Hampster

Hi there guys! I am currently finishing the first tutorial to my 'painting planes in X-Plane' tutorial series. It is aimed at the beginners to the Planemaker software, as a good paint is the key to a good plane. I hope to make five tutorials, and illustrate them clearly with good graphics. Basically I aim to set them up as the easiest to follow tutorials you have ever read! In this tutorial series I am hoping to make: 1. The Windscreen. 2. The Fuselage and Body painting techniques. 3. Wings and Wing detail. 4. The Engine Nacelle. 5. Overview. I hope to post the tutorials seperately, each with not only just a tutorial, but paint templates and examples of the work I have done for the tutorials. I will use Austin's experimental designs as the basic example aircraft. (Below is a scrapped illustration as I felt was not explaining itself properly, but it gives you the picture of what's to come!) I have pretty much covered everything for the first tutorial, but I feel there might be something missing. The topic for the tutorial is 'Windscreens' as the windscreen is, I find, the hardest part to get right with not allot of experience. I have covered: How to make a fighter-like cockpit, how to make a multi-window cockpit, how to add shading to the windscreen, how to choose the right colours, adding detail to the cockpit windscreen. Is there anything I am missing? I can answer some questions for you in the tutorial if you have any... On that subject, here you can also ask questions about your painting problems and I am more then happy to answer them. A good paint makes a good plane and that is exactly what I want to mentor you on.. Making the best paint possible. I am enjoying my time here in X-Pilot, everybody is SUPER freindly, keep up the good work! Happy painting - Hampster

Wow! Those are some really quality aircraft indeed. 'bout time we had a good Vans. Anticipating to see what you will get up to with theese planes in the future. hampster

Is this rivieres F-100?

The only way I know of is to flip the .png the other way around... although there might be a way to make the instrument go backwards by fiddling with the Dataref. If you are thinking of flipping an EFIS camera, I'm not sure how the 3D guys do it, but it must involve a Dataref somehow. Hmm, this is tricky. -- hamburger

I got X-traffic running! thanks for your help, that tutorial is great.

good point, I'm all for that....

318 WHITE KNIGHT ONE I know, it is actually my project, but I really want to get it done! I am also looking foward to the day that XP 10 is being released....

Time to party! I like christmas for the cake, but XP10 is way better 117 days to go, 26 min...... 25.5.......

Thanks! I'll see what I can do..

The awesomeness of SST aviation...

Brilliant pic! I can't seem to get X-traffic running at all, my computer just freezes and that's that. Maybe when I get a gruntier computer, all the more exitment to wait i guess!

Finished my new update to my M-53, 2048 Bit textures! yay!

I am a HUGE fan of russian design in aviation, they have created planes that are always different, no matter how simple or complex. well done