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Feb 25th, 2009 at 4:58pm

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G'day again guys,i'v just downloaded the excelent looking Team FBT F-18E but am having a very hard to time to get it to work properly,It all looks fine untill i go into the VC in which the glass is a lovely shade of almost complete black Sad I'v downloaded the FSX cockpit update but hasn't helped at all(looks nice,the parts that do work though!)

I'm running it with the acceleration add on and obviously SP2,I'v read a few things that say with the changes to FSX with SP2 a lot of older planes now wont work at all :/ I'm hoping this isnt true for this plane as its a very very nice looking model and i would love to get it working.Here's a picture of what it currently looks like.

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/765/fsx2009020517164973oi6.jpg

Could this be fixed with that DXTBmp program,or running some of the VC textures through a DDS converter?,I'v not had much experience with either so I'm a bit unsure about using such programs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Reply #1 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:05pm

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ShaneG wrote on Feb 25th, 2009 at 5:02pm:
Nope, this can't be fixed unfortunately.
Please see this thread for more info on the problem with this plane:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1229126946


Are you sure ? Daisuke's Super Hornet works just fine in my FSX SP2 Acceleration. Only thing I have to do to fly it is to switch off the high res VC option to avoid the FPS hit (and the VC remains beautifull).

Here is how it looks like in my sim:
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Reply #2 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:07pm

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Are you using Acceleration, or just SP2?

Everyone in that thread who ran Acceleration had the problem, while those who only had SP2 did not.


EDIT: just seen your version. Would you mind sending me that so I can see what you've done!  We worked for days on that with no luck!
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:08pm

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Acceleration is installed Smiley
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:10pm

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Well, so much for that theory. Embarrassed

I wonder what the big difference is then. Is it the one listed in the link from that thread, or did you get this elsewhere?
 
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Reply #5 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:16pm

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Here is how it looks while flying. Note that there are some bugs:
- HUD goes crazy when banking to the left, works fine when banking to the right  Huh
- the sound barrier effect turns on as soon as I turn on the lights
- I had to modify the afterburners else they would have the same problem as above

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Reply #6 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:20pm

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Daube wrote on Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:16pm:
Here is how it looks while flying. Note that there are some bugs:
- HUD goes crazy when banking to the left, works fine when banking to the right  Huh
- the sound barrier effect turns on as soon as I turn on the lights
- I had to modify the afterburners else they would have the same problem as above

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I had the exact same bugs in mine, but just could not get that glass to be clear. I was able to make the entire plane invisible, but not that darn glass. Grin
Hagar had suggested that it was a transparency issue in the model itself that was maybe incompatible, but since you clearly have it working, there has to be another answer. Undecided
Where did you get this?
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:22pm

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Please note that I am not using the "warhawk" package by Danny Garnier, but the original super hornet package from the author (f18esh.zip or something like that) with all the related updates. This is the package that had 5 deliveries, with a LOT of variants (with missiles, with external tanks etc...) for each.
 
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Reply #8 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:26pm

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Well I'll be, you got a link by chance? It would be nice if there were some kind of reference to go back to when this problem comes up again, and I'd like to see if I can use parts of this to fix that Warhawks package, and upload an update for it.
 
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Reply #9 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:28pm

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LOL, I just did a search for that zip name, and found you at another forum. Grin Grin (checksix)
 
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Reply #10 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:30pm

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ShaneG wrote on Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:28pm:
LOL, I just did a search for that zip name, and found you at another forum. Grin Grin (checksix)

Hehe, checksix is the very first forum I ever registered to, opening the doors to the sim world to me Smiley
 
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Reply #11 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 6:36pm

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Ok, I am now trying to download this exact link you found from me on the other forum:
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004ac&DLID=67488
Unfortunately my connexion is just so slow, so I won't be able to test it before an hour.
Is it the same as the one you have downloaded ? If your internet connexion is faster maybe you can give that one a try ? I will test it when the download is finished anyway.

 
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Reply #12 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 7:12pm

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Ok I have installed and tested, and the canopy is transparent.  Cheesy
 
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Reply #13 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 7:12pm

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Downloading it now, I'm gonna check them out, and hopefully have something good to report back with.

Thanks for tracking that down. Wink
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 25th, 2009 at 7:37pm

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Well, they are the same plane, the only difference being the paintschemes, and I still get the blacked out VC. Sad


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This is a little more than frustrating that some have it working while others do not. I wonder what the big secret factor is that we are missing here. Huh
 
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