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OH_B-24J_Liberator by The B24 Guy and Allen!
- Thread starter Rami
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Well I just about got the full B-24J model done. I've had to spend the last 2 days ironing out some sloppy textue maping I did.
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Hey guys,
I sent Allen a message saying that the oscillation problems are now fixed. I want to thank him publically as well for his work, as well as The B24 Guy's selflessness, in allowing this project to go forward.
So thank you Allen, for all of your efforts on this!
Hey guys,
I sent Allen a message saying that the oscillation problems are now fixed. I want to thank him publically as well for his work, as well as The B24 Guy's selflessness, in allowing this project to go forward.
So thank you Allen, for all of your efforts on this!
The B24 Guy
SOH-CM-2022
Hi All,
Allen was kind enough to send me one to test. You all are going to love it.
I think I will have to ask Allen if I can use some of his parts and do an upgrade on the D model.
Regards,
B24Guy
Allen was kind enough to send me one to test. You all are going to love it.
I think I will have to ask Allen if I can use some of his parts and do an upgrade on the D model.
Regards,
B24Guy
B-24J Liberator.zip
A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Aircraft - American
Description: This rebuild of the stock B-24D Liberator converts the Liberator to Model "J". The B24 Guy was kind enough to let me use the OverHauled B-24D turrets and Virtual Cockpit. Come with most of the bells and whistles like animated parts and breaking parts. Model is Multi LOD use damage texture logics as well.
Comes with 3 textures (Olive drab, Desert and Bare metal) Skin templates are included in the textue folders for your painting pleasure. You will need a program that can read .PSD to use them.
To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit B-24J Liberator.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Aircraft - American
Description: This rebuild of the stock B-24D Liberator converts the Liberator to Model "J". The B24 Guy was kind enough to let me use the OverHauled B-24D turrets and Virtual Cockpit. Come with most of the bells and whistles like animated parts and breaking parts. Model is Multi LOD use damage texture logics as well.
Comes with 3 textures (Olive drab, Desert and Bare metal) Skin templates are included in the textue folders for your painting pleasure. You will need a program that can read .PSD to use them.
To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit B-24J Liberator.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
Shadow Wolf 07
SOH-CM-2025
A new addition to my hangar... thank you! 
Sarg Willy
SOH-CM-2014
A harty Thankyou Allen and B-24 guy ,
kelticheart
Charter Member
Alleluja!
Cheers!
KH
JUST WHAT WAS MISSING FROM CFS2 TO COVER LATE-WAR OPS!!!
A zillion thanks, Allen and The B-24Guy for breathing yet more life in the senior sim!!!
Fine choice Allen for the skins, no worries, I am sure several repaint veterans around here will take their spray paint equipment out of storage!A zillion thanks, Allen and The B-24Guy for breathing yet more life in the senior sim!!!
Cheers!
KH
beepee
SOH-CM-2023
Thank you Allen and the B24Guy
Wonderfull job
Thanks a lot.
Cheers
Very nice work. Thanks for your work on this ACTo the B24Guy and Allen
Very nice work. Thanks for your efforts on this one.
Cheers
Stuart
Wonderfull job
Thanks a lot.
Cheers
Nice job guys.
kelticheart
Charter Member
A question...
Hi Allen,
may I respectfully ask a question about the B-24J?
I installed it yesterday and I thought it derived from The B24Guy's overhaul effort on the stock D variant. Apparently, it comes directly from the stock model.
I don't understand why, after all the pain The B24Guy went through to turn the stock AI Liberator into something more acceptable and pleasing from the pilot's point of view, we returned with this new J variant to:
Overhauling the stock B-24D took The B24Guy a very long time, this model was the last he released and he did release it almost three years after the last overhaul job he did, completing the stock aircraft collection. The attached shows the new handsome prop blades in the B-24D and the working cowl flaps, compared to the J. I could live without the cowl flaps, but....
...The stock prop blades look really bad, besides, as shown in the attached shots, the J blurred prop discs do not fit my alternative B-24D prop textures I uploaded here twice, once in the stock prop discs update last year and once only last week, included with my "Hail Columbia" B-24D repaint. It means the J has a different disc size than the standard overhauled models done by The B24Guy.
