posted 07-27- 04:06 PM               

I found a way to improve the A4 and still keep it accurate.. I modified the prop so it's optimum climb rate is steeper but it still takes 3 minutes to get to 10,000 feet. The climb rate hasn't changed, but the angle has.. I think people who were having trouble climbing with the old one will like this one.

The spit V was a little too fast down low so I added more drag, this should help get the speed bleed in the same ballpark as the other planes too.

TS

posted 07-27- 04:22 PM               

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posted 07-27- 05:42 PM               

I assume you mean the new version in the link above, and you just want the .lods for the wings moved to their correct angle, not rotated in OPS (which is bad, right?)

Let me take a look at it. Shouldn't be too hard--I hope

My fee is you explain how to increase the energy bleed in turns while still maintaining proper top speeds.

posted 07-27- 06:33 PM               

Did you do the corsair? Here's the airK values for the wings:

F4U-1 Corsair 0.8839
F4U-4 Corsair 0.8559

If it's currently set higher this will make it bleed more speed.

TS

posted 07-27- 09:31 PM               

I'll email you the "corrected" .sm file. You may have to reorient the flaps a little in OPS. I think I got them about right, but I couldn't check it "in game."

Couldn't see any obvious reason for the CTD, and when I swapped in the old model from 5.3, or moved the beta plane out of the folder so the parfile would take over, it worked fine, even using your new airfoils. The Corsair, which also uses some of the new foils for the prop and tailfeathers, also still worked OK, as did the beta Spitfire models. So, at least on my system, there's something in the beta 190 model causing a CTD.

But, at the least, you can extract or smd the .lods for the wings and import them into the new model.

P.S. thanks for the Corsair airK values. I'll give them a shot and see what happens. Now all I have to do is convince Zur to fix the ground handling

posted 07-28- 02:20 AM               

Thanks Jedi, it looks great! However you must have rotated some of the pieces in OPStudio, the plane flies as if the wings are pointed sideways or something..
http://tailslide.firelight.dynip.com/Files/TS54Beta9.zip

This version includes the old 190 that flies ok and the new one that looks ok (renamed it funky190.sm). Also included the drag.ppf airfoil make sure to add this line to your startup file:

"aircraft/airfoils/drag.ppf"

posted 07-28- 07:48 AM               

You have to rotate all the wings LODS and all its children and then position them in the correct place.

All the cannons, rocket launchers, and bomb racks, damage models, and far LODs for the wings also has to be rotated and positioned.
A lot of work.

I forgot the mention the landing gear LODs.

posted 07-28- 09:55 AM               

As long as I do the rotation in AC3D, forward and aft movement using OPS is OK, right? It's gonna take a LOOOONG time to get the inboard and outboard wings lined up perfectly in AC3D, I fear, although I think I can import the whole model using smd/olc and move parts around and save the whole thing. I'm just leery of doing it

posted 07-29- 08:43 PM               

I also took the liberty of installing the sliding canopy, since it appears the 190A4 slipped through the cracks there.

I ALSO found what may be a pretty large bug in OPS beta 1.3.1. Any time I saved the plane in OPS, it became UNFLYABLE, i.e. it immediately pitched up, stalled, wallowed, and dropped straight down. If I saved it using the "production" version of OPS, it worked fine. Even a simple thing like moving a gun barrel caused aerodynamic chaos.

I suspect it may actually be OK to rotate the airfoils slightly in OPS, (although I rotated and positioned all the parts using AC3D this time). It may be that saving the plane in OPS Beta was the problem with it not flying right.

Anyway, you should have it in your inbox pretty soon.