Don't know if this is in the right place or not but here goes. Can someone tell me how to fix the opaque issues in fsx for the NBAI Tiffies, the FMAI Tornado & Mirage 2000 please.

Thanks in advance

The owl's nest website has most of the fixed canopy files for those aircraft in the download section. The newer packages I am not so sure about, but a large number of the older packages are covered.

Cheers Matt

I was aware of the stuff at the Owls nest but there are quite a few paints out there that need a fix applied to them. Figured I may as well try & have a go at doing it myself

Graham has made FSX replacements for the Mirage - you can find them here. I wait for Grahams approval to upload them to AVSim and FlightSim so that they are easier to find than in this thread.

After all official MAIW Eurofighter and Tonrado packages are done and available at the Owls Nest, I have now the large Tornado GAF package in the make.

gsnde wrote:Graham has made FSX replacements for the Mirage - you can find them here. I wait for Grahams approval to upload them to AVSim and FlightSim so that they are easier to find than in this thread.

After all official MAIW Eurofighter and Tonrado packages are done and available at the Owls Nest, I have now the large Tornado GAF package in the make.

I knew about them. I was going to attempt to convert some Mirages from the middle east, retro tornado's that Chris Brown did a while back and the Saudi tiffies. None of which have fixes for them i believe.

Also is anyone going to do the new Austrian tiffies?

shaggy22 wrote:

gsnde wrote:Graham has made FSX replacements for the Mirage - you can find them here. I wait for Grahams approval to upload them to AVSim and FlightSim so that they are easier to find than in this thread.

After all official MAIW Eurofighter and Tonrado packages are done and available at the Owls Nest, I have now the large Tornado GAF package in the make.

I knew about them. I was going to attempt to convert some Mirages from the middle east, retro tornado's that Chris Brown did a while back and the Saudi tiffies. None of which have fixes for them i believe.

Also is anyone going to do the new Austrian tiffies?

Oh - I thought that the Eurofighter might had been updated to work in both sims for the new package. I will do the fixes this week.

I have not done the 12 Tornado packages from Chris, neither any Mirages. Are you talking about the UAE and Qatar package from Mike Pearson?

gsnde wrote:I have not done the 12 Tornado packages from Chris, neither any Mirages. Are you talking about the UAE and Qatar package from Mike Pearson?

Correct. Have the Peruvian ones been done as well?

Dan,

I have finished the Austrian Typhoons. If you want to give it a try please pm your mail address. I would appreciate if you could do a nice screen shot for the replacement package

Also I am half-way through with Chris Brown's Tornado textures...

gsnde wrote:Also I am half-way through with Chris Brown's Tornado textures...

Yay

gsnde wrote:Also I am half-way through with Chris Brown's Tornado textures...

...who has kindly approved that I make them available - thank you very much, Chris!

This is the list of FSX Tornado fixes for the Chris Brown collection I have made:

AI Tornado GR.1 - 13 Squadron based at RAF Honington
AI Tornado GR.1 - 27 Squadron based at RAF Marham
AI Tornado GR.1 - 617 Squadron based at RAF Marham
AI Tornado GR.1 - TWCU based at RAF Honington
AI Tornado IDS - 6 Stormo, 154 Gruppo based at Ghedi
AI Tornado IDS - 36 Stormo, 156 Gruppo based at Gioia del Colle
AI Tornado IDS - 50 Stormo, 155 Gruppo based at Piacenza
AI Tornado IDS - Dual Control Replacement for 6, 36 & 50 Stormo
AI Tornado IDS - German Navy MFG1
AI Tornado IDS - German Navy MFG2
AI Tornado IDS - German Navy MFG2 43+87 repaint

RAF Cottesmore circa 1990 - Trinational Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE)
AI Tornado GR.1 and IDS - Trinational Tornado Training Establishment (TTTE) Italian fix

RAF Honington circa 1990
RAF Bruggen circa 1990 revised textures
RAF Laarbruch circa 1990 revised textures

Like to do a test for those as well before I release them, Dan? Fair deal - I have done the fix, you do the test and a screenshot for each

gsnde wrote:Like to do a test for those as well before I release them, Dan? Fair deal - I have done the fix, you do the test and a screenshot for each

Fair enough, i'm well up for that

Then expect a mail with a bunch of download links soon. I will make everything ready in package form so that the only thing missing is the screen shot.
Btw, this avatar you use makes me grin every time

gsnde wrote:Then expect a mail with a bunch of download links soon. I will make everything ready in package form so that the only thing missing is the screen shot.
Btw, this avatar you use makes me grin every time

Glad to be of service

gsnde wrote:I have now the large Tornado GAF package in the make.

That's quite a long list of Tornado's!
I have just downloaded the FSX version of Lechfeld AB and would already be very glad with canopy fixes for the Tornado's of JG32.

Grtz,
Dick

Sometimes I just forget things - like in tis case to release the replacement textures

These FSX replacement textures are available at The Owls Nest now:

Chris_Brown_ADV_RAF_Leuchars_1990
Chris_Brown_GR1_RAF_Bruggen_1990_Revised
Chris_Brown_GR1_RAF_Cottesmore_1990_TTTE
Chris_Brown_GR1_RAF_Honington_1990
Chris_Brown_GR1_RAF_Laarbruch_1990_Revised
Chris_Brown_GR1_RAF_TWCU
Chris_Brown_IDS_AMI_36_Stormo
Chris_Brown_IDS_AMI_50_Stormo_RSV
Chris_Brown_IDS_AMI_6_Stormo
Chris_Brown_IDS_German_Navy_MFG1_1990
Chris_Brown_IDS_German_Navy_MFG2_1990
Chris_Brown_IDS_German_Navy_MFG2_1990_43+87
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_Coningsby_1990
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_SQN_29_75th
Ray_Parker_ADV_RAF_SQN_57
Ray_Parker_IDS_AMI_GAF

I have also uploaded them to FlightSim where they will appear later. Several more to come in short time.

The next set of packages is done and in test currently:

Chris_A_Brown_ETNJ_JBG38
Chris_A_Brown_ETNN_JBG31
Chris_A_Brown_ETSB_JBG33
Chris_A_Brown_ETSL_JBG32
Chris_A_Brown_GR1_RAF_SQN_27
Chris_A_Brown_GR1_RAF_SQN_617
Chris_A_Brown_GR1A_RAF_SQN_13
Chris_A_Brown_IDS_Royal_Saudi_AF_Part1
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_SQN_111_25th
Mark_Heimer_IDS_GAF_Holloman
Ray_Parker_ADV_RAF_SQN_56

They will be released some time next week. Also I will release these patch packages:

Chris_A_Brown_ADV_RAF_Leuchars_1990_Patch
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_Coningsby_1990_Patch
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_SQN_111_25th_Patch
Daryl_Payne_ADV_RAF_SQN_29_75th_Patch

In those I have removed all alpha channels used to mask things like tanks and rockets. This trick worked well in FS9, but has some strange side effects in FSX.

All 7 MAIW Mirage 2000 packages are completed and in test as well.

Martin, FSX should not be half as beautiful without your transparant canopies.
Keep up the good work!

Gtz, Dick

Thank you very much for these kind words Dick
This thread has found a new "home" here in case you want to see the current release status of all cockpit fixes.