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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 3, 2021 23:54:44 GMT -5
Awesome! By the way, your Y-7 package is missing the PBR and most other files in the master "texture" folder and many of the repaints only have the "_prop" and are missing the "_t" paints! I think the Effects are missing too. LOL! Just a heads up man! Thanks for all these updated models, I've linked to them in the pain P3Dv4 thread with the aircraft model links. You might be getting into the 'update' file, which requires the original package download. The update only had updated models and corrected prop textures (as you described), not the whole thing over again. Everything reported missing is in the original file.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 4, 2021 1:01:08 GMT -5
I am still toiling away on the big service pack, and I am doing one whole aircraft over from scratch, the HS.748. The Shockwave lights were sexy for FS9-P3Dv3, but most of them don't work with dynamic light very well, so I am omitting those models, I will just be doing the two original models CP did.
I will allow a peek into what will be uploaded this weekend. The service pack, of course, the HS.748 is the last aircraft for it. Then, CPAI Caravelles, CIS An-3 (An-2's turboprop offshoot), and the Il-96-400 with the nearly perfect wing-flex right at V1/VR (the updated-300 is part of the service pack). All of the new models will come with a bunch of new paints, naturally. Plus MSR, sunking never fails to find me more work, and there are two hybrid lease and one 1990-striped A30B he found for me (I'm happy to include them). There is an F27 outstanding for MSR, but I will save it for the on-deck next conversion project.
My biggest goal for the weekend is to release a converted aircraft that doesn't need a service pack, lol. I appreciate the patience as I get a rhythm for this conversion process; the community has been very understanding, thanks.
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Post by cgold on Aug 5, 2021 22:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 5, 2021 23:12:22 GMT -5
Sunking just PM'ed me with a bunch more off-the-track MSR stuff, more A300s, 707s, 732s, and such.
But... the big news is that at my request, AVSIM deleted every last one of the conversion projects I have published in the last month; I just now got the confirmation from them. This allows me to not merely do an update, but get a mulligan on the whole process. I have been learning exponentially in the last two months, and now I can publish conversions which harness all of that experience and knowledge that I have accumulated in a very short time. I figure that after uploading 5,000+ files in 20 years to AVSIM, I could get a little special favor, and it happened.
So, there will not be a universal update this weekend. However, there will be some appearances of previously-released packages all brought up the current standard, and there will be separate P3Dv4 and P3Dv5 model options as these mostly center around the effects and the common textures. Without getting into it, I assure you that even in 64-bit land, some things that work in P3Dv4 do not work quite the same in P3Dv5. I emailed CG and Chasen offline regarding this, and I'm sure their heads are still spinning from a fairly detailed explanation of the woes of the conversion process, lol; but I have it totally under control.
So, you'll have to wait another week or so for those Caravelles and the An-3, but in the meantime you will start seeing a proper An-24 family, plus other things I have previously released, and perhaps a couple of un-advertised surprises I already have done to my current standard.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 11, 2021 14:37:10 GMT -5
Almost done with the first six re-do's of converted aircraft packages, the An-24 family. CG has graciously allowed me to utilize his cached paints for these aircraft, adding over a hundred paints to the mix. The An-24 alone has 58 repaints now for the release package. In addition to all of the little learning-curve things, there will be separate P4/P5 models, as what looks good in P3Dv4 doesn't always look good in P3Dv5 and vice versa. The biggest difference is effects and metal textures, and both versions have their own distinct set of these.
