Ok, ive been workin in Gmax...



For now ive only worked on the side view...comments?
Also, ive got a little problem. I forgot to do the '3views on planes ' thing and have the 3 views set up (cropped of course, top, front etc.) as backrounds. I really have no problem with it. But its the size of each of the bitmaps thats the problem. The side view outlines are just a tad smaller than the top view outline and the side view and top view outlines are just a bit bigger than the front view ones.. So can someone please cut the Citation II bitmap up and resize the side, front etc.  so it appears right in Gmax and either post the pics here or send them to me?..

and if it doesn't have them, will you demand your money back? 

May I suggest that you really intended the tone of the posting to be: "Details to make the Citation project better"  rather than "must haves" ...

I'm sure that the Citation Project team will appreciate the details.

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Hey everyone, Ok I have been reading the Tut's and starting to pick up the stuff.  I am still playing around but  playing around means shaping the CJ 525 etc.. I hope I am not pushing us behind schedule just I want to make the model as real as possible.  I am still trying to learn all the tools and it is very complicated.  Once again thanks for all your help everyone

Answer to Oz's question:

Splines are usually used for making complicated models like sports cars (Nissan Skyline) and faces of people. Splines are very good for handling the complex curves that the model will have.

However it does have its downsides. Using the spline a lot for making the curves will mean that the polygon count will be EXTREMELY high (the high number needed for the curviture).

Splines are not very useful when it comes to making aircraft. Aircraft are made better with simple objects (boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc). If you try to use a spline to make an aircraft, you will then have to individually move the points (vertices) one by on so that carefully match the surface. And that will take forever.

As for the meshsmoothing, it is a modifier that is commonly use for basic objects so that you can smooth out the surface of the objects. I'm not going into detail on how to use the features (that is the purpose of the tutorials). Those details are too complex anyways.

The cockpit wall that you see (interior) is really a simple cylinder that has its Normals (polygon surface) flipped inside-out. Then the flipped surface is then extruded as a unit (it comes in the same size though). Then I use Uniform and Non-Uniform Scale tools to size up and stretch the extruded surface.

Then I add the mesh smooth modifier to the object. Where it says itterations in the modifier tab, I increase the number if I want (in this case, the number 2). The higher the itteration, the more smooth the surface is. But also the higher the polygon count.

Note:

I do not collapse the modifier stack for any reason. By keeping the stack as it is, I can go back and forth on the modifiers to make any needed changes. From here, it gets a bit complicated.

Answer to Jlvandam's question:

Sure, I'll send you the cockpit model. I'll compress it for easy sending.

  Hey Felix I e-mailed you the Titan.

  Hey Katahu I have one quick question. How do you flip the polygons so that I can make the interior? Also when you use the extrude to you only extrude the edges around the outside or do you extrude the whole shape? Thanks.

Justin

Thanks for the tips Katah. I'm still a little confused on the extruding of and object. If I've made a DVC and have all of the polygons facing inward so that they only appear if you are looking from the inside of the object and then I extrude the object will the whole DVC have polygons facing outward on the outside and inward on the inside? I would experiment with this in Gmax right now but I'm not at home. Could you please explain this just a bit more? Thanks.

Justin

Ill try and send you some Learjet-type VC textures