added taillight on SAA 737 and randoms.

[il88pp]

All textures from flightsim.com

 

Some randoms and added taillight on SAA 737

Enjoy!

il

 

 

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Manual app to CYVR, no idea how to work AP in this thing.

 

 

Added own afterburner gauge to F16 Kirk Olssen Thunderbird1

 

 

Ilyushin Il-14 - Late departure from EDDF

 

 

SAA 737 &Antonov225 at EDDF

 

 

After Athens-EDDF - Ifly 747 Freeware and Antonov225

 

 

Over Grand Canyon headed for KLAS

 

 

Lufthansa 737 at some new addon EDDF

[adamb]

Fsntastic set of randoms!! :)

[jfwright]

That's a very well lit up tail on the SAA 737. Nice job. Jim

[NMLW]

Nice work. I especially like the low light pics. :cool: :cool: :D

[il88pp]

Thanks adamb, Jim, and NMLW.

The tail was a 25 minute texture edit. Real quick and simple. Simply copied tail from day texture onto a LightMap file of the b737-800 and added it to a copy of the SAA texture, that I then added as a new texture.

So still have both the original and the one with lit up tail available to fly.

The low light contrast and colour look better after installing 'Reshade'. I then disabled that again by disabling d3d9.dll in the main fsx folder, but left the changed shader files in place.

[wolf2]

good stuff, great variety! I got the kirk olsen f-16 long, long ago and have always loved it. I even did a review of it back in the day:

 

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?1592-F-16-Viper-Package

[peer01]

Great ones! :eek::eek::cool:

[PhantomTweak]

Great pictures, il!

All of them really nice.

I don't mean to quibble, but I've seen a lot of military bird in AB, on take-off, in the air, and pretty close up down at high-power. Mostly Navy birds, Phantoms, F-14's, and F/A18's. The AB flames are a lot smoother than your F-16's. Your's is a a mass of little sparklies, for lack or a better term. Every one I've seen is more like a cutting torch's flame, than a sparkler. Powerful, but a single smooth flame, vs a lot of bright little dots. Sometimes you can see compression rings in them.

I mean no disrespect to your work, it's certainly much better than anything I could do, without question. I just thought you might like my input on it, for what it's worth :)

Here's what I think is a proper blower. Note the compression waves, and the relatively smooth flame in between them.

 

Hope this helps :D

Pat☺

[av8tor98]

Excellent pics :)

[il88pp]

Thank you your lordship, much appreciate it!

 

And thanks for the link wolf2. A good review.

Flying the F-xx 's is tiring work even in fsx, so I don't do it too often. When I fly a fighter do it's mostly in the Aero Vodochody L159 these days. (Has AP in the VC). Or the default F-18, which I can 'feel' by now.

The Ozx Grand Canyon did give me a hankering to try a canyon run though. Maybe I'll take the F-16 up again. First some practice in the Alps, then the real thing near KGCN.

 

Thanks Pat,

It's new Glade Monvert cleaner. Makes your Monvert sparkle like never before!!;)

I wanted to tell you more about the AB, but I seem to have messed up! Somehow it don't look as good no more.:(

I have been swapping out the effects folder. Making backup, testing something out, (maybe afterwards also fixing AB) and then switching again to the backup. Not sure. Ooops, play me some filler Johnny!

 

Thanks Avator:),

Happy flights all.:):):)

[il88pp]

Pfeew, managed to pull it back. That took about two hours of frantic editing and testing though.

Thing is, Pat, the default FA-18 AB doesn't work too well in the F-14. It looks tiny in that huge exhaust pipe, almost like a little pilot light.

And with such a screaming paint job, I thought "best go bold".

It took a huge amount of time to get an effect that filled the tailpipe. I remember downloading loads of files, just to check if they contained some effects. Eventually I found a solution.

But now, suddenly it wouldn't work. You can imagine terror struck.

Took a lot of time trying all old backups, and trying out different effects, to finally get it working again. Backups yielded nothing.

Well, fixed now. Stored the whole edited plane securely in a .zip on three drives. Sigh of relief.:):):) Bucket of icecream time!:cool:

il.

 

Here's two screenies of it, notice the glow of the exhaust! Very close to total meltdown so sparks seem apt to me!!

 

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[PhantomTweak]

I mean absolutely no offence, I realy don't, but with all the sparklies, it looks like the engine is tearing it's self apart inside. Take a bird-strike?

I'm not complaining mind you, it's a heck of a better job than I could do on my best day. It's just not...realistic...I guess is the word I want. If it's ok for you, great!

