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Milton Shupe said:
Things are looking great folks :)

FYI, I will be offline for a few more days. My cable modem got toasted in an electrical storm along with my water heater and FS yoke. :-/

Hopefully I can get the cable model replaced Monday.

Please carry on in my absence. :)
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Sorry to hear about all that bad luck. Such a nuisance.
We'll all look after the shop. ;)

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Just a quick question in Milton's absence to anyone who might know the answer. On the PV-2D Harpoon, the engine magnetos appear to be modeled in but without textures. Any idea where in the bitmaps, they are supposed to be? Also the ADF football?

Thanks in advance,

W
 
Willy said:
Just a quick question in Milton's absence to anyone who might know the answer. On the PV-2D Harpoon, the engine magnetos appear to be modeled in but without textures. Any idea where in the bitmaps, they are supposed to be? Also the ADF football?

Thanks in advance,

W
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Willy, eculeverhsg for the magneto cover, and miscparts for the antenna.


FYI, I finally got a wireless connection setup thru my neighbor's Guest connection with permission of course. :)

EDIT: What is the date on your model file? Your version may be dated prior to the changes.
 
I've got 2 different models for the D. But the one I'm using is the one with the external tanks model.tgh and it's showing a 6-5-2015 date.

The no tanks has two dates in 9-2012.

W
 
Willy said:
I've got 2 different models for the D. But the one I'm using is the one with the external tanks model.tgh and it's showing a 6-5-2015 date.

The no tanks has two dates in 9-2012.

W
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Attached are the latest Harpoon D models. There is no longer a tgh model so change the cfg to point to one of these three.

There may be other changes to interior mapping that you will need so we will have to work through that or wait until I can release the Harpoons, which may be soon.

Model names legend: Tanks, Guns (includes turret), Hardpoints/Rockets/Torpedos For example: model.tgh
 
Willy said:
Just a quick question in Milton's absence to anyone who might know the answer. On the PV-2D Harpoon, the engine magnetos appear to be modeled in but without textures. Any idea where in the bitmaps, they are supposed to be? Also the ADF football?

Thanks in advance,

W
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Willy, I misunderstood your mag question; thought you were referring to the mag switch in the VC.

The mag covers modeled on the engines are not available for painting separately as they are group mapped to a darkgray texture. I may change that since you mentioned it.
 
Thanks Milton!

It's no big deal on the mag covers. I just use a different engine bitmap that has silver mag covers. (I've been known to polish 'em up)

The "generic" Harpoon that I'm doing at the moment is based on the ones that flew out of the Aleutians during WWII. Those had guns & tanks. Navy land based patrol bombers kept the tri-color camo right up to the end of the war.

(I wasn't that enthused with the "Attu Warrior" paint and figured I'd try my hand at one)
 
Wow, I like them all! Although, the fire bomber and the natural metal versions stand out for me. Great work as usual. :)
 
Starting to get the Wright's right...

lode9.jpg
 
C-57 C60A Model Updates

The Lodestars have some updates here including:


1) mapping of the exhaust headers to the winginner.bmp for better texturing possibilities
2) add military pilots to the c60a (for now-c57 later)
3) add passenger seats to the c57 VIP transport
4) corrected tailwheel mapping for the c60a wright engines to use the wright left engine map instead of the PW
5) corrected yoke parts visibility issue

Attachment contains two model replacement folders and one 2048 winginner.bmp.

Note: the winginner.bmp allows textures on the underside of the wing behind the flaps and inside of the wing where flaps are stowed
 
That's very good Firekitten :applause:

Meanwhile my L18 VC is almost finished and i should have them wrapped up before the end of the week. I'll post some screenies soon. A lot of progress has been made and it looks a lot more advanced than the previous WIP screenies that I posted earlier. I'm heading abroad on Friday so I want to get this done by then.
 
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