FS9 Biff Download link

The FS9 version of the Bristol Fighter is now available form Avsim.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=Bristol+Fighter+F2b&CatID=fs2004ac&Go=Search

FS9 Biff on Sunday

I'll upload the FS9 Biff's either to Sim-Outhouse or Avsim on Sunday AEST (GMT+10). I was going to wait until I had set up my new website, but that looks like it will be a big job.

I'll post the links in the morning.

FSX Biff uploaded to Simv & a mystery at Flightsim.com

I've just uploaded the FSX version of the Bristol Fighter to Simviation. Hopefully it should appear there within the next 24 hours.

I was going to do likewise at Flightsim.com and lo and behold it was already there. The phantom uploader strikes again! This has happened to other people also. There's no point in requesting its removal as I would have to upload again. However I will drop the webmaster at Flightsim.com an email and let him know.

Part 1 of the FS9 version of the F2B will be uploaded to Flightsim.com this morning. (Not taking any chances on someone else uploading). The other parts will be uploaded as I complete them. Actually it is with reluctance that I release an FS9 version. Definitely not as nice as the FSX version. I'm not the only designer who has encountered this problem with FS9.

It will be interesting to see how download numbers of the FS9 version compare with FSX... just over 3,000 of the base package to date between Avsim & Flightsim (just over a week). Downloads at Avsim of the FSX Biff have all but stopped. Interestingly the guys at Avsim forums who whinge at the lack of freeware 'native' FSX versions of addon aircraft have yet to notice the 'Biff'. I would say there appears to be a very low awareness and interest of WW1 aviation all round compared to Airliners and WW2 aviation. We'll see how things are after the FSX and CFS3 Snipe is released. I am not making any definite plans for anything else at this moment.

FS 9 Biffs......

........ will soon start rolling off the production line. I have been doing some work on the FS9 (FS2004) version this weekend.

I have to say after doing the FSX version the FS9 version is something of a comedown, primarily in the cockpit area. The Biff was designed with CFS3 in mind and the limitations of the FS9 export tools were not known to me. This is very noticable in any cockpit round parts..... instrument bezels etc.

If I were designing for FS9 from the outset I would have adopted a different approach and made more use of textures. Anyway we have to move on and FSX is the way forward so that's where most of my focus will lie in the future.

Download links for the FSX Biff

The Bristol F2B for FSX is now available from Avsim.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=bristol+f2b&CatID=fsxac&Go=Search

A few people have downloaded it already and the initial response has been enthusiastic.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=35142

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=35149

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=35147

Thanks again to everyone for their comments. I must say it gives me a great buzz to see people enjoying something that one has created.

A Sopwith Snipe will still be produced for FSX and hopefully CFS3 and will still be freeware.

Well as they say..... on with the show. We'll see what the coming months bring.

cheers

Rob

Biff for FSX uploaded to Avsim.

Yep at long last... the first 2 of 4 parts uploaded to Avsim. They should appear in the next few hours. Off to bed..... it's late.

cheers

Rob.

Tomorrow

Hopefully the FSX version of the Bristol Fighter will be uploaded to Avsim tomorrow. Other sites will follow in due course. In the meantime a couple of preview pics.

And another couple of days........

Yep.... still not released :D

I've created another 9 skins for starters, giving me 10 all up for the initial releases. Initial releases? Yep I've created some variations on the visual model so there will be more than one download when it is released.

I've finished all the skins and can see a few bits and peices to fix up and also make some minor changes to virtual cockpit textures. Next up is a new config file and putting all this together.... after that check everything out in sim and then if ok.... release. Whew!!! (After that a break.... various things will flow through to FS9 and CFS3 all in due course.... there's a lot to this aircraft creation business.)

until then

cheers

Rob

FSX Biff update... almost there

What I had initially intended to complete for the FSX Biff is now complete. There was a delay of a couple of days due to code for the fuel selector switch not doing as I wanted. This morning I dropped the approach used by MS for their fuel selectors in FS2004/FSX and coded my own from scratch. It does what I want when I want.

Presently I am doing a few skins and minor visual variations. So hang on it may take a couple of days more :)

cheers

Rob

'Biff' Almost X-ified

The FSX version of the Bristol Fighter is almost complete and should be released sometime this week. I have just a couple of cockpit animations to figure out and we're there. The tedious job of converting all the LOD models is complete. I may create a couple of new skins I have in mind time permitting.

The mdl files are some size. The mesh of the external model for all 3 sims, FS9/CFS3/FSX is almost the same yet the CFS3 m3d weighs in at 3+ MB while the FSX mdl is 14+mb. The fsx vc is 13+ mb. Needless to say the download files will be large. I'll probaly release other variants seperately.

Anyway here are a few more pics. (PS.... check out the bump mapped leather combing..)