SOH Team Project - Grumman Tracker, Trader, Tracer

**Snurdley** · February 12th, 2012, 17:16

That looks good to me as well. Having an option is a great idea too.

***Sascha66*** · February 12th, 2012, 17:22

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

I put out pre-beta releases to team members to catch the (not so) obvious oversights and hope to work through this in a few days, then a broader beta will be issued.

Next up will be the CDF series followed by the S2Turbo once I receive those textures.

Brilliant! I love the Navy red tail!

**Milton Shupe** · February 12th, 2012, 17:35

Okay, completed a high quality set ... to include lettering as well as gauges.

Yes, I will have two folders, a white set and a red set. Just copy paste the contents to the texture folder to restore either color.

**t.creed** · February 12th, 2012, 17:45

very nice .!! and having the choice of lights is always a plus.. thanks sir..!!

rgds
t creed

***Tom Clayton*** · February 13th, 2012, 07:50

Originally Posted by Milton Shupe

...are we in the neighborhood?

In the neighborhood, knocked on the front door, and sat down for supper!

Love that look!!!

**Milton Shupe** · February 13th, 2012, 12:10

Thanks for the input guys :-)

Currently wrestling with updating and changing the S2A-CDF version and now have that done, I think, and preparing her for a pre-beta checkout.

Thanks to tankerguy72 for all the efforts he put into these variants. They look great!

**Milton Shupe** · February 13th, 2012, 19:56

I just completed uploading the second S2A version with the closed nacelles so that completes 5 of the 7 variants out for a pre-release beta to team members.
So far, the early testing is looking great. Still working to bring a more real-world-istic night gauge backlighting.

The last two variants are the turbos and we must wait for textures and panel mods for that.

Hopefully in a few days, I will broaden the beta testing to a wider swath of members. I am going through the thread now selecting names.

***Flyboy208*** · February 13th, 2012, 20:05

Man, can't wait for the public BETA, if there is one - Milton, each creation by you and your fellow team members gets better and better each time - Bravo Sir !!! Mike

**patful** · February 13th, 2012, 20:31

Artists one and all. Amazing work, guys. Thanks.

***gribouil*** · February 13th, 2012, 20:59

Can't wait for the release of this beauty!!!

**johnh_049** · February 13th, 2012, 21:30

I'm really enjoying putting the C1A through the ringer.
Haven't found anything I can really complain about so far.

**Milton Shupe** · February 13th, 2012, 22:14

Thanks to all of you who have helped in many ways to see this project to this point.

I just reviewed the first 50 pages of this post and the pace of activity wore me out! LOL

I cannot do a public beta but I will include many of the contributors throughout this thread.

Although the basics of all the models look pretty good now, we are still tweaking and improving here and there.

One of the things that is irritating about betas is that something shows up wrong and its too late in the process to fix it due to a wide reaching impact. But, most things will be fixed if they do not affect the completed mapping, paint kits or textures.

My intention is to send a download link to one of the five aircraft to many of you based on my best read of where your interest and knowledge are.

I trust that you will protect the integrity of the project, thoroughly test and turn around specific feedback reasonably quickly (3 days).

I will send links via PMs but I prefer feedback in one report via email.

More on this when I am closer to ready.

Thanks

***OleBoy*** · February 14th, 2012, 06:57

Currently I haven't been any help. While downloading the first beta (not sure what model variant) the DSL connection to my house went dead. I tried everything I could think of to alleviate it, only to notice that it wasn't just the internet that was gone. Phone service was out also. After all the suggested testing to find the problem I finally gave up and called our telephone company. That was Saturday morning. This time it made sense to have a cell phone.

Yesterday the line repair man came out to find the trouble. That was at 9am. At 2pm we still had no service. Shortly thereafter the line tech called. He told me that we were not the only line affected. It was fairly wide spread. Someone (Thieves, druggies)

destroyed the service by hooking onto the main feed using a chain/rope connected to a vehicle and tried pulling it out of the ground. They didn't get much but, the end result was the main trunk had 15 feet cut out of it!!

I have internet. Spotty, currently bad signal strength. Until the lines get restored like they were, I'm not able to help with testing due to download attempts time-out.

There's no option to do a system restore

**Milton Shupe** · February 14th, 2012, 09:33

Not a problem OB. Get through your current RW issues and there will plenty to do when you return in full force.

**nigel richards** · February 14th, 2012, 12:34

This is really excellent news. The Grumman front making exceptional progress upward.

Congratulations Milton and team - wish I was up there with you all!
(I certainly am in spirit).

Bravo!

N. AVIAtor (Grrreat depths!)