Curtiss Jenny Textures - added 3D virtual Views

[GarryJSmith]

Hi Good People,

As many of you may be aware over at the Ford Project Site last week we released a very large batch of Curtiss Jenny JN4D liveries for the Default Microsoft aircraft.

Last Sunday I decided to have a bit of a tinker with the 3D Virtual Cockpit image and convert one to match the overall livery style so that when in the VC mode your view of the aircraft textures were in sync with the theme of the aircraft instead of the default white/grey style.

Came out pretty good actually - so set myself a mission - convert all VC view for every one of the textures we have available for FREE download from the site - big job - finished them all yesterday after a solid week of graphics work.

Two images to show what I mean: First the current livery - USAAC


Which now has this image installed for the Virtual Cockpit 3D all around view from within the VC.


Every single Jenny livery on the Ford Project Site now has a graphically similiar VC view to match their overall livery theme.

The big annoying factor is that if you want to get hold of these VC texture enrichments it is best to download the livery again from the Ford Project Site - sorry - but the end result is worth it I think.

Where do you get them: http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/curtiss-jenny.htm

All free for your flight sim pleasure.

When you visit the Curtiss Jenny Page you will notice down further on the page that we are almost complete on a three pack of Camo liveries for the Jenny - will release them sometime this week - with their 3D views already done.

Regards

Garry

[racartron]

That is great news, Garry. That was the only thing I didn't like about the project. I wasn't sure whether it was a defect in the install, but got sidetracked and forgot to ask. Guess that was a good thing as it got sorted. Still loving all the liveries.

[GarryJSmith]

Good things come to those who wait

Doing the VC stuff was an additional large task for this girl with so much visible for the VC view - and as you can see virtually all of the textures are pretty complex and the VC images is a very different entity to get at and paint with alternative scaling and texture mappings (lots of mirror and duplications) far more restrictive that in the normal textures. Definately not a a simple cut and paste from the original textures.

Therefore a bit of a pause to see if the Jenny was going to be interesting to the simming community and warrant the additional effort.

Sunday I build a bucket of various templates to assist in the transitions from the master work to the VC images and when I got it all worked out then did several test liveries - with the new camo packages soon to be released - came out fine.

The Jenny is showing moderate interest by simmers hence I spend most of this week doing those VC creations for all of the liveries.

Enjoy them mate - if your happy spread the word about their availability.

Regards

[huub vink]

Thanks Garry!

Cheers,
Huub