posted 05-24- 09:53 PM               

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How come the "Ultimate P-38" zip on SimFiles only has the .tifs and the readme? I lost it and want to reinstall it. Where is the rest...like the .sm, loadout, etc? The readme says is comes with Hangar and Training Missions too.

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posted 05-25- 02:59 AM               

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ive always thought it was just a hi res skin

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posted 05-25- 11:32 AM               

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No, it was listed as a separate plane in the Aircraft folder. It was texture mapped differently so it could take hi-res textures. Even had it's own Training/Hangar missions.

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posted 05-25- 12:57 PM               

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i found that too but never asked incase i was doing something stupid.

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posted 05-25- 02:17 PM               

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Jerry...

Are you sure you don't mean the P-38 (mod)? That one had its own missions and such--I have a copy of it and it is a great plane-- I wish we could replace the default J with it

But I think the Ultimate P-38 was just a skin (Dan W's if I'm not mistaken)-- could be wrong though

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posted 05-25- 03:10 PM               

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I think the "Ultimate" series were a set of skin templates for doing your own skins. They had all the panel lines and so forth...

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posted 05-25- 04:21 PM               

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There was the P-38mod_lo and the P-38mod_hi. I did the texture mapping and Dan painted the skins. It was really nothing more than an experiment to see what a super high resolution plane would look like in SDOE. We also did it to help us get better aquainted with Openplane. In retrospect, it was kind of a goofy project... the high resolution textures are sort of at odds with the low polygon count of the model... Don't get me wrong, the model is good considering the low polygon count, but slapping a high res skin on something like that doesn't really make sense.

Anyway, both planes use something like 5 to 10 bitmaps... I don't remember exactly how many. The difference between the two is that the P-38mod_hi uses 256x256 sized textures and the P-38mod_lo uses 128x128 sized textures.

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posted 05-25- 06:10 PM               

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OK, where can I get the P-38(mod) so I can use the HiRes Textures?

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posted 05-25- 06:24 PM               

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all planes will have the options to have high res schemes once Bryan adds the 512x512 texture support.

Though only new video cards will be able to see them (I.E Voodoo4-5, and all Geforce)

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posted 05-25- 06:31 PM               

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Right here, Jerry...
http://home.adelphia.net/~woodpanel/fgi/fgi_main.html

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posted 05-26- 12:40 AM               

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Thanks JT.

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