Hello,

I'm a huge aviation fan from a (relativly to my age) long time. Being in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, I'll be doing my Glider Scolarship this summer.
I'm aiming to be an aircraft designer in the future. Oh yeah! 

Anyway, I'm working on a project for school in which I'll be building a R/C model from the aircraft (the Ales which stands for "bird" in latin). I did the sketches and 3D models. I also conceived a small wind tunnel to test the general aerodynamics of my design (I'll make a smaller clay model for those purposes). I thought that having a flyable model in a simulator would be really cool; I'd also like to see it "fly" as soon as possible.
I also want to do a flyable model for the RealFlight R/C flight simulator to help me practice before flying the real thing, so a 3D model with anymation could hopefully be used for both.

Here's my concept:

That's a tandem two-places very light sportjet in the same style as Viper Aircraft's FunJet or ATG's Javelin.
It has two engines and [would] have a glass cockpit. It's not shown, but would have an optional central drop-tank placed under its fuselage.

Progress so far: I have a workable RcCad 3D model (converted into 3DS) however it has way too much polygons. I don't think it could be used in the simulator as it would need to be nearly totally redone; it can however help a lot as a reference. As you can see, I've done a color scheme. I never did any for FS, but I may be able to do one as I'm pretty experienced with graphic tools. I've calculated a lot of data, I would probably be able to have much of the needed data for anyone interested to help.

If you're an FS aircraft design studio, I could probably make some kind of exchange by making you a nice website as I'm also a webdesigner.

A website presenting the project should be up online soon at http://ales.foxleader.net . For now, it's just a 2-minutes splash screen.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Regards,
Thierry D.
The Ales Project

Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Jun 28^th, 2008 at 5:38pm:


Thanks!

I wasn't expecting a render that fast! Sure it's not complete, but that's impressive! Well, I just had a look at your other work and... that's hawt!

As a partner () I understand that you're interested into pursuing this? Then I'll try to do as fast as possible to get you a cockpit since now it's... empty, lol^^
I'll also draw the gears and the drop tank.

I'm leaving tomorrow for my glider course but I should be able to check my emails and this forum two or three times a week.

I PM'ed you my current version's 3D model.

Well, if there's anything you'd need me to do to help you help me, feel free to ask!

Thanks again
Thierry D.

Ah, lol ok. I thought you would help me for the whole project. I didn't understand. No problem then, forget my PM XD

So then I still need someone experienced to help me into that! But if you guys just have an opinion on the plane itself, feel free to say it! I'd love to have comments, whatever they say (if it's pertinent^^).

Good night!
Thierry D.

Dickert wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 12:24pm:


I respect your opinion but not agree , you need to create the 3d model First to then create Its CFG Geometry, wing area , flight Dynamics ,contact points etc,

You need to fly this thing and test it ,Not because a you set a drag factor in any scale would represent how its going to behave inside the game , you have to set it up many time until you finally feel its the right one

This reality based on a geometry you are fitting into it,not backwards,

I would agree if was the case of mapping texture or making its sounds , but definaly to configure it ,you need it first the visual model..}

this is my opinion only 

Animations for flaps, etc is very simple.  Usually just a naming convention.  Lights are done using materials and entries in the aircraft config file.  The absolute hardest part is creating the actual parts for the model.