Simviation Forum - New wheels...

Apr 13^th, 2009 at 1:31am

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I could only find one picture that halfway decently showed the wheels, but I think I got them down pretty good... What do you think?

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Reply #1 - Apr 13^th, 2009 at 11:54am

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Nice!

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Reply #2 - Apr 13^th, 2009 at 3:01pm

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Lots and lots of polys! Yay!

Looking great so far, Kevin.

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Reply #3 - Apr 13^th, 2009 at 7:06pm

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Oh come one, it's only 7200 per wheel! This project really falls under the category of practice, rather than a serious project. Something may come of it later, but right now I'm trying to figure out how to make a panel and want to keep moving on something.

I ported it into FS and had a blast flying it ast night, even if the scale was off by about 6 million. The plane had a wingspan of about half a mile... Cheesy

This model is the FS equivelant of a Hardee's hamburger. Who cares if it's 115 grams of fat so long as it tastes good...

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Reply #4 - Apr 14^th, 2009 at 6:10am

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Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres Shocked

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Reply #5 - Apr 14^th, 2009 at 7:34am

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garryrussell wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 6:10am:

Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres Shocked

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I was about to say the same thing..

Carefull ! with the poly countdown as Travis saids , he's right ,may parts can be imitate using Bitmaps ,watch the wheels of the default FSX planes the engines ,the fuse the are a little bit square saving polygon and even though the Surface map "Bump" made the B747_400.mdl has 8 mb Shocked

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Reply #6 - Apr 22^nd, 2009 at 5:01am

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Just a remark about your tyres, just check the following details to make it a bit more realistic, add the inflat valve,or any significant technical details that could be set by means of textures.
check if there are some grooves or pads on the rubber, to drawn your own texture with traces of wear.
I' currently use FSDS flight similator design studio to built my own creation. If you want I can try to make such a texture for you.
the low pressure look of such wheels can be figured using a specific shape of tyre as engine and Aircraft has stopped.

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Reply #7 - Apr 27^th, 2009 at 12:30pm

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garryrussell wrote on Apr 14^th, 2009 at 6:10am:

Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres Shocked

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Actually, what I usually do is find out what size the images are, make sure they are all relative to each other, the create a plane the same size as the pixels of the image using generic units.

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Just a remark about your tyres,

Thanks for the advice, but the exercise was in the rims, not the tires... Wink

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Reply #8 - Apr 27^th, 2009 at 10:45pm

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Kevin, set your Preferences to 1 unit = 1 meter. This value is for EXPORT ONLY, and has nothing to do with your modeling.

You can then choose any system of measurement you want to work with IN Max/GMax

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