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Sep 30th, 2010 at 5:49pm

Dickert   Offline
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Talk about beating my head against the wall.  I have had such ongoing trouble trying to texture map my aircraft.  I’ve gone though tutorials on the web, and still they were hardly any help.  Those systems worked – sort of – crudely.   So after reloading Gmax, I noticed some document files in my directories.  Scenery Tutorial???  Well, I’m not doing Scenery – I’m doing aircraft, wont need the scenery tutorial…..  I just started going through it, and WOW, I’ve just discovered a ton more info and sure enough, doing texture mapping finally makes some sense.  Wish someone had pointed me to that document a bit more assertively.  Now to fix up those aircraft maps - - ->
Fast forward, this is a tower I made for Kerguelen Island (located between the Indian and Antarctic Oceans) while working though that tutorial.  Flight Sim does not have any airports in that part of the world so I made a runway last year, now I am about to try to load a tower.
Let me know if anyone wants a copy of these files.

Harold 
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Reply #1 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 6:15pm

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Nice!  Glad you finally got over your texture tutorial hang-ups.  After getting ahold of a copy of 3DS Max for relatively cheap, I discovered the wonders of mapping using the rendering options.  There are so many things that save you time with a renderer.  I think it's a bloody shame that they stripped that ability from Gmax.

Oh, well.  Perhaps MS Flight will deliver us a new (and wholly more annoying) design program to stress over . . . Tongue


And Harold: you do realize that even in the real world there isn't a single airport on the whole of those islands?  All travel is by boat. Wink
 

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Reply #2 - Sep 30th, 2010 at 7:20pm

Dickert   Offline
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No airport.  That would explain why I never found one when exploring the island with Google Earth.
Still, this is no reason to not explore the island in flight sim.  It is a "cool" place.  On the other hand, flying an aircraft all the way from Australia to see the island takes too long (even very long with my Swift).  I just found a flat spot and plunked two runways there.  Nice spot to explore from.

Harold
 

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