posted 03-23- 04:19 AM               

What I wanted to do is to create a separate plane (macchi thx for the nations-pack hehe) and wanted to start from an existing plane. so I took the fw190a (the original one)

what I've done so far:
1. extracted from the par-file the fw190a.sm
2. created a new directory (../media/aircraft/macchi and inside textures)
3. put the fw190a.sm into that dir
4. opened the fw190a.sm with the 'openplane-tool'
5. changed the path for the skin to macchi
6. saved the sm as macchi.sm
7. put a tif-file (italian-skin) into the textures folder called macchi.tif
8. created a test-mission
9. startet up the game

....and
well the plane shows up into the italian-nation folder (great!) .. the sounds are italian (great..btw my voice sounds nice hehe) ...but the textures are messed up
(fuselage is correct, the wings shows only the lower skin even on top, and the ruder has no skin)
so this looks strange to me because I tried the same thing with the 'old' fw190a and the problem is the same as for my macchi (textures messed up).

(yes I've always deleted the cache-file)

what's wrong ???
how can I define which part of the tif-file goes on which part of the plane???

posted 03-23- 04:50 AM               

I noticed you didn't mention the loadout file. Ya need to open up the 190's and change the name inside to macchi and where the stats and cutaway are located for the macchi(you should have a macchi folder under gui/art/hanger/Italy(?)). The new loadout has to go in the aircraft/macchi folder.

Have you changed all reference to the 190 to macchi in the Ops file ? Ya justabout have to do this to wherever it says 190 (err watchout for the airfoil stuff though).

Also, did ya reload the file in open plane once you made the changes ? How did it look then ? were there any error messages down the bottom ??

Let us know the results and we'll take things from there.

Cheers,

AGAS 5

posted 03-23- 04:53 AM               

I say this because there was for the P51d (the mapping of the tail plane was fixed).

Cheers again,

AGAS 5

posted 03-23- 05:35 AM               

well onestly I've to check the loadout-file.

but despite of the problems with my 'macchi'
I've the same problem with the original fw190a...so it souldn't be my plane I think!!

remaping of the fw190a???? good question
don't know

posted 03-23- 09:27 AM               

Texture mapping will always show the same texture on both sides of a structure, unless you split the structure in half and texture each half separately.

I would unbig the 5.3 parfiles and dig the textures for one of the FW-190s out of there, and make your Macchi skin match that one. You didn't make it clear whether you did this or not, but you have to make your Macchi skin match the outlines and positioning of the FW-190 skin EXACTLY for it to be positioned correctly on the "MC-190." And if you start stretching and cutting bits off of those parts later to make it look Macchi-ish, the skin will distort and you'll eventually re-texture. But if you're just making an Italian 190, modifying the 190 skin will work fine.

Does this mean you're doing the Macchi? Which one? I kinda anted up to do the MC-205, but there's some of other planes I want to do as well, so if you're doin a 202/205, I'll just switch to the next project

posted 03-23- 02:37 PM               

thanks !! you guys are great!
..aehhmm well the answer is YES I'm planing to do the 205 ... but time is short so this
thing is probably going on for a long time

..please check the FAQ-section there's a screen-shot of what I mean..

posted 03-24- 04:46 AM               

sorry about the confusion!

anyway I've decided to start working not on the macchi-205 nor the 202 or 200
but on the FIAT G-50 (so despite my funy question above I will create a compl. new plane...well at least start working on my 3d-models that I've already have)

thanks to you all...you're great!!