posted 08-19- 04:26 PM               

The Gatlin Gun is dealy against ground targets (ofcourse) and looks really cool as the barrels fire in a circulr motion imitating the spinning cannon, and it's a nice addition in AA
Anyway, the major work is done now, so all the fiddly parts start now.. damage models, getting that damn cockpit canpoy smooth (tried and now it looks worse).. and well, you know the crap involved..

Here's a pic after day 2

posted 08-19- 05:41 PM               

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posted 08-19- 06:47 PM               

Looking really cool man. Glad to see your trying some aircraft now.

Me and mad dog made kinda a A10/lanc by getting rid of the 2 inside engines and the out side engines. THen pasting 2 b17 engines near the tail. and moving the wings towards the rear and down.

posted 08-20- 03:41 AM               

One thing I promise.. the guys that like to fly the jets will love this, it really does feel good to fly, when I think the major work has been done then I would like some beta testers, so if anyone wants that job please mail me so that I can send you it when it's ready.

Thanks guys

posted 08-20- 03:52 AM               

hehe

btw, smoothing canopies on the modern jets is a biotch!

posted 08-20- 08:07 PM               

Model now finished.., the gear bay under the wings has been added, the IR (?) sensor on the ight side of the fuse below the canopy has been added, but most of all, a big thanks the Jetlag for finding the problem with the canopy for me, so once I add that sh'ell be lookin all pretty

Right now I'm just finishing work on the landing gear, re modeled and re-DOF'd and the whole a/c rebalanced. There would have been much more done, but I have a small bllod sugar problem (diabetic) and since kickin my blood sugar through the roof this morning I've fely like crap all day and sittin infront of the puter working in Max and OPS makes me dizzy.

posted 08-20- 10:37 PM               

How did you fix the canopy? (so maybe I can fix the Kestrels)

Thanks

posted 08-21- 01:39 AM               

This is what should be in the refernce:
[TextureFile]
./aircraft/F14d/textures/CanopyGlass.TIF
12 ; texindex
64 ; width
64 ; height
0.000000000 ; modelDist
802243 ; flags
0 ; CRC

Obviously just change the TIF route to your own, but this fixed the prob, he sent me a pic of the Hog with this done and it looks 200% better

btw, I'll be sending you the Hog tomorrow (today), all the major stuff is done, so it'll be cool to have you play around with it and pass back suggestions Thanks Pete

posted 08-21- 04:07 AM               

Check this out though, using a 802283 flag for my canopy texture (for Alpha), look at how nice it looks in OPS. But still looks like crap in the sim.

posted 08-21- 07:40 AM               

Anyone got a proper screen shot of a real A-10 HUD?

posted 08-21- 07:04 PM               

There are things still to be added and a problem or two to sort out, so please if you do get it, then don't tell me this doesn't work, or that you found such and such a problem, but I would be more than glad for suggestions/fixes for the problems, such as.. how do I stop the viloent shaking at high speed, how do I add more lift whilst lowering top speed.. can someone put a texture on that damn sight.. lol (think it's corrupting my graphics badly)

the problems with lift/shaking/top speed I didn't have on the early beat, so I may revert to that and bring it up if no-one is able to help fix the current one. Top speed should be between 420/434mph

Oh, and you'll be glad to know that I will be adding the Mavs they will replace it's current "standard" rocket loadout.

posted 08-22- 08:38 AM               

It's cool and is coming along well Nat. The gear is really nice and looks pretty darned accurate too. The canopy (at least for me) looks well, splotchy. I'm not sure if it was fixed in this one or not, but on my PC it looks 10 times worse than my Harrier's (which too, needs work). Just constructive things here I'm pointing out. The FM obviously needs lots of work because this thing feels like an RC plane, almost made of styrofoam. It needs some weight added to the mix. It's too responsive I think. Adding some weight may correct this hopefully. Anyhow I was just about to hit the hay then I saw you posted it. So I'm darned tired right now and will look at it more later on today.

The potential is really there though. Your modeling skills are really good and in the end this plane is gonna be nice!

posted 08-22- 03:40 PM               

I've had some trouble with the A10 recently, so last night I reverted to version 4 (or something like that) and brought it upto date on the model and this seems to have sorted out all the major problems I was having, somewhere along the road I made some changes and couldn't reset back, these cause the plane to take off fine when fully loaded, but almost verticle when unloaded (amoungst other problems) Trying to fix this just made the whole thing very responsive. I want the aelerons to be very responsive, but the elevators shouldn't be, A1o's (far as I know) have excellent control and go where you put the stick, but are heavy, so I think my thoughts on aeleron/elevator control will give that, but yes, the version you and Jet have just isn't right and I was pretty annoyed with it, the one I'm on now is much better.

You know that any and all pointers/comments from other builders wont fall on deaf ears here

Thanks Pete

posted 08-22- 07:06 PM            

Also, don't town down her handling too much, shes a heavy plane but she can still roll at 200 degrees/second - so she may be heavy but she can move that bulk around in a hurry!