Simviation Forum - A complete gmax / 3ds max 6 tutorial

Aug 30^th, 2004 at 3:24pm

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Hi,

Does anyone know where i can get a complete tutorial for creating Flight Sim planes for fs2004?

Help is greatly apreciated.

Will

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Reply #1 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 3:51pm

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The stupid idiot's guide to making a plane with gmax is probably the best all-around "cradle to grave" tutorial.

This tutorial is hosted here in Simviation - check the Design pages.

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Reply #2 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 3:52pm

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I'll just go ahead and give you the link:

Idiots Guide to GMAX
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=airc;action=display;num=10...

EDIT: Sorry about that, there was a space in there . . . ???

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Reply #3 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 4:07pm

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thanks

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Reply #4 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 4:12pm

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ah. thats mainly all about the modelling. ive done the modelling. im a proffesional at modelling. I spend all my time on the computer modelling, and simming. I've been doing it since i was 10

. Its the naming of the objects, hieracy, how the whole thing should be set up that im looking for. Thanks anyway

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Reply #5 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 4:17pm

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http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/downloads.asp

then you need to download the gmax SDKs and specifically the makemdl sdk/ docs.

That's the guiding document for the tags needed, etc.

Also, the aircraft container SDK is necessary.

As you'll see, the modelling is easy - it's getting the durn thing to show up in FS and fly correctly that's the headache!

On tags - left_aileron doesn't work; l_aileron does .. and etc., ad nauseam..

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Reply #6 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 4:27pm

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got them, and installed them, but its such a weird layout that really couldnt be bother to read them. lol. ill try though. i didnt know i need the aircraft contrainer though thanks

.also i opened some of the .gmax planes but my graphics card couldnt handle the polys so it was jumping around like crazy as i rotated the view port. wire frame didnt seem to help either Cry

I also found a tag tool a few minutes ago that i can use that names all the aircraft parts, although i dont know what they are. lol. Ok. im feeling in a happy mood some hopefully ill actually be able to read them. lol.

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Reply #7 - Aug 30^th, 2004 at 4:34pm

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A really handy little tool (created by our own FSEdge) is TagTool, which is a gmax script that contains the names of all the FS tags you could use. Just click on the name and the selected part will be named that.

Get it here: http://www.fsalpha.com/home.shtml

Check out the FSDS site for animation information. URL in my signature.

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