Classic British Flight Sim

Nice looking model...

<Looks at list... scratches off another....>

I've found that Gary's "method" works best for control surfaces. Planning one's mesh is easier, and *I find* that in FSDS it's a lot easier to add points/create polygons to build up the mesh where needed. As an aside, even in gmax, booleans, although easier, sometimes create too many unwan...

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We've had to make some organizational changes , so please change your "freeflightdesign.com" references to freeflightdesign.org"

Do not forget the frustration & sore head after bashing you nearesr brick wall!!! Identify each new version that you draw or improve with its own file name & subscript - the software can play tricks & you often need to backtrack! After 3 years slog I'm still frustrated, with a sore head...

Put-Put responded in the following thread: http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1260137773 Hi, Rob, FSDSv3.51 does not handle several FSX part names correctly and they must be renamed and the new names added to the modeldef.xml file. Wozza showed me how to do this about a year ago. ...

"Uncle" Milton Shupe has created a number of tutorials - emphasizing gmax and FS2004 modelling. A list is at: http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1162517377 The famous "Contact Points Tutorial" is applicable to any modeller... Also, for FSDS users, Adam Howe has...

Brian Franklin wrote:FSDS only uses MakeMDL if you're compiling for FS9, it uses XtoMdl for FSX

Plus with Dave Nunez' FSDSxTweak utilities, you have can add all sorts of FS-X eyecandy - bump maps, etc...

Well, it is classic, it is British, and the building REALLY exists....





The backdrop image used, well..... it's from a papercard model and not exactly "photorealistic"

Even if there are scalars in the .air file I beleive that corresponding entries in the .cfg file will overide them. You have to be careful ... some do, some don't. The FS flight dynamics are very much table-supported, and some aircraft.cfg entries are there "for show" (I'll have to look u...

Don't ask, and I won't tell....



Okay, so it's a bit of a cobbled up 3-view, using the front profile of teh Gannet AEW.3 radome....