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Hi Guys, I thought our thread was a bit slow lately, but nice pictures liven it up. 
Rob725 has pointed out that a number of the static model of aircraft will not place in Surveyor, though they show no errors, and appear in the Surveyor selection menu.
They are older models checked in TRS2009 and uploaded some time back, they do not place in TS10 or 12, something has changed with those versions.
The models are static versions of the Dash-8, Fokker F-28, Pilatus, Piper Seneca, and possibly a few more (Messerschmitt and Heinkel).
The static versions were obviously made from the drivable ones. These had meshes like the flaps, body and wheels attached to a main invisible mesh that could be animated, in order to flare the aircraft fir example.
Anyway, TS10 and 12 is not handling the attachment point reference in this part of the config:
body
{
mesh "body.im"
auto-create 1
att "a.origin"
att-parent "default"
}
For the Fokker, Piper Seneca, and Dash 8 models, the point is on the origin of the main mesh, and the reference can be deleted.
If you have uploaded any of these models as reskins, can you please replace your models - delete the line in blue above, give your model the next version number and a build of at least 2.8 for the DLS.
For any aircraft like the Pilatus that has the tail on the ground, this method will not work, because the static model will not be inclined at that angle, I will have to redo the static model meshes for tail dragger models.
Perhaps not many use the models after all, as no one contacted me about the issue earlier.
I will replace the problem models soon. As there are now many startup models which can be used as a static one, I may not bother with separate static models in future. However, I have had a request for some static models with cargo and passenger doors open for loading, I may look at some of those if anyone is interested.
Ian
Rob725 has pointed out that a number of the static model of aircraft will not place in Surveyor, though they show no errors, and appear in the Surveyor selection menu.
They are older models checked in TRS2009 and uploaded some time back, they do not place in TS10 or 12, something has changed with those versions.
The models are static versions of the Dash-8, Fokker F-28, Pilatus, Piper Seneca, and possibly a few more (Messerschmitt and Heinkel).
The static versions were obviously made from the drivable ones. These had meshes like the flaps, body and wheels attached to a main invisible mesh that could be animated, in order to flare the aircraft fir example.
Anyway, TS10 and 12 is not handling the attachment point reference in this part of the config:
body
{
mesh "body.im"
auto-create 1
att "a.origin"
att-parent "default"
}
For the Fokker, Piper Seneca, and Dash 8 models, the point is on the origin of the main mesh, and the reference can be deleted.
If you have uploaded any of these models as reskins, can you please replace your models - delete the line in blue above, give your model the next version number and a build of at least 2.8 for the DLS.
For any aircraft like the Pilatus that has the tail on the ground, this method will not work, because the static model will not be inclined at that angle, I will have to redo the static model meshes for tail dragger models.
Perhaps not many use the models after all, as no one contacted me about the issue earlier.
I will replace the problem models soon. As there are now many startup models which can be used as a static one, I may not bother with separate static models in future. However, I have had a request for some static models with cargo and passenger doors open for loading, I may look at some of those if anyone is interested.
Ian
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Josh,Great shots CJ, I wish my graphics were like that, plus how do you do the light bloom.
Looks like a busy North American airport you have there. Impressive.
The third photo down, right hand aircraft. Is that a CRJ-700 & where did it come from?
Rob
Pics 5 and 6...is this airport near one of the poles? The sun sure moves on an angled path...
Nice shots (and planes), anyways. I might go hunt up some of these aircraft.
JP_Quiggle
New member
Can you post a download of your airport?
Alaska Airlines / Horizon
Early morning in Vancouver & the morning flights are held at the markers at Runway 08L-26R waiting for the Alaska Airlines red eye from Anchorage to land. The Horizon Dash 8-100 is off to the Cascades this morning; the Alaska/Horizon Dash 8-402 is headed back to Seattle after spending the night; & Shamu (Southwest) is bound for his home base in San Diego.
These are the new aircraft arrivals to Trainz. Shamu is one of Christopher's recent excellent Southwest aircraft & the others are a few of my new Alaska Airlines reskins.
Meet the Alaska fleet.
Alaska-Horizon Dash 8-100 <kuid2:590184:100100:1>
Horizon Dash 8-100 <kuid2:590184:100099:1>
Alaska-Horizon Dash 8-402 <kuid2:590184:100051:1>
Horizon Dash 8-402 <kuid2:590184:100094:1>
Alaska 737-800 <kuid2:590184:100106:1>
Alaska MD-80 <kuid2:590184:100107:1>
There are also a couple of static versions of the two jets. With the recent probelms with the Dash 8 statics, I'm going to hold off for now.
Alaska 737-800 static <kuid2:590184:100020:1>
Alaska MD-80 static<kuid2:590184:100021:1>
The MD-80 is no longer in service with Alaska Airlines & the Horizon paint scheme is being phased out this year.
They should all be available on DLS very soon. The quickes way to find them is to use "aircraft" & "alaska" in your seach in content manager.
Hope you like them
Rob
Early morning in Vancouver & the morning flights are held at the markers at Runway 08L-26R waiting for the Alaska Airlines red eye from Anchorage to land. The Horizon Dash 8-100 is off to the Cascades this morning; the Alaska/Horizon Dash 8-402 is headed back to Seattle after spending the night; & Shamu (Southwest) is bound for his home base in San Diego.
These are the new aircraft arrivals to Trainz. Shamu is one of Christopher's recent excellent Southwest aircraft & the others are a few of my new Alaska Airlines reskins.
Meet the Alaska fleet.
Alaska-Horizon Dash 8-100 <kuid2:590184:100100:1>
Horizon Dash 8-100 <kuid2:590184:100099:1>
Alaska-Horizon Dash 8-402 <kuid2:590184:100051:1>
Horizon Dash 8-402 <kuid2:590184:100094:1>
Alaska 737-800 <kuid2:590184:100106:1>
Alaska MD-80 <kuid2:590184:100107:1>
There are also a couple of static versions of the two jets. With the recent probelms with the Dash 8 statics, I'm going to hold off for now.
Alaska 737-800 static <kuid2:590184:100020:1>
Alaska MD-80 static<kuid2:590184:100021:1>
The MD-80 is no longer in service with Alaska Airlines & the Horizon paint scheme is being phased out this year.
They should all be available on DLS very soon. The quickes way to find them is to use "aircraft" & "alaska" in your seach in content manager.
Hope you like them
Rob
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Noted. Could use some of those reskins in my Vancouver map.
By Air Canada do you mean the Air Canada Jazz or the normal greenish colour scheme of Air Canada?
I'm about to do a bunch of Dash 8's in Jazz colours. I can do the Jazz if you haven't already. I can also do an Alaska/Horizon version as well since I already have all the logos etc. Let me know.
Hopefully one day one of our modelling gurus will be able to add the real CRJs to our aircraft family some day.
