posted 02-18- 07:44 AM               

Semmern,

The nose of the 190 was first lengthened with the introduction of the A-5. The default A-4 is inaccurate regardless of the length:

"On the basis of data collected during tests of the experimental Fw 190A3/U1, Blaser's designer team became convinced that the planned additional armament would move the plane center of gravity forward. The best solution to offset this was to move the engine forward. This was done with a 15 cm steel tube engine mount extension. This change (new engine mount) was introduced on the all production lines. This also led to an increase of the plane length to 9.10 m and gave life to the new Fw 190A-5 variant that from November 1942 replaced previous the A-4."

Fw190A-4

Fw190A-5

posted 02-18- 07:46 AM               

I also can't post in the last thread.

Actually, this model is longer than the default FW190A4 in the game by 6 inches. The FW190A8 is 12 inches longer than the one in the game.

According to all FW books I have the longer nose started with the FW190A5.

I forgot to credit Zurawski for the FM and Parsoft for the original model. Yardstick for the textures.

posted 02-18- 08:59 AM            

Here I was thinking of "asking" mposis to spruce up the A-4 and he's already done it!

posted 02-18- 10:20 AM               

The textures you need for the canopy are shared with other planes in PP5.3 so the 'new' A-4 (A-3) will look pucker once you have the PP.

posted 02-18- 11:53 AM               

Thanks guys,

Sorry, I forgot to include all the tif files because they are in another directory. I sent the 109g fix to Yardstick so the PP should be out soon. I think they were waiting for that fix.

I like the 3d models to be as accurate as possible. If it wasn't for the framerate, the models would have more detail in them. The worst one is the bf109g. The nearest lods has about 1000 polygons. The default FW190A4 in the game has about 700 polygons.

posted 02-18- 12:30 PM               

Sorry, this is pretty confusing!

Werner

posted 02-18- 01:12 PM               

What MPosis has called the A-3 is in fact a much more accurate version of the shipped A-4 with better 3DO, texturing and cockpit. The A-3 and the A-4 were pretty much indistinguishable visually (I think the armament differed). For more information go to :

http://pol1.prairie.ca/~bigbear/agseries1.htm

Ideally the I would like to see the A-3 (A-4) replacing the shipped A-4 in the PP but that is not my call to make. If enough people want this for PP5.4 it could happen.

posted 02-18- 05:35 PM               

You can now download the needed textures from:
http://www.erols.com/mposis

posted 02-18- 07:05 PM            

If the variation is so slight (ie - weapons only - no performance changes) as to make no difference in the performance of the aircraft there would be no reason to have the 2 variants. Each individual plane takes up a fair bit of space and having two virtually identical aircraft seems like a waste of that resource.

Just my.02

posted 02-19- 03:52 AM               

I would say get a good pic from the front and look at the shape of the fins. I would guess that they pull air in so you could get the direction of travel from those 2 things.