Good for you Mike. Never quite understood why people seem to prefer the Rotol version of my Spit, rather than the Early version with DH spinner which was more typical and more attractive to my eyes... but whatever floats your boat 
I do enjoy flying the Rotol one on occasion but the DH version gets less time in the Hangar. Anyway, nice to see screenshots of my hard work in action. I wish more were posted in gallery here.
Matt
Please keep to topic. If you want to highlight the shortcomings of AF4 you could always start another thread to do that
. I understand that in the big scheme of things whether or not the doors open is not a big deal, but it takes a lot more work for the model creator to make this possible and then animate it... It seems valid to want to know how to do it and that is what this thread was intended for. It doesn't appear to have been well documented elsewhere.
KR Matt
ERJ...
737...
A320...
Very cool
Figured out A320, ERJ and 737
Tried the Q400, 777, 747 and 787 without success. Do any of those have working exits? If so can you point me in the right direction. I could often get a display of the exits on an MFD but it didn't have mouse clicking as the ERJ and A320
KR Matt
Jan can any of the doors be opened on the Airliners? If so how do you do it?
Also does the Me109E canopy hinge open? I've tried to figure out how to do it but come to the conclusion it cant be done. If it hasn't been animated that wouldn't be a big thing to do would it? provided the model maker made it a separate part, which I imagine he would have.
KR Matt
jin have you looked at this? Most of what it says is still valid for FS4. the repaint.tmc file has been replaced with an option.tmc file but you should be able to work out how to do that by looking at other current repaints.
sdk:repaints [Aerofly FS Wiki]
PLAY thanks for new livery. Is there a layered PSD template for the 777? If so a classic American Airlines livery with metallic fuselage could be tempting.
KR Matt
thanks Jan for info... that would certainly have been easier
KR Matt
That wasn't straight forward but I think that has done it. I had to reset the settings and redo them. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to remove an axis from an entry once its assigned. Also it would be useful to be able to set a joystick button to increment the throttle up and down for the helicopters when you are not in the VC. At the moment you can only set a button for up it seems. Thanks for your help guys.
KR Matt
Spectacular Michael. I installed your FS2 central England files today, so just the north needed now to complete the UK. Let me know if you want me to try them out when you get to stage you're happy with.
KR Matt
I really like the UH-60 but don't use it as much as I would because of some problems I find when operating it . I'm not sure if it's a failure to understand how to operate it or the way my controls are set up or both. My thrustmaster hotas joystick is set up with throttles and collective on the units throttle bar axis. This works fine on R22 and EC135 but on the UH60 I find when trying to decend the engines and rotor speed plunge and the Heli sinks and you can't get the power up in time to save it. I guess having engine rpm and collective on same axis is not ideal, and I would prefer to be able to not have the rpm on a joystick axis but buttons since, generally the Heli engines run at high speed and the collective is used to adjust lift via the rotors... But that doesn't seem to be an option for me. Be grateful for some pointers here Jan so I can get the most out of this aircraft with the control setup I have available.
KR Matt
You might want to stop flogging this dead horse😁
Here's why... There are very few of us developing aircraft for AF4 outside IPACS and a project of this magnitude is just too much to take on for most private individuals. That leaves commercial developers and most of those already know they wouldn't sell enough to make it viable commercially. That leaves IPACS. They might well decide to do one but they're not going to tell you until it's nearly ready to go out the door, and seeing as they've told us about the 737 max it's seems unlikely it that's going to happen any time soon. Sorry that's just the reality.
It is a very cool plane though. There are two other options... You could learn how to develop yourself and spend every spare waking hour, working on it for next two years. Or if your into X plane you could buy the flight factor model and try that.
KR Matt
Volley,
Does the bird actually work in FS2? It's a fundamental question that interests me. Haven't tried the freeware in FS2 yet, hence the question.
thank you
short answer is almost certainly no, as it was put together with the AF4 SDK.
KR Matt
Glad your enjoying it Michael... it does make a good sight seeing plane, to enjoy your scenery, if its trimmed out for straight & level flight.
KR Matt
What fantastic work your doing Michael. Thank you
KR Matt
Sopwith Snipe for Aerofly FS 4
Readme for version 1.0
Description
Sopwith, with their 7F1 Snipe intended to produce a successor and improvement of their successful Camel Fighter. It had nearly twice the power of the Camel with its Bentley BR2 engine, but it was also a lot heavier so it was not everything that it was intended to be. It did however succeed in removing some of the vices of the Camel that made that a dangerous Aircraft to fly for an inexperienced pilot. Entering World War 1 at the very end it had little impact on the conflict. With some improvements to the Tail and Aileron design it became the main stay of the RAF fighter force until the late 1920s.
Features
Credits and Copyright Ownership
Sopwith Snipe 3D model and textures: Matthew Ivey
Sopwith Snipe 3D cockpit model and textures: Dom Henry
Pilots 3D model and textures: Bertrand Augras (beber)
Custom Sounds: Dan Hopgood
Main TMD programming: Matthew Ivey and Jan-Hendrik Hanuschik (IPACS)
Fuel and Engine Starter programming: Krzysztof Kaniewski (krzysk)
Disclaimer
Use it at your own risk. The Sopwith Snipe is a freeware product which has been tested on a Windows 10 installation of Aerofly FS 4 version 4.03.01.10 (2023-05-24) and should also work on Mac and Linux versions. Use with VR hands should be supported but is untested. Some features are work in progress and may or may not be extended over time.
Installation
Please extract the downloaded zip file and move the two folders “sopwith_snipe_early” and “sopwith_snipe_late” into your user folder 'aircraft' directory, on Windows: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Aerofly FS 4\aircraft\
Cockpit Layout
Forward
Left Side
USN version has been updated to version 1.22.
RAF version still Version 1.2
USN model has New metal finish added, some new repaints and an additional model that approximates an F2A-1
KR Matt
Here is the Matt Aluminium Recipe
normal and ambient applied as above...
color, reflection, specular and specular_alpha as below...
note: top right on color texture... metal grey is much darker
top right... reflection is grey not red
bottom left specular.... painted areas dark, metal lighter
bottom right specular_alpha... painted areas lighter, metal darker
KR Matt
If you want a more Matt Aluminium Look the recipe is below but first some examples:
KR Matt
