Classics Hangar Fw190 released!

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 03:32

Ladies and Gentlemen,

we are proud to announce the release of the Classics Hangar "Fw 190 A, the early variants".
Please check it out at http://www.classics-hangar.de

Please check also the announcement at our board:
http://www.classics-hangar.de/phpBB3...c.php?f=2&t=71

Thanks to everyone who has helped and supported us in the past and we hope you get as much enjoyment out of our product as we had creating it!

**Boomer** · February 27th, 2009, 03:40

Great news!!!

Of course now I am stuck at work all day

***Roger*** · February 27th, 2009, 03:45

:ernae:

**pernik** · February 27th, 2009, 04:19

waiting for my download to be approved !

**stiz** · February 27th, 2009, 04:45

very nice

so ... whats next .... swordfish?

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 04:53

So show off your screenshots, Lads! :d

***grunau_baby*** · February 27th, 2009, 05:05

At work!!!GRrrrr! The longing to drive home immediately is unbearable

Alex

***jankees*** · February 27th, 2009, 05:13

..waiting for approval....

edit: ..downloading...

**mike_cyul** · February 27th, 2009, 06:33

Really nice! Very sensitive to fly, beautiful VC, and do I spot shadows under the gauge needles? And great framerates!

Won't have time to read the manual until tonight, so haven't explored everything yet....

Only problem I have is blurry textures, and I can't find a setting that cures this. The small stencils are sharp, but overall many textures are blurred.

Great sounds, very powerful, with that unhurried sort of tone that radial aircraft have.

Looking forward to further getting to know this aircraft - and how do I cure the blurries? I want to see all the beautiful details here!

Mike

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 06:38

Glad that you like her! :welcome:

Originally Posted by mike_cyul

- and how do I cure the blurries? I want to see all the beautiful details here!

Mike

Mike, check the handbook on how to enable 2048x2048 textures.
There's also a nice writeup by Nick C that basically covers the same topic.
http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/fs...ngs_config.htm

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 06:39

Originally Posted by mike_cyul

... and do I spot shadows under the gauge needles?

Mike

Good eye, Sir! Yes indeed, there are shadows.

**mike_cyul** · February 27th, 2009, 06:41

Originally Posted by Mathias

Glad that you like her! :welcome:

Mike, check the handbook on how to enable 2048x2048 textures.
There's also a nice writeup by Nick C that basically covers the same topic.
http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/fs...ngs_config.htm

Thanks Mathias - I did look, in trying to find the solution, but I'm still getting blurred textures. FSX.cfg texture_max_load reads 2048.

Mike

***jankees*** · February 27th, 2009, 06:51

Very nice indeed, cool VC, nice sounds, but I agree, the textures disappoint (see last pic for an example). The manual said change the FSX.cfg to allow 2048 textures, but I saw no difference.
There are enough of them though! Wow, not much left to paint...
Other small things I noticed: the wheels seem to have sunk in the mud a tad too much (first pic), and the tailwheel doesn't seem to rotate (taildragger?).
The engine noise gets a nice whine when you're really in a hurry, normally it's nice and lazy. Doesn't feel like you're going fast until you want to land, what, 550 km/h?
Very difficult to steer on the ground, but I may be doing something wrong...stick forward to unlock tailwheel?
I actually seems rather big compared to the jug that I found to accompany it on my maiden flight, I always thought the P-47 would be much bigger.
Anyway, enjoy the shots!

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 06:53

Is this the only plane with large textures in your hangar that does this?
I ask since we havn't seen this issue during beta.
Contrary to common fashion we have not stripped the mipmaps off the external textures. Would you check your graphics card settings for something like "force mipmaps", dissable that and see how it goes?
Thanks.

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 06:56

Originally Posted by jankees

I always thought the P-47 would be much bigger.
Anyway, enjoy the shots!

Get closer to the Jug and you'll see that it's almost twice as large.

Weirdo on the blurry textures.
As I said, we havn't seen anything like that during beta.
Will check on it ASAP.
Thanks for the report!

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 07:00

One thing to keep in mind when editing the FSX.cfg:
Whenever you open the display settings again from within FSX it will revert back to default 1024 pixel.
Having said that saving settings to a profile as described by Nick C *may* help
http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/fs...ngs_config.htm

**mike_cyul** · February 27th, 2009, 07:08

Originally Posted by Mathias

One thing to keep in mind when editing the FSX.cfg:
Whenever you open the display settings again from within FSX it will revert back to default 1024 pixel.
Having said that saving settings to a profile as described by Nick C *may* help
http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/fs...ngs_config.htm

Yes, thanks, aware of that. I think we should wait and see what others say - if it's just my computer, then I'll have to see what I can do. I wonder if its a mip issue? If I find a solution in the meantime I'll post it here.

This is a great aircraft!

Mike

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 07:09

Originally Posted by mike_cyul

Yes, thanks, aware of that. I think we should wait and see what others say - if it's just my computer, then I'll have to see what I can do. If I find a solution in the meantime I'll post it here.

This is a great aircraft!

Mike

Thanks Mike, much apprechiated!

**Quixoticish** · February 27th, 2009, 07:10

The textures were blurry until I re-saved them with imagetool with no mips. All was fine after that! :woot:

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 07:11

Originally Posted by Chris H

The textures were blurry until I re-saved them with imagetool with no mips. All was fine after that! :woot:

I thought so.
I'd like to find out though why some machines click over the mipmaps too soon though.
Thanks Chris!

**stiz** · February 27th, 2009, 07:11

Sounds like the problem i sometimes got in fs9 when the textures had mip maps. Try zooming all the way in then back out, if that doesnt work then check to see if the texture has mip maps, if it has then just re save the textures with painting prog or dxtbmp with "has mitmaps" (or something simular) disabled. :wave:

Edit = looks like Chris beat me to it

***jankees*** · February 27th, 2009, 07:18

Originally Posted by Mathias

Is this the only plane with large textures in your hangar that does this?

Yes, it's the only one, the WoP3 P-47 has no problems, I've made a few 2048 P-51 & Safir repaints, no problems, fine detail. I've had a look in the texture files, and they seem nice and crisp, but they are blurry on the a/c?
Here's a few shots to show it (and yes indeed, the jug is 'a bit' bigger!)
Note the second pic, you can read the text on the jug, which is in the rear, but the textures on the 190 are blurry.

***Mathias*** · February 27th, 2009, 07:23

Ok, we'll put up a set of textures without mipmaps later today for those that have issues.
I'll pass a download link on to you via e-mail when we're ready.
Thanks for reporting.

**JorisVandenBerghe** · February 27th, 2009, 07:31

How's the Focke Wulf regarding frames ?
And oh, I'm doing the bank transfer right now, but my homebanking thingy says your account number is incorrect...the BIC and so on is correct, but I'm not sure whether you put the wrong bank account number on that page in the shop, or it's a problem with my homebanking system...or do I have to put the IBAN thing in there ? When I do that, it doesn't reports the bank account number is incorrect...contrary to when I'd put the 'normal' bank account number in it.

I'm not what you'd call familiar with transferring money to a foreign country...sorry!

Edit: when validating the transfer, it does reports the bank account number is incorrect...

hinch · February 27th, 2009, 07:32

Looks good, might check it out.

I never understand why add-on aircraft would use mipmaps though. Please release a set without set for download so we're not losing image quality when re-saving please =)