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Hurricane91 said:
Hey OBIO, great job on the A-20. Thank you. Do you know if anyone did an early U.S. Air Corps texture in polished aluminum?
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give me a day or so and i'm all over it :icon_lol:

got an image of the scheme in mind as theres quite a few USAAC Alu schemes i can see :icon_lol:
 
Taking the MDL file from the Boston/Havoc and seeing if I can make it reflective. In stock form, it's not reflective ready. Will report back shortly.

OBIO

The MDL was a bit stubborn, but I convinced it to take the reflective tweak via MDLC 117. Now I just need to run it through a hex editor real quick and we will have a MDL file upon which to spray some bare metal skins.

The tweaks are done, tested and passed. The tweaked MDL file was just uploaded to the FS2004 Other section of the Warbirds library.
 
The B word is alive and well down under http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBx4Ql6Umo :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

And we're proud of it.

Pete.




nigel richards said:
That's true Andy, I grew up in that wonderful land of Vegemite, Kalgoorlie stout and good hearted buggers. But we 'Pommies' are just as guilty ourselves when it comes to changing the actual meaning of the word.

"well I'll be buggered" term often used when pleasantly and genuinely surprised by some event or fact.
"it's a bugger"; some difficult task or situation, not always unpleasant, rather, difficult to accomplish - (I often use it while working on Ardour sounds).
"old bugger"; term of affection, endearment and often, leg-pulling towards a wise old mischievous friend or aquaintance.

Anyway, I'm buggered if Obio is going to appreciate this thread being turned into some wierd 'limey' list of language quirks, so I'd better leave it at that and...well...bugger off I s'pose.



Oh bugger! nearly forgot; nice panel Obio. :applause:
I bet you're as much of a bugger for Guinness as the rest of us are, so here goes :guinness:
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I remember this plane from a while ago and always enjoyed flying her around... so I'm going to have a go with these new panel and model mods. :salute: I will play with the prop texture a bit and if I come up with something good, I'll post it here.

Edit: Geez, this little beauty really brings back memories of the good ol' AlphaSim days. Excellent work on the model file and panel mods OBIO! Nigel's "Fast Cats Sounds" work really nice for this plane and seem to fit really well. Just curious... was the omission of the magnetic compass in the 2D panel an intentional thing? It's right where it belongs in the VC.

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Blackbird686 said:
Just curious... was the omission of the magnetic compass in the 2D panel an intentional thing? It's right where it belongs in the VC.

BB686:USA-flag:
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Noooo....simply didn't pay enough attention to the 2D before I "finished" the project. I will go in and add the magnetic compass to the 2D panel and add the needed line here in this post in a bit.

Glad you folks are getting some use of the the mods and tweaks...and some more air time in the Alpha Boston/Havoc. This plane was a real workhorse during WW2, but gets over shadowed by it's more famous cousins, the B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, Lancaster, Wellington, Mosquito. And it's a drop dead pretty aircraft....nice shape, nice lines.

OBIO

BlackBird...don't bother trying to adjust the prop blur texture...there isn't one. The prop blur is the old style modeled in one that Alphasim was prone to use. I adjusted the transparency on the modeled in prop blur and made it less visible....and that's as good as it gets.
 
ok guys, she's just been wheeled into the paint hangar, might do a plethora of schemes, from RAF possibly into post war RCAF...
 
OBIO said:
Noooo....simply didn't pay enough attention to the 2D before I "finished" the project. I will go in and add the magnetic compass to the 2D panel and add the needed line here in this post in a bit.

OBIO

BlackBird...don't bother trying to adjust the prop blur texture...there isn't one. The prop blur is the old style modeled in one that Alphasim was prone to use. I adjusted the transparency on the modeled in prop blur and made it less visible....and that's as good as it gets.
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I found out about the prop... dang-it!!!. I remember one time AlphaSim had a really nice Junkers Ju-88 for FS-2002, maybe FS9. It had the same prop effect that was part of the model. I might have the plane on a back-up disk somewhere. The prop on the Havoc isn't bad at all actually, and the re-model is exceptionally nice, given that this plane has some really long teeth.. Thanks again, OBIO. :salute:

BB686:USA-flag:
 
the A-20 has always been a personal favorite.
i find it interesting that when the history and military channels
have programs about WWII American bombers,
they talk about B-17s, 24s and 25s,
but somehow film of A-20s always sneaks in.
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last spring, SteveB painted a very nice
"Plain Jane" version for me. :salute:
if anyone is interested.
 
I always liked the Havoc and thought that it was "under reported" too.

I've used it alot in CFS 2 and FS 8, but never thought about using it in FS 9. Guess with Obio's new updates I'll have to change that.

Thanks for rescuing another senior citizen Obio.
 
I believe those skins are the ones that come with the plane. I recognise both of them. BTW, Jagd... nice shots, especially of the A-20 flying over the river in the 3rd pic! :salute:

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Speaking of textures...

This morning I finally got caught up with things including some flight time with OBIO's mods. Geat job. Nice and enjoyable flight.

After I installed the model update, I noticed two additional textures that were not included in the aircraft.cfg. Texture folders 9 and 10 were essentially duplicates of texture folders 4 and 5 from what I can see. Can someone confirm this before I delete them?

IN searching for more addon textures, the only other addon texture I could find was by Enrique Medal and depicts the 47th Bomb Group, 12th A.F. Algeria 1943, based on a REVELL model release. I would think that since this a/c has been out for awhile, there would be more. So, are there more addon textures out there?

And has anyone updated any of the effects or lighting for the Boston/A-20 such as adding exhaust and shockwave lighting?

:ernae:
--WH
 
My 4 and 5 are a Vichy French and a Free French and my 9 and 10 are a two-tone green USA and a desert RAF.

OBIO

Shockwave Lights

light.0 = 3, -0.75, -30.25, 2.2, fx_shockwave_navred
light.1 = 3, -0.75, 30.25, 2.2, fx_shockwave_navgre
light.2 = 3, -30.75, 0, 1, fx_shockwave_navwhi
light.3 = 4, 7.41, 0, 1.09, fx_shockwave_vclight
light.4 = 4, 14.28, 0, -1.37, fx_shockwave_vclight
light.5 = 4, -8.96, 0, 1.46, fx_shockwave_vclight
 
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