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Aug 12^th, 2007 at 5:45pm

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Any one know where to get a tutorial or can teach me how to use gmax to build planes? Cheesy

i have tried but can't build anything Cry

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Reply #1 - Aug 13^th, 2007 at 12:34am

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Any one know where to get a tutorial or can teach me how to use gmax to build planes?

Gee, guys! The most loaded question in FS modelling. Anyone wanna try? Wink

Start here. Then give us a ring . . .

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Reply #2 - Aug 14^th, 2007 at 11:42am

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Is it just me or does there seem to be alot of new modelers coming in. Cool

(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit

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Reply #3 - Aug 14^th, 2007 at 6:01pm

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Greg Ebnit EApilot wrote on Aug 14^th, 2007 at 11:42am:

Is it just me or does there seem to be alot of new modelers coming in. Cool

Sorry, but you let yourself open for:

"No, Cosmottic, you are not the only new modeler coming in.." Grin

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Reply #4 - Aug 15^th, 2007 at 1:04am

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(AN ODE TO GMAX) OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH GMAX! How I sometimes want to hug and kiss it. And other times want to smash, berate, and delete it. Gmax how I love and loathe thee. The crashes the errors the reinstalls. Gmax you are the whomb of my aircraft design. Oh Gmax my designing creating temptress. It must be love for you have taken my heartdrive. By Greg Ebnit

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Reply #5 - Aug 15^th, 2007 at 12:47pm

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Greg Ebnit EApilot wrote on Aug 15^th, 2007 at 1:04am:

Admins

Ain't they a peach? Grin

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Reply #6 - Aug 15^th, 2007 at 4:02pm

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Following that guide.. Grin

i still can't do the wings i get stuck there Cry

it says draw the wing with the line thing after i draw i merge it only on one side and can't merge on the other side without getting messed Cry

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Reply #7 - Aug 16^th, 2007 at 8:52am

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You have to immerse yourself.. spend hours and days and weeks and MONTHS, or more, just getting familiar with it.

Forget trying to make an airplane for now. Try making simple objects to exact sizes and then manipulate them.. re-shape them, cut them, merge them.

Then try making specific objects. I found that making chess pieces was a good excersise...

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Reply #8 - Aug 16^th, 2007 at 11:33pm

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lol

chess pieces..
their figures are too complex for me xD
an airplane is jsut a tube + wings Grin

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Reply #9 - Aug 17^th, 2007 at 7:12am

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I could model a nicely detailed set of classic chess pieces in an afternoon. A suitable airplane model takes me the better part of a year to complete.

A single propeller blade is more complex than a pawn or bishop.. Roll Eyes

You need to model HUNDREDS of individual parts, all to exacting scale and proportion, most of them non-symetrical, and many of them animated.. Wink

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