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Coming to FSX S-2A Tracker

Milton Shupe said:
Tankerguy72 has been very busy of late so I took on some of the work to help this project move ahead. His work is just too good to leave in the back of a dusty ol' hangar. :)

After 3 weeks of working on it daily for many hours, we have made great progress inside and outside.

Still a few things to wrap up or improve upon, but this project has made great strides.

Here are a few screen shots; will post more in a bit.
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Any update on this, Milton??:teapot:
 
firerx said:
Any update on this, Milton??:teapot:
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I talked with TG less than a week ago about this one; too good to just let it sit; very realistic feeling with photo-real textures and massive bump mapping.

He is in process of re-sizing some of the 4096 textures as the texture load was massive. Not sure what else needs to be done but I know it's still a WIP. TG has been super busy and pre-occupied with other things for quite a while now.

Maybe he can update us with the details, but we did talk about the possibility of releasing it as a WIP.
 
Milton Shupe said:
I talked with TG less than a week ago about this one; too good to just let it sit; very realistic feeling with photo-real textures and massive bump mapping.

He is in process of re-sizing some of the 4096 textures as the texture load was massive. Not sure what else needs to be done but I know it's still a WIP. TG has been super busy and pre-occupied with other things for quite a while now.

Maybe he can update us with the details, but we did talk about the possibility of releasing it as a WIP.
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Baby boy arrived Nov 1st. I think I kind of remember what sleep feels like...

Working on the S2 now when I get some quiet time. I have resized most of the textures now and checking how they look. Im hoping a week or two and ill have something to release for all to enjoy.

As always I want to thank Milton for his never ending help and advice. I wouldnt know anything about modeling if it wasnt for him.







 
Congrats on the little one.

All I can say is, enjoy, and savour all the moments, even the poopy ones, because all of it just flies by. Seems like just the other day I held our little 3.5lb 2-month early preemie, fighting for her life. Now she's one of the tallest kids in her class of 12 year olds, fastest girl in her grade, a crazy good soccer player, a total science nerd, and, to boot, likes to hop on the sim and fly circuits.


The WIP looks truly stunning!

Will there, even if at some distant point, a naval version, even just a C-1A Trader / COD, with folding wings and tailhook? I'd be happy even if the VC was your current tanker version.

That would make a bunch of us naval aviation nuts superbly happy!

Thanks again for the progress shots - amazing work!

dl
 
I did 13 variants of the S2 radials and turbos including the S2T series and the EC1A twin tail, military and civilian variants.
About half of them have been converted to FSX native by Euroastar350, and a few firefighters by me.
And add to that group this one converted by Tankerguy where I also invested quite a few hours in the VC.

All the other VC's are as the were in the originally released versions.

Here are some of the FSX native models converted by Euroastar350.
 

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delta_lima said:
Congrats on the little one.

All I can say is, enjoy, and savour all the moments, even the poopy ones, because all of it just flies by. Seems like just the other day I held our little 3.5lb 2-month early preemie, fighting for her life. Now she's one of the tallest kids in her class of 12 year olds, fastest girl in her grade, a crazy good soccer player, a total science nerd, and, to boot, likes to hop on the sim and fly circuits.


The WIP looks truly stunning!

Will there, even if at some distant point, a naval version, even just a C-1A Trader / COD, with folding wings and tailhook? I'd be happy even if the VC was your current tanker version.

That would make a bunch of us naval aviation nuts superbly happy!

Thanks again for the progress shots - amazing work!

dl
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Thanks dl definitely building the memories already. Our boy was 4 days late and weighed in at 9lbs 14.4oz. Will make a great linebacker someday haha.

As for the C-1A see Miltons comment. I mainly just do airtanker variants of aircraft.
 
Congratulations for your little boy tankerguy72!!! :ernaehrung004:
Talking of some other kind of baby, I must say I'm really impressed by your S-2A cockpit... :adoration:
Cheers,

Stéph.
 
Milton Shupe said:
I did 13 variants of the S2 radials and turbos including the S2T series and the EC1A twin tail, military and civilian variants.
About half of them have been converted to FSX native by Euroastar350, and a few firefighters by me.
And add to that group this one converted by Tankerguy where I also invested quite a few hours in the VC.