Work also continues on MSR and friends (yes, there will be MSX, too). I am carefully painting around Brian's excellent 1983 MSR/ASD work, and some more screenshots will be forthcoming later today or tomorrow, a whole bunch of 732s and 707s, and a few more A300s. Like I said before, I am saving the MSR/ASD F-27s for the next conversion project after I clean up the original stuff and get the P4/P5 Caravelles out the door.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 13, 2021 14:02:50 GMT -5
Here are the MSR/ASD 732s, sans 1983 examples, as Brian's excellent work already covers those. I actually painted the 1983 ASD aircraft before I found his, so that one isn't being previewed or uploaded. The 737-270C YI-AGH is a SWAG (scientific wild-a** guess), since I'm not sure if it was in IAW colors with MSR stickers, or full MSR livery, since it was in service for MSR for about a year and a half. I haven't found any pictures to support either theory, so if anybody can figure this out and get back with me ASAP, as I want to upload these this weekend. However, I have had something happen to me which has never happened in thirty years of PC use. I had an HD failure, not a catastrophic one, but definitely inconvenient. I lost my drive that has my P3Dv5 installation, so other than the inconvenience of buying a new drive and doing a complete re-install of P3Dv5 and a ton of scenery, no big deal. But, it impacts the conversion work, as I am doing models for both P4/P5, so those projects are on a very temporary hold. :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 14, 2021 14:43:51 GMT -5
So, some notes on these.... Both of the white ones are ex-PAA -321Bs, and N762TB has a ventral fin in real life, but this is what NAAI gave us, so it is what it is (for now). Also, I haven't converted all of the NAAI models yet, and some of these have logolights (about half of them), so that may be cleaned up in the final release photo. Lastly, none of the sources discriminated between MSR and MSX, so I'm presuming that the 1990s aircraft were the freighters. The one with the hush kits was still in service in 1998 (Chasen). :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 14, 2021 16:30:43 GMT -5
Here's ASD 1982-2003, beginning and end, the middle is covered elsewhere by Brian and I.... The albino 735 is what Chasen needs for his FP. The 2002 735 gets blue door tape as well, missed that. :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 15, 2021 18:45:15 GMT -5
Here are the MSX 707s, I figured out where SU-AOU goes now, lol.... :{)
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Post by fernbe on Aug 15, 2021 18:59:50 GMT -5
It will be very useful for Brian's 1983 AI Project for sure!
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 15, 2021 19:23:25 GMT -5
Actually, I believe they didn't use the freighter until around 1987, the first year that these photos popped up, unless one of the timetable gurus has anything to add.... Also, if they were using this type in 1983, I'm sure Brian would have already included it in his project paints for MSR. Anyways, I am desperately trying to get all 70s-90s MSR/MSX/ASD boxed up for shipping tonight to AVSIM, with some last-minute painting. There will be an extra 747 or two, and the aforementioned 747-100/200 MSR titles have already been updated to what I am using now. And, there might be a surprise or two in the AVSIM stocking for a very late Christmas in July tomorrow..... I'll let you know when I get there, lol. Also, for the newcomers to the forum, I am not doing the MSR/ASD Fokker 27 paints just yet, I have the CPAI F-27 squarely in my MCX conversion sights as soon as I clear a bunch of the other MCX projects out of the way, and those paints will show up then. :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 16, 2021 1:12:09 GMT -5
Jump start on the next fleet.... ZAS Zarkani Airline Services. ZAS had quite the eclectic collection of aircraft, and I have pictures for most of the main fleet. A whole pack of A300s and various two-holers to follow. :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 16, 2021 4:32:04 GMT -5
One last batch for the night, MHS Air Memphis 707s 1995-2004. Four of the paints are the same aircraft, which had Stage III Hush Kits installed around 2001, hence the all-white engine cowlings for the NAAI model. More visitors for HECA, HESH, and some other destinations in the region. :{)
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 16, 2021 16:55:21 GMT -5
16 files just uploaded to AVSIM on the 16th....
MSR: 703 x12, 732 x8, 735 x3, 741 x1, 742 x7, 743 x2, 762 x5, 763 x2, A320 x3, A343 x1, A30B x7, A306 x3 MSX: 703 x3 ASD: 703 x1, 732 x1, 735 x2
There are a lot of little tweaks, mostly to the 703s. I paid closer attention to the L/R 2 door (the 'hatrack' door) and its window, plus other slight window variations. I also added a few more paints, including the ex-UAA colors of 1972-73 (one with logolights, one without, and different MSR titles). The A300s got the extra hybrids, and the A300C4-600 (PW Mothra model) variant. The ASD 703 got a proper beat-to-sh** metal finish, and there are a couple of ex-PAA 707-321Bs in the original white for MSR.
I'm doing final QC on the assembled packages for the first re-do's of the converted models, they should be out the door by tonight. I'm going to start a separate thread just for models, either MCX or organically designed (by me), so the model chatter should/will go away from this thread.
When all is said and done today, a total of 23 files will be at AVSIM (seven aircraft packages near-ready), but over 200MB of material, definitely my largest by-volume upload day. BTW, my record for number of files uploaded in one day to AVSIM is 103, I think I broke a library manager that day, lol; and I don't think anybody else is even in the zip code for that record.
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Post by mikeblaze on Aug 22, 2021 3:52:03 GMT -5
Here is the rest of ZAS..... :{)
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