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[Dreamk]

Loire 130s were serving aboard most battleships and cruisers of the French Navy in the 1930s and in ww2. It also operated from coastal bases.
During ww2 this plane served under the French Republic, Vichy State, Free French and German flags. It went on serving after the war, mainly in Indochina.
I used as a basis a model made for CFS2 by Baldy (Mike Fielden) who has very kindly authorized me  to use his models for import in Il2, but had to remake quite a number of meshes as Baldy had no access to detailed or original plans.
One particularity of this plane was to have two Pilot Cockpit positions - a closed one in the main cabin and an open one on the top of this cabin - so the pilot could choose whatever was in his mood. (Here the cockpit is the main cabin one.)

The "Open Cockpit" command will open the gun positions hatches and move the gunners in position, as well as popping up the Frontal position's machine gun.

What remains to be done on this plane is:
1) to edit the hier.him to add the Damage meshes
2) to replace the cockpit instruments with French ones instead of British ones
3) to improve the animations of the gunners
4) add the turret meshes for the 130C colonial version (java already written, alternate already machine guns meshes exported)

You'll need my news French bomb pack for this plane
https://www.mediafire.com/file/uoq2dykiucptxz0/_Arms_French_1918_1943.7z/file
and these files too
https://www.mediafire.com/file/q0rycxpqvqgodse/!Interwar+French+Machine+Guns.7z/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lppb53xhy48ujer/!French+Torpedo+and+Racks.7z/file

The link for the plane
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k1ol7axye50daw4/Loire130M_v1.0.7z/file

Whoever has problems with "white glass effect" instead of transparent glass, download this fix made by Hubberrantz:
 https://www.mediafire.com/file/6syei1tn91h07v6/Loire130MglassRepair.7z/file

Air.ini addition:
Loire130M     air.LOIRE_130M  1                     NOINFO  f01   SUMMER

Feel free to finalize and upgrade this plane where needed.
Enjoy

The plane has been tested in 4.122 modact 5.30, so will probably run smoothly also in BAT

[Mission_bug]

Excellent work as always Dreamk, great to see this finally in IL-2, thank you very much to those involved, really appreciated.


Take care and be safe.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[ben_wh]

Thank you, DreamK and all others who contributed to the project.

Cheers,

[David Prosser]

It works in BAT 4.1 Blue Edge. Mine eploded under fire from a Fiat Cr32.  Were they used on the Bearn?


cheers


David

[dona]

Great addition!  Anyone else experiencing this problem with the canopy glass?

[cgagan]

Excellent addition! Many thanks for sharing, 

[Mick]

Many THX, DreamK ...!

Here is a picture of French heavy cruiser Tourville, Casablanca late 1943, with one Loire 130 and two Latécoère 298 on catapults ...

[herbarnold99]

"Great addition!  Anyone else experiencing this problem with the canopy glass?"

I have this problem too. Had it before on some other planes, and it just vanished one day. (Hoping for a similar solution!)

[SAS~Poltava]

Ah, the Super-Modder returneth! Great to see you back and to see all these new, and quite unexpected French aircraft that you have brought along! 

[Dreamk]

Thanks , I'm blushing  
The white perspex windows is an old bug. Apparently some mat files parameters are not compatible with all graphic cards, setups or configurations. See the thread here (reply 1 and #16)  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,62104.0.html
and download this:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/psaqgk9nokgd15o/White_Glass_repair.zip/file
Extract the glass.tga from this zip file and copy it over the glass.tga present in the folder Loire130M\3Do\Plane\Loire130

[dona]

Thanks for trying to help.  Unfortunately, the problem persists.  No trouble with any of your other gems just the Lorie 139 so far. Anyway, really great work!!

[Hubberranz]

Dona ! Had the same problem. Solved. PM sent.

Anyone else try this:   https://www.mediafire.com/file/6syei1tn91h07v6/Loire130MglassRepair.7z/file