malibu43
Charter Member
No worries. Someone answered most of my questions, and I think I found the rest of what I was looking for after some more searching. That P2V WIP looks pretty sweet...
SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer
- Thread starter Milton Shupe
- Start date
No worries. Someone answered most of my questions, and I think I found the rest of what I was looking for after some more searching. That P2V WIP looks pretty sweet...
LOL Well, it is slow, tedious work but I am making progress here, just starting to zero in on where I need to be and then I can start tweaking it. The texture is key and I will need some help on that to get the perfect effect. I do have sound working for it as well but too noisy outside to hear it of course.
LOL yes indeed. Still chugging away trying to improve on the FX and trying to zero in on some improvements, for better or worse, not so sure. :isadizzy:
tankerguy72
SOH-CM-2023
Thanks Duckie! as always texturing compliments from you mean a lot!
Wonderful work Milton! My tankers are waiting for some mudd dropping now!!!
Wonderful work Milton! My tankers are waiting for some mudd dropping now!!!
Thanks; I assure you that still screenshots do not do it justice.
Still a WIP trying to adjust colors, volume appearance, flow rates, smoke and trails.
tankerguy72
SOH-CM-2023
Blackbird686
SOH-CM-2025
Nice shot TG! Couple of radial Stoof's in the background too. 
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Maarten -
Charter Member 2016
Hi there,
I thought this unique clip had been removed from youtube, but I found it again today. It features the interior sounds of a Canadair CL-215 scooper fighting a fire at Istanbul Ataturk Airport some years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOGxXKIIR4
Cheers,
Maarten
I thought this unique clip had been removed from youtube, but I found it again today. It features the interior sounds of a Canadair CL-215 scooper fighting a fire at Istanbul Ataturk Airport some years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOGxXKIIR4
Cheers,
Maarten
Firekitten
Charter Member 2016
Right! I'm back from an evil evil weekend on Salisbury Plains so its back to work on finishing the Turbo Tracker cockpit graphics, shouldn't be long now I hope! I should have the finished stuff off to Milton before the end of the week!
Thank you FK; glad you got thru the weekend safely, and look forward to your results.
EDIT: Continuing to work on the retardant drop effects to improve on color reality. Next phase will be to try to get the aft portion to be more wispy and wind disturbed.
tankerguy72
SOH-CM-2023
Thank you FK; glad you got thru the weekend safely, and look forward to your results.
EDIT: Continuing to work on the retardant drop effects to improve on color reality. Next phase will be to try to get the aft portion to be more wispy and wind disturbed.
That's looking real good Milton!!
Maarten -
Charter Member 2016
Thank you FK; glad you got thru the weekend safely, and look forward to your results.
EDIT: Continuing to work on the retardant drop effects to improve on color reality. Next phase will be to try to get the aft portion to be more wispy and wind disturbed.
This Dutch geezer felt like a spoilt brat already with the Grumman 7 lot and the Turbo Firecat.
This screenie you posted, Milton, and the screenie of your VC and the paints earlier on, Firekitten, make me even more happy. I know I have to wait but I can't.....
Cheers,
Maarten
Daveroo
Members +
one other thing,tankerguy can tell if they do this state wide,or its just something i see up here,but usually the landing lights in the wing are on during a drop run,when they turn base to final for the drop run is when ive seen them come on...and from a ground pounders stand point,it sure helps us to see the incoming plane.
EDIT: tankerguy's shots on post 2727 clearly show what im talin about with the lights on for a drop..
According to the Checklist on Approaching the Incident, Exterior Lights .... As Required
we gonna git a blue gel retardant option?..............
jest stiring da pot................
Actually I have 12 versions of the textures used for the retardant.
Two are used in combination in the FX to give a sense of volume, texture and depth.
I have never seen other colors so cannot duplicate that. However. making a copy of existing and editing to change the hue should be easy enough.
tankerguy72
SOH-CM-2023
Yeah theyre landing lights (Wig Wag) style where they flash back and forth and theyre on from takeoff to landing! It improves visibility from other aircraft.
Thank you FK; glad you got thru the weekend safely, and look forward to your results.
EDIT: Continuing to work on the retardant drop effects to improve on color reality. Next phase will be to try to get the aft portion to be more wispy and wind disturbed.
Those new drop effects look pretty realistic already!
Sascha
Thank you Sasha. They are much better than what I started with but not nearly as realistic as they can/should be.
Unfortunately, the FXEditor program does not show all the FX changes properly so the next improvements will come at a larger time investment than the 12 hours already invested.