Well, once again, here's a point where I have no idea how to proceed.  Can someone point me in the right direction for making this windscreen and the borders around the cockpit?  It's kind of wierd.  I could make the trim out of cylinders or boxes I guess, but from what I've seen, there must be a better way to do this...

Me, I prefer using a cylinder for that. Create a simple cylinder, add in the segments [as needed], lay the object on its side to match the image, convert to an editable poly, delete the two ends and bottom-half of the object. From there, move the vertices to the desired locations so as to achieve a contour effect.

Just my idea.

If you could upload a perspective view of your fuselage/cockpit.. prefereble shaded with "edged faces" turned on (to see where you vertex are located). I think I could make a short example/tutorial for you.
The best and most elegant solution (there are at least 10) is probabely further editing the fuselage with extrude, chamfer
weld, create etw.. to add the further parts.
But I need to see your geometry first so I can make a little example.

cheers

I do.  I'm just taking some screeinies now.  I don't take a dump without backing up first... 


Felix, can you expound a bit on what you wrote earlier?

Kevin

well..  it got a little bit bigger than expected.
Way bigger
So many little things that need to be explained.
and I couldn´t include a lot of important things. It would have grown to big.  Actually the forum just told me "message to big". I can´t post it here .I will convert it tomorrow... aehm later... to html and will upload it somewhere.
here a screenshot so far.

Yes, gmax has an autosave. It´s activated by default and saves files to the gmax-root/autoback/ directory.
Actually those files are not saved as .gmax but .gx. So if you want to open a file from the autosave dir switch the filetyp
to "all files" (otherwise no files are shown). But you can open the
gx files like any normal gmax file. In the dialog /customize/preferences/files/ you can activate/deactivate autosave and adjust some options.

Regarding the tutorial. I just came across a software that
makes video screencaptures. So I´m thinking of making
a 5 minute video tutorial instead of bother you with
2 sides of text.
. If this works well.. I think I´m in the mood to make a lot more gmax tutorials. I´d just need a more reliable place to upload it ! Actually I have an account where I could upload it. but it´s offline from time to time. Any suggestions ?

Here's what I have been messing around with, until I can get this sorted out.  I'm sure it'll change once I figur out what I'm doing with it.  I made a cylinder and cut out the cockpit opening.  After that, I made the frame around the glass portion then separated the part that fills in the fuselage.  I know that one is going to have to change.   At one point I had the trim going all the way around the windscreen, but it just looked like crap...


hhhggreew4r5rterewaqqqq  (the previous is Olivia's contribution to the project.  She plopped down at the computer while I was helping the wife with something and started typing away... )

Thanks, Sam!  I'm downloading it now.  I'm about to rip what little hair I have left out on this thing...