B26B FSX Native Marauder Painters Release Beta 1.0

**Milton Shupe** · April 9th, 2017, 21:00

Originally Posted by blanston12

Was playing around with the painters beta 1.2 and was looking at some of the animation, and it appears to my untrained eye that when I pull back on my joystick and the elevators tilted down, and when I pushed forward on the control, the elevator tilted upward, the opposite of what I would have expected.

LOL Yup, not sure when that changed but I will will correct it.

EDIT: Well, looks like it did not change; that was the way I animated it. :-/ Correcting now. Thanks for the heads-up.

**ferondoe** · April 10th, 2017, 07:39

Thank you friends for your compliments !!!
Marty

***blanston12*** · April 10th, 2017, 08:48

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

LOL Yup, not sure when that changed but I will will correct it.

EDIT: Well, looks like it did not change; that was the way I animated it. :-/ Correcting now. Thanks for the heads-up.

Glad I could do a small part to advance the project

**Milton Shupe** · April 10th, 2017, 16:52

Originally Posted by blanston12

Glad I could do a small part to advance the project

Thanks; I need all the help I can get. :-)

I have corrected the issue and can make the bump enabled model available as needed. Since the focus here is on painting, am not in a hurry.

**Milton Shupe** · April 10th, 2017, 16:58

Painters and FSX/P3D Native modelers, you guys understand this better than I do as I am just now swimming in that sea of vast material options.

I am showing here a bump and spec enabled model with some place holder bump and spec textures. Thanks to Duckie for getting me in the ballpark with the recipe for this.

The sunny side of the model looks okay but the shaded side, not so much.

Also showing the material settings. Do any (g)max modelers see a setting I missed, or should have selected.

**tankerguy72** · April 10th, 2017, 17:18

I am not a pro at this so only speaking from my experience with bumps. My aircraft had the same issue when I applied the bump maps and had a blank texture as the bump. It was fixed as soon as I took my regular texture and converted it with the nvidia tool plugin for photoshop and then edited the channels as needed. So not really anything wrong until you have the textures done. (if that makes any sense) Also not sure but you might want to also click the "specular level" tick box and add the same .spec texture to that one also.

**AussieMan** · April 10th, 2017, 20:17

With the latest 1.2 update I have had to go back to square 1 and start all over again. Textures got really messed up.

**Milton Shupe** · April 10th, 2017, 20:41

Originally Posted by AussieMan

With the latest 1.2 update I have had to go back to square 1 and start all over again. Textures got really messed up.

Really, is that any way to notify me/us of an issue.

Can you be more specific with details and screenshots?

**tankerguy72** · April 10th, 2017, 21:03

My shading issues with my neptune with blank bump maps

This is the result after I finally figured out it wasnt a model issue just a fix with the nvidia plugin and channel fix

**Milton Shupe** · April 10th, 2017, 21:14

Originally Posted by tankerguy72

My shading issues with my neptune with blank bump maps

This is the result after I finally figured out it wasnt a model issue just a fix with the nvidia plugin and channel fix

Yes, that was my issue as well. I just got resolution to it and I am now rushing forward to the next unknown barrier. :-)

**tankerguy72** · April 10th, 2017, 21:20

Great work so far! Shaping up to be another Shupe classic

**Milton Shupe** · April 12th, 2017, 08:31

Just posted what I hope is the final beta update v1.3.

Basically a model update to complete or correct VC animations and tooltips and a few exterior animation fixes.

Only one model folder is required now and it has bump/specs enabled.
Neutral bump/spec textures are included so as not to affect your primary paint development viewing.

You can read more and download here:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...22579&catid=37

***Duckie*** · April 12th, 2017, 11:25

Thanks very much Milton. Really enjoying this one.

**Milton Shupe** · April 12th, 2017, 13:26

Thanks Duckie; I really look forward to seeing a great variety of paints on this model. There are so many to select from.

Hoping some step up to work the panel textures and interior; that would make for some very interesting moments in flight.

We are working to wrap up the Vultee xp-54 now and we are in shoulder deep with the A-20 Havoc project otherwise I would give 3D gauges a go on this one ... maybe down the road a bit.

***Duckie*** · April 19th, 2017, 12:06

Slow going, but after about 10 days off to attend to some RL family business, I'm back on it. Front fuselage is about done except for the gun pods then its on to the back fuselage. Rivets after that, etc, etc.

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**TuFun** · April 19th, 2017, 14:02

Looking good Duckie!

***Duckie*** · April 19th, 2017, 19:03

Originally Posted by TuFun

Looking good Duckie!

Thanks very much Ted. It'll get there eventually.

**Mach3DS** · April 19th, 2017, 20:53

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

Painters and FSX/P3D Native modelers, you guys understand this better than I do as I am just now swimming in that sea of vast material options.

I am showing here a bump and spec enabled model with some place holder bump and spec textures. Thanks to Duckie for getting me in the ballpark with the recipe for this.

The sunny side of the model looks okay but the shaded side, not so much.

Also showing the material settings. Do any (g)max modelers see a setting I missed, or should have selected.

I have a very good recipe. Are you still looking to improve the material settings?

**Milton Shupe** · April 22nd, 2017, 05:21

Originally Posted by 000rick000

I have a very good recipe. Are you still looking to improve the material settings?

Hey Rick; dang, I have been buried in FSX native conversions and support for the WIP projects and completely missed your message.

What I was after there was a "neutralized effect" for bumps maps to avoid having to do two separate models for the texture artists. Duckie stepped up to provide that and it seems to work great. As a result, I reduced the Marauder package to one model eliminating the No spec/dump map model.

Thank you for jumping in with the offer.

**mal998** · April 22nd, 2017, 05:32

Hi Milton and all others,
Well, I've tried a couple of times to set the B-26 up and followed all the instructions, but I have had no luck finding the OD paint. Is there one yet? Or, is it still a WIP?

**Milton Shupe** · April 22nd, 2017, 05:53

Originally Posted by mal998

Hi Milton and all others,
Well, I've tried a couple of times to set the B-26 up and followed all the instructions, but I have had no luck finding the OD paint. Is there one yet? Or, is it still a WIP?

Mal, the releases have been for the texture artists and other contributors who wanted to paint, add panel/gauges, sounds, whatever.

If your interest is to just fly it until those things are available, drop the attached textures into whatever texture folder you have (you might want to keep a backup) and go fly. :-)

This is what I do so I do not have to look at those colored texture templates.

**Milton Shupe** · April 27th, 2017, 06:16

Hoping to see some updates of artist's progress this weekend :-) Is anyone painting the interior?

We are Spring cleaning in the libraries and thought I would delete all the FSX and FS9 Marauder painters' releases and updates to eliminate any confusion.

Sometime later, I will upload one package that includes all the updates.

Keep in mind this is yours to complete and publish as freeware. This is a community project and I have donated my part of it to you. Hope to see it completed at some point.