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  1. ErickC

    Contrast and colour are not thine enemies

    As I've spent more time with FS2020 & 2024, I've come to discover that most of us developers seem to be getting inspiration less from real life and more from Assassin's Creed with low-contrast, desaturated textures and heavy, excessively opaque AO layers. I kinda just wanted to remind everyone...
  2. ErickC

    FS2004 XML flap handle sound gauge issues

    Okiedoke, I am going to preface this by saying that I am a total novice outside of programming some basic XML animations for models in the past, but I will note that I have read the Panels SDK, Doug's documentation for dsd_fsx_xml_sound.gau, and have studied several similar gauges, along with...
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  3. ErickC

    North American V-Scale: PW Turbo Wasp JT8D Phase I

    Short, bullet points for now because typing sucks: This is largely an academic exercise I am working on between my main projects for Open Rails. This is probably the third or or fourth iteration of this project to use some recordings I made of a PW JT8D-17A on a Delta (ex-NCA) DC-9-51 in 2013...
  4. ErickC

    FFG import issue in 3DS 2022 and 2024

    Howdy, I've been using the FFG tool to move models between 3DS 2022 and GMax for a few years now. I just upgraded to a new computer, and for the life of me I can't import anything but basic primitives into 3DS 2022 now. I run the script, the script runs, the list of objects is generated, it...
  5. ErickC

    Sssshhh... it's a secret!

    Hey kids! Did you ever get frustrated when making frequency curves for your sounds? Well, good news, I've got a way of doing it that requires no real effort, and I was even nice enough to make a comment about it on the YouTubes. Here's what I posted: Super secret #2: a big part of figuring out...
  6. ErickC

    It's one of those days!

    50 years ago today, a little yellow airplane with a two-tone gold-pinstriped slate blue/navy blue stripe down the side of the fuselage took to the air for the first time. Since then, the 737 has broken every sales record in the book for a commercial airplane (the lion's share of DC-3 orders were...
  7. ErickC

    Does MSFS dislike long clips?

    I had the fortune of being on a DC-9 that went through almost the entire engine speed range on taxi-out on a single engine. Well, me being me, I decided that the recordings I took ought to translate to something sim pilots can use. Well, after a whole lot of work separating engine sounds by...
  8. ErickC

    "I flew on a 737 last week and it had double slotted flaps. Your model is wrong."

    "Also, your engines are too small and are under the wing. They should be big and in front of it. The thrust reversers are wrong. They look like an MD80s. They should just slide back." I never actually got those (that I can remember), but I bet at least a few people have. What's the dumbest...
  9. ErickC

    Snark: What's Boeing's marketing staff going to do about the older 737s?

    Now that the Max is in production, it'll only be a matter of time before it supersedes the NG entirely. So: When Boeing came out with the 737 in 1967, it was just the 737. They didn't even bother putting a little dash with the series on the painted-on logos (possibly because nobody wanted the...
  10. ErickC

    Tips and tricks from an idiot savant

    Every once in a while, I come across a piece of information that model builders might find useful. This does me absolutely no good, because I really don't spend much time building 3D models these days, so I thought it might be a good idea to share what little wisdom I might impart somewhere. I...
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