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45000 faces for just the fuselage without a wingbox is too much. Faces are quads. When it gets exported to X Plane, the quads get triangulated so you double that figure. Then you will have to double that again for the interior surface. So 180 000 tri's (polygons) for just the fuselage is far too much.

First off, thanks for the comments, gentlemen. We don't plan on adding anymore liveries to the initial package. We may add more in the coming weeks after the Saab is finished. We don't have a failures module for this aircraft. All failures are controlled by X Planes default failures. However, the way the EADI's and Radios work in the real aircraft are from 3 Avionics Buses. Left, Essential and Right. For this, Theo had to create plug ins using Gizmo. Basically, Left Bus powers up the Captains EADI, Right Bus powers up the Co Pilots EADI and Essential Bus powers the Radios. All 3 Bus switches are on the overhead.

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Do you have any idea how long I was waiting for someone to ask that question?! In some cases, yes. But Theo being Theo, wants to add "character". (Remember the cracked LCD glass on the Sundowner?) Check out the nose. There are quite a few of them with misaligned paint on the radome covers. I'm assuming they take from other NW Saabs and "transplant".

Thanks for that, Joe! Theo takes full credit for the logo. I saw it a while ago and I told him not to change anything about it. I honestly couldn't have done all this without him. (Now he's going to rub it in!)

Final testing begins Monday. These screenshots represent nearly all the final liveries we have. The missing one is the Saab House livery. Just making a few small adjustments to that one. 01/15 edit After scrutinizing the images, we want to adjust a few things. Final images pending. My sincerest apologies for pulling them. We'll put new ones up asafp!

It's an extremely ambitious first project for you. I would like to suggest you start with something a lot smaller so you can learn whatever there is to learn. If you are very eager to start with a 747-400, then I would like to suggest you learn enough about Blender so you have at least an intermediate level of 3D modelling knowledge. There are no secrets or tricks to making these 3D models. It takes a lot of work, practise and dedication. Good luck.

I never have specific timeframes anymore. My rough timeframe is, whatever wins the vote, will be finished sometime in the next 3-5 months. But I need to know soon so I can start planning. That's why I started the poll when I did. Gives people time to vote while I finish the Saab and both updates to the Duchess and Sundowner. It also gives me time to start getting maintenance manuals (which are not easy to get).

The DC3 has no subsurf on it and most likely never will. The Duke does have some. Purely for experimental purposes.

Brisbanes river banks broke yesterday and the order was placed to evacuate the CBD. The worst flood in 35 years. Back then, the Brisbane river peaked at 20 meters. These floods have it peaked at 21 meters and still climbing. Pretty serious considering the deepest point is about 12 meters (40 feet). At least 10 people have died (including 4 children) at last count.

Found them... http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=1432.msg15100#msg15100

Found my other screenshots of the DC-3 and Beechcraft Duke that I thought I'd lost. These were mostly me practicing new techniques in modelling. Making "manifold" joins, smooth surfaces, etc...

The F-14 is not as easy as people might think. I thought it was. Until I got my hands on the Pilots manual. 900+ pages The systems in this thing are very in depth I also have a few diagrams... We'll see what happens.

We're on the same team, guys. Some things are better said in PM's.

Q or E will stop the crazy movement. Q will then move your view left E moves right After pressing either key, you can do what you like in the cockpit.

Thought I might post the latest batch of screenshots with "enhanced" textures. They are enhanced because, as Theo does the texturing on a Mac, the textures come out washed out on my computer, which runs Windows. Without going into details, it has to do with the Gamma setting. I used to set my Gamma to 1.8 in sim but this is not recommended. So I set it back up to 2.5 (default) and had to do a lot of adjustments. The finished product will look the same in either Mac, Windows or Linux. Still tying up a few loose ends with regards to animations, code and textures. If it's not finished before the end of January, I'm leaping into a volcano!

Feedback has so far exceeded expectation. Thanks for taking the time to vote and post. So far, it looks like the DC-3 is going to be done. The poll doesn't have a time limit so we'll see what happens in the coming weeks.

Appreciate the comments. We have a price range at the moment. Final price will be determined when it is completed. I can't give numbers yet, but it will be a very fair price.

At least they can claim to have the best dinosaur in x plane. (sorry, couldn't resist)

Thanks Eric! That's much appreciated. Your scenery ain't too shabby either. Still hanging for Oahu!

http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=261 http://www.3dvia.com/models/A260C598AABC8EA0/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Looks like copyright infringement to me.

Didn't know the 1900D was that popular. I will take the double voting into consideration for the 1900D.

Let's hope so.

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