Simviation Forum - Fast Eddie

Aug 19^th, 2007 at 12:50pm

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For all of those who care at all, I found another ship for my untold project I am work on in secret, Edward Ryerson or Fast Eddie, sleek ship, a "straight decker", fast, up to 19mph.

the last image is form www.boatnerd.com

trying to model these ship is pretty difficult there are no blue prints or three views, the blue prints that do exist are just side views.... So most of it is just getting it to look close

What do I do you ask? I struggle! Then destroy! Then try to put back together what I just broke on accident.....&&&&&&&&&& The GMax effect The GMax effect

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Reply #1 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 5:48am

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Nicce.

I see if I texture this one shell have to have a little more detailed paint. Wink

You putting an upload together here Rob? Also I hate to be a polygon Natzi and the shape of that bow is beautiful but everything below about 1 or 2 meters of the water line can be cut away. On the non Natzi side I already see this texture coming together in me mind. Shall I plan on texturising her? Shocked

This has some nice curves to her. nice work.

(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 #2 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 8:39pm

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Yeah i was going to chop it off at the waterline once i decided where i wanted it. Yeah Ive been working on this for a while

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Reply #3 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 10:11pm

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Not sure if you are interested but you could save a lot of polys by eliminating many of those cross-sections. An easy route would be to add an Optimize modifier to the stack. If you don't like the result, simply Undo it it or delete the modifier. This is true for the ship and its topside containers.

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Reply #4 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 10:44pm

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you mean all those poly's between the bow and aft sections? can be done i think it only around 5000 poly's but i can check

EDIT 4360 poly's and 1088 on the "fuselage" hull

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Reply #5 - Aug 20^th, 2007 at 11:22pm

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Hey Milton. Always good to see you drop in and bestow some modelling wisdom.
Optimise modifier you say wasnt aware of that one. Niccce!

(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 #6 - Aug 24^th, 2007 at 11:36pm

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I think this is going to be a nice scenery DL someday Mr. Ebnit, so far we have 2.5 ships, and other small additions, Im thinking about doing something big at the ore docks near Presque Isle (northwest of Marquette) with ore dust and ore piles. Not sure though.

I might also make the Paul Tregurtha A little more detail and uploading it as a Sail'able have

Sure its not the highest quality but im enjoying this, and thats all that really matter for me Wink

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Reply #7 - Aug 24^th, 2007 at 11:39pm

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Here's an update, I know Milton no optimizer, yet............

And there a difference between the first pic in the last set and this one

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Reply #8 - Aug 26^th, 2007 at 8:27am

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Got the file will paint this week. Sailiable nice idea DL niccccce. Have seen the dock at Marquette admittedly only at night but should be fairly easy to make a couple effects files for some dust. Although smoke effects dont seem to be working in my sim for some reason. Are the smoke effects working for the ships in your sim????
Saw the freighter loading at night on the way up to go hunting just north of Marquette. Forget the towns name ATM but got a nice 8 point that time. AAHHH good times good times. 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 #9 - Aug 26^th, 2007 at 9:46am

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no the effects do not work.

and there are very few places north of Marqutte, maybe the Hancock out on the peninsula, the Baraga area is more west than anything.

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Reply #10 - Aug 27^th, 2007 at 12:19am

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Just looked it up Big Bay in the Huron Mts. I saw the smoke working on the PRT this morning when I took a flight to check out your scenery. It seems to work when ever it wants to for some reason. The wake effects are working though right?

Edit- Just noticed why the wake effects and lights arent working this morning when I took a flight I forgot to put the ship BGL in the folder. These freighters have to be placed using FS2002 Makemdl. FS2004 makemdl wont use the gmax specific materials named LIGHT_NAV. Also the smoke effects are placed using the Attach tool and exported with the FS2004 makemdl. The wake effects need to be placed by the XML docs that I sent just by entering the same Lat Lon and heading in the XML then drag and drop on BGLcomp. file wich creates the bgl to be placed in the folder. So that it looks more like this. Shot from the flight I took this morning.

(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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