Lets see if anyone can tell what it is, but I highly doubt it since its fairly new and there is literally no detail right now.

If anyone wants to help/has experience in gmax/3ds with texturing send me a message.  I would like some help with this.

Also Mitch...  can you teach me how to export properly for FSX?



This is the first export so I have a lot of cleaning up to do...

Nope!  Not even a Cessna jet...  here is the fixed wing root:

Wow, glad to see your back into it Jordan. Its a great feeling seeing something you work on actually in the sim. And I'm sorry.

If you can see the model in the sim then it has exported just fine.

Perhpas an Embraer Phenom 300?

Looks great!! What platform are you aiming for with this beauty? Kind regards, Jeremy

Looks nice, but you might want to take care of the dark edges on the wing. They're usualy caused by the wing having a very proeminent edge separating the bottom wing from the top wing. That's solved with using prevent indirect smoothing and autosmooth on the smooth modifier.

skoker wrote on Oct 25^th, 2011 at 9:46am:


In that case, you will need to use the FSX supplied Gmax within the SDK. Then just export as an .mdl and it will give you a bunch of options to choose such as DDS textures or BMP textures. If all goes well and no problems occur during the export process it should be a native FSX model, check in FSX if the model has self-shadowing.

BTW, looking good.

I've tried to install the FSX gmax but it doesn't like me and will only give me the FS9 options.  I have no idea on how to fix it.  Anyone have an idea or just wants to send me theirs?   

Good news: It's now FSX native!

Bad news: Smoothing issue...  

Actually its a format error...  I found the fix here:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110116

Thanks anyway Alex, you help is greatly appreciated.

I would like to tart texturing though.  If you have any tutorials for that or can teach me on how you do it I would appreciate it as well.  I've textured boxes and stuff like that before but when you get to the complex model it Is way different.

Also how to  make mirrored things not be invisible?  (I'm such a noob! lol )

The good news:


The Bad News:


Any solution?

Great looking plane . I'll probably never get to that level of degree so Perhaps I should start blabbing about textures .
And Xpand, Can He use Ctrl+Z?

He can just delete the bad faces and mirror the fuselage again, this time using the mirror modifier...

alrot wrote on Oct 28^th, 2011 at 6:46pm:


Hawker 4000. Coming along very nicely Jordan, the cabin door is on the other side but you already knew that.

I suggest you finish the whole basic plane, before mapping it seriously (The fuselage and wings, including the stabs and other details, with all the doors, windows, gear wells and such cut). Then take a picture of left, right, top, bottom depending of the part you want to map, for example the fuselage you need just the left and right side. If you want more detail you can also take a pic at the flat bottom parts. Then just paste everything in a texture sheet and try to preserve space, or not if you have no trouble in using multiple texture sheets, but try to put stuff as close as possible with no big white spaces in between.

To map the fuselage just map the first side, it can be left or right. Then select the polys of the oposite side and, with those selected, add a uvw map modifier and make it square, then add a uvwunwrap modifier and place the polys on their correspondent space.

Ah, and take the pics in orthogonal views, not perspctive otherwise they won't fit the model when you try to map it.

I can't wait, I love private jets!