In fact, the J disc outline is polygonal instead of round. It demonstrates the disc I painted is too wide and my alpha texture overlaps the disc contained in this plane *.mdl. The stock prop discs are indeed smaller than the better ones designed by The B24Guy.
The below shots are posted overhauled D first, followed by the overhauled J.
Please, let's not take this as "rivet counting", because it is not. Let's say instead that, for the time CFS2 came out, 1999 average computer technology did not allow anything better than the rough looking AI models. It was a deliberate, and correct for that purpose, MS' commercial choice to ensure the application would have run even on older, low-end machines.
Now, 15 years later, to me it's only slightly disappointing having to step back instead of forward, accepting again old visual compromises thus losing improvements already done previously.
With all of the above said, I did not mean any destructive criticism, I sincerely hope it will not be taken a such, and I renew my deepest thanks for Allen's volunteer hard work, freely and generously shared with the rest of the community. 
Cheers!
KH
Hi Allen,
may I respectfully ask a question about the B-24J?
I installed it yesterday and I thought it derived from The B24Guy's overhaul effort on the stock D variant. Apparently, it comes directly from the stock model.
I don't understand why, after all the pain The B24Guy went through to turn the stock AI Liberator into something more acceptable and pleasing from the pilot's point of view, we returned with this new J variant to:
- ugly stock propeller blades
- different prop disc than the overhauled models (probably stock, I haven't investigated about it yet)
- cowl flap animation lost, as in the stock AI model
Overhauling the stock B-24D took The B24Guy a very long time, this model was the last he released and he did release it almost three years after the last overhaul job he did, completing the stock aircraft collection. The attached shows the new handsome prop blades in the B-24D and the working cowl flaps, compared to the J. I could live without the cowl flaps, but....
...The stock prop blades look really bad, besides, as shown in the attached shots, the J blurred prop discs do not fit my alternative B-24D prop textures I uploaded here twice, once in the stock prop discs update last year and once only last week, included with my "Hail Columbia" B-24D repaint. It means the J has a different disc size than the standard overhauled models done by The B24Guy.
In fact, the J disc outline is polygonal instead of round. It demonstrates the disc I painted is too wide and my alpha texture overlaps the disc contained in this plane *.mdl. The stock prop discs are indeed smaller than the better ones designed by The B24Guy.
The below shots are posted overhauled D first, followed by the overhauled J.
Please, let's not take this as "rivet counting", because it is not. Let's say instead that, for the time CFS2 came out, 1999 average computer technology did not allow anything better than the rough looking AI models. It was a deliberate, and correct for that purpose, MS' commercial choice to ensure the application would have run even on older, low-end machines.
Now, 15 years later, to me it's only slightly disappointing having to step back instead of forward, accepting again old visual compromises thus losing improvements already done previously.
With all of the above said, I did not mean any destructive criticism, I sincerely hope it will not be taken a such, and I renew my deepest thanks for Allen's volunteer hard work, freely and generously shared with the rest of the community.
Cheers!
KH
I made the model from the stock B-24D model in gMax. I only used the OverHauled B-24 turrets and Virtual Cockpit.
So yes it has the stock stock propeller blades. No the OH and stock use the same prop disc but the OH texture changes the look of the prop disc. You can copy the prop_US_b24.bmp into the B-24J texture folder name it prop_US.bmp than the prop disc will look the same.
Cowl flaps are not likely to happen... They have to be done by key animation. Key animations means I have to set Closed and Open points by hand and because of MS is unable to make any thing the same I would likely have to do Cowl flaps animations for at lest 2 engines by hand and if the cloning dosn't mirror the animations I would have to do the Cowl flaps animations for at all 4 engines by hand.
So yes it has the stock stock propeller blades. No the OH and stock use the same prop disc but the OH texture changes the look of the prop disc. You can copy the prop_US_b24.bmp into the B-24J texture folder name it prop_US.bmp than the prop disc will look the same.
Cowl flaps are not likely to happen... They have to be done by key animation. Key animations means I have to set Closed and Open points by hand and because of MS is unable to make any thing the same I would likely have to do Cowl flaps animations for at lest 2 engines by hand and if the cloning dosn't mirror the animations I would have to do the Cowl flaps animations for at all 4 engines by hand.