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Apr 12^th, 2006 at 12:25am

Airshow_lover Offline
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Well I'm Currently Downloading Gmax.

So two things,

1) Wish Me Luck.

2) What airplane should i attempt first? (personall oppinion)

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Reply #1 - Apr 12^th, 2006 at 2:02am

Mr.Mugel Ex Member

Haha, allready installed it yesterday.... Aren´t easter holidays nice ?

Will try my luck with a GeeBee Model Y Sportster.

After a lot of learning....

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Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2006 at 10:34am

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1st - go through ALL of the default gmax tutorials - even the P-38 tutorial.

2d - download and go through the Stupid Idiot's guide to gmax... that gives you a 'starter' project.

3rd - do play around with the program.

4th - ask SPECIFIC questions

5th - check out the tutorials at Freeflight Design Shop

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2006 at 12:48pm

Mr.Mugel Ex Member

Yeah, I´m sure to look through all that stuff first....

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Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2006 at 4:39pm

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May I suggest creating a simple box (building) and adding a texture to it; (S)ave it as FS9 Flight Simulator file and edit the *.xml file to a location of your choice; drop it onto BGLComp and copy the files to the appropriate folder then start up FS9 and go and look at your masterpiece.

See you in May (or July, maybe) sometime Roll Eyes

. . . and oh yes, Good Luck.

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Reply #5 - Apr 13^th, 2006 at 11:29am

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My advise is to do what WJI said start out simple and work from there.
There is a good tutorial on how to build a small house complete with both day and night textures. I did that and I now use the house as a line shack at my home airport KJAX.
Trust me it will save you a lot of hair.
I also went and bought a book called the GMAX BIBLE it comes with a cd and a whole lot of tutorials on how to use GMAX.

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