Alphasim Voodoo goes native FSX

**p14u2nv** · November 29th, 2015, 19:43

Thank you very much, a VooDoo for FSX is quite a surprise hschuit!

**Mach3DS** · November 29th, 2015, 20:00

Fabulous! Any chance I'd be able to ask if there are placeholder specular textures in place? Is the alpha channel active? Im having an impossible time with making it active in the saber dog...im not very model savvy to begin with...this is one of those aircraft that truly was bare metal and would benefit from the texture enhancements! Looks great as a native.

***Jafo*** · November 29th, 2015, 20:29

I'll need to grab this too....great stuff...

Meanwhile....some time ago I did these...available here on the site....

**Ian Warren** · November 29th, 2015, 21:51

Looking superb

***hschuit*** · November 29th, 2015, 22:29

Originally Posted by 000rick000

Fabulous! Any chance I'd be able to ask if there are placeholder specular textures in place? Is the alpha channel active? Im having an impossible time with making it active in the saber dog...im not very model savvy to begin with...this is one of those aircraft that truly was bare metal and would benefit from the texture enhancements! Looks great as a native.

The single seater bare metal paints have diffuse texture alphas + paint specific specular maps which also have alpha channels to enhance specularity. The MDL materials call the FSX stock FRESNEL_RAMP and GLOBALENV_AC_CHROME maps.
The 2 seater uses a set of generic specular maps in the common texture folder. You are an expert in this field so you should be able to find them.

**DaveQ** · November 30th, 2015, 05:19

I've noticed the metal paints come out quite dark; these files were set up for a port-over for DX9 and looked quite good (given they were done some years ago pre-Photoshop). A quick fix is to install a slightly lighter Fresnel ramp in the 'texture' file; alternatively, if you have it, I'm using John Terrell's out of his P-51D Little Friends pack. I'm in the process of lightening the base metal backgrounds and generally smartening things up a bit and will publish these when I can.

DaveQ

***falcon409*** · November 30th, 2015, 05:46

Just a note on my SEA livery. I am not familiar with any of the newer techniques that everyone is discussing here so if anyone wants to "can/dump/get rid of", lol, what I did and do a decent repaint incorporating the tools available please feel free.

**Mach3DS** · November 30th, 2015, 06:29

Originally Posted by hschuit

The single seater bare metal paints have diffuse texture alphas + paint specific specular maps which also have alpha channels to enhance specularity. The MDL materials call the FSX stock FRESNEL_RAMP and GLOBALENV_AC_CHROME maps.
The 2 seater uses a set of generic specular maps in the common texture folder. You are an expert in this field so you should be able to find them.

Thank you for the reply...saw this thread before i went to.bed and hadn't been able to DL...I'll see about it after work today. Thanks for taking the time to convert these. I'm seriously impressed.. .new life into some great aircraft that would otherwise might not make it nowadays!

***Jafo*** · November 30th, 2015, 11:44

Yep, great job getting the Voodoo Chil' into FSX natively...

BTW....I forgot the 'B' also available here...

**Wings of Gold** · November 30th, 2015, 17:42

Hi Henk,

Wonderful !!! Did you assign a keyboard command for the drag chute?

Bill

***hschuit*** · November 30th, 2015, 22:34

Originally Posted by Wings of Gold

Hi Henk,
Wonderful !!! Did you assign a keyboard command for the drag chute?
Bill

I assigned the Wingfold key [F] to the chute - all the basic need to know things are in the Kneepad checklist:

**Wings of Gold** · December 1st, 2015, 14:27

Hi Dave,

I am seeing exactly what you describe. I am also eagerly looking forward to whatever you do to make them look like your screen-shot!

ATB, Bill

**mal998** · December 2nd, 2015, 05:15

Hi All,
I'm a little confused by the panel designations. According to the RF-101C manual this is the correct panel but I don't see this rendition anywhere. This of course dates back to the original renditions which I believe were incorrect.

RE-101C Panel from the manual:

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***Jafo*** · December 2nd, 2015, 05:30

Originally Posted by mal998

Hi All,
I'm a little confused by the panel designations. According to the RF-101C manual this is the correct panel but I don't see this rendition anywhere. This of course dates back to the original renditions which I believe were incorrect.

RE-101C Panel from the manual:

When I was doing my reworks of the Alpha panels into 1680 widescreen I'd dug up a photo of an RF101C ....

....a cleaner ver of which I used as a photo-real result as shown in the lower of the two above...

This is it...

**mal998** · December 2nd, 2015, 05:43

Jafo, you did a great job on these panel, No question!
But I think there was some confusion when Alpha did the original panels. At least, according to the manuals.

I just picked up the F-101C manual and here is that panel. So that looks to be correct when comparing to the original Alpha bitmap. Just trying to sort out the different panels for my own information.

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Here is the RF-101 G/H Panel

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Jafo, I know I've seen that other panel in one of these manuals I just need to find it again.

***Jafo*** · December 2nd, 2015, 05:47

Originally Posted by mal998

OK so I just picked up the F-101C manual and here is that panel. So that looks to be correct when referring to the original AS bitmap. Just trying to sort out the different panels for my own information.

Yep, that's the first one I posted above....again taken from a photo....

Alpha's originals were a bit awry ... but mainly I just wanted to stop the distortion/stretch in wide screen... and get a little closer to the correct gauge graphics/choices. Old panels didn't have anything 'digital' in them.....that didn't happen to around 1970...

**mal998** · December 2nd, 2015, 06:17

As I've said you did a fantastic job on all the updated panels. My questions really are really aimed at the original Alpha when deciding which panel was used in what plane.

I now have a full set of McDonnell manuals and I can tell you they had quite a few different panels depending on which model and block number.

It appears from the Canadian manual, the original Alpha bitmap on the "B" model was also correct. Thanks for you hard work on these.

***Jafo*** · December 2nd, 2015, 19:08

Forgot to mention ... my various wide-screen 2D panels install/work with the new Native version just the same as they did in the original release...

**DaveQ** · December 4th, 2015, 12:00

Updated bare metal textures uploading here now and at Flightsim.com. Hope you likee!

DaveQ

**harrybasset** · December 5th, 2015, 03:04

Originally Posted by DaveQ

Updated bare metal textures uploading here now and at Flightsim.com. Hope you likee!

DaveQ

I like your updated bare metal textures. Thank you Dave. I only ever saw a Voodoos in flight as part of a refuelling demonstration formation with a KB-50, B-66, F-100 at air displays.

***hschuit*** · December 5th, 2015, 05:38

Dave thanks for the updated textures, amazing how good the old crow looks with the new feathers

**Wings of Gold** · December 5th, 2015, 06:20

Dave, You new metal textures are absolutely superb. Bill

**ZsoltB** · February 6th, 2016, 06:41

Unfortunately, too matte surface

***hschuit*** · February 6th, 2016, 07:06

Originally Posted by zsoltquack

Unfortunately, too matte surface

Sometimes FSX refuses to use the stock FSX fresnel_ramp texture and you have to put a copy directly into the aircraft texture folder. Attached the fresnel_ramp file:

**ZsoltB** · February 6th, 2016, 07:32

Originally Posted by hschuit

Sometimes FSX refuses to use the stock FSX fresnel_ramp texture and you have to put a copy directly into the aircraft texture folder. Attached the fresnel_ramp file:

Hi Hank,

I am grateful to you!

The paintkit available?

Zsolt