SOH P-61 project

[Crusader]

I am really impressed by the talent and expertise involved here on the P-61 project . You all are to be really commended . I am in envy and would love to have just a fraction of it .

Just a special thanks to all involved . We are really looking forward to it .

Rich

[warchild]

Thanks crusader .. We're gonna do our very best. . I admit that we arent going for bells and whistles on this plane.. But we are trying to make it as accurate as possible.
Last night we got together and hammered out a sound set for the guns.. The first time i fired them, even my cat came up off the couch where he was sleeping.. And i hadnt turned the volume up.. Theres just no way to put into words, what that noise is like. I need to do some timing adjustments but so far so good, and if we can get David to do his magic with sound for us, We'll have a complete 360 degree environment. :;chuckles:; i have a feeling a lot of mothers and wives are going to hate us because of those sounds.. They're gonna be that close to real ..

[warchild]

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr Bill Rambow to the SOH P-61 team..
Joining us in our QA section, Bill comes to us from MAAM-Sim and the Mid Atlantic Air Museum.. With his extensive knowledge of the development process as well as years of history working in and around almost every type of aircraft imaginable, not to mention the only Northrop p-61 currently being rebuilt to flight standards, I know that his addition to the team will allow us to bring you all, the most accurate rendition of the P-61 imaginable.
Please, everyone take a moment and welcome him to our family ..
Pam

[N2056]

Awesome!

It just keeps getting better. Welcome Aboard!

[PRB]

Great news! Welcome Bill Rambow!

[OleBoy]

Welcome to the team Mr. Rambo. It will surely be a pleasure sir.

[whitney17]

Not a dumb question at all.. Well map them to the trigger ( which is usually also used for braking ) or some button that will allow for ease of use.

The eight files in uestion are really only two files, one for the 50 cal and the other for the 20mm, but they've been duplicated and copied to each of the barrels so that each individual gun has its own effect.. What i'm attempting to achieve is a differentiation between the guns so that its closer to realistic than having them all under the same effect.. There may be better ways of doing it, but my lack of knowledge is whats in the way of me knowing what they are.. I'm making my best guess, but admittedly, its a lot of guessing..

Please don't map them to the trigger/brake button or (.) the brake command. If you do that, the toe brakes on rudder pedals will fire the guns. This is an issue on the FSD P-38 and the IRIS A-10 (yeah I Know you have to arm the guns first etc., etc., been there, done that).

The SkyUnlimted P-38 uses the Afterburner command to fire the guns, so you can assign any key or button to fire them. There are 26 unassigned commands in the "A's" alone in the list of FSX commands; so I think you can find some obscure command in the entire list to assign to the guns, rather than use a command we all use and complicates the use of our toe brakes. That would give us the right to decide which key/button to use, rather than being stuck with your decision.

I appreciate everyone's work on this and plan to purchase the aircraft when it's finished. Please reconsider the gun command.

Thanks,

[N2056]

Thanks for that idea. Since I will be writing the code for the guns any suggestions are welcome. I am currently assessing how I will go about the task, and one of the big things I am keeping in mind is not using any "common" commands to trigger the effects.

[whitney17]

Thanks for that idea. Since I will be writing the code for the guns any suggestions are welcome. I am currently assessing how I will go about the task, and one of the big things I am keeping in mind is not using any "common" commands to trigger the effects.

Thank You!

By the way, does the P-61 have an autopilot? If not, could you include simple altitude and course hold commands, like the LionHeart Pasped Skylark has?

Thanks again,

[N2056]

The P-61 used a very early Sperry autopilot, pretty much the same as the one in the DC-3. It will be implemented in the final model.

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[Pips]

This project just keeps getting better and better! I hope you guys take a well earned rest over Christmas!!

[warchild]

This project just keeps getting better and better! I hope you guys take a well earned rest over Christmas!!

:::LOL:: What is thing thing you call..... rest??? :::LOL:::
yeahhh.. we probably will, but these guys are insane.. Every time i call for a break and they take it, this is what they do to rest..
I'm feeling a lot of pride in this project and this team.. The kind of pride we used to have as Americans.. These guys are fantastic..
Pam

[OleBoy]

nose art; work in progress

http://img153.imageshack.us/slidesho...d=54831664.jpg

[roger-wilco-66]

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr Bill Rambow to the SOH P-61 team.. [...]
Pam

That's really awesome. Welcome, Bill. MAAMs DC3/C47 is still one of my most favorable aircraft in my hangar, after all these years. I think this will have a great influence to the project!

Cheers,
Mark

[N2056]

One thing I have always wanted to learn was how to do the L-39 style landing lights...
This is very preliminary. I still have a lot to learn. Many Thanks to Fr. Bill for providing the raw files I started with, and to 'Varmint' of VRS Simulations for providing the base info to the developer world about a year ago.

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