JakesF14,

Nice little plane. I guess you know but the lights don't meet the wing tips, and the overspeed comes way to early for a jet thats going to be supersonic. 

Other than that, its a great little thing, and i'll be downloading one when you get it all done.

That's coming along nicely. The transparency is caused by the Alpha channel of the fuselage texture. I fixed it by making the Alpha channel white.

You might like to compare the display properties of your fuselage with the other parts of the aircraft that don't have the problem. I'm not familiar with Gmax so can't give specific advice.

JakesF14 wrote on Oct 29^th, 2009 at 5:01am:

I realise that which is why I suggested checking the display properties of your fuselage in Gmax. There must be something different from other parts of the aircraft which don't appear to have the transparency problem.

I can place the lights if you'd like.  Just let me know.

Brandon

Is it OK if I modify the CFG and other things a little?
Looks like a great jet!!!

JakesF14 wrote on Oct 30^th, 2009 at 12:44am:


Oh, I don't know how to link the lights to the winds or anything so never mind. 

[Thank you,you can do that,but  I think they have to be linked to the wings somehow for when the wings are swept aft and fwd?! [/quote]

You will need to use the gmax modeled lights for any animated parts.  The list is in the Makemdl SDK.  Here is a partial list of available lights (The name tags must be used as shown but can be appended with _02, _03 etc:

LIGHT_BEACON      A beacon point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_STROBE      A strobe point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color
LIGHT_RECO      A recognition point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color
LIGHT_WING      A wing point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_LOGO      A logo point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_NAV      A navigation point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_TAXI      A taxi spotlight is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_LAND      A landing spotlight is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.


A material and color has to be assigned to these parts (which are typically just a 3 or 4 point very small planar) and it must be linked to a parent (light bezel or housing).  The parent must be linked to the wing.

The pivot of the planar dictates the location of the light source; the pivot of the parent dictates the light beam direction (Z faces backwards to light beam).  So, set them accordingly.

Milton, thank you very much! I was wondering how to link the lights! Thanks to you I can do it now!skoker wrote on Oct 31^st, 2009 at 9:37am:

Skoker, that could be awesome! The nearest I can get to sound is playing guitar...hehe. I wil appreciate it if you could help!

skoker wrote on Nov 1^st, 2009 at 4:16pm:

Well, I use the powerplant from the F-5 tiger, but 4 of them without AB , if it helps? Sounds for landing gear,ect, can be generic. You can use ur imagination. Something unique. For the panel... I want to try to build one. good experience,but will let you know if i see up to it. Thanks for the help! I am curious now...

Skoker said he'd do a panel, but I could too. Only if he wants. 

I always did 3D first then I went to 2D since I always found the 3D was more complicated (obviously) and all i had to do was take screen shots of the 3D and use the images to make the panels...ill see if i can dig up some of the planes and images I did this methoud with, even though they were more FS 2000 and 2002 era models/planes but still same should work for FSX no??


also if you still want people willing to test planes for you and possibly help with repainting or getting other color schemes for it I wouldn't mind lending a hand, been awhile but I still know my way around the CFG files and then some


Ok this is quite odd, every time I modify the texture (adding my own type of color scheme and designs) the exterior disappears and all I see is the cabin interior area...could someone help me sort out what may be going on? I am trying to use FSrepaint V2 for FSX at the time, since I dont have any of my photo shop stuff (or gimp) installed and I dont want to take the time to reinstall the programs at the moment (just want to hammer out some ideas real fast before I spend time with installing photo shop and that stuff)

your biz jet, i would post a screen shot but my system uses 1600 X what ever (1200 i think?) and I don't have any decent programs to cut down the size with out messing the image...


PS: if you want me to Ill lend a hand and help you out as best as I can, I also have a friend who does this stuff with me so I may ask him if he would like to help from time to time as his life permits


EDIT: removed the bad texture and the model shows up ok (blank white) so im not really sure what is happening except for the fact that FSRepaint is causeing this issue to occure (which in all my years of messing with FSrepaint V1 and V2 this has never happened at all)...so im a bit perplexed and I been at this stuff since the days of FS95 and FS98...


oh not sure if this will make a difference but I am using it in FSX

JakesF14 wrote on Nov 17^th, 2009 at 1:23am:




Thanks, I just figured it out...resaved it as DXT3 instead of 5...

DAM JAIME GET IT RIGHT ASS....FRACK....of all the stupid errors thats the simplest one to over look...

no, oddly enough DXT3 worked just fine, I believe DXT3 and that are the same or at least close enough to each other the two kinda go hand in hand, (yay)


Least I know what will work correctly on it I think I may try my hand at making a few unique ideas, hope you don't mind me stripping all emblems off the plane and having at it.

I wasnt planning to post any repaints yet...unless they were pictures to get ideas from the community...)...plus once your ready to put the plane out "officially" i would try to help ya out and include some repaints I do in the package so people have some different variants to pick from anyways its turnning out really nice!

ok sounds cool


Ok I got two variants more or less done, aside from a few minor things which im sure are correctable, I have one (will upload screen shot soon) that is ready to go more or less, only thing thats holding it up is a possible texture mapping issue, the right tail is mirrored to the left, but you have two pieces for the tail so each side is mapped to its own piece.


I have the text and all that (and the logos) worked out perfictly so thats good, I just need to see if some how the texture was mapped incorrectly by mistake, if you want to see a picture of what Im talking about let me know and ill upload one also.


and the model of the plane seemes like it may need to be smoothed out some, I think the polys are a bit rough...other then that its really turning out to be a neat plane that i will enjoy flying!