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SOH A-26B/C Update now available

stovall

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After a lot of work on tidying up, this limited conversion to FSX-native is now available here in the Library. It has 10 models and 18 skins and represents the A/B-26 from 1945 on, up its early days in Vietnam. Some of the paints are mine, and others are from earlier times. Basically any paint will fit but you may need to get rid of common textures. Specs and bumps are included. The vc has not been updated apart from the addition of a rather lovely M20 gunsight from gman5250. If you already have a copy in your Airplanes directory you may need to delete the panel folder, otherwise the old 2D gunsight will appear. Hope you enjoy it as much I've enjoyed doing it!

DaveQ​
 
Thanks Dave. Will be downloading this one as soon as I get home this evening. ???

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Thanks for this!!

Will it work in P3Dv4.4??

Thanks for the answer in advance!

Priller
 
Milton's just pm'ed me with a couple of points; The aircraft.cfg needed amending because the variant numbers were out of sequence (fixed), the civil A-26C was still armed (!!) and the texture folder lacks light map files. I've posted an update of the aircraft.cfg file to the library and will look into the light map situation over the coming days (weeks, months:adoration:!!)

DaveQ

Priller - mostly I think! Not thoroughly tested but I have flown it in P3Dv4.4
 
Priller said:
Thanks for this!!

Will it work in P3Dv4.4??

Thanks for the answer in advance!

Priller
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Works great!!
I haven't tested everything to a gnat's rump, but I bet there are few if any glitches in P3D4. I use windows 10. P3D4.4, NVIDIA 970 card.

Nice work --
 
to get all of the paint schemes to show, you must open the aircraft .cfg file and correct the numbers -
1-5 are ok but then it jumps to 8... just fix them and put into proper sequence to get them all to show up
 
Just like the old model, I get an immediate CTD when trying to load this model in FSX. Sad really. Something about this model. Nothing else in my collection of aircraft does this.

-d
 
dvj said:
Just like the old model, I get an immediate CTD when trying to load this model in FSX. Sad really. Something about this model. Nothing else in my collection of aircraft does this.

-d
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It is curious that others can run this in P3D. Sounds like something specific to your setup, sound or video card, or a sim setting.
What version of P3D do you run now?

Have you tried to isolate the sounds and the panel folder (gauge sensitivity) which are likely problem areas?

In the panel folder, there are two possibilities - the A26_engine_start.gau (remove) and the "overhead.bmp", a non-standard size.

In the panel.cfg, Vcockpit01 section, this statement seems to require a folder not present. Try commenting it out. Looks to be unnecessary.
gauge49=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3,10,10,20,20, ./gauges/A26B_sound.cfg

Try aliasing the Sound folder to another aircraft.
 
Milton Shupe said:
It is curious that others can run this in P3D. Sounds like something specific to your setup, sound or video card, or a sim setting.
What version of P3D do you run now?

Have you tried to isolate the sounds and the panel folder (gauge sensitivity) which are likely problem areas?

In the panel folder, there are two possibilities - the A26_engine_start.gau (remove) and the "overhead.bmp", a non-standard size.

In the panel.cfg, Vcockpit01 section, this statement seems to require a folder not present. Try commenting it out. Looks to be unnecessary.
gauge49=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3,10,10,20,20, ./gauges/A26B_sound.cfg

Try aliasing the Sound folder to another aircraft.
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Possibly terrain mesh; this is a problem even with PMDG 737s for P3D. Needed to decrease mesh to 19m.
 
Thank you for yet another daily flier Milton - I don't have too many warbirds in my library but this one was always a favorite of mine

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heywooood said:
Thank you for yet another daily flier Milton - I don't have too many warbirds in my library but this one was always a favorite of mine
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Thank you. Although I modeled and led the original project, DaveQ and team get the credit for this one Sir. This is just an interim step to what DaveQ and team has coming with a welcome all new cockpit and munitions, the K variant, etc.
 
Milton Shupe said:
It is curious that others can run this in P3D. Sounds like something specific to your setup, sound or video card, or a sim setting.
What version of P3D do you run now?

Have you tried to isolate the sounds and the panel folder (gauge sensitivity) which are likely problem areas?

In the panel folder, there are two possibilities - the A26_engine_start.gau (remove) and the "overhead.bmp", a non-standard size.

In the panel.cfg, Vcockpit01 section, this statement seems to require a folder not present. Try commenting it out. Looks to be unnecessary.
gauge49=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3,10,10,20,20, ./gauges/A26B_sound.cfg

Try aliasing the Sound folder to another aircraft.
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This is FSX. I don't have P3D. I will give these recommendations a try.
 
dvj said:
This is FSX. I don't have P3D. I will give these recommendations a try.
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This fixed the CTD:

In the panel.cfg, Vcockpit01 section, this statement seems to require a folder not present. Try commenting it out. Looks to be unnecessary.
gauge49=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3,10,10,20,20, ./gauges/A26B_sound.cfg

Muchas Gracias.
 
dvj said:
This fixed the CTD:

In the panel.cfg, Vcockpit01 section, this statement seems to require a folder not present. Try commenting it out. Looks to be unnecessary.
gauge49=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3,10,10,20,20, ./gauges/A26B_sound.cfg

Muchas Gracias.
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Great to hear; maybe DaveQ can remove that from the panel.cfg. It supported the original slow prop start energizer.wav I believe.
The original docs explained that the slow start stuff would crash to the desktop in any sim other than FS9.

I think Spokes2112 has created a version of that slow start which would work in FSX/P3D if interested.
 
Milton Shupe said:
Great to hear; maybe DaveQ can remove that from the panel.cfg. It supported the original slow prop start energizer.wav I believe.
The original docs explained that the slow start stuff would crash to the desktop in any sim other than FS9.

I think Spokes2112 has created a version of that slow start which would work in FSX/P3D if interested.
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I'm just happy to have this thing flying. :jump:
 
Following the project, but really hit home as I visited the Hill AFB Aerospace Museum this week and was standing face 2 face with a real A-26!
 
Love this aircraft!

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