All the other VC's are as the were in the originally released versions.

Here are some of the FSX native models converted by Euroastar350.
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Thanks Milton,

I must have older ported over models, I must have missed the FSX ones during my time away from the sim. I'll look for the latest ones.

Thanks for all your work on those too!

dl
 
I recently revised the flight model for it (need to check to ensure I sent it to TG).

He had sent a revised WIP package to test and that was a big help in texture size reduction and overhead. Runs very smoothly now for me.

AFAIK, very much a WIP so its up to TG how he wishes to proceed.
 
There are so many models of the Tracker available I'm a little confused.

First, I assume the model that is the subject of this thread is not yet released?
Is it going to have both the boattail and squared off engine nacelle's?
Is it going to be a straight up S-2A, or a modified one to be a tanker/civilian firefighter?

The reason I ask is I'd like to create at least a couple repaints of TS-2's. From my research, it seems all the TS-2's are conversions from S2F-1/S-2A's, Not S-2D's. As was noted earlier in the thread, the C-1A's all have boattail engine nacelle's, whereas the TS-2's have the squared off engine nacelle of the S2F-1/S-2A.

There is an S2F-1 model available, but it's got a radome over the cockpit. Is there another model of the S2F-1 available that's been upgraded to FSX that is without the radome on top? I've seen a couple pictures of TS-2's with radomes, but most do not have them.

I do have an old model from a US-2A that doesn't have the radome, but I get tons of errors with that one when I read it into ModelconverterX (I use it to check my paints), so I'm assuming it's not really FSX compatible. Plus it's got the boattail engine nacelles.

Any history or corrections to my research would be great!
Thanks!
 
FlyingsCool said:
There are so many models of the Tracker available I'm a little confused.

That's perfectly understandable; I did 14 variants, then made some of them FSX friendly.
Later, Euroastar350 converted 3-4 of them to FSX native.
I converted one to FSX native: HERE
This thread is about another variant that Tankerguy72 is converting with my help and permission.

First, I assume the model that is the subject of this thread is not yet released? Correct; see Tankerguy's comments above.
Is it going to have both the boattail and squared off engine nacelle's? It will be as shown in screenshots above.
Is it going to be a straight up S-2A, or a modified one to be a tanker/civilian firefighter? It's a CDF firefighter.

The reason I ask is I'd like to create at least a couple repaints of TS-2's. From my research, it seems all the TS-2's are conversions from S2F-1/S-2A's, Not S-2D's. As was noted earlier in the thread, the C-1A's all have boattail engine nacelle's, whereas the TS-2's have the squared off engine nacelle of the S2F-1/S-2A.

There is an S2F-1 model available, but it's got a radome over the cockpit. Is there another model of the S2F-1 available that's been upgraded to FSX that is without the radome on top? I've seen a couple pictures of TS-2's with radomes, but most do not have them. No

I do have an old model from a US-2A that doesn't have the radome, but I get tons of errors with that one when I read it into ModelconverterX (I use it to check my paints), so I'm assuming it's not really FSX compatible. Plus it's got the boattail engine nacelles.

Any history or corrections to my research would be great!
Thanks!
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Here is some S2 Stuff I uploaded for your reference that may be useful.
http://www.sim-outhouse.net/downloads/SOHTeam/s2stuff.zip

Good luck in your quest.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Here is some S2 Stuff I uploaded for your reference that may be useful.
http://www.sim-outhouse.net/downloads/SOHTeam/s2stuff.zip

Good luck in your quest.
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Hi Milton,

So I loaded up your CDF model tonight. It looks to me like it would make the perfect model for a TS-2A, except, as you know, it's missing the tailhook and MAD boom that it seems the TS-2A retained after conversion.

Interestingly, FWIW, when I load it into ModelconverterX, it's looking for fuseinnerrear.dds. I can't find that texture in any of the S-2's I have loaded. Also, none of the control surfaces show up in ModelconverterX(?). As I said, I use it for checking my repaints.

BTW, I just started using the paintkit for the S2F-1. Wow, that's really great, thank you for that.

Tom
 
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