Seafire Released! (see post #13)

[aardvark62]

Rob's Supermarine Mk.47 Seafire:



http://www.robertjamesrichardson.co.uk

Fantastic plane!

Although Rob says that this current release is for P3D only, I'm flying it just fine in P3Dv2.5 - so I don't see any reason it wouldn't work in FSX.

Either way an FSX version release in imminent.



Gary.

[Cees Donker]

Visual model won't display! We'll have to wait.



Cees

[aspen31]

Hi all
Just started playing with this machine. It is truly remarkable work. The rendering in P3D V4.4 is spectacular. Thanks Rob for the great work.
Warren

[aardvark62]

Visual model won't display! We'll have to wait.



Cees

Aah...my bad. Consider it a teaser

Gary

[huub vink]

We just have to be patient. Although this is not my forum, I have unstuck this tread, to avoid people get confused.

Cheers,
Huub

[Cees Donker]

It looks very promising, that's for sure!



Cees

[robcarrich]

Although its a very straightforward process in Blender using the beautiful "Blender to FSX/P3D" program by Manochvarma Raman,
actually getting the aircraft to handle as it does in P3D is a real challenge also the lights need sorting out, including the VC lighting, so much better in P3D!
plus a few other things, shouldn't take too long.

RobR

[delta_lima]

Thanks in advance, Rob - I'm so massively stoked about this upcoming (for FSX) release. The P3D pics look tantalizing, and it looks like you've stepped up your skills in the VC.

A wonderful subject, often overlooked by the myriad "followers" all doing BoB / WWII era Spitfires. Good on you for taking this (to my view) much lovelier, polished, evolved mark of the family.

I'm hoping Mr. Peter Watkins will dip a brush or two for this one. The lovely non-TF.77 "standard" scheme was a gorgeous one, and would look lovely on your model, I'm sure.



Thanks for a great model. On the RN/FAA side of my hangar, your Sea Hawk, your Scimitar, are (and this will be) my fave "Richardson Rides".

Kudos, kind sir.

dl

[peterwatkins2]

Thanks in advance, Rob - I'm so massively stoked about this upcoming (for FSX) release. The P3D pics look tantalizing, and it looks like you've stepped up your skills in the VC.

A wonderful subject, often overlooked by the myriad "followers" all doing BoB / WWII era Spitfires. Good on you for taking this (to my view) much lovelier, polished, evolved mark of the family.

I'm hoping Mr. Peter Watkins will dip a brush or two for this one. The lovely non-TF.77 "standard" scheme was a gorgeous one, and would look lovely on your model, I'm sure.





Thanks for a great model. On the RN/FAA side of my hangar, your Sea Hawk, your Scimitar, are (and this will be) my fave "Richardson Rides".

Kudos, kind sir.

dl

I have done 8 paints for the Seafire!





All the best, Peter W.

[peterwatkins2]

The other 4!

[Cees Donker]

No need for a paintkit anymore! Peter has done them all!

(just kidding!)

Cees

Great work BTW!

[delta_lima]

Awesome Peter. The couple I had hoped for are there - just the wait for the FSX version.

Great work.

DL

[Bradburger]

FSX version along with a paint kit now available: -

http://robertjamesrichardson.co.uk/

Cheers

Paul

[mcanx]

FSX version now available. Just downloaded and installed in FSX-SE. Fly's great.

[MrZippy]

Just my luck! Site is busy and server isn't responding Got in! Just be patient!

[WarHorse47]

Got it! Thanks, Rob. Beautiful job.

Now, Peter. Warm up those eight paints and kick them out the door...

[Flyboy208]

She flies like a dream ! Thanks so very much Rob ! Mike

[delta_lima]

Just picked it up too - fantastic work, Rob!

Looking forward to the repaints too - but I know good work takes time - let's go easy on Peter; they'll be worth the wait.

This one will get lots of time in my sim!

Thanks!!

dl

[peterwatkins2]

OK Guys, 10 paints now uploaded to Flightsim.com. I have broken with my usual stance on fictional paints, as Rob had received emails from a few French simmers asking for a Aeronavale paint. I thought OK what the hell! I have also done a Royal Canadian Navy fictional paint. I don't feel too guilty as both Nations operated earlier mrk Seafires! To compound my crimes I am working on a Reno Racer paint(purely for my own use M'Lud!).

[MrZippy]

Can I make a minor request for any new paints? Don't really care about the color or emblems or numbering but I need a texture that is no larger than about 15MB in size. The ones that are 30MB+ cause a CTD on my system. This also happened with the Cougar until someone created a couple of repaints that were smaller in size. As a quick test I used a texture folder from the Scrub Seafire and got no CTD but also a totally black aircraft, which is normal.

Thanks to Rob for this aircraft and to all of the repaint specialists.

[ian elliot]

Maybe im missing something, but im not sure why texture size should cause CTD's, are you sure thats the culprit. 30MB texture's unzipped ( around 8-10 zipped ) are pretty standard these days.

[MrZippy]

Maybe im missing something, but im not sure why texture size should cause CTD's, are you sure thats the culprit. 30MB texture's unzipped ( around 8-10 zipped ) are pretty standard these days.

Yeah, I don't understand it either. When I first tried the original texture and after highlighting the aircraft and selecting "details: the aircraft appears kind of a green non-textured aircraft then ctds.I'll post a screenshot.

It looks like it appears in just a primer coat of paint...then about 5 seconds later it CTDs.

[Daube]

I'm not really sure about it but could be linked to a limitation with your video card ?
A 30 Mb repaint might weight a bit more once uncompressed and stored in the video memory... but it's just a guess.
Technically, the same should happen with any other HD repaint for any plane.
Anyways, green or faulty textures on the screen could indicate a memory problem. The CTD might be a consequence of the video card running out of memory.
Which video card do you use, and what is your video driver version?

[MrZippy]

I'm not really sure about it but could be linked to a limitation with your video card ?
A 30 Mb repaint might weight a bit more once uncompressed and stored in the video memory... but it's just a guess.
Technically, the same should happen with any other HD repaint for any plane.
Anyways, green or faulty textures on the screen could indicate a memory problem. The CTD might be a consequence of the video card running out of memory.
Which video card do you use, and what is your video driver version?

NVidia Ge Force 6100 and whatever the latest driver is from a few years ago. It is definitely my computer and not the fault of the paint or aircraft.

I also tried turning settings way down to minimum , as I did with Rob's Cougar, with no luck. I was just looking at the F-9 Cougar and the texture(s) I have for it are 54MB in size but Rob's original dark blue paint was 140MB.

[Bunkiester]

Hey Mr. Zippy,

What you're describing does sound like a memory issue with your Video card. What I've done in situations like that in the past is to simply re-scale all the images down to a size my card would find more manageable. To do that, I've used a freeware application named "Orenador texture converter" - it was made by a fan of an FPS game (can't recall which one) but it works fine for anything. The nice part, is you can batch convert the contents of an entire texture folder to the settings you want in one go - instead of having to open every single texture in DXTBMP or something like that. I can't remember where I found it - but a quick google should do the trick.