if you mean those big squares, no , it will just make the side panels look flat rather than rounded

Thanks for the replies.  I wasn't sure if it would make it look all distorted or whatever.  I'm working on redoing that sloppy rudder now... Way too many polygons for such a simple object.   

Well, here's an updated picture.  I replaced the wings and rudder, though I need to do some work on the tips of the wings.  


I can't get the animations to work though.  I'm trying to add them as the SDK says, but it's not working.  But the SDK has proven to give wrong instructions before, so I guess I'll have to just figure it out...

A yoke is no different.... you have a lever_stick_l_r that happens to rotate, and a lever_stick_fore_aft that happens to go forward and back.  ONE of those parts is a small box hidden inside the other, and parent of the larger (visible) part.

Felix/FFDS wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2007 at 6:28pm:


Ahh, thanks!  I'll give that a shot.

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Yeah, that's what I do.  I'm actually on save #8, but still saved over it by accident.    I usually make a new number after a few saves or right before I make a major adjustment to save space.  Maybe I should save as a new number every save now that I have a new huge HD.  But it won't be too difficult to recover the windows though because one of my saves was right before I cut the windows out with the templates stuck through the fuselage.   

Arg, I've been trying for the last few days now, but I just can't get the propeller animation to work.    Here's what I've tried so far:

I tagged the three prop objects (prop0_still through _blurred) in both the animation and attach point tools.  For the animation, I set the prop objects to rotate 360 degrees (I've tried both CW and CCW).  I've named the objects the same as the animation tags just in case it decided to be pickey.  It looks like the attach point tool works because the objects change depending on the state the engine is in.  However, when the object should be animating, it just stays still.  Sometimes it vibrates like it's trying to do something, but it just can't.  Because of this, I tagging the animation but not keyframing it because I thought that maybe the gmax animation was interfereing with the FSX animation.  But when I did that it stopped vibrating. 

I tried downloading the sample gmax aircraft on freeflightdesign.com, but as far as I can tell, I did the same thing to my objects as they did on the engine in the example.  Anyone know where I could be going wrong?

I am just curious daniel, how much practice and familiarization did it take you to become that skilled with Gmax. I am considering giving it a shot.

I figured it out!  I was taking a close look at the vibrating propeller and realized that FS was interpreting my two key frames differently than I wanted.  Instead of taking the long way around from 0 to 359.5, it was animating as 0 to -0.5.  I just had to put in a few key frames in between to make FS animate the way I wanted it to.  

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It's hard to say because I've been playing around with it on and off since FS2002.  (I guess the name of my topic was a little misleading, since this is technically my 3rd aircraft project, but this is the first time that I think I'll actually finish it.  )  But give it a shot!  I agree with Locke.  It's easy to build on the basic skills once you learn them.  Just try some of the tutorials that come with Gmax and play around with it!