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Hey Roller,

It’s good to hear from you. The picture that you posted intrigues me. It looks like you made up a Multi skin formation with the P51d’s from the 352nd. Nice work! If you look at the picture that I posted, you will see all of the props are spinning except for the lead plane. In your shot, none of the props are on. Why is there a diffrence?

I am down at the seashore and I am using my laptop to access the web. All of my files and tools are back home on my desktop. I can’t do any work on skins or anything else involving EAW.

I was tempted to get back into messing with EAW modifications again by the possibilities of using our existing 352nd skins along with the Multi-skin feature and the 24 bit color. I tried to duplicate the Spitefire file modifications on the Chompy P51d and ran into all sorts of problems. I posted a request for advice on the GEN and found out that no one had been able to get P51d Hi-Res Multi-skins to work. By the time that I was getting those replies, I had found out why I was having problems and was able to create a set of our skins. In my investigations, I also got a much better idea of what was involved and figured out just what was needed and not needed to create the multi skins. I was going to do some work involving altering our color tones to take advantage of the 24bit color before I posted anything on SIMHQ.

Then the question arose in my mind; is it possible to crate a mixed carrier air strike for the new SPAW. I found wildcat, dauntless and devastator skins for the Yorktown 1942 time frame. I adapted them to the P51b slot and modified them for Multi-skin use. I found out that you can’t have multi cockpits. What you have in the first plane will be used for all the planes. The flight performance is that of the P51b until you supply a different flight file and then only for one plane. I was hoping to get it done and have some carrier pictures to post but the devastator ended up with a white instead of a transparent canopy. Time ran out and it was time to go to the seashore. I hope to complete it when I get home.

I can look into the situation with the RS problems and the moving flaps. The moving flaps look great. Unfortunately when you look down on the hood, you can see the landing gear cover showing through. Also the air intake for the belly-cooling radiator also shows through. The landing gear is either silver or olive drab according to your viewing angle. This is much more obvious than the opening in Chompie’s model. It may be that the gear is less noticeable after it is retracted. I will try to get shots showing all situations.

As always, when I get involved in this kind of thing, I learned a lot. I will be able to do the multi-skins much easier and simpler the next time. I can only get 12 planes to appear when I do a mission. All that you need for our group is one permanent leader and 11 clones. For all practical purposes it only requires 3 bit map files to show any given plane. We can create a variety of sets so that any combination of planes is possible within the 12-plane limit. I am looking forward to jazzing up our planes with a full color spectrum. The blues especially! I am going to post this now and pay a visit to one of my sisters. She always spends her summers here and this gives me a chance to sit and talk with her for hours. When you are kids you have your own friends and you just interact in passing. You are too busy growing to be real close. When you become a young adult you get involved in raising your own family. It is good to be able to sit and reminisce with someone who traveled with you along the same roads.


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1 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Merry Christmas on: December 30, 2009, 05:07:41 PM
Started by Spitty - Last post by Spitty
Dumo / Guys - Me as well - I have a new computer with Vista - haven't had time to figure out how to set up EAW on it yet. Besides - there's like 10 versions of OAW now - wouldn't know which one to start with... Happy Holiday's all and Happy New Year!!! Spitty

2 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Merry Christmas on: December 26, 2009, 01:43:37 AM
Started by Spitty - Last post by Dumoulin
Hello, Thank's a lot Jack. Merry Christmas to all ! BTW .. will be again EAW active next year on the Gameranger server. PLEASE....SURF SAFE.... Military regards.

3 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Merry Christmas on: December 25, 2009, 12:15:33 PM
Started by Spitty - Last post by jjmcgarvey
Thanks for the good wishes. I often think about the four of us and miss the activity. It was a lot of fun. I will echo your greeting! Merry Christmas wishes to You and Roller and Gus and Beav. May Peace, Joy and love reside in your heart.

4 Base Operations / Canteen / Merry Christmas on: December 25, 2009, 08:18:37 AM
Started by Spitty - Last post by Spitty
Hello guys - Merry Christmas to you and your families. Spitty

5 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Interesting pages on: November 08, 2009, 07:53:54 AM
Started by Dumoulin - Last post by Spitty
Great reading and photo's Dumo... Hope all is well everyone... Spitty

6 Base Operations / Canteen / Interesting pages on: November 07, 2009, 11:15:23 AM
Started by Dumoulin - Last post by Dumoulin
Hello, And our prince was there ! http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/news-home.php And related: http://www.alpheusmedia.com/lastbesthope/index.html PLEASE....SURF SAFE.... Military regards.

