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Ford Trimotor Recompile to FSX

fabittar

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First, a little introduction: my name is Fabio and I'm a big FS enthusiast. Unfortunately, I'm not as computer savvy as I wish I'd be.

Second, I love the mid-war period and specially the Ford Trimotor. I am sure some of you share the same feeling about the late 20s, early 30s aircraft as I.

Now to the problem: the FS9-native Ford Trimotor CAN be used in FSX BUT (big but) the VC glass will turn opaque blue everytime there's precipitation, clouds will 'cause a weird undesired effect during flight and light bloom will flash a bright white all over the screen, from any angle.

These issues can be overcomed by disabling light bloom and swapping FS9s rain with FSXs. But that really sucks :(

I have a Curtiss Jenny that was recompilled for FSX (same model and all, but it was divided in two - interior and exterior models, with new materials) and it works great, rain, light bloom and all. I wonder how hard it would be to recompile the Trimotor and whether somebody in these forums would be willing to do it.

Sure, there would be no compensation. But it's a great aircraft, I think it deserves a new life in FSX and future versions of FS, too. A lot of people think only of flying the big iron, using their GPS and FMCs... but where's the fun in actually flying the bird the whole way as they did in the mid-war period? There's nothing like flying that Trimotor thru rain and haze all the way to a remote destination...

So, please, if there's any interest in making this aircraft FSX native, I'll be very grateful for it, as a lot of other people will be too, I am sure.

Fabio.
 
GrahamS

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Without the source files what you want is not possible and in this case it is a default MS aircraft so you will not get the source files.

But have a look at this at avsim :- f7b_klm2.zip
 
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fabittar

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Well, It certainly is possible, otherwise there wouldn't be a FSX-native (recompiled) Curtiss Jenny around.
 
GrahamS

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I didn't say it wasn't possible, I said it isn't possible without the source files.
 
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The Curtiss Jenny source file was included as a sample in the FS2004 SDK documents, so of course it's "easy" to tweak and recompile it to FS-X.

As an aside, the DC-3 source file has also been made available by Microsoft in the SDKs.
 
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