So, been a lurker for a while as a E-flyer who only need was to "find another ride", that was up till about two weeks ago when I figured i had about four rides out of them all that I liked.....

So, I got doing some looking around on how to Pimp-my-ride, which currently is a KC-130 that some may have seen flying around in mutiplayer.

so I got bit by this "bug" of repainting, did one and then off I went to make a flaming ride out of a Rockwell OV-10A and yet another "reding" on the old BABA Black sheep  Chance Vought F4U-1A....

I "played with all those in what was said to be the "old school way, using DXTBmp and PS7...

so been looking at this program called -GMAX- and the more I try to use it...the bigger the headache i get, can anyone out there drop some pointers my wayon how to just "get-started" with just loading an image into it to work with it...?

I am sure I can help in return somehow.

there is a "model" of the P-3C orion, that if you read the "translated" text it would read...as-if the model performs 100% in FSX but not in FS2009 ( I got Both) it works 100% AND THEN SOME in 2009 (FS2004), even the radar works, I been chasing hurricanes around with it....just for some fun!

well hope to be hearing from some of yea all, thanks in advance.

Um, I think you might be a little bit confused.
GMAX is not an aircraft repainting program, it is a program for 3D modeling. In my opinion DXTbmp and PS is the best way to go about repainting. Although I use a program by Abacus, FSRepaint, to view the paint on the A/C so I don't have to wait for FSX to load and I don't have FSX using up my CPU power and RAM.
And for future reference, this should probably go in the Aircraft Repainting forum.

Hope this helps!

houston144 wrote on Aug 4^th, 2010 at 2:46am:


I think what he means is he want a tutorial that shows him how to start modelling in Gmax...? How to get a line drawing in Gmax to start shaping a model?
in that case I will suggest, you may want to have a look at this:

http://www.simviation.com/gryphon/tutorials/gMax_00.htm

Yep. that comes under rpainting in the way you describe

The only way to change the skin and bones, is in the modelling programme (may not be GMax) it was created in using the source files that only the author has.

Gmax only reads texture files created in a graphics programme, it can not create textures itself.

Likewise, no amount of texture fiddeling will have an effect on anything that is a part of the model.

You can only change colours, painted on detal etc. and the way they display.



ATB 

Garry