Wolfi's FSDS2 Japanese pilot

[kelticheart]

A good day to everybody!

I am ready to upload the promised updated prop textures/new payloads/gauge-controlled exhaust effects for Mauro Giacomazzi's aircraft collection we recently re-uploaded here at SOH. This will consolidate all of my previous uploads regarding Mauro's planes, which got lost over the years due to the ailments suffered by SOH in the past damaging the download archives.

I can anticipate here a few screenshots of the results, updating everything was a rather big job and there is something new, apart from new blurred prop textures: new payloads for Mauro's Hurricane MkIIC Trop and MkIID Trop "tankbuster", dressed in VVS-RKKA colours for the Russian front, using Thicko's Il-2 Sturmovik weapons.

I replaced in all Hurricanes Mauro's pilot figures because they are modeled as a planes, using, for example, Martin Wright's RAF pilot which is modeled instead as a true payload, thus freeing up places in CFS2 \AIRCRAFT root folder. William Dicken's RAAF pilot provided prefect replacements for tropicalised Hurricanes, but here comes the problem.

I haven't found any German-dressed "weapon" pilot to replace Mauro's GER "aircraft" pilot with and I used Wolfi's Helldiver US pilot, which, with its kaki overall, looks very similar to the flight suits worn by Luftwaffe bomber crews during the Battle of Britain. I can live with the fact this pilot figure is not German, but the yellow MaeWest sticks out like a sore thumb and I know several of you out there will not accept it.

Wolfi uploaded a while ago FSDS2 source files for a Japanese pilot, which has also a German face in the pack to be used as a Luftwaffe pilot.

BUT HOW CAN FSDS2 SOURCE FILES CAN BE USED TO TURN IT INTO AN ACTUAL PILOT TO ADD AS A PAYLOAD TO AN AIRCRAFT WITHOUT ONE?

Another option could be, if it will work, adding a German-like repainted flight suit for Wolfi's pilot in all of Mauro's Bf109's \texture folders, providing they will behave like CFS2 stock planes which allow such operation. I always read that CFS2 "reads" first the texture files in the aircraft root folder, before searching them in the \SCENEDB or in the \TEXTURE root folders.

Please help me out with this one, since we all need a viable German pilot figure to use with aircrafts that come without one, even if they are not many.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[wolfi]

My intention was to offer a Pilot who can be used as pilotfigure within an aircraft MDL. For a single Pilot, the figure must be convertedinto a BGL or MDL and be used as payload; -you can’t use a FSDSsource file directly. The uploaded figure must be posed into an aircraft beforeconverted (all body parts are moveable)
Wolfi

 

[kelticheart]

My intention was to offer a Pilot who can be used as pilotfigure within an aircraft MDL. For a single Pilot, the figure must be convertedinto a BGL or MDL and be used as payload; -you can’t use a FSDSsource file directly. The uploaded figure must be posed into an aircraft beforeconverted (all body parts are moveable)
Wolfi

Thanks, Wolfi for your fast reply!

It means it is useless to me for what I need, I wouldn't know how to convert it to a BGL anyway.

How about repainting your US pilot MaeWest jacket black, it would look more Lufwaffe-like, do you think CFS2 would take the repainted flight suit in the aircraft \texture folder over the texture stored in \SCENEDB\WEAPONS\TEXTURE? This is how CFS2 behaves when we want to change clothes to a stock pilot.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[Shessi]

Hi KH,
Something like this...?

I quickly repainted to see, and actually K, Luft BoB bomber crews would have used kapok filled LJ's, which were ribbed and this linen colour.
(A slightly(?) interesting fact about kapok, it is Ceiba pentandra seed-hair fibre obtained from the fruit of the kapok tree or the kapok tree itself. The kapok is a gigantic tree of the tropical forest canopy...well there you go!)


Wolfi,
Thanks for the very nice model, I forgot I had it. The japanese tex is excellent.

Shessi

 

[Typhoon Willy]

Kelti,

Wolfi's Japanese pilot would be appropriate for Europe, but what pilot would you use for the Bf109f-2 Trop? No need for kapok life jackets in the desert.

TW

 

[kelticheart]

YEAH, SHESSI!

Hi KH,
Something like this...?

I quickly repainted to see, and actually K, Luft BoB bomber crews would have used kapok filled LJ's, which were ribbed and this linen colour.
(A slightly(?) interesting fact about kapok, it is Ceiba pentandra seed-hair fibre obtained from the fruit of the kapok tree or the kapok tree itself. The kapok is a gigantic tree of the tropical forest canopy...well there you go!)


Wolfi,
Thanks for the very nice model, I forgot I had it. The japanese tex is excellent.

Shessi

Shessi,

simply magnificent, my friend! Are you thinking to make an upload?

TYPHOON WILLY:

I think in North Africa Wolfi's US pilot would be appropriate, although WD's Aussie pilot in shorts and light kaki would be just as looking good. But then, I already placed WD's RAAF pilots in the seat of every tropicalised Hurri....a dogfight would look like a family argument brought to its extremes!!!

But, on the other hand: who actually does pay attention in combat to the contents of an opponent's cockpit, instead of "watching one's six"? I'll tell you who: a short career-ed fighter pilot perhaps.......

Are we bordering on the rivet-counting infamy?

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[Typhoon Willy]

Kelti,

Although I enjoy some degree of accuracy, I hope I don't ever become a rivet counter! I've not seen WD's Aussie pilot up close, maybe I'll have to check it out.

TW