RFB Fanliner 3-view

For modelling purposes, I am looking for a 3-view of the RFB FanLINER. Does anyone know if Air INternational/Air Enthusiast of the period had a 3-view?

Have you made any changes to your video setup/drivers recently?

Hi,

Any idea how do i go about repainting aircraft in FSX? :confused:

I used a rather crude method in FS2002, namely editing texture files in ‘Paint’. I’m not sure how to go about doing the same in FSX as the files don’t seem editable.

Cheers

Sorry for the late reply, have had a busy month, including having to hand carry some parts to the Teesside Power Plant (a nice 4 day break from the Orlando, FLorida heat)

The default FS-X textures are in “dds” format. Nvidia has a plugin for photoshop, but you can also use Microsoft’s latest “imagetool.exe” to convert the files. Many repainters also use Martin Wright’s DXTBMP program to convert the textures.

Abacus Publishing just released FSRepaint! 2, compatible both with FS2004 and FS-X. THe advantage is that you can see a rendered model and, when using the default FSRepaint editor, see your changes as you make them. You can also have the program send the textures to your favorite paint/editing program to take advantage of more editing features.

Blue Robin – You’ve hit the nail on the head. For many flightsim modellers, it’s “easy” to get the visuals right. Getting the flight dynamics spot on is a compromise between available information (as Rob mentioned, there are many tools), and the limitations of the flight simulator engine (Yes, you can have a supersonic Cessna 172 – what the model looks like has just about no bearing on how it “flies”).

Top line modellers will pay attention to the visuals, of course, but will also try to get experienced real-life pilots to check out the model.

Rob has done a superb job on the Brisfit

All FS9 models made to the FS9 SDKs are compatible with FSX.

THe problem is that it may not be as easy to just copy the aircraft folder into the Simobjects/Airplanes folder that FSX has. IF the model has all the sounds, panels and gauges in its own container, then there should be no problem.

What I have done is create a new “Aircraft” folder under the main FSX folder, and then add a line to the [MAIN] section of the FSX.cfg file to read:

[Main]
User Objects=Airplane, Helicopter
SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjectsAirplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjectsRotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjectsGroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjectsBoats
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjectsAnimals
SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjectsMisc
SimObjectPaths.6=Aircraft <—– this line added

THen I install the model “normally”.

I’ve had it for about a week (some stores released it about 10 days early – it’s not scheduled for official release here in the US until 17-OCT), and am very pleased with it.

Depending on your hardware setup you will probably see a significant fps “hit” compared to FS9. Typically, a Flight Simulator release is set up to take advantage of the “next level” hardware setup, as was FS9.

There are already simple tweaks one can do to improve the frame rates – mostly adjusting values in the FSX.cfg folder (reducing autogen trees/buildings levels, etc).

One thing that I do find promisinig is that when flying online, you can transfer control of the airplane to another player. I think it’s only a matter of time before someone starts an ” online flying school” –

You can use the FS9 airplanes in FSX, but it will take a careful installation since the aircraft folders are now in the “SimObjectsAirplanes” folder, not the Aircraft folder, and the FS9 panels and sound files may be aliased to gauges that were renamed.

Of course, if Gary gets “involved” in the Mustang, he’d probably forget how to do anything else!

MAy I also suggest that a worthwhile investment is Key Publishing’s own “PC PILOT” title. Apart from the product reviews, and various articles, it has an excellent series of flying tutorials, complete with charts, etc. (not to mention a collection of freeware on the CD).