Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted December 15, 2007 Author Aerosoft Share Posted December 15, 2007 Ready for Lukla X? Short nosed 100 version One more shot of the 100 version WinAir, pretty spiffy livery aint't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick - Seria17hri11er 0 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Lookin good! Is that Thai, Cambodian, Laotian or what on that first plane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daytonite_andy 0 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 It's a Yeti Airlines Otter (the hint is the word Lukla!) http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0384796/L/ THE best adrenaline rush you'll ever get whilst landing a plane at high altitudes is found at Lukla Airport!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick - Seria17hri11er 0 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Thats gotta be the highest airport in Nepal right? They fly in there then hike up to Everest right? Rest assured I will be flying the Twotter in and out of there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C 110 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 A few additional "Yeti" images... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C 110 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 A few more of the BA livery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprimatic 0 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Sweet plane ! 8) I love this british airways livery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baw079 3 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Ok Mathjis, you've tempted me enough :evil: Let's get this bird out so I can start some serious highlands and islands flying for British Airways Virtual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwikat 2 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 WOW :shock: :shock: :shock: That thing is beautiful! I've got a feeling this is going to beat the Beaver 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Sorry... Mathijs, it looks like you have the bumpmaps the wrong way round. The rivets look like the light is coming from underneath. Also - the stiffener ribbing/corrugation on the flaps and tailplanes needs more "bump" effect than the rivets. And maybe a little bit of bump to the tyres two, to make them look as if there is tread there? She's looking good though. Will you also be making the tyres bulge under weight when the plane is on the ground, rather than just sink into the pavement to simulate this? That would be cool (and it is possible - has been done before) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjrhealth 3 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Any chance of a copy of the long nose ver paintkit, iwould like to do some aussie repaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baw079 3 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Only one additional request - please make sure this baby works with sp2 and acceleration. I've found to my cost that isn't the case with already purchased aircraft and sceneries, although happy to report no probs with the Beaver or Venice. Cheers Willy G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C 110 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Running it on Acceleration here :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dag Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Cris; I believe the bump-mapping is not completely done yet. If you look closely there's some arcs inside the "frames of rivets" that are not supposed to be there at all. I experimented a bit with the psd masters and ran them all through the imagetool batch process and came up with completely different results. If not run through the imagetool process the NVIDIA normal map filter will create a weird alpha channel on the image that gives weird results as shown. I've talked to Mathijs about this and it's gonna be fixed for sure. Best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Roger that Dag. For whosoever is on the dev team doing the paints, I am going to give away a little secret. My favourite source for textures. Visit this site and select "metal" / "Seams 'n Bolts" and you will see some very good close-up examples of aircraft rivetting (amongst many other useful texture patches for you paint programme). Tip 2 - take a close look at the MS "Acelleration" Mustang bumpmaps - the Microsoft team did an excellent job on that plane - really excellent! (What's this? Me complimenting a default plane? :wink:) I see what you mean, Dag, with the rivet-framed areas. Bump map making is probably more needful of painstaking work than other parts. You need several different layers because of the different kinds of bump. and merging the lot before conversion to dds often does strange things. Luckily we only need one bumpmap per model - unless you are doing differently aged and cared for models - even dirt (well a lot of it) will add it's own bumping... Hey, there's a thought Aerosoft - are you considering a real "backwoods" skin? One which is "loved" a lot, but might have a lot of dents and bruises - or is that one for us painters later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dag Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Chris; If you like the bumps on the -51, then there'll be similar work on the twotter, I can imagine...... :roll: ..... and I'll leave it at that.... most likely :? Best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Chris; If you like the bumps on the -51, then there'll be similar work on the twotter, I can imagine...... :roll: ..... and I'll leave it at that.... most likely :? Best Ahem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skydvdan 2 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 It's coming along!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT 0 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 It will be awesome to have an FSX Otter! I can hardly wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick - Seria17hri11er 0 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Just seen Yeti airlines and Lukla on TV! Getting me excited for the twotter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwikat 2 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Hey Mathjis do you know how much this bird is going to cost? I am just curious because my wallet is kind of thin right now and I really want to be able to afford her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveIT 0 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Woo hoo. I can't wait for this to come out. I'm definitely getting Lukkla X at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WF442 1 Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 The model looks really nice. The winair livery on the other hand... Shame on the texture artist on that one! Purple? According to every single photo i have seen of Winair Twotters, the colour should be dark blue. just my humble opinion of course. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I'm with you there 100% Bjorn - definitely dark blue with red trim. Someone needs his monitor calibrated :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Roethlisberger 0 Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 Aerosoft could include the "Papa Westray" flight as a mission, that would be funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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