JF Battle of Britain Hurricane

[DaveB]

Mike..

Re your Hurri and Spit not konking out when inverted or under negative G.. look for this line in the aircraft.cfg..

fuel_metering_type=2

Type=0 is Injected
Type=1 is Gravity
Type=2 is Aerobatic

The default in the Hurricane is Type 2 as above. Change it to 1 and you'll splutter like a good'un

EDIT: That should work Mike but isn't at the moment. Just checked my Chippie and even that continues to run unhindered with fuel metering at type=1 Don't have time to pursue it now but I'll look again later

ATB
DaveB

[Dev One]

The Merlins could have been fitted with 'Miss Shillings orifice' which enabled the aircraft to do negative g !!! ( I think her name was Shilling - she was a scientist at Farnborough).
I must admit I'm foxed by the Chippie if its got a type 1 carb designation & it doesnt die on you inverted....
Keith

Just googled Miss Shillings orifice - apparently the mods were fitted during the early part of 1941 according to Wikipedia.
K

[Airspeed]

Thank you kind sir!
That's working fine in my sim. now!
I wrote to them about the other stuff, and downloaded the paint kits for all three, plus updates to correct identical problem, plus some others, with the Spitfire.
Now, what else can I find to bleat about...

[DaveB]

You are and will remain, welcome

Now.. there must be something for you to have a go at

ATB
DaveB

[DaveB]

A question for you all who have this..

Do any of you know where the paintkit is for it? I went on to JF a few mins ago and it offered a paintkit download on the support page. I downloaded it and it's not a paintkit at all. The 'blurb' says it comes with a layered paintkit. Anyone got it?

EDIT: I've posted a question regarding it (or the lack of) at JF

ATB
DaveB

[Airspeed]

Hi Dave ,
To date, I've never used a paint kit, though I can certainly see their merits.
I may therefore be way off with this, but hope it's of assistance.....
The folder is about 27Mb, and my system shows this:
FSX>Justflight>BattleofBritain_Hurricane_Paintkit>texture.Paintkit

That folder contains a series of FS texture files and BMPs. When I look at some of them, they have shapes labelled with the locations.

If you have nothing like it on your system, let me know, and I'll see if I can trace where I d/ld from.

[DaveB]

How do Mike

Yup.. they're textures for the actual model.. not a layered paintkit which usually comes in PSD format. You open the PK PSD in Photoshop (Elements will do) and it will have an individual texture (for example fuse_1.psd) with all the relevant layers intact for that map which can be turned on or off within Photoshop. You then save the end result as a bmp then convert it using DXTBmp to your desired format.. DXT3, DXT5 (dds) e t c. What the 'so called' Hurricane paintkit contains are copies of the 'final' textures. I've not checked my email or the JF forum yet.. that's the next thing on my list now you've reminded me I posted this last night

ATB
DaveB