AirBus A300-B -
Eastern and Continental (*'87 livery)
from model of Jaffray Linn
repaint by Jim Waters - jwaterseal@aol.com.
Comments welcomed.
FS2002 has become so much more complex as far as repainting.
It may be "open source" - was wondering about the invisible bitmaps in
FS2002 aircraft texture files. I don't yet have a program that can
open that little coconut. And the virtual cockpit features
with the group data name of "$737_1" - that also is a tough
little programming item.
Until I figure that out, I am in repaint of FS2000 model .bmp
files with updated "aircraft.cfg" files adapted for FS2002.
The A-300 of Jaffray Linn is a marvelous model - it has about the
best lighting I've seen on any aircraft. The original paint
of the Turkish A300B included excellent window graphics showing
pax in detail. One can make out that some of the passengers are
reading newspapers (*why don't more designers pay mind to the windows?).
The airplane lifts off beautifully and flies really nicely.
The great advance of FS2002, along with superior graphics, is, in my opinion,
the advance of dynamic virtual cockpits. The coding for this is a combination
of the .mdl file and the texture file as a seemingly object code compiled file.
Soure .bmp's are encoded and translated. Additionally, the .mdl interface
is not available for modification at this time. Hey, I'm a applications,
not a systems programmer.
