FS9 portovers...

**DaveWG** · November 26th, 2013, 09:47

work! No more disappearing props behind clouds. Self shadowing appears to work as well, both external and VC.

Ricks Chippie:

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**Lionheart** · November 26th, 2013, 09:48

However, older gauges that use GAU's that are from the FS2002 and before era will not work.

**stansdds** · November 27th, 2013, 04:58

This is good information, even though my computer is not DX11 capable, one day, one glorious day, I might build a new computer and be able to join the P3D club.

***Dangerous Beans*** · November 27th, 2013, 05:19

Unfortunately the Zero in the old Shockwave/A2A WWII Fighters pack doesn't work, P3D2 just crashes when I try to load it

***Roger*** · November 27th, 2013, 10:58

That has to be clever manipulation of shaders and maybe more....I may have to go V2 for Oliver's Ju52!

***Daube*** · November 27th, 2013, 12:06

Originally Posted by Roger

That has to be clever manipulation of shaders and maybe more....I may have to go V2 for Oliver's Ju52!

AH!! Now that's a good point, that didn't come to my mind at first.
When I first read that topic, I thought something like "yeah that's great, but seriously, who's going to use FS9 addons in P3D?".
I still have quite a lot of FS9 models archives on my storage harddrive. When I tried to remember about a few planes, none of them were really worth the effort of bringing them to P3D. But that Ju-52 (and a few others) is an exception. An excellent exception.

Thanks for that reminder.

**tommieboy** · November 27th, 2013, 13:45

Originally Posted by DaveWG

No more disappearing props behind clouds.

From exterior views too?

Tommy

**Naismith** · November 27th, 2013, 14:12

Now that is a major improvement, good to hear.

***Daube*** · November 27th, 2013, 14:13

Yes.
In P3Dv2, the FS9 portovers get exterior shadows, virtual cockpit shadows, and the props appear correctly in front of the clouds.
Here is a quick test with Oliver Fischer Ju-52. I installed it a bit to fast and forgot to update the window textures, sorry for that.

You can see the shadows casted on the panel:

And here you can see the props correctly appearing in front of a cumulus. You can even see the aircraft self-shadow.

Strange thing is: the aircraft self-shadow appears only when flying BELOW a certain altitude. If you go too high, the shadow dissapears. VC shadow seem to be ok anytime, though...