Illustrious Swordfish texture fix

macstu23 · 08-14-06, 09:12 AM

One thing that bugged me about the HMS Illustrious was those little RAF Roundels displayed on the horizontal stabilisers of the Swordfish aircraft sitting on her deck. Whoever the developer was that came up with that little bit of inspired wisdom ought to be keel-hauled.

I hunted out the offending texture and fixed it by simply removing the roundels. I've made a similar fix for the both the stock and GW versions of the Illustrious (with the slightly darker hull colour) and the Ark Royal model which is included in U-boat War Aces, and packaged them in one handy zip. Just use whichever texture is appropriate to your SH3 installation.

Here's a screener of what I'm talking about;

Uploaded to U-Boot.RealSimulation.com, filename; Illustrious_Swordfish_texture_fix.zip
For version 2 see my next post below this one.

SeaWolf IV · 08-14-06, 12:03 PM

That has always annoyed me, thanks for the fix!

flyingdane · 08-14-06, 03:48 PM

I did not know that was a bug, but it looks alot better..Thank You

macstu23 · 08-15-06, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by flyingdane

I did not know that was a bug, but it looks alot better..Thank You

Well, not really a bug as such, just an issue I thought needed addressing, since I've never seen an RAF aircraft with a roundel placed in such a position, except maybe on a drawing by a 5 year old kid.

Actually I've gone a step further and completely changed the skin on the static Swordfish so that it matches more closely the colour pattern of my Fleet Air Arm Swordfish skin (for the Swordfish that flies), that I made some time ago.
The same skin is included in the Grey Wolves mod. So now the static aircraft on the Illustrious deck match the flying aircraft in game. It may not be the biggest most important modification ever but I think it looks much better.

Here's a screener;

I've packaged them as a version2 and I've included the FAA Swordfish skin for those that dont already have it. Download link here;

http://files.filefront.com/Illustrio.../fileinfo.html

08-14-06, 09:12 AM	#1
macstu23 Soundman Join Date: May 2003 Location: Scotland Posts: 143 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Illustrious Swordfish texture fix One thing that bugged me about the HMS Illustrious was those little RAF Roundels displayed on the horizontal stabilisers of the Swordfish aircraft sitting on her deck. Whoever the developer was that came up with that little bit of inspired wisdom ought to be keel-hauled. I hunted out the offending texture and fixed it by simply removing the roundels. I've made a similar fix for the both the stock and GW versions of the Illustrious (with the slightly darker hull colour) and the Ark Royal model which is included in U-boat War Aces, and packaged them in one handy zip. Just use whichever texture is appropriate to your SH3 installation. Here's a screener of what I'm talking about; Uploaded to U-Boot.RealSimulation.com, filename; Illustrious_Swordfish_texture_fix.zip For version 2 see my next post below this one. Last edited by macstu23; 08-15-06 at 09:39 AM.

08-14-06, 12:03 PM	#2
SeaWolf IV Torpedoman Join Date: May 2005 Location: United States Posts: 120 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	That has always annoyed me, thanks for the fix! __________________ "Jeder Tag der Niederlage ein Sieg!" Download my SH3 Files!

08-14-06, 03:48 PM	#3
flyingdane Weps Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 355 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	I did not know that was a bug, but it looks alot better..Thank You __________________ It denos't mtater waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, it's olny iprmoatnt taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelms.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.