🚫 CLOSED BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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Krishty
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🚫 CLOSED BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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This one is extremly minor but creeps me out.

I treat all 747s the same, except for rendering different shapes based on their nationality. So they should all look the same except for a few color differences.

Most 747s look correctly like this:
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(Note contrails starting behind engines)

But then I found one (and only one!) that looks like this:
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Note that the contrails start in the wrong place. It looks like the plane is too small! It is scaled wrong!

Definitely too small; the whole thing is barely twice as long as the F-22:
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My only ideas are:
  1. A very weird rendering bug that accepts only very few planes and for some reason only this one;
  2. A possible bug in the shape?!
The shapes are selected in framework/DID F22 Plane.cpp, shapeIndexOf():

Code: Select all

	1101, // “usa747.3”
	 984, // “chi747.3”
	1100, // “uk_747.3”
	1033, // “fra747.3”
	1082, // “sau747.3”
	1103, // “yem747.3”
	1024, // “egy747.3”
	1092, // “sud747.3”
	1026, // “eth747.3”
	1025, // “eri747.3”
	1083, // “som747.3”
	1081  // “rus747.3”
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Re: 🔴 OPEN BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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I checked all shapes from this list and their scale seems fine. Makes it harder.
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Re: 🔴 OPEN BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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Could be the ssd file? or maybe you don't use them for aircraft..
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Re: 🔴 OPEN BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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No and correct; for the aircraft I use the .3 shapes directly.
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Re: 🔴 OPEN BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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som747.3 is different. Smaller I think.
The first parts of the file of all the others are identical.
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Maybe the SP version of the 747. :)
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Re: 🔴 OPEN BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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Okay you tipped me in the right direction; it gets more complicated.

I took som747.3 from the ADF file set we extracted last year and it’s good.

Now I look at som747.3 from TAW 2.0 and it’s bad – wrong scaling factor, just like you showed above.

Now on to vanilla TAW to see if the error was introduced by DID in TAW or by us in TAW 2.0 …
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Re: 🚫 CLOSED BUG: Wrong 747 Scale

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som747.3 from TAW (as extracted by you in 2011) has the correct size; 3View starts at a distance of 25 units like with all other 747 versions.

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So this is a bug in TAW 2.0. Closing this bug report for TFXplorer.
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