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[dsawan]

Thks, she is a beast and fun to play with!

[Kelso]

Thank you for a great job. Interesting plane, although it is only a prototype. I am adding some improvements / fixes.
Firing weapons now drop shells.
Fixed hooks.
Default skin tidy.
In the variants of armament, the value should be: 10x RS-82

https://www.mediafire.com/file/w1t210ml7o6n4fa/SU-8M+v1.1+FIX.7z/file

[DONAGHY]

I would like to  introduce the Sukhoi SU-8 Attack Aircraft from 1943. Up front this design is experimental/prototype but did indeed fly. This was intended to be a long range and heavier alternative to the IL-2 but As history goes, as Germans were pushed back, the need for such range evaporated.

This plane is a beast, put lightly. This is a twin-engine Attack aircraft that was designed to work at great distances and at or behind front lines. As such it was heavily armored... very heavily armored. 10-15mm surrounding the pilot and gunner + armored skin, 64mm armored glass on frontal cockpit, up to 10mm armor surrounding the two Shvetsov M-71 engines, Oil tanks and coolers and the fuel tanks, which are also self sealing and pressuized with neutral gas adding to a ridiculous 1,680kg of steel armor plating alone. This protection was rated for protection from up to 13mm MGs.

The aircraft structure was mixed. Consisting of Steel and aluminum wings with plywood extremities, Armored steel front fuselage, Aluminum center fuselage, wooden monocoque tail assembly save for the metal Elevator and rudders. The Cockpit was high mounted for excellent visibility. Offensive Armament was overwhelming. 4x 45mm NS-45 Cannons With 50 Rounds per gun accompanied by a quartet of 7.62 Shkas per wing with 650rpg for 23.84kg/sec burst mass. It could carry 10x RS-82 or RS-132 Rockets and a pair of 500kg bombs, for a load of 1400kg.

Defensive armament was 1 UB 12.7mm with 200 rounds in a ventral turret and 7.62 with 500 rounds in dorsal position. You might be thinking that this thing must be extremely unwieldy... But performance is admirable, Relatively Light wing loading coupled with a sleek design, Leading edge slats, and powerful engines add up to a Climb rate of 7.4m/s, Top speed of 550kmh at 4600m, and perhaps most impressively, a 25 Second sustained turn time thanks to the automatic slats and wing loading. Range came to a respectable(by eastern front stadards)1500km

many thanks for a great mod s don

[stanislao]

    I only found this Sukhoi Su 8 livery on the web and it's really fun! However, I found a small defect, when the spinners that I colored white with blue triangles come into rotation, they lose their color and transform taking on a confused and stained green and blue aspect .. you will tell me to look for the relative mapping area but I can't find it, I've marked all possible areas but I just can't find it and it's a real shame ...

[Shessi]

Hi S,
If you look at the model, without it's skin, in a viewer, it shows as having that stretched mixed grey colour all over.  I think it may be an embedded texture in the model material itself or possibly another shared IL-2 texture.  If it is embedded, it is only in one LOD level, and that is why it only shows up when animated eg the spinners.

Go through each LOD and see if either there is any embedded textures or a non Su8 texture that's being used.

Cheers

Shessi

[stanislao]

     Thanks Shessi for your intervention, yes I believe it is a directive linked to a Lod, I have tried the test mapping with colors and numbers and the color area does not correspond to any area of the texture as you see from the image, so a adjustment on Lods but I fear this is beyond my ability .....!   

[Epervier]

When you look at the mesh "prop" and "proprot" you can immediately see that there is a problem!
prop : 823 vertices
proprot : 3698 vertices          

[Epervier]

@Stan

Please, try with this little fix...
I have not tested it...

[stanislao]

    Thanks Epervier I downloaded and installed it, now it's a bit late for me but tomorrow I'll tell you how it went! Thanks again.

[stanislao]

         Bingo! Thanks Epervier! I couldn't resist, I tried it and it works! Now the spinners keep their original coloring and everything is fine!


 

[Epervier]

I couldn't resist, I tried it and it works!

      
Worse than a child with a new toy! 

[Mission_bug]

Superb addition, thank you very much to all involved, really appreciated.

Take care and be safe.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.