7 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Lanc and friend .... on: August 23, 2009, 05:16:53 PM
Started by Dumoulin - Last post by Spitty
Nice Vid Dumo - Great music too... Spitty

8 Base Operations / Canteen / Lanc and friend .... on: August 22, 2009, 06:53:22 PM
Started by Dumoulin - Last post by Dumoulin
Hello, http://simtube.com/video/3530/Lanc-and-friend PLEASE....SURF SAFE.... Military regards.

9 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Testing new pic site on: August 08, 2009, 07:56:36 PM
Started by jjmcgarvey - Last post by Roller
Hi Jack, the reason my pic looks familiar to you is because they are YOUR multiskins from your test folder at the GEN! I saw that you had multiskins in your pic, so went to your folder and loaded it up and flew several nice p51 missions! The props not moving is only because I alt-p'd as soon as I entered the game. The screenshot was cropped. Post some more when you get back. I like to see your work! Roller

10 Base Operations / Canteen / Re: Testing new pic site on: August 04, 2009, 05:56:00 PM
Started by jjmcgarvey - Last post by jjmcgarvey
Hey Roller, It’s good to hear from you. The picture that you posted intrigues me. It looks like you made up a Multi skin formation with the P51d’s from the 352nd. Nice work! If you look at the picture that I posted, you will see all of the props are spinning except for the lead plane. In your shot, none of the props are on. Why is there a diffrence? I am down at the seashore and I am using my laptop to access the web. All of my files and tools are back home on my desktop. I can’t do any work on skins or anything else involving EAW. I was tempted to get back into messing with EAW modifications again by the possibilities of using our existing 352nd skins along with the Multi-skin feature and the 24 bit color. I tried to duplicate the Spitefire file modifications on the Chompy P51d and ran into all sorts of problems. I posted a request for advice on the GEN and found out that no one had been able to get P51d Hi-Res Multi-skins to work. By the time that I was getting those replies, I had found out why I was having problems and was able to create a set of our skins. In my investigations, I also got a much better idea of what was involved and figured out just what was needed and not needed to create the multi skins. I was going to do some work involving altering our color tones to take advantage of the 24bit color before I posted anything on SIMHQ. Then the question arose in my mind; is it possible to crate a mixed carrier air strike for the new SPAW. I found wildcat, dauntless and devastator skins for the Yorktown 1942 time frame. I adapted them to the P51b slot and modified them for Multi-skin use. I found out that you can’t have multi cockpits. What you have in the first plane will be used for all the planes. The flight performance is that of the P51b until you supply a different flight file and then only for one plane. I was hoping to get it done and have some carrier pictures to post but the devastator ended up with a white instead of a transparent canopy. Time ran out and it was time to go to the seashore. I hope to complete it when I get home. I can look into the situation with the RS problems and the moving flaps. The moving flaps look great. Unfortunately when you look down on the hood, you can see the landing gear cover showing through. Also the air intake for the belly-cooling radiator also shows through. The landing gear is either silver or olive drab according to your viewing angle. This is much more obvious than the opening in Chompie’s model. It may be that the gear is less noticeable after it is retracted. I will try to get shots showing all situations. As always, when I get involved in this kind of thing, I learned a lot. I will be able to do the multi-skins much easier and simpler the next time. I can only get 12 planes to appear when I do a mission. All that you need for our group is one permanent leader and 11 clones. For all practical purposes it only requires 3 bit map files to show any given plane. We can create a variety of sets so that any combination of planes is possible within the 12-plane limit. I am looking forward to jazzing up our planes with a full color spectrum. The blues especially! I am going to post this now and pay a visit to one of my sisters. She always spends her summers here and this gives me a chance to sit and talk with her for hours. When you are kids you have your own friends and you just interact in passing. You are too busy growing to be real close. When you become a young adult you get involved in raising your own family. It is good to be able to sit and reminisce with someone who traveled with you along the same roads.