Perhaps if you asked nicely Milton Shupe would allow you to use the gauges from the B-26 that was just released. I don't know if the XB-35 had two sets of engine gauges with two needles each or a complete set of four. One for each engine. (The layout of the FE panel seems to suggest the latter.) But in any case the gauges would be of similar vintage to Milton's and he may allow their use since it sounds like the XB-35 is going to roost at the Outhouse. It would make doing the VC much easier.
I rounded up all the Northrop wings; N9M, YB-49 and YRB-49, I'll convert all of those to X most riki-tik.
Can we all say X Plane roundup ::LOL:: great job Lazarus.. and yeah.. I can do the fde for the X3. It'll just take a while for me to get it right..
Piglet's X-24 works in FSX for some X plane fun (it does need the same screen size adjustment the N9M needs). The textures look good but IIRC I did have to pull gauges from other planes in my hangar. In keeping with the Northrop theme an X-4 Bantam would be neat! (And I'm really jonesing for the XF-92 as it looks like it will be spectacular but I think they need some well earned R&R after getting the Marauder tidied up and released!)
I hear that.. I mean, I'm probably the only dev here ho lives entirely in a chair living on the internet, and even i have to break away every now and then for a bit of blade and soul, or fur fighters ( nothing like cute fluffballs to make you laugh ).. I'm also looking forward to the dart.. Its going to be amazing.. I can already tell that the marauder IS amazing, and have been drooling over that for a while now.. ..
Pam
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The YB and YRB-49's were done by Julian Higgs, way back when, FS2002. Reasonably decent given their age.
Should work in P3D, excepting gauges.
How can we do something with the VC, folks? You're all clever bastards. Idea's?
The pilots manual has a nice layout of the main instrument panel including what gauge goes where. 25 gauges in all. There are two RPM and manifold pressure gauges so two engines per gauge. Has anyone asked Milton about using the ones from the A-26 or new B-26? They're probably pretty close to what Northrop would have used seeing as the first flight was in 1946.
Ha! Haha! If only you knew.
(Except on weekends, when it's social and party time plus sleeping all day.)
Extract from the model, then convert with MCX.
If there's no VC, import the model into MCX, then cut out the cockpit area, extrude it inward to obtain window frames and start modeling away.
Both the YB-49 and YRB-49 by J. Higgs were updated to FSX Acceleration by Bob Chiclo in DEC 2008.
These are port-overs, not FSX Native conversions.
Actually, you don't need to adjust the display size...
In the Panel.cfg you'll see the following near the beginning:
[Window00]
file=n9m_panel.bmp
size_mm=1024
window_size_ratio=1.000
position=1
visible=1
ident=0
render_3d_window=1
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000
I bold-faced the line in question. You put a couple of // in front of that 'render_3d_window=1' line and you should be good to go.
So...it should look something like this:
[Window00]
file=n9m_panel.bmp
size_mm=1024
window_size_ratio=1.000
position=1
visible=1
ident=0
//render_3d_window=1
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000
Hope this helps.
Yes please! I for one would like to see the repaints.
KB
"...There is also a set of repaints that show the three different schemes besides Tim's, used on the four built N-9Ms. "n9mx3.zip"
The repainter does not have his name in the readme, nor do I remember where I got it. I have checked the 4 major sites, including here, and can't find it. There are no restrictions of any kind in the readme, so I should be able to post it here, if wanted..."
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Those 3 were done in December '16 ....and yer right...no name....I got them not long ago from FlightSim.com [I think] ...
I managed to update Kazunori Ito's XB-35 fde. You can find my update right here on Sim-Outhouse file library.
Piglets N-9MB in X format. FSX native materials and animations, 3d props.
Twiddled cfg a bit to correct contact points and prop positions to match externals.
Any glitches, shout back in this wing forum, we'll get it worked out.
Alpha state for testing, NOTE: VOR1 is incompatible and x'd out, needs gauges updated, getting the gauge sound DLL crash on exit.
Model Zip below. NOTE 2: Has not been flown, just ran the sim long enough to verify it's displaying.
Attachment 57805
Flies great but I had some reflections/streaks inside my canopy. I did not however get a crash when switching planes so maybe that is an isolated incident. Just like to point out that Aerosoft has the Mitchellwing as freeware. It's an ultralight, but has retracts and will get up and boogie at a shade over 150! (Although the ASI is VNEd at 120.) Great for the ultralight strip at Oshkosh!
Nice video of ITO's XB-35...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNWaDGfll64
I just received a PM telling me who these paints were done by. Our own "Mick" did them, and they are here in the library. I just didn't use the proper search info. Searching for a file by the file name does not work. Mick told me to search for "Northrop N-9".
My public apologies to Mick. I am adding his name to the readme in my file so I don't make that mistake again. Sorry, Mick.
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Don H
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Liquid Freezer II 360 water cooling
C:/ WD Black 4TB SN770 Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD
D:/ Crucial P3 PLUS 4TB Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD
Samsung 32" Curved Monitor
Honeycomb and Saitek Flight Equipment
Lazarus's rendition of the N9m departing YMML ...
Edit ...just saw your post, Don ....yep...must have been from here then.....[memory is the first to go]...
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