. I may tinker with the models a bit while I'm at it.
- dcc
I was thinking the same thing. I really appreciate all your beta testing over the years. You caught tons of things I missed.