Gremlin Gripes

Posted on 27th September 2024 by IanP

If you have looked at flightsim.to recently, you’ll have seen that I have updated HMS Tern/ RNAS Twatt to fix a couple of problems and reesolve some of the changes required from the recently MSFS UK and Ireland World Update.

Unfortunately, I can’t get into the back end of the website to upload it here at this point in time. It – and the other files that need updated – are still intended to be uploaded via here. In the interim, however, they can be downloaded here: https://flightsim.to/profile/Amarillon/uploads.

As soon as the Gremlin in the security system has been vanquished with a can of digital WD40 and a pointy screwdriver, I’ll put them here, as well.

It finally “Tern”ed up…

Posted on 18th June 2023 by IanP

…for which people can now be very glad, because it means no more seabird related puns for a while.

Under the new “MSFS Scenery” tab on the top toolbar (or more directly here) you will find a download page and some screenshots for RNAS Twatt, where I have given up tinkering and poking and decided to set it loose on an unsuspecting world.

I’ve also uploaded it to flightsim.to, but whether they’ll approve it or not, I cannot say, with that name attached!

Enjoy, ignore, be sarcastic about and/or tell your friends about, as you will.

In association with this release, the scenery libraries page now also has links to the MSFS libraries required to see and use Twatt properly, but that’s still under the FSX/P3D tab at present. I shall sort that out as soon as I have more time.

Tern, Tern Again…

Posted on 22nd May 202322nd May 2023 by IanP

Finished? No. Not quite . Quite a lot of it still needs poking, prodding and generally tweaking, but it’s reached a point where I think it’s worth letting other people who might be interested have a poke at it themselves again, as well.

‘Tern’ing Over a New Page

Posted on 21st April 202321st April 2023 by IanP

Following on from the previous post and some natter on both Twitter and the Dreamsofwings Discord, I’ve uploaded a new “buildings complete, some other gubbins” build of HMS Tern / RNAS Twatt in Orkney for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (not FSX/P3D), which is now available via this link.

Please be advised, however, that because this includes all the models I’ve converted so far (whether used in this scenery or not), all the vehicle models that stiz has kindly updated with new materials and made a bit smoother for me (whether used in this scenery or not), the file size is “quite big”.

Because this isn’t a release and there are still a number of outstanding problems with the scenery that are bugging me, I won’t go into detail on the airfield, its origins, use or much else right now, but it’s hopefully the first of a few. Possibly not as many as I did for FSX/P3D, though, I’m afraid. Plus SODE doesn’t yet work in MSFS (due to Microsoft/Asobo’s decisions) and I can’t yet make a SimObject do what I want it to myself. That’s one of the things I’m working on for X6TW.

Blimey. It’s a post.

Posted on 5th April 2023 by IanP

Right. You might have seen the Tweet, you might not, but this place is now showing no red alerts and no yellow “issues” again on the dashboard panels. That took some minor fiddling in the background to achieve.

Apologies for the new Cookie Permissions / Personal Data bar – as if trying to keep track of US and EU law wasn’t hard enough, a couple of US states have decided that if I want to exist, I have to obey their law as well, or else. It just means you need to accept a new pop-up. Sorry.

Now I guess that I can go back to trying to convert my entire objects library to PBR-like materials for MSFS, which is what I’ve been doing. 140 down, far too many more to go.

“Wot I Did On My Oliday”

Posted on 5th March 2021 by IanP

Or, “That moment you pick something up and decide to model it, then don’t stop”. Or something. Then you get depressed for absolutely no apparent reason.

Minor Oops. No Significant Injuries.

Posted on 27th February 2021 by IanP

Thanks to Brian for pointing out to me that I had messed up the County which is home to RAF Middle Wallop, both on here and in the readme for the scenery.

It’s actually correct in the scenery itself, as I know full well that Middle Wallop is in Hampshire, not Surrey. Fixed it on the website and updated the readme file – that correction will roll out with the next scenery update (which means I need to do one now).

Sorry about that!

A Slight Northern Detour

Posted on 28th January 2021 by IanP

I took a quick (socially distant, of course – just pretend it’s Barnard Castle) trip up pretty much the entirety of the UK from Boxted this evening, after finding some far better images than I had before for the joint Watch Office and Ops Room structure, still standing at “The-Place-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named“.

Not finished yet (let alone textured), but…

Don’t Tell the Crew Chief!

Posted on 18th January 2021 by IanP

While I’m poking at Boxted and finding everything wrong with it that’s left to fix (I just decided that Montford Bridge needs a complete rebuild as well…), I figured that I’d post this one – evidence that I’m as bad at breaking DCS World WW2 fighters as I am P3D ones…

“Umm, sorry control. I broke my landing gear, overspeeding it on downwind.”

Quick update

Posted on 17th January 202117th January 2021 by IanP

Right. My mental health is really not coping well with the current situation – the last few days have been completely messed up between that and my knackered back so absolutely nothing has been done.

Thanks to watching too many Dreamsofwings videos, this evening, though, a bit of light has crept into my brain cells and little bit of progress has been made. Not much, but it’s a heck of a lot more than recent weeks!