IRIS PRO Series F-14A & F-14B Tomcat

[Killbilly]

Here I am with the dreaded FPS question: what kind of performance are you guys getting compared to, say, the Acceleration Hornet?

In other words, find "y".

Acceleration F-18 = "x" FPS.

Iris F-14 = "x - y" FPS.

"y" = ?

:mixedsmi:

[stovall]

For me Killbilly, it is x + y = 27-30

On my rig the Iris F-14 gets much better FPS than the default Hornet.

Regards, Tom

[mjrhealth]

Wow, now i just have to learn all the buttons, love the HUD makes it easy to stay level in turns.

[Smudge]

Yep, that HUD is sweeeeet..

For peoples info, I've finally finished adding annotations to all the vids, so we've got some instructional videos now, from cold and dark startup, departing the boat (if you have acceleration), VDI and HSD use, Compressor Stalls and my trip around the boat at night!

They're located on the product page, just scroll down and click on the vids..

http://irissimulations.com/catalog/p...roducts_id=114

Regards

David

[Killbilly]

For me Killbilly, it is x + y = 27-30

On my rig the Iris F-14 gets much better FPS than the default Hornet.

Regards, Tom

Thanks, man. That's what I was hoping to hear. I know it's different for every rig, but that gives me confidence. :ernae:

[mjrhealth]

And for those F14 buffs, lots of info.

http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-landingpattern.htm

Enjoy

[guzler]

Yaaay she's back, my favourite bird in my favourite repaint sitting pretty in FSX.
Thanks to all involved

added a shot of the FS9 VF-41 repaint, I simply shoved the bmp's into FSX a little bit of jiggery pokery and bingo. Thanks for keeping the mapping the same

WOW, where do I get that repaint from on the left ? That's incredible

[pernik]

WOW, where do I get that repaint from on the left ? That's incredible

It's Pablo Diaz's dirtied up version of the VF-1 paint for the FS9 F14. It can be found HERE you'll have to register I'm afraid, but shouldn't take long. Once downloaded I converted the files from bmp to dds and added to FSX as usual.

[guzler]

They are great, really bring it to life, thanks for the link Pernik

[flewpastu]

Ive added the shockwave lights to the Big T

light.8 = 5, 23.0, 0.0, -2.0, fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow

Same location as the FS9 model. If anyone is interested I was able to add auto smoke for exhaust, Ill post if anyone wants it.

Bill

[Boomer]

I will be getting this!

Loved your FS9 version & BB's paints still working are icing on the cake!

[noddy]

Some of my efforts.

I do seem to have a problem with the textures around the gear area on the coverted paints though.

Looking a the shot by Pernik, he has the same trouble.

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[pernik]

Some of my efforts.

I do seem to have a problem with the textures around the gear area on the coverted paints though.

Looking a the shot by Pernik, he has the same trouble.

yes there are two extra textures in the new model maingear_right_t.dds and maingear_left_t.dds these appear to replace the original maingear.bmp

[noddy]

Cheers mate, that explains it.

Now just have add the skins to the various models, as I have only got them in the clean version. That will be something for the weekend.

[pernik]

simply take the maingear.bmp from the repaint rename it to maingear_right_t.bmp ( or dds if you have converted the bmp) take a copy and rename the copy to maingear_left_t.***

[noddy]

Thanks again.

[Smudge]

Thanks Pernik, I'd forgotten to include that in the notes..

[pernik]

No worries.

I've set up a imagetool bat file to do the conversions.

You'll need imagetools.exe which came with the SDK or can be found online

( it's also in the
SimObjects\Airplanes\IRIS F-14A Tomcat Clean\texture.vc folder )


Copy the below into a txt file save and change the extention to .BAT
then
1) Download FS9 repaint and extract
2) Place the .bat and imagetool.exe in the extracted folder
3) double click the bat file and wait for it to finish.
All being well you will have a folder containing the required .dds files
Take the folder remove the bat file and imagetool.exe and install into FSX as usual.

 
 
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r boattail_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r centergear_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r fuselage_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r leftengine_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r leftglove_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r lefttail_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r nose_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r pylons.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r rightengine_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r righttail_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r rightwing_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r maingear_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r missiles.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r seats_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r leftwing_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r rightglove_T.bmp
imagetool -batch -nogui -nomip -dxt5 -dds -nodither -r pilots_T.bmp
 
del *.bmp
 
copy maingear_T.dds maingear_left_T.dds
copy maingear_T.dds maingear_right_T.dds
copy pilots_T.dds a_pilot_T.dds
copy pilots_T.dds a_rio_T.dds
del pilots_T.dds
del maingear_T.dds

[Odie]

Most excellent news ! Now, I can load out FSX & Accelleration !:costumes:

Warming up the harddrive now.....

[Smudge]

Handy to know Pernik.. mind if I copy and paste it in the IRIS forums?

[pernik]

Handy to know Pernik.. mind if I copy and paste it in the IRIS forums?

Not at all, hope people find it useful -saved me a stack of time.

[noddy]

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Edited a bit.

[JohnC]

So now that there are some folks with decent flight hours in this bad boy, how does it handle?

[mjrhealth]

FLies like a beauty, managed one trap so far. Landing speed is around 145 150 kts if im correct. Still have of get a hang of this AOA thing but i think i have it figured. But that feeling of speed when flying through the clouds at mc 1.5 id well, thats one thing FSX does well. Only issue is i get a few microstutters at that speed.

[gajit]

Great screens there guys