It doesn't take them long to turn into a patchwork quilt, does it?

Brett_Henderson wrote on Jul 11^th, 2009 at 6:10pm:



Of course Like I Just did    , I'm so good I made it in 2 minutes 



















  KIIIIDING! Shane LOL , This is one of the adopt design Gmax models I find somewhere (is not In simv ) But If you want it I can send you the zip so you can get familiar with the F-16 shape  ,Other thing I will Look up for the DC-3 sample ,Is one of the best tool to know how to work with the material maps ,But we will leave it for latter ,TOO MUCH INFORMATION IS NOT GOOD YOU'LL GET OVER LOAD ,take your time and go easy ,There are too many things One by one ..

Alex

Nice,
Did you think I was a harry potter  , But trust me there is a video tutoria where a guy make a gmax plane in 10 minutes  seriously

I'll send it to you this f-16 which is not accurate model isa little twisted ,I have many models from the ages of the FS2002 I can't remember where I did Find this one ,stand by in you PM

Of course. 


It may be a while though.

I have not been using GMax for too long but I am getting better. It took me several days to get this to where it is. It is an Enstrom 480B. Still have a lot to do.



For some reason, it looks a little odd now. There are suddenly these rough edges where parts meet. And you can see some parts on the other side of others.  It wasn't like this before. Anyone know a fix or what is wrong? It looks fine when exported in FS.

Ex: the bottom should be smooth and you shouldn't be able to see parts of the cockpit through the bottom.


Shane, I hope to see more work on your F-16 done. Good job!

Okay, taking the dive off the deep end here.

Once more, I'm going to attempt to do the "GMAX Thing" without going insane.

I've read through the thread, and it did not take long for my brain to liquify.

Here's what I chose to work on instead of the Buck Rogers Thunderfighter (One is supposed to be coming out sometime soon, anyway), the Gunstar, or the Buck Rogers Warhawk:

A nice, simple, 1950's style rocket plane:  The Galileo, from the novel, "Rocketship Galileo" by Robert A Heinlien.

The design comes from a model based upon the cover art of the book, or at least, one edition, anyway.  Others have a older "V-2" style design.  But this one is more like an aircraft.

I modified the design only slightly by adding three cargo hatches and two more people hatches.  The ship is supposed to be (originally) a sub-orbital cargo ship, yet the model kit images showed only the one people hatch.  I guess cargo in the future comes in easy carry-on luggage sized crates.  I doubt it.  Anyway....








Box art of kit.




Three views loaded into GMAX.



I'm not sure my Gmax is working right.  I followed the Toot and got as far as "making a cylinder", but when I tried to edit the mesh, I could not get the "select and scale" to drop down to give me the tool to stretch the cylinder, or edit the mesh into the tapered hull. 

I did use the "Line" and "Lathe", and got a fairly nice "torpedo" shape, but it was a little shakey and uneven.

But, like I said, it didn't take long for my brain to liquify, so I'm back at square one. And even after going through the thread a second time (or is it the fourth or fifth time?), and the liguified brain gelled into tapioca, I'm still lost on some points.

For starters, please, has anyone come up with a *complete* list of all the add-on-plug-in-doodleflapps that one needs to have, and where to install them?  Keep in mind that the "Stupid idiot's guide to Gmax" is above my head.  I need the "stoopid idiots guide for morons with tapioca brains" version.

Travis wrote on Mar 14^th, 2010 at 1:19pm:



Thanks, but that's the catch, I'm working in FSX, and probably ehere a lot of my confusion is coming from. for instance, do I need "middleman13" and "MDLCommander", or just "MDLCommander"? Or neither?

But at this point, I'll do FS9, too.  I suppose I just need to DL the FS9 SDK and place that in the "GMAX/Gamepack"  So, in the mean time, I'll cool my jets and DL the FS9 SDK files, though I have a few of them already.

Thanks again!