Sundowner

Evening mission......

Moody skies......

Thanks guys....I'll try some of your suggestions........I didnt realise we can use jpeg's for bump maps.

Well folks I'm having some issues with bump maps when saved as .dds, take a look at the pic below.... See all the little "whitish" bits ? they are not intentsional scratches or paint blemishes, they are actually being generated by the bump maps, if I save as .bmp all those little marks are not there just rivets and lines bump mapped as they should be. The easy way would be to just continue using .bmp's as they work just fine but these Vixens all use 7 maps so 7 x 4096 maps as well as the spec maps and skin itself add up to quite a size. These are my bump map settings....... And these are my .dds settings..... Any ideas.....am I just saving them wrong ?

Double check your .lod and .LOD name entries mate, if the dont match the model they wont show.

I made some cooling towers for the UK terrain.....use those if they're what you need.

No working extending nose gear on either models...........Numerous ways have been tried by a few of us over the years but I'll be trying summat new with the TMF birds over the next few days........

I'll check my stuff later....I've lost track of what is what.........I have one with bump maps too

Already been done m8........Spinners latest Jag "what if" has the needed files.

Is that the Just Flight model from CGTrader ?

It's full name was RAF Martlesham Heath, looking pretty good to me but I'll have a look through my books and see if there's any good photos for you.

Time for a bit of flying today......

Have you tried changing the Co-Pilot entry of the external model to something that uses the "ShowfromCockpit=False" entry?

Thanks Carlo.......pm sent....

Nothing to do with the "PRESSURE_ALTIMETER_2" or 3 type thing is it??

Far East......1961.

I could do with a "volunteer" to give this thing a look over if any body has any spare time............

Very nice work mate.

Its called a Robin hangar, there's one about 20 miles from me near to RAF Shawbury.

What size are your tiles? for grass runways you could just paint them on, although it would mean different tiles for each airfield.........hmm, maybe not, just thinking out loud.

Still ongoing......

Nah, go with the camo version, the more diverse the terrain the better, most large important structures ie factories etc also got camoflaged in some way, walls and roofs were usually done green and black, hell they even filled in a lake near me to prevent the bombers from using it as a navigation point for the nearby Crewe works/railyard and Rolls Royce factories. More instances here.... https://heritagecalling.com/2019/10/07/the-story-of-camouflage-during-the-second-world-war/

http://www.airportofcroydon.com/RAF.html...........

I dont think any of us has the original max file for the pit

Colour photos are mainly a modern re-colouring job so not usually too reliable for the actual shades used, personally I'd just grub it up a fair bit & maybe make the high tide marks a little higher and darker......again during that time frame the Thames through London was little more than a huge open sewer/dumping ground for the various industry. Another useful site for AA locations etc..... http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/