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F7F Tigercat SOH Project

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Have been flying the -1 "Polished Version" for a bit. In the spot view one can see that the mapping is superbly executed, very much improved over the original. This bird is a real beauty, what with it's shiny chrome main gear rims and spotless aluminum skin. A real air show eye popper. Not to mention she handles quite nicely on the ground with that castoring nose wheel, and is a very enjoyable plane to fly. My personal mount for those long weekend flights to Canberra... :biggrin-new:

Thanks Chief, hats off to your team as well. Have really enjoyed watching this excellent model evolve into the showstopper that she has become.

Cheers -- BB686:US-flag:
 
And before you ask :) the Tanker is awaiting textures, and I am awaiting the paint kit. gman5250 had to leave his home due to persistent smoke from the fires but when he returns, we will get both.
 
Honing excellence in fs2004

Thank you Milton:

For your continued input to your past treasures. Utilising all of your ever impressive modelling skills and the input of so many gifted sound, gauges, panels and flight gurus. You continue to hone, burnish and improve what was already impressive.

I find flying your models extremely satisfying and rewarding. Simulation is all about the detail, accuracy and overall realism that is achieved. Maximising all the effects available to give us that warm fuzzy feeling of 'being there'.

I note your very effective excursion into radio antennas, another touch to add to the overall 'wow' factor.

Rgds
Mal
 
vonernsk said:
Thank you Milton:

For your continued input to your past treasures. Utilising all of your ever impressive modelling skills and the input of so many gifted sound, gauges, panels and flight gurus. You continue to hone, burnish and improve what was already impressive.

I find flying your models extremely satisfying and rewarding. Simulation is all about the detail, accuracy and overall realism that is achieved. Maximising all the effects available to give us that warm fuzzy feeling of 'being there'.

I note your very effective excursion into radio antennas, another touch to add to the overall 'wow' factor.

Rgds
Mal
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Thank you Mal; you are very kind.

These projects have many talented contributors; my work would not be so impressive without their contributions.
And if you look at the credits, there are many forum contributors who do not show up on that list. There are many behind the scenes contributions that make it all possible, like manuals and reference material.
And to all of them, I am most appreciative.

On a side note, there have been a few paint schemes released on the FSX native side from the beta testers. These are compatible IF you convert the format, size, and alpha channels.
Convert DDS to bmp, 2048 to 1024, and alpha channels will need lightening up about 50-70% so the grays are in the 225-230 range.

DXTbmp will convert to 32-bit for you, but you must then export each of the alpha channels.
Once the alphas are saved, you can lighten them with most graphics programs.
Then resize the primary channels to 1024.
Then using DXTbmp, open each resized primary channel, Import the new alpha channels and save as 32-bit.

The textures that need to be converted are fusefront, fuserear, htails, eng0, eng1, wingleft, and wingright.

All the other textures can be copied from any one of my texture folders.
 
Excuse me for getting a bit sappy but Thank You Milton and all you terrific contributors! I know it has been a long haul of a project(I remember those very first forum threads a couple or so years ago when it all started)but as can be seen it has turned out to be a great piece of work! Again thank you too all you wonderful talented people! I will not ask for anything else!:very_drunk:

Joel :encouragement:
 
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Excuse me for getting a bit sappy but Thank You Milton and all you terrific contributors! I know it has been a long haul of a project(I remember those very first forum threads a couple or so years ago when it all started)but as can be seen it has turned out to be a great piece of work! Again thank you too all you wonderful talented people! I will not ask for anything else!:very_drunk:

Joel :encouragement:
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Thank you Joel. Yes, April 2010 to be exact. The project really deserved more than I could give it at the time so it had stops and starts due to other in-progress projects.
We did get teh WIP done in time for the RTWR the next year and it was flown in every race since. It's not the fastest aircraft but it is one of the sweetest and most comfortable ones to fly in all wx conditions and runway types for landing in IMC.

I was wanting to go all out on the cockpit this time but that was not in the cards either with so many projects awaiting release. The good news is the FSX native version once released is intended to get a full 3D cockpit treatment for later release by gman5250.
 
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this? It works perfectly other than this gauge not loading. It does this with each of the 3 new models, it will also show the warning again when entering the cockpit.
 

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Anyone have an idea what might be causing this? It works perfectly other than this gauge not loading. It does this with each of the 3 new models, it will also show the warning again when entering the cockpit.
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Terry, the only thing that comes to mind is that you need to be up-to-date with FSUIPC in GW3,

"... ensure you have the latest FSUIPC installed (3.74, as of April 2,
2007,) available here:
http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

Version 3.7 is the earliest version which the starter gauge will work with."

The current FS9 latest is 3.999 I believe but anything after 3.74 should work.

Let me know if this resolves the issue or not.
 
I have FSUIPC 3.999 so that's not it. I suspect it may involve the Windows 8.1 updates, they have caused many problems. Fortunately having that gauge is nice but not essential.

Thanks for the help.
 
Terry said:
I have FSUIPC 3.999 so that's not it. I suspect it may involve the Windows 8.1 updates, they have caused many problems. Fortunately having that gauge is nice but not essential.

Thanks for the help.
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That's correct; simply comment out the gauge in the panel.cfg.
 
F7F-3N Tigercat (ex-F7F-3E, ex-F7F-3) NX739AK of Tigercat N739AK LLC (ex-BuNo 80375) in the works. This (according to the FAA) F7F-3N did not have the big radar in the nose.

Cheers,
Maarten
 
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Terry said:
Anyone have an idea what might be causing this? It works perfectly other than this gauge not loading. It does this with each of the 3 new models, it will also show the warning again when entering the cockpit.
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I have the same issue, Windows 7, FS9. I just now upgraded my FSUIPC to 3.99, no change. I had to rebuild my system a little while back and I keep thinking there is a config file somewhere that I had to add problematic files to so FS9 won't complain.....

For now I've just been ignoring the message end enjoying this marvelous bird...
 
wbuchart said:
I have the same issue, Windows 7, FS9. I just now upgraded my FSUIPC to 3.99, no change. I had to rebuild my system a little while back and I keep thinking there is a config file somewhere that I had to add problematic files to so FS9 won't complain.....

For now I've just been ignoring the message end enjoying this marvelous bird...
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Do you mean FS registry repair? That exe file is available at Flight 1 (freeware).

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Working on LaPatrona for the F7F-3, only got the rear to get in the blank metal some how and then I get get the noseart and should be done by next week.
 
wbuchart said:
I have the same issue, Windows 7, FS9. I just now upgraded my FSUIPC to 3.99, no change. I had to rebuild my system a little while back and I keep thinking there is a config file somewhere that I had to add problematic files to so FS9 won't complain.....

For now I've just been ignoring the message end enjoying this marvelous bird...
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Are you referring to this in the FS9.cfg?


[OldModules]
fssound.dll=1
FSNav.dll=1

That is all I have on mine so I do not think it is related.

Bill, did you not run an earlier version of this aircraft that had this gauge function, or the A-26 in FS9?

EDIT: As a last resort, you can always comment out the gauge in window00:
gauge29=//A26_engine_start!engine_start, 2,2,2,2
 
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Maarten said:
F7F-3N Tigercat (ex-F7F-3E, ex-F7F-3) NX739AK of Tigercat N739AK LLC (ex-BuNo 80375) in the works. This (according to the FAA) F7F-3N did not have the big radar in the nose.

Cheers,
Maarten
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Great Maarten :jump: I look forward to this one.
 
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