Westland Whirlwind Prop for FSX?

[PutPut]

Got it! Thanks, I'll figure out this search function, yet!:salute:

Paul

 

[falcon409]

Got it! Thanks, I'll figure out this search function, yet!:salute:
Paul

I agree, the worst thing they did with the new setup was take away the search function by Author as it was originally. As long as you knew who made it, the search was easy. . .not anymore.

At least they kept the archived older files so that function is still available with the "Warbird Archives" section. :salute:

 

[Rich]

Thanks Henk, had many tries with the MDLMat tool but nothing seems to happen whatever changes I make, I have a empty texture folder so the model shows all black in the hope that changes would show better.

Rich, except for Rob Richardson's FSX Gannet I do not have those planes... but this is how it works:

1. Replace the FS9 prop disk texture with an alternative bitmap from a native FSX (or FSX ready) aircraft

2. If necessary, fix the MDL file with Martin Wright's MDLMat tool:
- Locate the external and the VC prop disk materials (which can be a tedious process...) Usually, these materials are located at the end, with the Whirlwind they are LOD 01 26 (exterior) and LOD 02 46 (VC)
- Lower the diffuse alpha value, test it till the results are satisfactory, ballpark value is 25

3. Sometimes you also need to adjust the Aircraft.cfg prop_anim_ratio

This works for most models, I only had one sofar which I could not fix (the RAZBAM Alize )

Hope this helps; cheers, Henk.

 

[raptor19]

Great thread, finally found time to put all the bits together then did my usual trick of changing textures to .dds and editing the model file (with HxD) to change references for .bmp's to .dds. before adding thumbnails. Thanks Falcon for the panel - very nice. Only other thing that I changed was the colour of the RAF pilots' helmets as they should not really be blue but brown leather. Everything worked O.K. and I was very pleased, then I found Liohheart's additional repaints in the library so I had to add them as well, lol! Thanks Bill, they are very nice and the blue and red ones are certainly different and very eye catching.

Henk, if you read this I have a different problem with an Alphasim portover (BAe Lightning T5 - Gunsite) which to date I haven't been able to solve despite trying MdlMat and a Hex editor. If you or anyone else would be prepared to give an opinion or help I could start a new thread. :ernae:

Regards,

John N

 

[hschuit]

Thanks Henk, had many tries with the MDLMat tool but nothing seems to happen whatever changes I make, I have a empty texture folder so the model shows all black in the hope that changes would show better.

Rich, maybe OBIO's excellent tutorial on using MDLmat will help? You can download it from the SOH library - this is the page:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=8&sort=N&pp=15&page=2

 

[Hurricane91]

My thanks to Falcon and Hschuit for all of the leads, and great work by all of the people who contributed to tweaking Itoh's magnificent Whirlwind.