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"From our orbital vantage point, we observe an earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace." Astronaut William C. McCool RIP, January 29, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia
Hope that helps (looks like seediffy might have played slightly with paintkit and/or env map but moonbeam the shiney paint is part of skinpack in its untweaked form) thanks, Lewis
In 2003, IL-2 flight sim's P-51D took 854 pixels to get from nose tip to rudder tip, in a single 1K x 1K pixel texture file limited to 8-bit color. In scale, this gave about a 1/2" per pixel resolution.
In 2007, the FSX Acceleration P-51 Racer took about 1526 pixels to go the same length. This gave it about a 1/4" per pixel resolution.
In 2012, the A2A Accu-Sim P-51D for FSX takes about 3576 pixels from tip to tail, in a 4K x 4K pixel texture file and 32-bit color. That's about a 1/9" per pixel resolution.
A rivet head is about 1/6" in diameter, so now they can show all the way down to a single aircraft rivet in true scale.
It's truly a remarkable feat of accomplishment and it really shows in their spectacular and magnificent workmanship of their Accu-Sim P-51D product. When I first viewed this shiny version of Moonbeam McSwine P-51D to fly inside FSX, it was a jaw dropping experience to view it up close during a walk-around of the airplane. A2A Simulations really deserves our 'standup to Attention' and a big respectful Salute! . Thank you A2A
p.s. The env map that I am using is all credited to Bob "BananaBob" Rivera's globalenv_textures, another of his spectacular works of art.
Terrific job Seedify, I look forward to adding this repaint to my A2A Mustang, hats off to A2A for the amazing plane which I am loving, and of course BananaBob whose repaints I've enjoyed for a long time and I hope is doing well.
In 2003, IL-2 flight sim's P-51D took 854 pixels to get from nose tip to rudder tip, in a single 1K x 1K pixel texture file limited to 8-bit color. In scale, this gave about a 1/2" per pixel resolution.
In 2007, the FSX Acceleration P-51 Racer took about 1526 pixels to go the same length. This gave it about a 1/4" per pixel resolution.
In 2012, the A2A Accu-Sim P-51D for FSX takes about 3576 pixels from tip to tail, in a 4K x 4K pixel texture file and 32-bit color. That's about a 1/9" per pixel resolution.
A rivet head is about 1/6" in diameter, so now they can show all the way down to a single aircraft rivet in true scale.
It's truly a remarkable feat of accomplishment and it really shows in their spectacular and magnificent workmanship of their Accu-Sim P-51D product. When I first viewed this shiny version of Moonbeam McSwine P-51D to fly inside FSX, it was a jaw dropping experience to view it up close during a walk-around of the airplane. A2A Simulations really deserves our 'standup to Attention' and a big respectful Salute! . Thank you A2A
p.s. The env map that I am using is all credited to Bob "BananaBob" Rivera's globalenv_textures, another of his spectacular works of art.
I have that env map and my Moonbeam looks absolutely nothing like that. Mind elaborating on how you got it to be that shiny? I have also downloaded A2As new "shinier" texture pack as well.
The real Moonbeam McSwine at Barksdale AFB in 2010.
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I blame pilot error. A console is just a PC with most of the non-gaming bits stripped out. i7 3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4 GHZ 8 GB DDR3 RAM NVIDIA 680 2GB HAF X Full ATX Tower Win 7 64 Home Premium
Here is a screenshot of the A2A Accu-Sim P-51 that attempts to simulate a camera photo that would have been taken with a Wide Angle Lens attachment, 35mm focal length or so. In FSX, it was taken using a combination of a close-in zoom function (0.400 zoom) together with xy positioning controls on the EZdok camera to get right behind the elevator area. I think that the shape of the W font and the aircraft buno 44-14237 approximates Mr. Vlado Lenoch's prized "Moonbeam McSwine" pretty well. The sky color has been slightly touched up to approximate the sky at Lewis University airport KLOT, Chicago/Romeoville, IL on a beautiful day.
The sky color has been slightly touched up to approximate the sky at Lewis University airport KLOT, Chicago/Romeoville, IL on a beautiful day.
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