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Postby ardypilot » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:32 pm

No, not the movie. I'm talking about the Fokker Dr.I Tri-plane family!

In case you didn't know, there is a whole fleet of replica's based down at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, owned by Peter Jackson. Zac has repainted most of them (See here), so it's a perfect excuse to take them up over the REAL NZ scenery that includes their home airfield.

I've been flying these little warbirds around all week, and absolute love them- really easy to handle (in the sky at least) and smooth on frame rates around the Marlborough area! I've literally taken hundreds of screenies, but narrowed them down to 19 shots, 2.21mb in file size. Sorry 56k'ers!

1. to 5. Enter Von Richthofen





-couldn't decide which head on view I liked the best, the first or last one

6. to 13. An attempt at a formation








- you may notice all the screenies where I got them in a line are all from the same spot- its harder than it looks you know! I can't even imagine how Charl manages to do this in Harvards, or anything faster than 110 knots!

14. to 19. Later that evening...






-notice the political message in shot 15? Its quite ironic actually, the BP logo and the Luftwaffe logo appear together in almost every screenie! By the way, I really recommend that you take a spin around Omaka at sunset if you have the REAL NZ scenery. I'm thinking about adding this to my simple pleasures thread, its like you have the whole place to yourself, very peaceful smile.gif

And before you ask what the base model is called- just search 'fokdr.zip' over at flightsim.com winkyy.gif The install is only around 5mb and each of Zac's repaints are around 2/3mb. Well worth the download and I'd be keen to try this again on multiplayer again with anyone rather than doing it with FSRecorder!
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Postby K5054NZ » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:30 pm

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FANTASTIC!!!

Thanks Andy, that's just made my night! Gorgeous shots! I love that first one of Manfred's Dreidecker, very cool! And that lineup, wow! Nicely done!

Looking forward to more! I totally agree about the flying characteristics, she really is a honey in the air. Be nice to do some multi with you sometime...


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PS - Uploading Weiss' machine now. Then Wenzl and Manfred, and that's Jasta 11 done! Woo! Next project.....
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Postby toprob » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:23 pm

Pretty cool, and inspired me to finally install FSRecorder. I've yet to get the hang of it, at the moment I need to figure out some techniques to at least get two fokkers in the same part of the sky:)
It is great though to at least see the others doing their stuff around the airfield.
In the meantime, here's a couple of shots from my first foray with the Fokkers...


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Postby creator2003 » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:57 pm

Yeah its one thing to master that recorder but fun all the same ,i think ill have to gets these fokkers to join you trolly and anyone else ,in m/p they sure look like fun ..
oh and great repaints winkyy.gif
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Postby Charl » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:18 pm

Well done Trolly, setting 'em all up in a row like that.
I'm downloading the next one as we speak, the race is on for the screenshot lining the whole fleet up perfectly...
Great idea, Zac, keep them coming!
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:00 pm

Trolly cool.gif .... Hells this scenery is creating some absolute screen shots thumbup1.gif Well done Zac with each and all your paints and Andrew , both clapping.gif
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Postby Cbris » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:17 am

Those are some great shots there... Nicely done Trolly
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Postby ardypilot » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:42 am

Cheers for the comments guys, and good on ya Robin!

Zac has just given me permission to upload all his 7 paints into one zip file which will make an easy download for those of you yet to grab the tri-planes!
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Postby toprob » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:47 pm

Trolly wrote:
QUOTE(Trolly @ Sep 9 2007, 11:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Zac has just given me permission to upload all his 7 paints into one zip file which will make an easy download for those of you yet to grab the tri-planes!

Are you uploading to Avsim?

Hey, I'm getting there, but still some work to do:
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Postby Charl » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:29 pm

It's a great playground, I do hope I can cure my computer of its video handling problems.
Treat this as a series of stills.

There is a very good Sopwith Camel at flightsim.com (camel04.zip) which is begging for an Omaka repaint.
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Postby ardypilot » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:40 pm

Nice little video Charl, they do look very impressive all lined up together don't they?
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:56 pm

Thanks to Charl intoducing me to the FS-Recorder converter and spending much time explaining how it works, I've come up with a slightly better Fokker formation:





If anyone wants the .frc recorded file of the formation, just PM me and I'll send it through- it's a little over 1mb.
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Postby Ian Warren » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:21 pm

Trolly........ Well Done :clap: , Gavin won't have to jump in a plane anymore :o , he'd just do a Screenshot :D
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Postby Charl » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:53 pm

I'm delighted you hung in there, great formation shot!
(Which I meant to do, and now have blown!)
One has to be careful, not to be too precise about positioning, otherwise things look contrived.
I've started tinkering with making the spacings "ouit" by a few feet, and introducing a time lag offset.
If you send me the frc I'll have a go and send it back for you to have a further play.
PS where's #7? I thought we had the whole fleet?
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Postby ardypilot » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:04 pm

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One has to be careful, not to be too precise about positioning, otherwise things look contrived.[/quote]
Yeah, unfortunately that is quite apparent in the above screenshots. I just read and replied to your post in the CAP thread and will send you through the .frc now.
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