Virtual Navy's PBY5A

[Rami]

Allen,

Thank you, I made sure to approve it, so it's ready to go.

[Allen]

Thanks. I only posted the link after you approved it.

On a side note can you put into crashaz name? It was first uploaded by him on 2008-11-03. It was still in the Warbird Archive. You don't need to do this right way. It would be nice if it had some time in the spot light anyway.

[Worthless]

Nice one Allen. Looks like a winner. Most especially appreciated is the conversion to Win 7 friendly bmps. Since you broke than news with the B24 Guy's latest OH, I've been able to go back and install mirrors that won't lock up CFS2, in most of my fighters. That was a big help.

[Allen]

Conversion to Win 7 friendly bmps is a must in my book. I use CFS2 on XP but knowing the number of Win 7 users is growing I do the work and test on my Win 7 PC for them.

[skylane]

Allen, thank you for updating the Catalina! I use this plane in a few of my missions.
There is one problem I always have with this aircraft, and it is still trhere with the update: When I taxi off the runway, and the ground gets a little rough, the nosewheel collapses.
Any idea how to correct this? It is probably somewhere in the DP, but I don´t know where to look.

About the Win7 compatible panel: What kind of problem did the original pnel cause in Win7? Do problems also occur with other panels? How can it be fixed?

[Allen]

PBY nose gear fix?

To fix your nose gear you can try 2 things. Open up the DP and go to [SYSTEMS] and find

system.5=%system_name.5%,120,42.

Make the bold number larger or open the aircraft.cfg and go to [contact_points]. point.0= is the nose gear. Make the Impact Damage Threshold larger. Again the bold number larger.
point.0=1, 10.08, 0.00, -4.1, 4200, 0.0, 0.69, 41.5, 0.1, 2.50, 0.70, 5.0, 5.0, 0.0, 165, 205

Win7 compatible panel

A plane will lock up on Win 7 if it only has a main panel that is 1024x786 pixels. If the main panel is at 640x400 or 800x600 it will work fine on Win 7. There are 2 ways to fix planes that look up on Win7 do to panels. Quick Way but dosn't look good or a little More Work but will look good.

Quick Way

Find the main panel that is 1024x786 open and resize it down to 800x600 or 640x400 and save. Now your done but the panel will be blocky.

More Work but looks good.

What you need to do is make a copy of the *Existing Panel*.BMP that is at 1024x786 pixels and re-name it *New Panel*_640.BMP. Now resize it to 640x400.

Open up the panel.cfg and you will see something like this on the page or not far down.

[Window00]
file=*Existing Panel*.BMP
size_mm=640,480
position=4
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL
sizeable=1
render_3d_window=1
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000

What you want to do is add file_1024= Below file=.Now put you *Existing Panel*.BMP at the end of file_1024= and put the *New Panel*_640.BMP at the end of file= so that you now have somthing like this.

[Window00]
file=*New Panel*_640.BMP
file_1024=*Existing Panel*.BMP
size_mm=640,480
position=4
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL
sizeable=1
render_3d_window=1
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000

[skylane]

Hello Allen
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! It is very helpful!
Cheers,

Wolfgang

[stuart277]

Hi All
I have downloaded the PBY and tested it, but I get the 'CFS2 must close' when I try to fly it with any weapons. It goes well with 'guns only'.
I have checked it on two CFS2 installs. Same problem.
I am pretty sure I have the weapons loaded as I have the original PBY by the VN and the weapons load on it (but in a funny position).
Any Ideas?
Cheers
Stuart

[Allen]

I'm sorry for not seeing this sooner!

I have't got a clue what is causing this...