Sinking mesh in the Donationware B-17 package

[John Keane]

Guys

I just purchased the fantastic Donationware B-17 and have been encountering a problem with the mesh that's installed with the scenery interacting with the freeware UK mesh I use here. It's causing the scenery to sink into a great big "pit". I've tried using the scenery installation setting for Mesh and that had me sunk under the scenery itself. Then when going back to the "Default" setup it has the scenery just fine..but it's sunken into this "pit" effect.

Is there a workaround with this using scenery "flatten" commands so it rests on top of what I have?

Any suggestions appreciated!

John in Taiwan

[John Keane]

FIX found!

It was the mesh I was using, especially as seen at RAF Sculthorpe.

Previously I had the UK-Ireland-Scotland mesh by Yohann Baptiste installed, went over to AVSIM's library and grabbed the same subject mesh done by Vince Van Veen a year earlier and installed that one while de-activating the other one.

No problems at all.

Happily doing locals around a flat looking Sculthorpe now..No canyon diving anymore. {Grin}

{May I add, the sounds on this package are PHENOMENAL! THE BEST EVER for a Recip package in my many years of simming. 'Gonna alias my Tom Gibson DC-6's/7's and B377s to this one.}

Regards
John

[Henry]

Thanks John
as in most scenery creations mesh is a pain
you allmost have to make a dozen variants:banghead:
i did have a problem with my mesh in the beta
gary fixed it
Scullthorpe is a great base isnt it:applause:
been there many times in real life
and never been done before
glad you enjoy the package
Henry:ernae:

[John Keane]

Hi Henry

This is a really nice package, one of the Top 10 Best I've ever bought. I'm stunned with the detail on the planes, the sounds and the scenery with the B-17 AI is a superb touch. Especially to this former "Blue Suiter". The scenery detail is just right. It doesnt interfere with FPS but is detailed enough to give you the feel of an active USAAF base. I like the ammo dump detailing at Sculthorpe. Interesting layout of the bunkers there. Very different in some ways yet in other ways similar to how the USAF later developed its munitions bunkering igloos like the type we had in Korea, Turkey and Guam. {Been well inside the cruise missile storage bunker at Andersen on Guam and that was something else! Was even bigger a kick in the pants when we had an 8.2 earthquake in August 1993 when I get a call at Special Handling from one of my buddies across the airfield at that same bunker area asking if he could borrow a forklift from us at the 605th MASS. Asked what for? He said there were Mark 82's all over the place inside the igloos from the quake. I dropped the phone when I heard that. Offered him anything I could spare as we were in a mess in the air freight yard too..Had to get what we had inside the terminal outside of it in a hurry as the aftershocks were sharp and we didnt know how much the structure could take...had two airmen in the office when I took the call..they asked me why I dropped the phone and why I turned pale white?...I couldnt answer..was stammering a bit..I just told them to get a 10K forklift ready for the bomb squadron guys to come over, inspect and sign over..{LOL!}

Got on this classic USAAF kick just the other day after a buddy of mine sent me a DVD he made of the classic "Strategic Air Command" movie starring Jimmy Stewart. Brought back a lot of memories. I met the man personally back in 1987 at the Sparta NJ Airshow on a weekend not long after I had completed Air Force basic training and technical school. {I did two enlistments in the USAF active duty and got out in June 1994 as one of the last "buck sergeants" in the AF {that rank has been retired} . Was stationed with the 438th Aerial Port Squadron at McGuire AFB, NJ for two years getting my belly full of JP-4, tiedown, cargo pallets and C-141B's..Then a fantastic logistics management job for another 2 years and 3 month assignment with a small 5 man detachment at Incirlik AB, Turkey. We were working for a Lt. General at HQ USAFE/LG at Ramstein and a Major general at HQ 16th AF at Torrejon AB, Spain. At Incirlik we were called an "Airlift Clearance Authority". Went through the First Gulf War in 1991 there...along with a big humanitarian airlift afterwards up into the mountains of SE Turkey and Northern Iraq. Then it was on to a nice year-long desk job working in Data Records and Reports in the MAC freight terminal at the 611th MASG at Osan AB, Korea...then back to flightline for 2 years at the 605th MASS at Andersen AFB, Guam as a Special Handling/Hazmat Freight Supervisor.}

That movie had me up and flying around with my AlphaSim B-36 until almost 3am on a work night after watching it!

Tonight I had my 6 year old daughter watching "Strategic Air Command" on the computer. She liked the noise in the scene of the B-36 overflying the baseball stadium..{Grin} My father told me of a similar reaction when he was a 'soda jerk' at a Howard Johnsons out in Harwich on Cape Cod, Massachusetts back in the early 50s during a high school summer vacation. Told me the whole place shook like hell and people ran outside. {Must have been on its way into Otis AFB in Falmouth?}

This B-17 project has me hankering for other classic bomber subjects like the B-50 Superfortress. We have a great B-29 already but nothing of the oft-overlooked big-tailed stablemate of that one. Can't wait to hear what's next from you guys.

Kind Regards

John in Tainan, Taiwan

[Willy]

This B-17 project has me hankering for other classic bomber subjects like the B-50 Superfortress. We have a great B-29 already but nothing of the oft-overlooked big-tailed stablemate of that one. Can't wait to hear what's next from you guys.

Kind Regards

John in Tainan, Taiwan


John,

Not from D-Ware, but there's been a long time in development of a B-50 in Gnoopey's "Superfortress Mania".