samen

Dear Panicking, GO TO HELL!! Love samen

I wish you would have such a sale when the heavies start coming around!

Javier have we forgotten about the A320 I would really love an Airbus A330-200. The one over at the .org doesnt fly well and looks horrible. I am sure you can do a better job and it also doesnt have a 3D cockpit. Please make one!

agreed

Yes most probably but they will have to wait. I have got mid-terms coming up and I cant spend much time on this plane right now. Hope everyone understands.

Any more and i will have to miss dinner

awesome!!

You are a very good 3D modeller!

Yes it is indeed a graphics glitch. Happens to a lot of people these days

I have just posted an update. This takes care of some bugs. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=11267

Besides the fact that this is insanely dangerous but it is still something cool!!! 'Mindless ramblings of a 15 year old'

Yes very funny. I seem to remember one of the boys making a similar video regarding our previous principal.

Oh yeah as if the tooth fairy was going to pay the bill?

Sorry about that. The link has been changed now. I will start my animation tutorials the moment I am done with these aircrafts

Any idea to what plane you are being trained on? And dont say the MU-2

You built a 747???? Will this be included in the default

I am already thinking of ways of doing it myself. I think it will be fun rather than a nightmare and might I ask what datarefs you are looking into for using for the canted landing gears. The tire vertical deflection one or others being used here and there

Since I have some experience converting aircraft from FSX I can clearly say that hard faces are something you cant avoid. Apart from that the models are very low poly. For example the A330 had some 25000 faces but I juiced it up to 40000. I still need to add more. I think the reason behind this is the high amount anti aliasing in FSX and the models being low poly to counteract that fact

I couldnt stop laughing after reading this. Surely sums up the current state of the plane ;D ;D ;D http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=324&showentry=708

v7 Flightmodel, v7 Airfoils and I didnt have time to improve that. Already talked about this previously

Did you install the other DVD's that came with x-plane

I actually like the animations. I was able to animate the entire wings in about 3 hours and the wingflex in about 5 hours. It became less complicated on my second try

Actually its ten thousand times starting from ground up, but you can learn animating real fast if you convert FSX models.

Due to some interest in the way I did it I have decided to write a tutorial about it.he basics of making with blender with x-plane. This tutorial requires that you have some knowledge of creating for x-plane and t 1) Get these scripts. http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8298 2)Run blender and go into File>Import>FSX mdl file. It is worth noting that the in FSX you have two mdl files. One will be the interior and the other will have a similar name to model.RR etc. 3) Run the scripts and get the file into blender. You will notice a horrid looking mesh presented before you. Normals might be horrible and moving parts will be in their deflected position. 4) Here you will require a previous insight into blender and move the different objects around aligning them with the other meshes. 5)Some very expert 3D modellers might want to clear this but I used the edge split modifier to correct the shading problems. This will increase the number of verts and give some aggressive z-buffer but I dont know other ways of doing it without screwing up the mesh. 6) Import the .obj file of the plane you want to create the exteritor for. You can do this by opening the plane in plane-maker and going into special and clicking on create object file. 7) Move this file into the folder where your plane resides. 8) Import this file into blender and move it to a different layer than 1,2 and 3. 9) Move the FSX mesh in order to align it to the plane maker model. 10) Now you are ready to texture, Check in the texture folder that came with your FSX aircraft. Familiarize yourself with the texture files so you get to know what object uses which texture file. 11) Go back into blender and split a window. Open the UV/image editor in that. 12) Select an object such as the fuselage and go into edit mode and press 'A' once there to select all faces. The UV image editor will show the UV mapping in right order only that it might not have an image file associated with it. 13) Go into your aircraft folder and make a new folder called 'objects'. Place the texture files that you are going to use in blender into the objects folder. 14) Go back into blender again and open the texture files in the UV window. It is important that your files are in png format or you might run into problems later. 15) Now this is a very tiring step. You need to go into edit mode with each and every object and select the required texture file. NOTE: It is important that you do not join objects in order to simplify this so called texturing of the objects. You will be backing out on a very useful feature then. 16) Once the whole mesh is textured you need to group objects that use a different texture file and move them to different layers and then into different .blend files. 17) An important step Go into shading, and materials(it is something like that, im away so the information being transferred here is limited). There will be three sliders to set up the materials. Pull them all up to 1.00. 18) Considering now that you may have split up the objects into different .blend files respective of the texture file save them in the objects folder and then export .obj files. 19) Go into plane maker>Standard>misc objects and select those obj files. Hide parts of your plane as necessary and then save. Open the plane in x-plane and check the exterior. If the mesh looks ok to some extent you are ready to animate. 20) Animation tutorial will be made next summer and this will be further detailed with screenshots as well next summer.