Anyone port over the Tu-142 to FSX?

***tommieboy*** · December 17th, 2011, 18:48

Anyone port over the Tu-142 to FSX? I'm getting the typical missing / obsolete gauge error messages on some of the older gauges for the 2D panel. Any help would be appreciated.

The exterior model is nice....I just created a quick and dirty alternate prop texture as the prop animation of the original prop textures (the first screen capture) is a too busy / jittery for my taste; you can't see it in these static screen captures. My alternate prop texture is a lot lighter than the original and is just a plain grey disk with the yellow tips, but it looks pretty good in "fly-by" view. The downside is that there is no obvious prop animation with my texture, but it's a compromise that I can live with. Note that my texture still does not solve the clouds in front of the prop issue.....

Original Prop Texture (first screen shot)

My quick and dirty alternate prop texture (second screen shot)

Thanks,

Tommy

**PHo17** · December 18th, 2011, 00:54

I don't know about Tu-142 but there is a Tu-95 "Bear" (freeware) here: http://www.fsdownload.com/modules.ph...ticle&sid=1130

Pekka

***tommieboy*** · December 18th, 2011, 11:12

Originally Posted by PHo17

I don't know about Tu-142 but there is a Tu-95 "Bear" (freeware) here: http://www.fsdownload.com/modules.ph...ticle&sid=1130

Pekka

Thanks Pekka,

I'll see if I can use the 2D panel from that one.

Tommy

***wilycoyote4*** · December 18th, 2011, 13:58

Hi tommy, good to find you, season's greetings to you and yourn, all you love
yes, it is in FSX, today schedule is terrible, too busy for my own good or yours, will check later, seems that a very different aircraft has a panel ----quite extensive ---- that is useful, anyway, it may do good, OR MAY NOT.

Are you using the Samdim aircraft? I'm not up to date on the TU-142 but last I knew it was the only one.

Sorry if I'm on a wild goose hunt, gotta fly to get todays stuff done on time.

***tommieboy*** · December 18th, 2011, 14:24

Originally Posted by wilycoyote4

......Are you using the Samdim aircraft? I'm not up to date on the TU-142 but last I knew it was the only one.......

Yes, it is the Samdin aircraft.

I'm going to revisit the prop textures as I think I can work out a better solution than my quick and dirty solution as shown above.

Tommy

**DarrenL** · December 18th, 2011, 15:12

Have you looked at the FSX version of the Samdim Tu-114 that is on Simviation and other sites. The prop texture should be fine with the Tu-142?

**airattackimages** · December 18th, 2011, 15:55

Where does one get that Tu-142? Beautiful model.

***tommieboy*** · December 18th, 2011, 16:06

Originally Posted by DarrenL

Have you looked at the FSX version of the Samdim Tu-114 that is on Simviation and other sites. The prop texture should be fine with the Tu-142?

I think I already tried that. It might end up just being an issue with my computer hardware and or version of FSX; I'm running FSX Acceleration. The prop texture is just to dark compared to the FS2004 screenshots on their website.

Tommy

***tommieboy*** · December 18th, 2011, 16:07

Originally Posted by airattackimages

Where does one get that Tu-142? Beautiful model.

http://samdimdesign.free.fr/

**airattackimages** · December 18th, 2011, 16:16

Thanks! Picked it up and flying now. Awesome airplane.

***tommieboy*** · December 19th, 2011, 14:19

OK.....

This alternate prop texture has only been tested in FSX Acceleration.

I revised the prop texture to something I REALLY like; it came out much better than I expected. I'll upload it to AVSIM this week and post the link here. The texture is pretty dynamic as what you see depends on how the light is hitting the prop. The screen captures below were taken at the same time of the day from different angles. I tried to mimic the real life photos that I found on the internet. What you don't see in the screen capture is the prop animation with really brings it to life. Note that this alternate prop texture still does not solve the FSX clouds in front of the prop issue.....

Tommy

***tommieboy*** · December 19th, 2011, 14:27

Never heard one of these bad boys in real life, but here's an alternate sound set that I am trying out right now. Sounds really nice in "fly-by" view.

http://www.avsimrus.com/f/fs2004-sou...nds-37822.html

Tommy

***delta_lima*** · December 19th, 2011, 21:21

Hello Tommy!

I'm impressed by what you've done on this. Looking forward to when you finalize the prop texture and whatever fixes!

Love the Russian big prop liners and military aircraft ....

dl

***tommieboy*** · December 19th, 2011, 22:29

Originally Posted by delta_lima

Hello Tommy!

I'm impressed by what you've done on this. Looking forward to when you finalize the prop texture and whatever fixes!

Love the Russian big prop liners and military aircraft ....

Thanks DL....

Might only be the prop texture for the time being as I don't have a clue as to what the missing gauges are suppose to look like, so I really can't move forward on the panel. For the time being I just aliased the default FSX Boeing B-747 2D panel; I really like it as I know where all the switches are.....

If I can find the time, I'd like to do a fictitious "what if" repaint on this bird. I think it will look pretty cool.

Tommy

***tommieboy*** · December 25th, 2011, 08:23

Alternate 2D Panel for the Tu-142.....

I'm currently aliasing the panel from Samdim's FSX Tu-114 (you must already have that aircraft installed) via the following change to the panel.cfg in the Tu-142's Panel.95 folder. You have to delete all the text within the file and replace it with the following two lines.

[fltsim]
alias=Tupolev Tu-114\panel

This loads up without any error messages, but I still haven't fully tested all the switches on this panel. When I first switch over to the cockpit view, I need to press "a" at least once to cycle to the 2D panel and then wait a while for the 2D panel to show up. The initial loading of the 2D panel is a bit slow; I'm sure there is a way to correct this by editing the Tu-114's panel config file to take out the VC items, but I'll look into that later. At least I have a 2D panel that looks Russian.....