Simviation Forum - FSX planes to FS'04?

May 19^th, 2012 at 9:21pm

DJ_Zephyr Offline
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Wow, been a while. Good to see this place is still around.

So been playin the Microsoft Flight 'demo,' enjoyin the heck out of the Icon A5, but feeling a bit cramped and bored due to lack of scenery. I reinstalled good ol' FS9 and did some searching, finding a couple A5s for FSX. One of them (a rather sub-part version, to be frank) works fine; the other results in an error message when I try to select it.

I went to the mentioned file directory, and there is indeed an A5.mdl present. So this has me a bit stumped, as well as disappointed, since that version of the plane supposedly has all the features I'd like (some that even the "Flight" version doesn't have- you know they left out the FLAPS of all things?).

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Reply #1 - May 20^th, 2012 at 6:38am

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Real FSX planes will NOT work in FS9, because the model formats are different.
"FSX-compatbile planes" will work, since they are not real FSX planes (no self shadows, no bumpmaps, no VC in separate MDL file etc...), but FS9 planes in fact.

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #2 - May 20^th, 2012 at 4:21pm

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DJ_Zephyr wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 9:21pm:

Wow, been a while. Good to see this place is still around.

So been playin the Microsoft Flight 'demo,' enjoyin the heck out of the Icon A5, but feeling a bit cramped and bored due to lack of scenery. I reinstalled good ol' FS9 and did some searching, finding a couple A5s for FSX. One of them (a rather sub-part version, to be frank) works fine; the other results in an error message when I try to select it.

I went to the mentioned file directory, and there is indeed an A5.mdl present. So this has me a bit stumped, as well as disappointed, since that version of the plane supposedly has all the features I'd like (some that even the "Flight" version doesn't have- you know they left out the FLAPS of all things?).

Flight isn't known for its realism or accuracy,or its cheap price...

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Reply #3 - May 20^th, 2012 at 6:37pm

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I don't think they invented forward compatibility yet... Probably when we get some time machines running... Grin

Up is the way to go.

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