Nicola_M

For being an all-round tosser, I call it The Taureau.

Fly what you want to say. I'm calling it "The Taureau" for banning me for giving his crap Breguet one star. Says what I feel. File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

JA6708 gps-mapping around Fukushima. I've suddenly discovered Japan's scenery is tree-world. So many trees, so little time....

JA6708 c/n 1104 File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

All files removed. No longer available for download.

Is xp10 truly set up enough now that it is less gpu and memory-draining on pc's than v9xx was, as Austin claimed? I ask, as yet another developer decides to drop making his wares available for v9 and v10 in favour of v10 only, alienating those of us who are stuck with v9. Stuck with v9 because the hardware to run xp10 is still several £$.

Because he has no respect for the dead.

You should see what he's got planned for his old folks....

I hope when it's HIS turn someone turns his ass into an ashtray or something. What a scumbag.

Visiting the Numnutz

Future liveries will have paint wear to the underneath of the skids, as seen below.

Liveries of the first and last BK117 made are now available with CDN 791M's excellent Cargo variant of the BK117, available here: http://forums.x-plan...&showfile=16540 c/n 7001 XA-TYM File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/ c/n 7555 XA-UBP File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

Told you it would become addictive. Nice work. Any chance you could post bigger pictures? My poor internet connection is struggling with the piddly little ones you're posting....!

From today I am inserting Easter Eggs in with the liveries. These are new liveries placed in previously blank posts. Just go through and find them. The first is on Page 3, Air Life of Urbana, IL. File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

BK117 WARBIRD This gives you what is basically the South African Army BK117. Credit goes to Pedrovl for his LAU weapons, which we need from his OH-6 Cayuse. Installation instructions included. Pedrovl's Cayuse for v9xx - http://aeropedro.des...Cayuse-v941.zip File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

BK117 Utility Cargo version by Ed CDN 791M Download here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16540 And the excellent Transport variant Download here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16589

Flew the excellent new transport variant of the BK117 (from Ed CDN 791M) to an oil rig and a frigate. Transport variant http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16589 Utility Cargo variant http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16540

The only time I go near x-plane is to check the livery once it's finished, to check for anything missed, and to grab the screenshot to go with the livery. Other than that, x-plane is redundant to the livery process for me.

I'm fine with my setup using Photoshop, with Planemaker (running alongside) to check the results as I go along. The point I meant was xplane is harder on my system, so no way could I use Photoshop, with x-plane to check the results, as Steven Winslow was.

No problem. You can use xplane running to check your work (or keep loading it) but for my laptop I find xplane running alongside Photoshop usually has the cooling fans going nuts so using Planemaker to check my work is a little easier on the laptop. Dell XPS 2.1Ghz dual core, 4GB ram, 256mg Nvidia 7900GS.

So I can check my work as I do it. You have to do this if you are copying a known design, so you can line up logos, type, lines etc. I have Planemaker open and running all the time. To check the work I've done in Photoshop I save it as the required external paint job png and go into Planemaker and select default livery (to clear the last) and then select the livery I'm working on. This way you use Planemaker to check your work's progress as you do it. You don't fire up xplane or Planemaker each time - you have planemaker running all the time you work.

I can only say how it is for me. Like Mike Hotel, I cannot have Planemaker and xplane open at the same time. I work with Planemaker open and Photoshop. Each change I make I get Planemaker to load the default paint, and then load the paint I'm working on to see the current change. It's a tedious thing, but we're only talking seconds between the default paint and the one I'm working on. Some aircraft are hard to paint, that's the way they are. It's probably also the main reason I mostly work on the one aircraft rather than doing liveries for many. Maybe that's how others work too. No doubt there are aircraft builders who make their paintkits a nightmare to work on, but that will also account for no one putting out liveries for it. I plan to buy the DC-3 one day, but for the foreseeable month or two I don't have the finances for it. This is probably another reason why not many people have made liveries for it yet; in this time of economic trouble we have to prioritise what we want for now, and what we want for 3 months down the line. We may have few painters in general, but xplane is blessed with a huge amount of talented people building aircraft and scenery, so it's a good mix of talent all round. I don't think money really comes into painting; while it would be nice to follow the MSFS example and be paid for our work, the pleasure is in creating something for others. And the "free" ethos has been with xplane from the start. I am sure in the fullness of time there will be more liveries for the DC-3.

Exclusive to x-pilot CN 7226 N333LF Geisinger File located in file library here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/files/category/20-helicopters/

AH-1Z Viper's winch for the BK117 is an absolute work of art. Download here: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16491

AH-1Z Viper's work-of-art winch for the BK117