If you could somehow extend that solid looking part inside the tailpipe OUT...elongate it? Stretch it? However you would say it, and make it a lot bluer...Afterburners are HOT, after all. The yellow color indicates to me the engine is burning up inside, not burning fuel in the AB section, you know?

Like I said, though, if you're happy, more power to ya :D I couldn't do anything like that, that's for sure.

Just so you know, Mr. Barendregt made a really neat little AB control gauge to add visible AB flames to Dino's F-14, as well as the thrust and fuel consumption. It's for FS9, but works equally well in FSX. Maybe you could adapt it for the F-16 you're working on? Just a thought.

Good luck!

Pat☺

[il88pp]

I tried such gauges, but found it hard to wrap my head around them. Plus hard to fine tune them to my liking.

Making my own gauge was easier. It simply switches on 6 effects in turn, so at full throttle they are all lit.

Effects are listed in aircraft.cfg file. Could easily be swapped out for others. But I think these look great. They really light up the night sky.

 

There is a cone effect in this one too. Without it the sparks would look bad. The effect is yellow.

A reason I like the sparks so much is, they sway with the movements of the aircraft. Pull up in flight, and the "curve" behind the aircraft. Makes it easy to see where you are going even at a dark night in outside view.

Plus, I often fly these type of things at full AB for several hours. Seems to me some melting would not be unrealistic...

 

A blue cone, well, I don't think I have a long enough blue cone. The one from the FA-18 is too short.

I never edited effects. Seems daunting, all those particles. Making the blue effect longer seems very difficult. But maybe making the yellow one blue is an option. Ah well, For now I prefer this bondfire. Gives me something to roast my saussages on.;)

One day perhaps.

(Btw, I looked at some RW pics of the F16, and did not see a white disk. Red can, and whitish cone.)

 

Still a bit busy fine tuning things. (Very carefully not to mess it all up again!!). Fine tuning order in which effects switch on, and editing the gauge for different pecentages as well.

[il88pp]

Changing to this is simple (effect also gets more intens as thrust increases, this is full thrust). But not sure I like it.

 

 

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[PhantomTweak]

That's a lot closer!

I agree, it's YOUR plane, and YOUR effect, no question. I was just trying to make it as "realistic" as possible. I meant NO disrespect, nor was I trying to say you were "wrong". I just love watching planes use the blowers, and was trying to help you make it realistic. If you want the short cone of sparklies, then by all means :D Have a great weenie roast, and s'mores for dessert.

If you were to make what you just showed blue, though, it would be very realistic, at least as far as I can recall. Bear in mind, most of my experience with real life AB's was the F-4's J-79 engine, and the F-14A I saw one dusk taking off. The J-79's I got right next to though, down at the high-power run-up area. Did you know that you can actually slip you fingers into the tail-pipe of a fighter in AB? It makes your guts rumble. Really weird feeling. But they have enough laminar flow inside the engine to protect it, that if you have big brass ones, you CAN slip your fingers in inside that air layer. Scary as heck. Would I do it now?? NO WAY!! But I can say I was stupid enough to do it at the time :)

Anyway, use the effects you like :D It's your system, and your doing one heck of a job, no doubt. If you want more info on editing effects, for colors etc, I can look around the FSDev forums if you like. I've done a very little editing, but it IS kind of complex, and I gave it up :)

EDIT: Ok, ok, I went and looked at the FSDev forums for it anyway :D The index for EFFECT can be found HERE. Take a look at that FXEditor. It might be a handy little item to have :) Pat☺

Good luck, and whatever you choose, enjoy it :D

Pat☺

[il88pp]

I did not make the effect, I just installed it. It was actually installed and visible already, inside the sparks. Made them look better, flame must have been just as long before. Different perspective pic.

 

What I did here was, just for you, remove all other effects, and replace with this same effect. So you see it 5 times overlaying in that image you liked. Makes the flame more intense.

 

I wanted to share what effec s were used. But found out some I thought were different are actually the same. Will take some checking.

 

With those effects installed your AB will be visible. No editing needed. But, connected to [Lights], so on off with switch or L key.

 

I can look into finding an existing AB gauge, but that will take even longer.

 

Want to finish my prefered look. (and etch in stone).

Then I'll look into sharing what effects were used. (are in existing .zip's).

Then start looking into 'blue'/'white'. (Btw, don't think blue will be very visible in sky.).

Thanks for link. Think I came across that already. But didn't look into it yet. Will do in due time. But not needed in this phase. Just placing and connecting to thrust for now.