Love this plane.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for posting these.

 

For the people having problems with the vc it just be a problem with their PF cause this looks wonderful just like I though it would.

 

Lee

 

 

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she surely is a beauty, I would buy it if I'd know how to fly the maddog ^_^

Thanks for displaying these NyxxUK,

 

It's nice to finally see them on someone elses computer other than snippets the beta test forum

 

What I've tried to do with textures is going old school, painting only,

No photo's were harmed in the making of this VC lol.

 

It has been a culmination of many a long hour into the morning over a long period,

using resources of the usual photo websites, actual DC9's, numerous electronic and paper manuals, and where no other option existed,

or by luck presenting itself on ebay, the purchase of the actual instruments them selves, the EPR instrument being one,

to cram in accurate scaels as per the real deal.

 

A real manual with JT8D-7 engines is pretty much useable with the sim.

 

Although probably not the first, but possibly the most extensive use of specular highlights and bump mapping in a cockpit was a goal,

and think we achieved that, so even down to the smallest rivets and screws have dynamic lighting, or the grills on speakers, so as you bank, clib or dive, you see the light reflected from the surfaces as they come round into the light, and where dark like the overhead speaker, if light plays over the surface you can see the speaker underneath.

There's a few easter eggs so to speak like that I've tried to include to give a feeling of realism, albeit different from other manufacturers,

so the cockpit is constantly changing in it's appearance as in reality as you fly around, and the time and light shifts.

 

The general idea was to give the surfaces texture, so you could with a virtual hand run your fingers over the surfaces,

and feel the bumps, scratches, screw slots, chiped paint.

 

It was different working with the VC Modeller Jamal, kind of bouncing ideas off each other with what could be modeeled, what couldn't,

what could be bumped where modelling wasnt practical (there are model size limits as indeed texture sizes),

And then bouncing ideas to and from Espen and the beta-testers, some being pilots to tune up what couldn't be gathered from other resources.

 

Also added the rain repellant reflection slightly on the cockpit wind screens,

so you get that rainbow effect slightly creeping across the glass.

 

I could have added a few more finger prints and smudges on the gauge glasses, might play with that a bit more.

 

There's a lot we all would have liked to add to this one,

The guys are still working on getting the dome lighting working,

it looks like fiddly stuff doing it 3d style, I'm sure the guys will get ther

 

Would be nice to open the door outboard of the pilots chair in the deck to go down to the avionics bay, and manually operate

the door stairs and have a nose around, and unplug the peep hole to the wheel well, and peer down to check the nose wheel,

But limits stopped us there, the gauges eating a lot of the model up and selectable lighting.

 

Anyway,

It's been great working on this first full project for Mcphat, and meeting all the folks there and at Coolsky and the forums,

Been my first full project from scratch, so will carry some of what I've learnt to the next, and always room improve,

Must do some more C-130 repaints one day lol,

I'm still a massive propellor head.

 

Thanks again,

 

And hope you all enjoy the plane as it is,

and what may come to it.

 

It's the customers that make us what we are,

and with constructive feedback how we can improve,

and give our best in return.

She is a real beauty. If only I had the time to learn how to operate the DC9...