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Virtavia B-36H for MSFS Released to Marketplace 3/6

It's huge and heavy!

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First impression - interior is very good and more detail in the gear. But there's only one texture and the exterior model is probably derived directly from the old FS2004 one. Despite being a 4096x4096 texture, there's no more detail than in FS2004 - disappointing. Still, I can probably graft my PBR paints on to it reasonably easily.

That said it's still an impressive beasty!!

DaveQ

PS: This review is called a Rat Sandwich, nice bits top and bottom, bad bits in the middle!
 
DaveQ said:
First impression - interior is very good and more detail in the gear. But there's only one texture and the exterior model is probably derived directly from the old FS2004 one. Despite being a 4096x4096 texture, there's no more detail than in FS2004 - disappointing. Still, I can probably graft my PBR paints on to it reasonably easily.

That said it's still an impressive beasty!!

DaveQ

PS: This review is called a Rat Sandwich, nice bits top and bottom, bad bits in the middle!
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Well that's a bit disappointing. There were low resolution polys visible in the screenshots which I thought would be cleaned up at launch. Not sure why they didn't add texturing to the exterior. How is the sound set? Will it fly in FS2024? Asking for a friend.
 
dvj said:
Well that's a bit disappointing. There were low resolution polys visible in the screenshots which I thought would be cleaned up at launch. Not sure why they didn't add texturing to the exterior. How is the sound set? Will it fly in FS2024? Asking for a friend.
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To be scrupulously fair there is a bit more detail in the externals but not a lot. I'm a painter and decorator so the sound set isn't too important to me; in any case my sound system isn't exactly high-end. For what it's worth it sounds little different to the standard FSX/P3D one to my (a bit deaf) ears.

One thing I didn't try in my initial flight, was to see if the jets could be operated independently from the piston engines. Be fun if they could....

DaveQ
 
On the jets, once I was up and running just throttled back and turned the fuel off. The jets are in the overhead center panel.
 
Update - the sound is actually MUCH better. How accurate it is, watch Strategic Air Command clip of a take-off in 4k and judge for yourself....

DaveQ
 
Not there yet, but I suspect it will be on Simmarket at some point. The other FS2020 Virtavia releases are there.
 
Broke down and bought the big cigar. I would call it FSX with benefits. ;-) A good $15 sim and great for those who love this era of aircraft.
 
tommieboy said:
Is a paint kit included with this release?

Tommy
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Not as far as I can see atm. However, I think it might be easy enough, if time consuming, to graft on from your FSX .dds files. That's what I'm going to try anyway.

DaveQ
 
DaveQ said:
Not as far as I can see atm. However, I think it might be easy enough, if time consuming, to graft on from your FSX .dds files. That's what I'm going to try anyway.

DaveQ
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I'll ask Phil if he plans on providing one.

Tommy
 
New release for the sime, so I made a sticky and changed the title.

Hope Tom doesn't mind.

Priller
 
6 Turnin' and 4 burnin'. Do you hear the jet engines startup separately from the proper engines?
 
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