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P38 Beautiful Lass v.2
Dec. 14, 2004
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This is an updated version of MEGA's "Beautiful Lass" P-38, which he sent me a year ago as an unfinished version.  I added damage textures and the pilot skin.

I used Tom-Eye's damage .PSDs, Johnny Red's bullet holes .PSD, and Rammjager's P-51D Paint Kit to make the battle damage.  The pilot skin comes from Rammjager's P-51D v.1 "SixGun Whore" model.

Please read MEGA's original notes below.


~ John "Skycat" Turner


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P38 Beautiful Lass v.1 notes
Vincent "MEGA" Crane
November, 2003
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Due to popular request, this mod is being released in an unfinished condition - the primary item missing is the damage files. A little more effort could be put into lining up the bitmaps as well.

This aircraft represents an extremely detailed model of the Lockheed Lightning P-38J-25-LO "Beautiful lass". It is based upon texture files modified from a re-paint by J-P "Gray Wolf" Demmerle (jpdemmerle@bluewin.ch) for CFS2. "Gray Wolf" not only did an outstanding job on the repaint, but was very supportive of the modification process. (Please drop him a line and let him know if you really enjoy this skin).   
 
Installation
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Before installing this, or any other, custom modification, you are advised to make a backup of your original ww2.sqs archive. 

This distribution utilizes 512x512 (high resolution) textures.  Video card related issues including crashes to desktop may be experienced if you are utilizing a card that can not handle 512*512 textures.

Extract the contents of this archive to the WWII Fighters\Data directory.  Assuming the
default installation, this is: C:\Program Files\Jane's Combat Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data

The files will be extracted to a new directory WWII Fighters\Data\P38_BLass.

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the WWII Fighters\Data\P38_BLass.

To install the modification, double-click on the install_Beautiful_Lass icon.
     
This will open up a DOS session and the installation will proceed in this window. A message "INSTALLING MEGA's P38 Beautiful Lass MOD" will be displayed. When the installation is complete, a message saying "INSTALLATION OF Beautiful Lass COMPLETE...CLOSE DOS SESSION" will be displayed in the window.  Close the DOS session by clicking on the X close button in the top right corner of the window.

Installation is now complete.


Designer's Notes

This mod was developed in November and December 2002 and has been on the back burner for too long. I had intended to package it with several other skins in a FLIGHT package (random skin generation mod I've been developing). The FLIGHT package will instead be released with the "P51Ds of the 4th Fighter Group" mod due to the abundance of source material. 

"Gray Wolf's" original files were 1024*1024 bitmaps. I lost some resolution in reducing them for use on the P38 model with only minor 3D modifications. I also utilized several of Hammerd's texteures and had to create a few textures from scratch.

There are several other quality skins using the same format available as well.  If anyone is seriuosly considering an update of the P38_s J3P, please investigate fashioning a model that could use segments of these bitmaps. 

Enjoy! 

MEGA

