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Reply #15 - Apr 2^nd, 2003 at 6:43am

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That's a fine effort Bird man. I'm sure you will have some customers for it. Wink

I've taken the liberty of cropping/resizing your shots. I still think you would find IrfanView better for this sort of thing.

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Reply #16 - Apr 2^nd, 2003 at 12:29pm

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Thanks for doing that

- the Image editor was M$ photodraw which doesnt seem to resize it right, Ill go and get Irfan View now - i've decided to make more effort with the green to make it look more real, so it may be a week or two before its ready
- I'm using the Hawk from Project AI's FAFAI download which fits the bill perfectly, so I wonder if I can include it with the airport, I'll see what the readme says, but do they come to SimV ever, I could just link from a file to where you can download it from so it wouldn't realy matter I suppose.

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Reply #17 - Apr 2^nd, 2003 at 2:13pm

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It doesn't have a readme so ill have to find a link although its not on their website. One more question, using paint i cut the colour out of the satalite picture and pasted it onto another paint image and covered the whole paint screen with it, I then saved it and imported the colour into FSSC, It looked fine in FSSC but when I flew it on FS2002 it was white and Black, I fortunatly saved it in a different name, but is it possible to make your own textures with paint or should I leave it as it is? , does'nt have to be perfect I suppose, but it jut looks a bit plain,

Also, one side of all the hangars shows up white, Can it be fixed, It seems to change from side to side - maybe its because Im slewing?

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Reply #18 - Apr 2^nd, 2003 at 4:14pm

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My appoligies to Mikko Maliniemi and Kari Virtanen who were the acctual makers of this wonderful download, the hawk is almost Idealy suited to the needs, except the RAF Valley hawk is black (but that doesn't matter). This pack also contains an AI F18 Hornet, an AI F18 Hornet pair, AI camoflage and grey hawk and an AI Vinka. The hawk is the only AI suitable hawk I know (wheels work).

http://www.simviation.com/files/1military/fafai_v1.zip

Sorry for the Mistake.

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Reply #19 - Apr 2^nd, 2003 at 6:01pm

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OK, first the textures. These need to be the correct size & format. 24 bit images as saved by most graphics editors are not compatible with FS. Scenery textures are commonly 256 x 256 in 8 bit (256 color) BMP or other FS texture format. Saving in 8 bit BMP format should be possible using M$ Paint. From your problems with resizing those shots I think you would need more experience with texture formats & editing images.

I don't know which hangars you're using. If they're 3rd party macros make sure the required textures are pasted into the Texture subfolder of your scenery.

I suggest you upload the scenery files without any aircraft. Include a link to the download page (not the file) in your Readme. End-users can then use them if they wish. This would make it a much smaller download & you won't need permission from the authors.

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Reply #20 - Apr 3^rd, 2003 at 2:47pm

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I'm taking your advice on the Aircraft - the readme (found it) seemed to suggest that some pretty strong legal action would be taken Shocked

(sounds like a joke to me!)

The hangars I think are the ajustable ones which came with the program, wouldn't the fact that two sides of the hangars are right (and the Roof) suggest that it's not a texture problem (although theres not much else it can be), I'll try deleting and re-putting them in - ideally they should be green but as you say with the images I need a bit more experience which is what i'm going to do before I do anything with it, it just looks too plain compared to the photo, I imagine it slows performance if there are too many complicated colours though.

This is a test link to the page:
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002military26.htm

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Reply #21 - Apr 3^rd, 2003 at 3:08pm

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OK, glad you took my advice. Infringement of copyright is taken very seriously by many Freeware designers in an effort to prevent piracy. Most will happily agree to their stuff being included in a package providing people have the decency to ask & keep their original files & docs intact. Check out Tipster's threads on the subject in the FS2002 forum sometime.
I think this is the page link you need for the Readme.
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002military26.htm

I don't think those adjustable hangars are textured but you might be able to change the colors from Macro preferences. Raising them slightly above the ground polys might also fix any visibility problems.

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Reply #22 - Apr 5^th, 2003 at 3:26pm

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Quite rightly, they've made the effort to make something and have very kindly released it free to everyone, there wishes must be respected.
I re-put the hangars in, and they've come out fine. It was my fault once again as the default colours were set to white walls, although I must have changed something to get two walls grey, but thats irrelivent now.
I've gone back on my decision to re-texture it right now, I've decided to release it as it is and when (if) I've got to grips with creating textures and learnt how to make custom macros i'll maybe update it.
Its quite interesting finding out about the base, I've included some Info and links about what goes on there, I thought people may be interested.
I'm really glad you persuaded me to get IrfanView, its really simple to resize them. Which do you reckon is the best size to save them for use here.
Its also much better than any of my other image editors- Its made making a header for word with embedded text on top of a picture really easy, I was having trouble with my other Image editors to make anything look right for a project, Its also made a really nice .exe slideshow of all my photographs so thanks for recomending it.

Thanks for everything - Off to find a macro builder from the Utils section,

PS. Isn't that the same link? Tongue

(sorry, couldn't help it! Grin

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Reply #23 - Apr 5^th, 2003 at 4:18pm

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Great. Now you're sorted I might even download it myself. Cheesy

You're on your way now & better than your teacher already.
For such a small program I think IrfanView is remarkable & very useful. The best size for shots would be 800 x 600 which is the forum limit.

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PS. Isn't that the same link? (sorry, couldn't help it! )

I did notice you corrected that link after I posted my last reply. I suspect you're almost as crafty as me. Cheesy

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Reply #24 - May 28^th, 2003 at 1:41am

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Very nice work Birdman, Did you ever end up uploading it to allow us simmers to admire it? If you could, please contact me at powellau@hotmail.com. I would love to chat with your for a bit. Thanks and hope to see you soon.

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