Hi folks,
I have to ask for your opinions.

Yesterday, right after release I got right to painting the famous Lufthansa Ju52. This aircraft has a high sentimental value for me because I had the luck to fly in it as a kid.
I had all the details (signature, stickers, plaques) prepared and naturally started placing those. When I got to the main registration I noticed a problem, however.

As of right now, the main door is mapped to the opposite side of the fuselage, creating this nasty little effect when you put on a registration. The right side of the aircraft is unaffected.

 

 

I did continue putting the registration onto the wings to "complete" the repaint for my personal use. Now my question is, should I release this (with a disclaimer), or is that a game breaker for anybody with a more objective point of view?

P.S.: I'm trying to contact the creator to see if there is any chance of solving this issue, and I would of course update the paint if that chance materializes.

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by Flieger-Marius

Oh no!!!! Not another mirroring issue!!!! What a nuisance!

I'm really looking forward to getting the Ju52 - it's such a *classic* aircraft and the attention to detail in the VC (and exterior) looks to be outstanding.

Does anyone know whether it will be available from anywhere *but* Marketplace? I expect Marketplace will install the aircraft in the main/default (encrypted) MSFS location, whereas I prefer to have as many aircraft as I can *outside* MSFS, so I can enable/disable them as I like via Addons Linker.

Dear, let's buy from the marketplace and then sit quietly while our plane loads!

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Flieger-Marius said:

I did continue putting the registration onto the wings to "complete" the repaint for my personal use. Now my question is, should I release this (with a disclaimer), or is that a game breaker for anybody with a more objective point of view?

Hi Marius,

I know your pain 😉 But I would say release with a disclaimer. I would def fly it... 👍

Cheers

T.

I love your various paints and am glad you made D-AQUI!

RE: the mapping issue I know nothing about painting at all, but for the Asobo 747 I have downloaded “no mirroring” paints...the painter got around the issues with a decal - or something like that??

Perhaps a clue?

18 minutes ago, Republic DC9 said:

for the Asobo 747 I have downloaded “no mirroring” paints...the painter got around the issues with a decal - or something like that??

That's an option but instead of painting on the textures, you need to edit the model for that method.

Other than that being above my current skillset, there's some other concerns I have with it:

• The base model might change, at which time any modified model can easily break
• I'm not sure every file needed for that is available because some config files are encrypted for Marketplace planes
• I'm not sure about the legality of editing and distributing payware models, even if from Microsoft

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by Flieger-Marius

This whole mirroring thing is weird. Is it that asobo has problems creating planes without this issue?

Or is it part of some type of DRM, which is, I suspect, the more likely solution....

In general, mirroring helps use less textures (e.g. one texture for both wings), which enhances performance because your PC has to handle less data.
In this case it's a bit weird because everything except that door was actually done right this time, it seems almost like they forgot it and didn't want to create a new texture just for that.

Okay I decided on the following compromise:

This package will include two liveries.

• One version as is in the pictures
• Alternative where I removed the D-AQUI on the fuselage and allowed dynamic registrations, which will show up in a slightly too small size and under the left wing instead of the D-CDLH that should be there.

D-CDLH

 

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 20214 yr by Flieger-Marius

Thank you very much for this beautiful livery, Marius!

Thank you! 🙂

I’ve updated my package to include the modified version by MSFS forum member Archer374, so any download from now on can install a version of D-AQUI on the 1939 model.

A little update on this: I have managed to get in contact Oliver Moser, the Jus creator. He has acknowledged the problem and while he can’t make promises, he has forwarded the issue to the modelers.
Maybe we get lucky and they will pave the way for many more repaints on this beauty 🙂

Another really positive update:
Oliver has taken this issue into account and fixed it with the lastest Ju-Update. What a great developer!
My repaint now shows as intended.

 

Edited March 31, 20224 yr by Flieger-Marius

Sounds great Marius! Do I also need to re-download your repaint or is the fix that Oliver / Asobo rolled out lately enough? I can not fly at the moment, otherwise I would check myself of course 🙂