F104G Starfighter

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · February 5, 2019 at 8:05 AM Official Post

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Seem to found a bug. I cant retract the spolier after its been deployed

Did you assign a key for the retraction? or are you using a slider?

larrylynx · February 5, 2019 at 4:42 PM

It appears the maximum height is 141080ft, then the aircraft just stops and hangs there bobbing around, eventually it rotated nose down and started to descend

Am I the first man to do FS2 space flight

Steve

hotshotmike1001 · February 5, 2019 at 4:47 PM

Its on a key. It won’t even respond to the default key

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Fun first flight ✈️ the other day.

drhotwing1 (IPACS) · February 5, 2019 at 4:50 PM Official Post

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Fun first flight ✈️ the other day.

Please post videos and images like this only in our gallery.

larrylynx · February 5, 2019 at 5:26 PM

HI Jan

I can confirm this is the case, I tried to assign keys to the speedbrake and nothing moves, it does work fine on a slider

Steve

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · February 5, 2019 at 5:36 PM Official Post

Quote from larrylynx

HI Jan
I can confirm this is the case, I tried to assign keys to the speedbrake and nothing moves, it does work fine on a slider
Steve

I am pretty sure I tested it before the release, I even watched your animation couple of times and did not have a slider assigned.... that's why I am asking...

I'll have to test it again, maybe the recent controls update changed something.

larrylynx · February 5, 2019 at 5:41 PM

Speedbrakes are for wimps anyway . Pretty sure I tested them and they were ok, just pressing B put them out and in

MDIvey · February 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM

It worked ok for me too... when I remembered what button on the joystick I'd mapped the close too.

Steve... what font did you use to create the letters and numbers on that German Marine paint? or did you trace them and paint them manually. I'm trying to do another one, but from when they had just the grey top rather than green and grey camo.

Matt

larrylynx · February 5, 2019 at 6:09 PM

Hi Matt

I made vectors for the letters and numbers I needed but you may be able to find a set on line, look for F104g starfighter font images and you will find, think its the 10th image that should be ok for you, cant link it, will get wrist slapped

Steve

MDIvey · February 5, 2019 at 6:23 PM

Thanks Steve... found something that should do.

Matt

Soulfreak · February 6, 2019 at 8:23 AM

Great work so far Steve, Looking forward to paint this Beauty....

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · February 6, 2019 at 8:36 AM Official Post

Quote from larrylynx

Am I the first man to do FS2 space flight
Steve

Space - i'm in space (does anyone get that reference)

SPAAAAAAAACCCCEEEE

Thuster · February 6, 2019 at 10:19 AM

Quote from Jet-Pack

Space - i'm in space (does anyone get that reference)
SPAAAAAAAACCCCEEEE

Portal 2? 😀

MDIvey · February 6, 2019 at 2:07 PM

Well that was sure interesting Steve. I've done a paint job and some custom reflection, specular and normal texture. it looks pretty good now but I got some very wierd intermediate results. I didn't feel with your paints I was getting any bump mapping just your lovely panel and rivet art. I noticed along the way that the SDK makes no mention of a _normal suffix for the texture (only _bump) although it says they are supported. Normal maps are those funny blue hue things aren't they? I tried creating one of those and it seemed to work better for me than the grey scale ones (which are perhaps more suited to bumps) and the combination with red scale reflection and grey specular gives a nice result that doesn't seem too striking. if you pm your email i'll send a copy of what i've done so you can try it out. Cant seem to produce a preview image at the moment so the repaints i've done (the Corsair and the F104G) will have to stay on my hard drive for now till I can sort this.

Matt

MDIvey · February 6, 2019 at 2:30 PM

Hi Steve would it be possible to have a copy of the PSD file that covers the mid wing pylon?... i'm thinking for my paint it needs to be light grey rather than green.

Matt

larrylynx · February 6, 2019 at 4:17 PM

Hi Matt

Have posted the inboard pylon maps over at flight-sim.org. This is an add-on bits map as I ran out of space on the main maps. Inboard pylons were added to keep my test pilot happy, yes you Ray

You could try to force the preview to be updated. Make a copy and then delete the one in the main F104 folder. The converter quite often sees one in the root and doesn't update it. Have you also included a correct repaint.TMR in your intermediate folder, no capitals remember. You probably have but just checking

Steve

Hi Jan

Round 2

Does the autopilot, alt hold, head hold only respond to an input button. Starfighter being somewhat elderly has switches

Steve

MDIvey · February 6, 2019 at 5:57 PM

thanks Steve...

Solved the preview problem. Had to reinstall in a different place.

Ill upload as soon as I can at flight-sim.org.

Matt

it's uploaded.

Matt

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · February 6, 2019 at 7:04 PM Official Post

Quote from larrylynx

Hi Jan
Round 2
Does the autopilot, alt hold, head hold only respond to an input button. Starfighter being somewhat elderly has switches
Steve

I'm not sure actually. I mean you can always display the state of the autopilot as a switch position (using graphics_text-Index - see 747 and 737 MCPs) and you can also toggle alt and heading hold, so it should be possible. But what happens if you disable one of them?

larrylynx · February 6, 2019 at 10:51 PM

HI Jan

So far I have yet to get the autopilot to work, the switches are outputting just fine, just not sure what they are outputting and where it supposed to link to.

The switch for alt hold is using Autopilot.AltitudeHold and it does output this as the graphics work fine with this output and the monitor also shows this output. I can't seem to find anywhere else for it to go. Cessna 172 simply has this as an input_button and that too just goes to a graphic.

Steve

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · February 6, 2019 at 10:57 PM Official Post

Quote from larrylynx

HI Jan
So far I have yet to get the autopilot to work, the switches are outputting just fine, just not sure what they are outputting and where it supposed to link to.
The switch for alt hold is using Autopilot.AltitudeHold and it does output this as the graphics work fine with this output and the monitor also shows this output. I can't seem to find anywhere else for it to go. Cessna 172 simply has this as an input_button and that too just goes to a graphic.
Steve

Hi Steve,

Yes but the autopilot also gets that message Autopilot.AltitudeHold and internally activates that mode. It has an output for the active vertical mode which I think is automatically outputted to the graphics section. In the graphics section of the Cessna 172 for the display of the autopilot we take in the active vertical mode of the autopilot, convert it from a string back to an index of a list, with that index we can query if it is equal to something we like (e.g. ALT_HOLD) and that turns on the light on the display. Similarly you would need to rotate the switch instead of illuminating something.

The autopilot is a bit special here because we need the copilot of the mobile version to interact with the autopilot and they need to communicated behind the scenes.

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