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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Northrop F-15A / RF-61C Reporter

Thanks folks!

I write the books in the daytime, and by night craft the airplane. I used to fly for real as a PPL but my colour blindness restricts what I can do. Fortunately, virtual reality finally became a thing about the same time and I've been hooked ever since on flight sim! Loving every minute of seeing the world of fighter pilots etc from a true perspective, while being able to sip coffee at the same time. Building the planes that I wanted to "fly" but didn't yet exist was, for me, the natural next step :)
 
Jesus Dean. Even I'm havin heart palpitations over that last screenie and i'm your darned partner ::LOL:::..
 
Ah, another colorblind one! Same here, but never mind, in virual flying it doesn’t matter that much. That last shot is great, I’m sharpening my coloring pencils...
 
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Metal porn, exterior complete :jump:
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Wow!!!!:engel016:
 
Thanks everyone, really appreciate the kind words. I'm working hard to make this airplane as good as I possibly can.

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Jesus Dean. Even I'm havin heart palpitations over that last screenie and i'm your darned partner ::LOL:::..
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Aww, just for you then Pam: test flights this afternoon near China Lake, CA, checking for any texture or modelling errors in bright sunshine with HDR lighting on :)

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I'll see your BUMP and raise you an UPDATE!

Sorry for not posting more recently, I've been hard at work polishing things off with the Reporter and getting rid of graphical niggles. It will be released as a BETA very soon and is being tested as we speak. Some images of the aircraft taken this morning are below - I've coded for pilots to disappear when the battery is off and other little additions since learning a bit about XML :)

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A picture of Robert Stack with your all caps UPDATE!! would've been epic, but these pics will do! Looks fantastic!:encouragement: I just picked up the In Action book (in full color nowadays!) for the P-61 which includes the C model I never knew about and the Reporter. The way the rear steps retracted on the F-15 was pretty nifty with a crew member only needing to step on a plunger once on top of the plane. Looking forward to taking her around the patch!
 
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Was entry by an external ladder or up through the nose wheel well between the seats..?
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There was an external ladder that opened on the left side of the aft fuselage. Last man up stepped on a plunger on top of the fuselage and it closed! It may have also kept the boarding ladder in the nose wheel well.
 
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@DC1973,

are you using a Spec file texture as well? how about a Fresnel?
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Yup, a specular on the main fuselage metal, a Fresnel and then slight "pitting" of the metal via the alpha channel for the bump maps to give the metal some depth. I used the same Fresnel but reversed it for the canopy texture, so the glass reflects more evenly without going all blue when beneath a cloudless sky.
 
Love the period (short) when the props started looking like early jets which soon evolved. Also anything powered by an R2800!
 
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