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    WWI Floatplane Friedrichshafen 33FFe_Woelfchen

    Available in the Warbirds Library. FSDS model by Erwin Welker and uploaded by "Bavarian". Normally not an airplane I would be interested in but I was curious and I was pleasantly surprised that I actually enjoyed flying it. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but certainly worth a test drive.
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    Retexturing the VC. Several areas could use some tweaking but it's model related and that's out of my realm. Hi-Res exterior as well. I had to hand draw the lettering as I could not find anything "font-wise" that was even close. I lowered the eyes in the goggles as it looked weird when viewing head-on. Actually the goggles sit too high on his face but lowering the eyes was the best I could do. Not many pics or much info concerning the airplane but I am enjoying messing with it as far as the texturing goes.

    WWI_Float-2023-mar-26-002 by Ed Wells, on Flickr

    WWI_Float-2023-mar-26-003 by Ed Wells, on Flickr
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    If anyone is paying any attention to this post (seemingly not), and is familiar with sound files. . . .on water landings I'm getting a wheels up hard surface sound rather that a water landing sound. Any idea how to correct this?
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    Don't worry Ed, I following the thread, enjoying the pictures, but simply don't have much to add. I don't have the model installed, but had a quick look whether I could say anything about your sound issue.

    In the sound.cfg file there are 3 entries for touchdown sound. There are CENTER_TOUCHDOWN, LEFT_TOUCHDOWN and RIGHT_TOUCHDOWN. There all call for various "opencockpit_touchdown" files, which files can be found in the default sound folder. These are the "hard tyre bump sounds". In my default sound folder I have sound files called xlg_splasha.wav, xlg_splashb.wav and Xwaterloop.wav.

    Try to change the "opencockpit_touchdown" entries int one of these.

    Cheers,
    Huub

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    Quote Originally Posted by huub vink View Post
    Don't worry Ed, I following the thread, enjoying the pictures, but simply don't have much to add. I don't have the model installed, but had a quick look whether I could say anything about your sound issue. In the sound.cfg file there are 3 entries for touchdown sound. There are CENTER_TOUCHDOWN, LEFT_TOUCHDOWN and RIGHT_TOUCHDOWN. There all call for various "opencockpit_touchdown" files, which files can be found in the default sound folder. These are the "hard tyre bump sounds". In my default sound folder I have sound files called xlg_splasha.wav, xlg_splashb.wav and Xwaterloop.wav. Try to change the "opencockpit_touchdown" entries int one of these. Cheers, Huub
    Thank you Sir, will do!
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    Much better, thanks Huub!
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    I'm glad it worked. I must confess it was just a guess.

    Cheers,
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    Quote Originally Posted by huub vink View Post
    I'm glad it worked. I must confess it was just a guess.

    Cheers,
    Huub
    Excellent guess though, lol
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    In the cockpit image above you can see an out-of-focus texture along the inside of the cockpit. I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out where that was coming from. There are only 3 main textures and nothing looked similar until I started getting down low in the cockpit and looking at the underside of that area. Turns out it's the engine block, the yellow/gold color is coming from the exhaust manifold. With all the other textures to use that wouldn't interfere with the mapping. . .oh well. I hit a happy medium (for me at least) and covered a portion of the engine with a brown texture. Suits me fine since I don't fly from the outside staring at the engine, lol
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    I have emailed Erwin Welker to see if he would be interested in tweaking a few areas that if done would really enhance an already nice model. Honestly I don't expect that he will but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.
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    Erwin is a good person to work with. I've contacted him quite a few times.

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    Many thanks Falcon 409 for the great interest you have on this mythic old beauty.
    The West Front Team has been working for several month on a CFS2 version for her, totally new model not completely finalised, but I let you see picts on the work in progress:

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    Stay the livery to finish, perhaps with a second one with different serial, and some little details to perfect.

    We hope the simmers will enjoy

    Cheers
    Martin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klein View Post
    Many thanks Falcon 409 for the great interest you have on this mythic old beauty.
    The West Front Team has been working for several month on a CFS2 version for her, totally new model not completely finalized, but I let you see pics on the work in progress:

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    Stay the livery to finish, perhaps with a second one with different serial, and some little details to perfect.

    We hope the simmers will enjoy

    Cheers
    Martin
    Looks like a really well done model there Martin. Some nice detail on both the interior and exterior. I think the CFS2 folks will enjoy flying this one. Keep up the good work!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmbiii View Post
    Erwin is a good person to work with. I've contacted him quite a few times.
    I am hoping to hear something soon, but so far. . .nothing, after a week. What email addy do you have that you got a reply?
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