Tako_Kichi
SOH Staff

me and GaryGB

We had one for 6+ years prior to the current dog and she was the same, cleaned a plate better than any dishwasher. :icon_lol: She also had a passion for bananas, you could be three rooms away from her while she was sleeping deeply and she would be by your side looking up at you with those big brown eyes before you had finished unzipping it! :isadizzy: It was uncanny how fast she reacted to an open banana.

Thank you all for your complements. I am very happy that everyone is able to enjoy the Bad Duck. Thanks to Mike "Cirrus" an error in animation was found that I missed in my rush to get the duck posted. There are broken animation links in the -6 VC. I posted a replacement model file in the downloads section to correct this. Sorry for the inconvenience.

That would be very much welcomed! I downloaded a few ratchet sounds and played with them but sound is a new thing for me to learn. In the aircraft.cfg under these points determine the extension and retraction times by the 12th and 13th values respectively. In this case they are all set to 20 and 30 seconds. point.0 = 1, -16.1456, 0, -4.9700, 1600, 0, 0.375, 30, 0.38, 2.5, 1.64, 20, 30, 1, 0, 0 point.1 = 1, 1.875, -5, -9.1215, 1800, 1, 1.2, 0, 0.34, 2.5, 1, 20, 30, 2, 0, 0 point.2 = 1, 1.8604, 5, -9.1273, 1800, 2, 1.2, 0, 0.34, 2.5, 1, 20, 30, 3, 0, 0 You can adjust these if you wish with the following consideration. The real duck requires 47 revolutions of the crank handle and it was not easy retracting so I just estimated these times to what seemed about right. Due to the 100 frame animation setting in the stock code I was limited to only 25 revolutions of the crank handle (I didn't want to rewrite the gear code) to get the correct number of turns but you don't have to worry about it since the animation time will follow the settings in the CFG.

Thank you all for your very kind words. I would like to mention that GarryJSmith has kindly offered to host my web site content. I believe he has downloaded it all now so you may be hearing from him if he can successfully get the content in a format and presentable form. If he does that, then the content will be available free of charge as always and remain statically preserved. Thank you Garry. For those interested in the Gmax tutorials, they have always (well, for 4-5 years now) been posted down in the Design forums and are "sticky'ed" there. There are some videos and graphic tutes that are not part of the C-162 series so check them out. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?22-Aircraft-Design-Animation

You will be restricted by the model implementation of suspension movement and gear placement (height). Also, as you change static compression and max-static ratio, you will need to adjust the vertical distance in the contact points. The description of the contact points are found in the aircraft container SDK.

LOL can't count the times I bet my grandma's dog saw the answer to his prayers was the apple pie cooling in grandma's window sill! He licked that pie plate clean!

Static pitch only affects the angle when in slew mode; it has nothing to do with how the aircraft sits on the tarmac. Same with static height ... only in slew mode. Contact points static compression and max-static ratio are used to affect suspension static compression and travel. Before you change it, multiply static compression times the max-static ratio. You must maintain that result whenever you change static compression or max-static ratio. (This assures that the sim mirrors the animated travel established in the model.) For example, contact points static compression and max-static ratio changes as follows: Now: .5', 2.5 = 1.25' New: .8', x.x - 1.25

The standard key or clicking on the crank handle in the VC should toggle the gear. You should see the crank turning and the gear indicator moving. The gear takes 30 seconds to fully retract. There is no sound when the gear is retracting or extending, I need to make a custom ratchet sound for it. Does anyone else have the same problem?

Alcock and Brown did it in an ex-WWI Vickers Vimy bomber in 1919. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight_of_Alcock_and_Brown Lindbergh (as Stiz said) was the first to do it solo.

Also regarding websites, you can also open any page and do a "Save Webpage As" to your computer. Just create a folder for each page you save.

I have downloaded the C162 tutorial folder and trying to decide the best way to package it. It is 135MB, 29 folders and 621 files. If you have MS Word, after downloading, you could change the hyperlinks to point at your folders, otherwise right now, the hyperlinks are useful to identify the folder for each exercise. Then opening that folder, you can simply open the index.html file to view the contents. A little cumbersome but not bad. Not sure if there is an easier way than editing the hyperlinks once the package is downloaded though.

The original paint kit got so complicated with three different models that I am now breaking them up for each of the models. When I get it together I'll post a link for download. One of the problems I encountered was with the wing floats. Currently you can only paint them one color due to the way I overlaid the UVW maps. Since there are already some repaints done it would screw them up if I were to correct this. There was only one paint scheme that had two color wing floats and that was the USCG WWII version three tone paint, (sorry jankees), all other paint schemes had one color floats.

Once again...a real winner!!! Thanks Paul:salute: Ted

I will package and upload the tutorial here at SOH. Thank you Andy; great team we have had to deliver the goods. AFAIK Manuele is still working at the CANT Z

I've found Nvidia to always be very reliable. I always save the last drivers I installed that way if something goes wrong with the new ones you can always backup to the earlier drivers. I will be installing the new drivers on my 650Ti.

TuFun did a nice job on the effects and I tied the blue flame to the head temperature for now. I want to use the yellow sooty flames and the blue in conjunction with the mixture settings in the future.

Thanks everyone. The website host has had its issues for the last year or so and in spite of lots of trouble tickets, they continue. We had several domains and now have discontinued all of them. I have all the download files and raw page data so if anything is needed, maybe I can make that available. The C-162 gmax tutorials will not be available so if anyone wants that, they better grab it. I will be making all gmax source available again here at SOH if anyone is interested. I have not done any design work since January/February; just needed a sabbatical.

yes thats a sweet paint job

thank you

really dont see the Jaggies Lol Must be used to them Ill try out Anti Aliasing see how it looks thanks for the Tip

Outstanding service to God and your work Bill!:salute: Ted

here is some photos from my FlightKHQM to CEN4

just installed it going to take it for a flight

What will they think of next! :isadizzy::icon_lol: It would be a total waste of time on my axe though as I have a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge with a locking nut. My (fine) tuning is done on the bridge not the machine heads.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn

Just letting you know you did an amazing job up to this point :O) Ted

Awaiting one set of textures for the S2T and some panel gauges for startup are needed. Not a panel guy and need some assistance there. Thinking about releasing the WIP versions and maybe someone can help out.

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it depends where your from Most of the Big Cities are Digital Systems The Radio i use http://www.amazon.com/Uniden-BCD996XT-Digital-Scanner-Channels/dp/B002IT30LM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368642798&sr=8-1&keywords=uniden+bcd996xt

your welcome

YEP you're right on P! I had every album they ever did...AWESOME! Ted