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[GHD]

It looks superb Rick :o

George

[edetroit]

Looks superb Rick! ...I'll look out for the FS9 version. Coolio

[Paul K]

The Hawk isn't really my cup of tea but blimey Rick, those screenshots are gob-smacking ! Wonderful stuff !

[Tweek]

Well those last set of shots have made me seriously consider buying it! Looks lovely with the self-shadowing and shine effects.

Now you just need to carry this quality over to your latest freeware offerings, too...

[Rick Piper]

Hi Guys

More progress.

Redone the bump mapping again now i have my head round what layer does what :brick:

Loadable weapons from Aircraft loading screen which means they add weight (possibly jettisonable later but not promising)
mixed training Matra M155 Rocket pod & CBLS mk100 with 4 3kg practice bombs

Current Aquisition rounds (i think thats what they are called "finless Sidewinders to me"

CBLS mk100 with 8 practice bombs

Pair of AIM-9L Sidewinders on LAU adapter thingys


Regards
Rick (oh dear it's now Friday) but i will get sleep when i'm dead

[Techy111]

Rick - do i get a free copy for helping....*Grovel Grovel*

:tab:

Tony

[Garry Russell]

That texture bumpmapping is unbelievable Rick

Amazing :o

Garry

[Rick Piper]

Hi Garry

I am in love with Bumpmapping currently as it has no framerate hit and brings the model alive.

usually a Black aircraft would look really basic in FS but the way the specular is on a texture and the use of the bump map mean it works.

only trouble is currently i have too many rivets on the hawk .

after my Scampton visit i saw that almost all apart from the rear fuselage (which are the biggest most unaerodynamic rivets i have seen on a small aircraft)
is flush riveted so i will sort that out before release.

I'm not kidding when i say the rivets on the rear would look at home on the boiler of a saddle tank loco

can't find out why but i am guessing it's a stability aid like the feathers on an Arrow flight none of the books say apart from it's "Fred Sutton's Rear End" (oh er missus!)
i am just playing to see what controls what.

But i am beginning to see huge bonuses for staying with FSX while most ran away screaming.

I think i can now do all the new FSX SP2 bits without any major problems even from FSDS3.51 which a month ago i was almost giving up on :o

Anyway i am please i finally got my head round the new stuff.

Regards
Rick

[Techy111]

No then......

It really makes it stand out from the crowd Rick.....Really cannot wait.... :prayer:

Tony

[Garry Russell]

Certainly paid off Rick

At least with you having an understanding it's a start and the rest will follow.

Black is an awful colour for FS to produce but done correctly as you have for FS.X it makes all the difference.

I really am impressed .............it is had to imagine one is looking at an FS model, as I said a week or so ago if this was not an FS site it could easily pass as real.

ATB

Garry