Blunty again......sorry

[Splitpin]

Pretty hard to follow Dougs screens....and mine arent of anything new but, the more "other" things i fly...the more i love this. I know you have all seen it before, but it dosent matter which way you view it...in which light....it looks good.
I think it deserves a gold medal, like they do at flightsim.com etc.











Cheers

Marty

[Adamski]

Here comes the predictable response from the No.1 Splitpin Fanboi

There's just so much detail to enjoy on that aircraft. Quite amazing, really. I'm not even going to bother commenting on the quality of the pics

[brendan]

VERY COOL where'd ya get that!!
last ones very close to REAL !!

Nice shots Splitpin!

[IslandBoy77]

Yep, beauty Marty! Well done - very detailed and realistic shots. I was a bit suspicious at first that perhaps they weren't your screen shots. After all, I can actually SEE the blunty...

[cowpatz]

The last 4 shots in particular could easily be the real thing.

[Ian Warren]

Snazzy as ever Marty , you running this in FSX , now i hope your still not slewing

[Grumble]

QUOTE (brendan @ Nov 2 2010, 02:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

VERY COOL where'd ya get that!!

I agree- where can I get this?!

[Ian Warren]

Nigel 'nije' Booths site http://www.fratbrosdesign.com/FratBrosDonationware.htm - drop-down menu freeware

[Splitpin]

Thanks very much guys....i promise not to dump the blunty on you again (for a while). Im going to load up FS9 again tonite...tweak it, and then work on some better lightning shots.
I got the A/S lightning flying in FSX but the screen was all compressed.....any ideas why that might be?Pity, because it looked quite good....just very long

Anyway thanks again for looking....take care out there. Ian, thanks for provid ing that link for the others.....

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 3 2010, 02:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Snazzy as ever Marty , you running this in FSX , now i hope your still not slewing

Ian....Im not saying anything.....now where is that F4 key ....

[Grumble]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 2 2010, 02:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nigel 'nije' Booths site http://www.fratbrosdesign.com/FratBrosDonationware.htm - drop-down menu freeware

Cheers. Downloaded and installed...

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Nov 3 2010, 03:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I got the A/S lightning flying in FSX but the screen was all compressed.....any ideas why that might be?Pity, because it looked quite good....just very long

There is a fix for this , i,m sure it was in the old Alphasim forum before it was closed down , think just a line in the cfg. file .

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 3 2010, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There is a fix for this , i,m sure it was in the old Alphasim forum before it was closed down , think just a line in the cfg. file .

Great, thanks Ian....if you remember let me know......Im not to worried about the intrenals, but if i can get it looking right outside that would be great

[Adamski]

Here we go, Marty ... a few resurrected Alphasim Lightnings ...







... and a freeware one (UK-MIL, I think)



The first few A/S ones give all kinds of gauge errors, but the later ones are fine. As I'm running FSX in DX10 preview mode, I had to use the Addon-Converter utility (which I previously slagged off )

Tweak the panel.cfg for each aircraft to get the right window size:

[Window00]
file=Main panel_640.BMP
file_1024=Main panel_1024.bmp
size_mm=1024,768
window_size_ratio=1.000
position=7
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL
sizeable=1
render_3d_window=1
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000
view_window_rect=0,0,8192,6143

and ....

[Default View]
X=0
Y=0
SIZE_X=8191
SIZE_Y=6143

Not sure whether the first tweak works for FSX. I seem to get the aircraft a little higher than centre in spot view .... is there a way I can move it down a bit?

Also, I aliased all the SOUND.cfg for all of them to the T Mk 5.

[Ian Warren]

Nice screens Adam . I have this wicked picture ( painting) of a 'Binbrook' Lightning on touchdown . Do you recall a TV series 'Test Pilot' at the beginning had a camera on the tail off one of two looking back as it climbed up and out over one of there bases .

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 5 2010, 01:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice screens Adam . I have this wicked picture ( painting) of a 'Binbrook' Lightning on touchdown . Do you recall a TV series 'Test Pilot' at the beginning had a camera on the tail off one of two looking back as it climbed up and out over one of there bases .

I think I do remember that series, Ian. However - my everlasting memory of a Lightning is from an air show I went to as a child, where the Lightning did a *very* fast low pass (just sub-sonic) then went into a vertical climb, directly above our heads, just tickling the afterburner as he went up. The result was that he broke the sound barrier and we got the full blast of it (the cone being directly down at us). WOW!!!! Of course, this was in the mad old days when air shows were almost totally unregulated!

I've sat in the cockpit of a Lightning (in a museum) and was amazed at just how "low-tech" it all was. More like something out of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" than the most modern (at the time) interceptor the UK had. Still an *awesome* looking aircraft though!!!

[Splitpin]

Adam....beautiful screens....god i love those things. Light(ning) years ahead of anything else at the time.
Also , thanks for the config info and your memories.....must have been awesome



Ian, Ive been looking for that series on dvd or tape for years (test pilot) I flew a backseat ride in a TA-4 with then Flt Lt Steve moore out of wigram, many moons ago. He was the kiwi on the course they made the series about. He's now an Air Commodore up in wellington.....boy, time flys

[Ian Warren]

Marty , Flt Lt Steve Moore , Yep the name , played around with all the little toys they had over there , gone here due to the knobs and politics - only reason most the Strike Force is gone is due to the cost to send 'poly clowns oversea' .. on free holidays !

[happytraveller]

VERY real screenshots, the third one you have to look at a few times to make sure that it is not a real photo. Nice looking aircraft too, and looks just right with the cumulus clouds behind.

Good to see that the screenshots are up to the usual high quality.

smooth landings.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (happytraveller @ Nov 5 2010, 09:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

VERY real screenshots, the third one you have to look at a few times to make sure that it is not a real photo. Nice looking aircraft too, and looks just right with the cumulus clouds behind.

Good to see that the screenshots are up to the usual high quality.

smooth landings.

Thanks HT....and for the mags as well