In the grand scheme of things, yes.

No, you're not making money off the freeware model, but you are taking their intellectual property (name/ logo/ design, etc) and distributing it - even if you're not being compesated.

Gulfstream is one of the more notables, but to a certain extent, most of the "majors"  are like that (even if they've out sourced their brand licensing)

I think.

excuse mua to dig my nose into this ,I have heard that thing too about gulfztream airplanes and I think they must be a group of idiots ,

If I were them I would allow and even encourage to promote airplanes of the company for a FSX /FS9/fs2002etc games ,who knows ,maybe Cessna ,Boeing are more happy about my free contribution of a free advertisement of their product I have made for free ,who knows people talk MORE about Cessna Citation X than Gulfztream , and who knows maybe a millionaire googles "Corporative Jets" and maybe and eaglesoft ,Wilco or a certain freeware model  of the FSX game comes up in the  search and would help a big sale ...who knows?

  What would they lost if someone make and airplane in 3d for a game for Christ sake  ? 

for me I would never do that plane there are many more and better

that's Why Cessna Its Cessna and Guftztream its just a Gulfztream .......idiots 

Well, I decided a while ago to try the G650. It most likely won't be released anyways so there's no copyright issues or anything that I can see them bringing up. Anyways, I started earlier today and have ended up with a ruff fuselage.



I have tomorrow off so I'm going to continue on it then, and hopefully get some ruff wings built as well. I have to do some changes to the area where the wings attach, but other than that, I think it's looking not too bad so far.

Before using Mesh Smooth, I'd try the polygon smooting first...  No need adding complexity to the mesh if not needed!

Shadow wrote on Jan 30^th, 2011 at 9:29pm:


While you may be able to make a case, can you afford a top level group of lawyers?  Gulfstream can. 

While most simmers find Gulfstream's stance illogical, they have been very agressive in protecting their image and aircraft.  I guess they feel having their aircraft in a game lowers their reputation, and that of their customers.     Or perhaps some young lawyer in their legal department has nothing better to do.  I have often wondered if a professional, formal request to their CEO or board of directors would gain more leverage than waiting for their lawyer to write.

I have also wondered if Microsoft would be able to negotiate directly with Gulfstream one day in order to have a Gulfstream as a default aircraft.

I decided to just give the fuselage a quick little try this evening...here is what I came up with:



I made this quick and didn't use a lot of segments in my cylinder, but you can still use it as reference if needed.

Instead of using the same cylinder to make the bump where the wings attach, I'd make another cylinder and shape it to fit on the fuselage under the plane.

DaveSims wrote on Feb 1^st, 2011 at 10:35pm:


I like this

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Yep, still 14, 15 in May.
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<insert envious grumble>

first make sure that it isn't just a matter of a flipped polygon ....

Otherwise.. in polygon sub-object mode, under "edit geometry"  click on "CREATE" ...  the selected object's vertices will appear so click on the desired vertices in order (counterclockwise to create a face/polygon towards you), finishing with a click on the first point from which  you started.

To do a quick explanation of alrot's comment (thank's I'd forgotten that myself)

"alt-x"  in gmax (and max) sets the selected object's transparency to 50% so you can effectively see through it. It's a toggle, so alt-x again brings back the object's default opacity