The Catalina X is finally released.

[Paul K]

Yago, forgot to say thanks for the paints. More civilian paints for the Cat would be very much appreciated, if and when the mood takes you.

In any case, thanks a lot !

:ernae:

 

[CBris]

The New Zealand paint is nearly ready - just waiting the "go" from the owners (and a few detail corrections)

 

[gajit]

Excellent Chris

 

[Bruce Thompson]

Fire Retardant

If you have Aerosoft's Beaver on your flightsim, you have a Fire Fighting version. The effect will be in your effect's folder in FSX.

Just add this line to the PBY Civ cfg.

[smokesystem]
smoke.0=00.00, 00.00, -18.0, Aerosoft_Firefight


Give it a try, see what you think.


Bruce.

 

[Roger]

If you have Aerosoft's Beaver on your flightsim, you have a Fire Fighting version. The effect will be in your effect's folder in FSX.

Just add this line to the PBY Civ cfg.

[smokesystem]
smoke.0=00.00, 00.00, -18.0, Aerosoft_Firefight


Give it a try, see what you think.


Bruce.

Thanks Bruce,
I have the Aerosoft Beaver and didn't remember there was Fire version.
I suppose that goes with the territory at my age

 

[Dag]

Hi Chris,

Is the 3D lighting layers disabled on mid- and rear-section? Apart from that, great work :ernae:

 

[CBris]

Not finished yet - I have too much enabled on the front... (rope shadow layer) rofl...

There's still a load of alignment stuff to be fixed. And detail from the real world owners.

 

[Antoninus]

I have added a water ballast system as in the glider, so that the plane actually loses weight during a drop. But so far I found no way to modify where on the plane the water drop effect appears.

[EFFECTS]
...
WaterBallastDrain=fx_waterbomber

[Water Ballast System]
;/Tank.n =  Gallons,  Long,    Lat,   Vert,  iValve
Tank.0=500, 0.00, -0.000, -3.70, 1          //Front Fuselage
Tank.1=500, -8.10, -0.000, -3.70, 2          //Rear Fuselage

NumberOfReleaseValves=2
DumpRate=50                           //Gallons per second

 

[yago9]

I have added a water ballast system as in the glider, so that the plane actually loses weight during a drop. But so far I found no way to modify where on the plane the water drop effect appears.

That,s great .Is the deafult Fx glider effect ?

 

[Ian Warren]

Chris , shes looking Great ! , I have a good friend who tried to get on a flight during the last airshow , the closer of Wigram airfield , Christchurch NZ , he took a redundantcy deal , figured with a little time off , he'll go up to Auckland , to the Ardmore were its based and go for a flight from there , hes stopping at myplace in next weekend to get the Virtual feel

 

[Antoninus]

That,s great .Is the deafult Fx glider effect ?

No I have downloaded a freeware FS2004 waterbomber from flightsim.com (ea_fired.zip) and instead use the effect file from this package.

Due to the "WaterBallastDrain=fx_waterbomber" line, in the aircraft.cfg effects section, the alternative effect is used, so that the default water ballast drain effect has not to be altered.

 

[Quicksand]

"Mustang, Mustang, this is Voodoo 1... We have lost our wingman.. We are engaged with five, repeat, five. We are in deep s**t! Launch the Alert Five! Over!..... Oh, man! Am I in the dog house now! I couldn't stand the pressure anymore! I just had to have this plane. If I should not survive long past the first flight, so be it. When the "Counter of Pennies" aka the "Minister of Finance" at my houser sees my latest expenditure, I may be on the endangered species list locally..... Heh, heh!....................Downloading, as I ponder what my future may hold.....