Classic British Flight Sim

A small correction for you Peter:

Peacock, not Painted Lady

A very lovely model.
The rendering in FSX is so much better than FS9 - just wait till you see the FSX only Swallow.
It's just a pity you need a very powerful machine to run it.
Turning on bloom effects makes the view even better but halves the frame rate and stops most FS9 aircraft from working.

Can I add another one for the kids? - Flying card models. Simple but very effective.

http://www.infosnow.ne.jp/~suzuki-a/

Use a single sheet of 200gsm thin card (from WH Smiths) and a tube of UHU.
No extra weights needed, launched with a rubber band and fly extremely well.

Just been reading about launching fliders in FS9/FSX and it seems there are a few problems if you're not using a tug. Several methods have been tried but they don't seem very satisfactory - VET is one (Virtual Engine Technology) puts a small jet engine in the flight model to get it off the ground. H...

Beautiful model Ted - there are just not enough classic gliders available in FS9 or FSX, nice one.

Brilliant! - Thanks Tom, a tiny bit of tranlucency on the material fixed the problem and also fixed the ground shadow problem I was having with the blurred prop.

Order is very important - lots of things for me to try out this evening :thumbsup: While I'm thinking of it, is there a reason I can't see a VC with this model? (Currently nothing appears in the VC view) In FSX you just declare a VC interior model and it works. With FS9 do I need to include a $XXX t...

Oddly I've gone the other way

I started with FSX, wrote the 3D canvas exporter, then found there was a demand for the FS9 version.
It only takes a few mins to "downgrade" the FSX model and export.

Hopefully everyone will be using FSX in a few years time ;-) ;-)

Ta Rick, I'm using 3D canvas, .X file export to MakeMDL. I suspect the prop material may fix the problem, we have no control over frame buffer blending with the .X file Since I posted I have had one more idea - The wheels appear at the end of the .X file export so they are probably drawn last. If I ...

Both wheels disappear when behind the prop (FS9 version only, "true" FSX model is OK)
Being a 3D programmer I know the cause of this (Z buffer writing or wrong alpha sorting) but can it be turned off for the prop disc?