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SolarEagle said:
Boy I don't know, it will be hard to buy this after seeing the VC renders from A2A's FW190. Guess I'll need to wait until this is in the hands of some of the screenshot artits around here, as I'm not sold yet! :kilroy:
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Of course I'm biased and perhaps you consider me not as objective as I should perhaps be. But I can assure you I don't know a VC which is equal to the VC from the Classics Hangar FW190.

I have posted these images before, but as you can see even the faces from the gauges are fully 3D modelled and on my modest machine I don't have any problems with framerates.

The VC has "normal" VC light, but when you switch off the VC light the gauges remain "radium" illuminated.

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Cheers,
Huub
 
Impressive! The merging of real and virtual. Soon you won't be able to tell when the former ends and the later begins.
 
Hey Gnoopster, where have you been hiding?
Great to see you around, mate!


Gnoopey said:
... I bet you guys won't be disappointed from this one ... I'm pretty sure!

A VC like this one was never done before in the FS 'world'!

See the preceding work thread over at netwings to wet your appetite - guess Mathias is too modest to point to it, isn't he? ==> http://forums.netwings.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5244&page=7&pp=10
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You're right, there are better salesmen around here than me.

And yepp, they look great from within the design proggy.
The art is to get that look over to the simulator.
I think we didn't do all too bad on that part.
The gauges alone have been under developement for something like three years.
Admitterable not just the Fw190 gauges but a complete set of true-to-real German WWII period aircraft gauges developed from manufacturor drawings and many other references provided by -beside others- the leading expert in that field, Peter Cohausz. You won't see them closer to the real deal in FS anytime soon.
Here's some FSX screenshots of the VC, different variants, A-2, A-4, both factory fresh and second hand from your favourite aircraft dealer. :kilroy:
Those early Fw190 variants had a cover over the main gauges.
In the next release, A-5 to A-9 you can see them fully nude in all their glory.:costumes:

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Great shots Mathias! I've seen them all in the betas but nontheless they do look fabulous in those shots.
 
Thanks for the additional images. Those gauges are in fact very impressive. I had not seen the detail in them before.

One thing with military planes is its hard to see the normal map and model details with the flat paint schemes, so it's been hard for me to see the details with this one in most of the screenshot, though the ground shot on the last page does a pretty good job of showing it off with the way the light catches it.
 
SolarEagle said:
Thanks for the additional images. Those gauges are in fact very impressive. I had not seen the detail in them before.

One thing with military planes is its hard to see the normal map and model details with the flat paint schemes, so it's been hard for me to see the details with this one in most of the screenshot, though the ground shot on the last page does a pretty good job of showing it off with the way the light catches it.
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Roger that, SolarEagle.
The Fw 190 is not supposed to show too much bumps in external view, being a second generation fighter with flush rivets and panels. The interiors back then where designed and painted in a way to not distract the eye from the gauge readings so we don't use overly agressive eye-catcher effects either but go with an accurate allover RLM 66 color.
There's a lot of subtle lighting and shadowing going on though in this pit that really comes to life when it's in motion.
 
I was reading through the manual and this looks like a really nice package. I noticed the gear operation method, and I'm wondering if that method needs to always be used or if a simple press of the G keys works as well?
 
SolarEagle said:
I was reading through the manual and this looks like a really nice package. I noticed the gear operation method, and I'm wondering if that method needs to always be used or if a simple press of the G keys works as well?
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The G-key works as usual.
Just if you decide to use the cockpit buttons and stuff you should follow the manual.
If you forget to switch on the gear motor before pulling the handle you'll perform an emergency release what'll effectively take away the ability to retract the gear again.
Same goes for engine start. CTRL+E works but if you go for using the VC you need to follow the procedures.
 
Mathias said:
The G-key works as usual.
Just if you decide to use the cockpit buttons and stuff you should follow the manual.
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Ok good. Maybe it was a silly question but I once bought an add on where there was no ctrl-e support so you had to do a manual engine start everytime, and that wasn't for me.
 
you guys should release this on friday, which is oddly enough the same day im getting my next tattoo which happens to be a 190 hahahahah
 
Did I read somewhere that there's going to be a historically correct paint version? In other words is it going to have that broken cross thingie on it?:whistle:
 
MudMarine said:
Did I read somewhere that there's going to be a historically correct paint version? In other words is it going to have that broken cross thingie on it?:whistle:
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Not "out of the box", Mud.
I would suspect that someone will adress that in no time at no download size though. :kilroy:
 
I understand.....you need to be able to sell it to everyone. Personally I like the historically correct paints but that's an old dead horse that's been beat to a pulp! Well, it's Wendsday, the middle of the week lull which means only a few (2-3) more days!:jump::applause:
 
MudMarine said:
I understand.....you need to be able to sell it to everyone. Personally I like the historically correct paints but that's an old dead horse that's been beat to a pulp! :
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No, the reason is that the swastika is forbidden by law here where I live and where we have our servers.
 
Mathias said:
No, the reason is that the swastika is forbidden by law here where I live and where we have our servers.
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Rgr, that was my point......to be able to sell it to everyone becuase the German constitution forbids the swastika. The dead horse is the debate that always occurs around here about about "historic" paints = swastika a or no swastika.:ernae:
 
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