[Rel] Antonov An-124 'Ruslan' (v.1.03)

[HailStorm]

v1.03 released.

this last addition This update fixes the price distortion in the 2020+ time frame. it will now not go into negative values in the future. the change also make it drastically cheaper to buy in early years.

Full Set Download:

An-124_103.zip

Version 1.03

(1.31 MiB) Downloaded 819 times

v 1.03 changes:
- costfact reduced from 1500 to 1100

A few notes about the unit:
The aircraft will appear to be as large as Paasky's An-225, of which in reality it is noticably smaller.
this is due to the aircraft being scaled against the Locomotion stock aircraft (whilst staying within
game engine limits), so it looks to scale compared to the 747, A380, etc.

The aircraft is listed as having a gross weight of 49t. While not correct, this weight setting allows it
to operate from small and medium airports, which are coded to only accept aircraft that weigh 49t or less.

The aircraft on occasion may leave small artifacts (such as the tips of the wings, and top of the tail)
while flying around, and tends to happen while the aircraft is at speed or manuvering in such a way that
a rapid movement appears on-screen. This tends to occur in the later stages of the game, when
a lot of vehicles are present.

Thanks go out to Plastikman, Damage and Strongbow for putting up with my incessant questioning to get this made!

Cheers guys!

[AdrianGeo]

It looks like an awesome plane just make the price cheaper and not $21,705,450

[HailStorm]

yeah, the price does look a little steep, but the screenshot was taken in 2005, where inflation has increased the price from it's original cost (the concorde and 777 at that point cost 27,000,000 and 20,000,000 respectively)

(edit: future screenshots will include the date at which it was taken for reference)

[Plastikman]

Glad it worked out for You. looks like you got it.

only going be the screen shots, If you do another rendering, you might want to "darken" the texture file a tad or give it a light misting of gray to cut the white a tad. I tend to never use pure white or black in lomo. i am usually a few shades off.

ill download it tomorrow and look closer, I'll let you know.

[athanasios]

I also think color is a bit flat without proper shading. Not enough "3D" as it should. (Have a look at av8 set for OTTD if you don't understand what I mean.)

regards
athanasios

[Plastikman]

er and how did that think land on that tiny runway?

I do belive there is a flag to set the airport size in needs to land on. i think that is in the wiki. unless, that was you intention.

[Damage]

Great work! Can you publish it on TTDRussia forum too? Our plane fans will certanly be happy. And btw do you mind if we include your plane in our RU-plane pack? (with all credits, of course)?

Hmmm, another suggestion. In 3DSMAX there's an effects menu (somewhere in the render dialog, but on another tab, if i remember it correctly). You could try using the "Brightness and Contrast" effect to add contrast (to 0.6-0.7 i think). This might help to add some "volume" and "shape" feeling.

[HailStorm]

Just did a small update.

(version 1.01 removed)

v 1.01 changes:

- the texture has been slightly darkened
- the purchase price has been reduced
- "Polet Airlines" scheme added

note: the config for the planes have been changed in a way that makes it incompatible with scenarios made with the earlier jet version.

@Plastikman:
yeah, i did intend for the jet to be able to use small airports - several reasons, both real and imagined:
- In the right circumstances, it can have the same takeoff/landing distance as a 737 - which in-game can land at the small airports.
-the Ruslan was designed to work in the rough (and in restricted conditions), and the small airports' design naturally fitted the use of the it (and not, say, a 747F)
- I originally intended for the jet to be used from small, rough airfields to pick up raw cargo, then deliver it to the secondary industries - it was incredibly expensive (and useless) to have lots of large airports cluttering the map - and the Hercules was incredibly inefficient at transport.

@Damage:
sure, i'd be honoured if you included it! i assume the TTDRussia forums were the link you referred me to in your pm? i'll give that 3dsmax tip a go in the next update.

[strongbow]

My compliments on your first Locomotion vehicle, very nice work.

A small tip you can consider - I think you've turned the antialiasing off completely, I use catmull-rom filtering and turn the antialiasing against background on in the preferences. Although the default Loco stock is rendered definitely with antialiasing turned off, so this way it might fit more.

Anyway, do you have anything else planned? I seem to recall a render of an A330 from you?

Keep it up and thanks again for your work.

-s

[Damage]

Hmm, i thought it was me and jpeg artifacts...

As far as i remember if HailStorm used the same scene we did, it should have all the settings.
Btw i think i wrote about it in a pm... ah, yes
"Don't antialias against background" option in the Render settings at the Customize menu should be always on."
Strongbow is right , adding antialiasing will make it and eye-candy.

[Plastikman]

Hmm, i thought it was me and jpeg artifacts...

As far as i remember if HailStorm used the same scene we did, it should have all the settings.
Btw i think i wrote about it in a pm... ah, yes
"Don't antialias against background" option in the Render settings at the Customize menu should be always on."
Strongbow is right , adding antialiasing will make it and eye-candy.

LMAO! i sent him the very same PM after i saw the blue glowing beta.. so we both gave him the same advice. I think I need to figgure out the settings myself then.

[Beardie]

Nice plane mate, great graphics aswell.

[HailStorm]

Hey everyone,

update v. 1.02 released:
*link to v 1.02 pack removed*

this has had all the graphics reworked, it looks much better now, especially during transitions.

I've also added the skins of Aeroflot (CCCP), Volga-Dnepr, and Air Foyle.

@Strongbow: yes, this version should look much better.
with the A330, that was a model I made for another game, and it has a low poly count - it'll need a bit of work before I feel it's good enough for Lomo. i'll consider it for later, but for the moment i want to focus on aircraft that may not have an equivalent in-game as of yet.

@Beardie27: thanks man, glad you think so.

[Damage]

Now it looks just great! Nice work!

An update for the russian community, perhaps?

[strongbow]

It's perfect now, looking forward to your future works.

[HailStorm]

I've Added a few new skins to the set:

*link to outdated pack removed*

this adds two new (real-life) company skins, as well as a company-colour version.

no changes to .XML files have been made - they are made to look exactly the same (and work alongside) the planes in the last release.

I've made two new .zip files: one has only the new skins, and the other (at the top of the thread) contains all the skins, so people can choose which ones they want.

[Aviationut]

Hi guys, this is my first post, I love playing Locomotion, especially aircraft, just to report a bug, I have downloaded the Antonov 124 pack and I must say I love it, unfortunately it's done something strange, at roughly 2025 or so in game years, when you buy an Antonov it costs you -48 odd million which is fine accept that the value of the vehicle also goes down by about $60 million every month, meaning that after about 7-10 years where I am at now it is worth roughly -3 billion, which means when I sell it, the game deducts that amount from my total.

What do you think guys?

[EXTspotter]

Already mentioned in another thread. Its a problem from the ingame inflation index.

[Aviationut]

It is only this model the AN-224, the other types ie the A320 are fine, the other threads talked about monthly profits going negative, everything is fine there, exept the buying and selling of this particular vehicle, if the other threads talk of it happening to just 1 vehicle, I haven't found that thread, I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

[EXTspotter]

I remember it was a few months ago, however I can't remember where it was.