A little advice please?

[Paul K]

Just to clarify, Garry, I've got 3Ds Max 5, and am looking for someone to do a good bare metal teapot paint.

[Garry Russell]

How about one in BA landor

Would be nice if you got back into modelling Paul.......always short of modellers

Even an upgrade of the B-29 if you can find a way of importing your source files

Garry

[FelixFFDS]

Although I'm not a modeller, having read comments over the years you have to learn GMax first by going through all the tutorials which are not FS-related (basically what Garry said).

Only then can you start to apply what you have learnt to FS.

Having seen what my wife can do with 3D Max, then GMax is likely to be powerful, but just not for FS.

gMax is a lot more powerful for FS than FSDS is. Remember, it is officially supported by Microsoft/ACES with the released SDKs, which means that you can model using all of the SDK features - (for FS-X, that includes all sort of texture mapping, etc.).

The main advantage that I see with FSDS is that, being a flightsim specific program, compiling is easier, and it creates the file structures for you, even sets up the basic aircraft.cfg contact points, et.

Make no mistake - 3DSMax is a lot richer in tools and features, but you can also "overmodel" - using features and tools that the conversion tools cannot process (as a basic example, mirroring a part using the mirror tool, as against using a mirror modifier.)

[FelixFFDS]

Even an upgrade of the B-29 if you can find a way of importing your source files

COnverting an Aircraft Factory *.afx source file is easy.... all you need is VAS-Gold 1, which can open an afx, and save as FSDS fsc file. Then to port it to gmax/MAX, use the CVA converter to create the dxf file.

That's how I've been converting the old afx files we're carrying in the FSDS libraries. THey serve as great "backdrops" and even as LOD models!

[Garry Russell]

Thanks Felix

Nice to know that anything like this is not wasted

Garry

[DanKH]

But do we need Dan to be as insane and cranky as the rest of you?

Too late, I'm afraid.....

[Garry Russell]

Just look at the avatar

Garry

[DanKH]

I haven't got the slightest idea of what you are talking about Garry ;-)

You should see me Sunday morning when the kids wake up early!

[FelixFFDS]

STOP MAKE HIM STOP! Dan - the mental image of that is too horrible to imagine. It can cause permanent psychological damage to any who visualize it!

[DaveB]

Let us hope he doesn't try to recreate it in FSDS3.5!! HELP

ATB

DaveB :tab: