Well, after a much needed (but forced upon me, nonetheless) break in working on the Corsair, I am back at it.  This week's problem is this:

I need to cut this vent hole out of the wing, but have obviously not got the right cross sections to do it.  This is also going to be an issue when I go to cut out the landing gear doors and bays.  It is simply not realistic to put every single cross section in I need to do this, as it would probably end up with about 100.  I wonder if someone could tell me (in small words so I'll be sure to understand) how to add points and poly's to this so I might shape what I need?  Failing that, suggestions as to how I might redo the whole thing are welcome...

Kevin



And for those of you interested in the progress (all one of you), here is a sample.

i wouldn mind if it were that big
lokking really good though (make that another person who is interested 8)

Looks great , wish I knew how to use G-MAX ???

Thanks Felix,  the time has come for me to understand this 'adding points' thing once and for all.     Until now, I have always been able to find a way around it, but no more.  My understanding of adding points is this:

To add points you need to enter template mode with this button - .  You then add points by clicking on this button by clicking on one spot to enter the first point and another to enter a second.

Unfortunately, the lines I get are shaded, and no poly's are created.  The points cannot be manipulated, and basically, nothing is there.  Here is a example.



Is my understanding of this completely off?  I remember doing this from the tutorials with the water tower (it was the first lesson) but it doesn't seem to work here.

Mwaa ha ha ha!  At last, my plan for world domination through adding points can proceed unhindered.  No one can stop me now!   



Do you think I've been working on this a bit too long? 

HAH!

I've got an unfinished project that started in AF99!

I'll finish it too...if I ever figure out where they hid the glue in FSDS.

That Super Corsair is starting to look REAL good. Take Felix's advice and use patience...not like me who invariably get into a rush to have it flying.

There must be some kind of record somewhere for the longest time to complete a project.  Some of these things must have taken years to develop.   

Some projects are just "beyond" the state of the art. They tend to take forever for the simple reason that they can never work.

Be thankful that Louis Sinclair gave us FSDS and that MS gave us proper z-bias..."glue" in Flightshop/AF99 was a very tedious thing to work out. I finally found a very good tutorial from one of the AF99 masters that explained "glue" pieces and how to use them to control display order and bleedthrough. The basic idea was that you would make a "glue piece" to attach two other pieces in a specific order of display. A complex project could have as many glue pieces as structural! Everything turned into a major pain in the backside...

Check out http://www.simviation.com/cfs/reviews/cfsretro/tieviper.jpg

The viper is mine from AF99 (in CFS1), it has these virtual glue pieces everywhere to stop bleedthrough...and it still didn't work out quite right! That Viper has twice the workhours of my current version...and less than 10% of the detail.

Felix, you can finish your Ajeet...the glue tutorial came from FFDS.