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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
New T-45C project - Work in progress...
- Thread starter Dino Cattaneo
- Start date
SkippyBing
Charter Member
What Bone and Heywooood said.
I literally can't see the point of flying a naval aircraft without Acceleration installed, never mind asking a developer of carrier aircraft to produce a crippled version so you don't need Acceleration and can't do carrier ops!!
I literally can't see the point of flying a naval aircraft without Acceleration installed, never mind asking a developer of carrier aircraft to produce a crippled version so you don't need Acceleration and can't do carrier ops!!
kilo delta
Charter Member 2015
I Agree. Besides....FSX Gold (which includes Acceleration) is now cheaper to buy than the standalone copies of FSX Deluxe and the Acceleration Addon pack (£14 last I saw it)
Wonderful work thus far,Dino! The T-45 is one of my FSX favourites. Now....where to get a copy of the NATOPS!
Roadburner440
Charter Member 2010
Very nice Dino! We had a whole bunch of these show up at Mayport last week to do some DLQ's on the carrier. Was thinking it would be nice to have one of these in FSX. You sure are a mind reader! Can't wait to see the final product.
doublecool
Charter Member
"the loadouts/accessories (baggage pod and practice bombs) are not modeled... I am not sure if it make sense to model them, as I've seen very few people using it in the previous version."
Dino, fantastic update but I hope you decided to... I liked the pod and flour bombs
I really enjoy your F-35 Your vapor effects on the wings and the engine intakes are the Best
and Heywooood Great screen shot
Dino, fantastic update but I hope you decided to... I liked the pod and flour bombs
I really enjoy your F-35 Your vapor effects on the wings and the engine intakes are the Best
and Heywooood Great screen shot
Roadburner440
Charter Member 2010
Never knew that. The only aircraft I paid attention to was when he released the F-14D, and been following him since that (huge F-14 fan!). Which I thought was an excellent aircraft from him.
http://simviation.com/1/download-file?file=t45cv185.zip&fileId=3299
couldnt find it elsewhere. there is also a new soundpack for it on avsim as well as a realistic HUD display around, and you will see why he would like to include the soundpack, it is nice.
couldnt find it elsewhere. there is also a new soundpack for it on avsim as well as a realistic HUD display around, and you will see why he would like to include the soundpack, it is nice.
Dino Cattaneo
Charter Member
Well, although I was proud of the my previous T-45C rendition, it is an old project and it is obvious that it is not anymore on par with the (increasingly high) level of quality of most of the add-ons out there.
The external model was not done properly...at the time I could not find drawings and many details were modeled starting from photos, hence there is some warping and general inaccuracy - and I also had a lot of difficulties finding images and documentation for the cockpit.
Working with NATOPS information (and cockpit diagrams) gives much better results and accuracy.
I am confident that the new Goshawk will be a huge step forward (with one exception - the new external 3D model is more complex and less frame rate friendly).
Anyway, the student/pilot cockpit is almost ready...
The external model was not done properly...at the time I could not find drawings and many details were modeled starting from photos, hence there is some warping and general inaccuracy - and I also had a lot of difficulties finding images and documentation for the cockpit.
Working with NATOPS information (and cockpit diagrams) gives much better results and accuracy.
I am confident that the new Goshawk will be a huge step forward (with one exception - the new external 3D model is more complex and less frame rate friendly).
Anyway, the student/pilot cockpit is almost ready...
mmann
Charter Member
Unfortunately, on my computer, frame rates are king. Actually, I have never had any problem whatsoever with the appearance of your original Goshawk, but that could be because I have never seen one in real life.
Regards, Mike Mann
Dino Cattaneo
Charter Member
For those who are interested, there should be a lot of interesting material to read at this addess - including T-45C manuals and course material (I wrote "should be" because -at present- I cannot access to the site):
https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/publications.htm
As I said I cannot access right now - but previously you could access the site (by clicking continue upon the error certificate) download a lot of interesting documents - good thing I saved a copy of each one.
As far as I can remeber, the NATOPS was not there - I was told it can be downloaded from a public USN site but I have no download link available.
@Mike Mann
Sorry to hear that... On the good side, the virtual cockpit makes a much more efficient usage of the graphic resources - actually it should be as smooth as the previous one, or even better.
The external model is using fewer texture sheets, but some of them have a higher resolution (2048x2048) - and the geometry is much more complex and detailed... I'll try to make some optimizations here and there... but those will be just minor enhancements.
https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/publications.htm
As I said I cannot access right now - but previously you could access the site (by clicking continue upon the error certificate) download a lot of interesting documents - good thing I saved a copy of each one.
As far as I can remeber, the NATOPS was not there - I was told it can be downloaded from a public USN site but I have no download link available.
@Mike Mann
Sorry to hear that... On the good side, the virtual cockpit makes a much more efficient usage of the graphic resources - actually it should be as smooth as the previous one, or even better.
The external model is using fewer texture sheets, but some of them have a higher resolution (2048x2048) - and the geometry is much more complex and detailed... I'll try to make some optimizations here and there... but those will be just minor enhancements.