my "charlie" meets the "masters"

we had a visit from their FSD big brothers!
FS2004 - FSX cessna 337D skymaster

meeting a famous FSD 337D

meeting another famous FSD T337G

just checking aorund

just airwrenching around with the BE65

O-2? maybe...

interesting links for resources! (from daviator.com)

Airlinters.net - Huge searchable image gallery of many types of aircraft.
Aircraft Resource Center - Walk around images of dozens of aircraft.
Duxford Times - Homepage for the Duxford Air Museum
Futureshox.com - Extensive aviation photo gallery.
http://www.warplane.com/ - Canadian Warplane heritage Museum web site
US Air Force Online Museum - Online site for the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio
Aviation-history.com - Great aircraft reference site.
Kiwi Aircraft Images - Great collection of photos.
www.avweb.com - What's happening today in aviation.
Collings Foundation - Want to ride in a B-17 or a B-24? Non-profit organization who preserves and fly's warbirds. They even tour the country and offer rides.
Collings Foundation West - Texas wing of the Colllings Foundation.
Helicopter Links
Planes of Fame - Museum at Chino, CA housing some the best restored and rarest aircraft around.
Aircraft Resource Center - Walk around images of dozens of aircraft.
http://www.ukwarbirds.net/- Great site for warbirds in the UK
Aerofiles.com - Large reference site for vintage aircraft
Eduardo's Page - Many great three-view drawings of aircraft.
www.esscoaircraft.com - Low cost aircraft reproduction manuals
Wings on the Web - Over 4000 FREE photos of aircraft. Great reference source. Photos are email to you in a few days.
Historicaviation.com -Best source to order books on historic aviation. A bit slow on delivery.
American Book Exchange - Looking for that great aircraft reference book? Found the title but its out of print? This site will connect you with a used book dealer that will have it and usually for a great price and in excellent condition.
Glenn L. Martin - Maryland Aviation Museum

from daviator.com

cessna 337 Skymaster FS9-FSX

textured lightboxes

strobe lights...

new tail lights

and the all new cargopod!

matafiebre panel

here's the test panel! :P

Back to Zero map...

remember, ALWAYS to work important stuff of model in (as the interior model)
in a SEPARATE FILE and MAKE SHURE YOURE WORKING ON IT BEFORE HIT
CTRL+S... well i lost the texturized last .max so i have to re-text everything again

the good is, i solved some accumulative errors and details.. so re-mapping is very precise now
good to know...

WIP!

awww, textures!

exhausts, gears, disk brakes, pitots those tiny stuff you love, but you never see...
there are LOTs of them in a "modern standard" of modelling ..

i trew away the cargopod momentary, gotta re-model it

trial, error, and re-learning!

well, I revisited some Gmax Basics,
remember to use .tga textures in Gmax, then..
in the aircraft folder, use a .bmp in DXT format, not the photoshop one :)

so, all is pretty much clear now! then, back to max!

it flew!! ..in fs9

every time y assign a texture in the gmax.. fs9 just crashes.. or FSX wont show the texture...
its about materials here.. she flew nice... with a basic Flight dynamics.. still better than fliying a blackhole aircraft. will re-install al SDKs.. and lets see what happens.
tested some basic animations

some renders at this time..

no more black! (fritoelmosquito!)

BFF script works exceptionally good!

so transition 3dmax08->good ol' Gmax
is not such problem.here's the 337 in gmax after BFF'd

well textures are showin now! no more black, kida weird.. but they finally
started to show :P (FSX), yah im cheating cause im exporting from 2004 gamepack
(still works fine), but its rare to see these rare efect on uvw mapping

"duh moment"note:
apparently gmax remembers his model textures ONLY when they are inside your gamepack/texture folder, not just anywhere..

more pics.

OH!!! those fine panels and rivets!!!

there's a nice place to see and burn lot of time doin rivets for your texture!
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/photoshop-tutorials/479-step-step-rivets.html
and..
some techniques

allways say "todo esta en internet" :P

nice tips at the simmers paintshop!

at the freeflightdesign shop found this and,
BFF tool worked very well!












so... we have 3dmax08->Gmax->FS *well ..08->Gmax..->black fs lol

some WIPs of the Beech 65

these are images of the last state known of the model
so, we hope .. someday...with the new knowledge
( it flew today in fsx , all black, un-textured)
let's see what 's next :)

holy jesus! n FSX tutorial for Gmax!!!

finally!!!

i found some lights about the new procedures for making aircrafts
from gmax (for 3dmax they are described in SDK, but you know kinda "overblown" way) .
gmax seems some more reliable at this time for me to use
cause there's not such a facility (or haven't read about it) from 3Dmax 2008...to fsx
so i can export my models to .3Ds ...then into Gmax safely! (there's a script around wich translates the model perfectly with no issues, i must try that too, since i havent apply textures yet, its fine for me putting the exported .3ds into gmax right away)

would like to thanks a lot to Mr. Bill from LionHeartCreations
wich made this document for all of us very short of light and time
he's the author of some very fine aircraft ,THANKS!
here's the link

http://lionheartcreationsworld.com/FSX_Tutorial.zip

i've found it in the allways proverbial Sim-Outhouse forum!
if you look inside you'll find all your favorite modelmakers discussing and talking each other and the ammount of info there can be surprinsing :)

-cs

and more modelling...

the rear exhaust holes, pitot...

there are more pics of the modelling process at this time...
starting with main door,playing with antennas

some details..

a side view...

new pics of the cessna 337 (fsx-fs9)

new images
checking the "look" with the cargopod

another start... a Skymaster...

lets see if ths time we finish the damn thing...
im pretty sure of that 'cause i've downloaded the correct SDK :r

so i hope start exporting soon...

Beechcraft Duchess project (fs2004-fsx)

this is the a raw preview in max of what started thinking about the duchess for fs2004-fsx.. well i dont wanna get distracted from the QA but , it just started as what if...