posted 03-13- 03:22 PM               

Little Hog...

F4U "Birdcage"

...and Big Hog

F4U-4B "UberHog"

Coming this weekend. BTW, what's the night that most guys fly online? I'll delay until the next day so you don't get a lot of mismatches

posted 03-14- 01:38 AM               

The real plane has a slightly larger "level" segment between the two wing sections, which makes the upsweep seem more gradual tho, as opposed to the more angular joint on the FS version.

posted 03-14- 03:07 AM            

Hippie

posted 03-14- 03:35 AM               

Boy i wish i could get a texture to show up like that in 3DSmax.

Yeah i check some drawings and they actually look like the wing tips end up highter then the root in mine, just by a bit.

I guess i have to go back in the sim and check it out.

posted 03-14- 08:32 AM               

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posted 03-14- 09:49 AM            

Specially Jedi for that new plane. Where can I get that lower skin?! that is kewl as hell. Love the checkerboard and the darker blue looks realistic as hell. You do that one too Jedi?

posted 03-14- 10:30 AM               

--I made only minor shape changes to the wings and tail on Hippie's original F4U, but no changes in orientation. The fuselage and cockpit was more or less redone from scratch. The landing gear was also redone from scratch, but what I ended up with was almost identical to the gear in Hippie's plane, and he gets the credit for making it actually retract like the real one. D'oh! coulda saved myself some work by just leaving that alone!

--The birdcage and Dash-4 aren't available anywhere yet. I'll put the "contest pack" up for download this weekend, which will have all four planes in it. I might put the individual planes up as well, but I don't want anyone to end up with the wrong flight model, and to keep the download small, a lot of the common textures are in the main F4U1 model, with the others just referencing it, so downloading the birdcage without getting the new F4U1 could cause some problems. The wings no longer fall off at 420 mph, BTW

--The skins are "adaptations" of some skins done by some guys for Air Warrior 3's Scenario Aircraft Converter. I discovered that the skins for that are 256x256 bitmaps, and the temptation was too much to resist However, the SAC skins don't translate well to the template for the F4U, so I mostly ended up just using them to leech colors from and for the general layout of the paint scheme. The checkerboard scheme retains a lot of the original from the SAC bitmap, in a sort of cut-and-paste way, but the Jolly Rogers scheme is almost completely "new." The birdcage scheme is a further rework of the Jolly Rogers one.

Anything else?

posted 03-14- 02:51 PM               

The way I mapped the inner wing, both inner wings will look the same, so without re-texturing it (which I guess I'll get around to at some point) that won't change. However, if you're just talking about getting panel lines to match up from inner to outer, that can be done. If you want to send me the skin you're working on, I can try and massage it so that it fits.

I guess I should make a template, eh?

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posted 03-15- 02:34 AM               

Max displays a models' texture in any given viewport in a quite basic way - it's just there so that you can see that the texture is being placed right, rather than for eye-candy reasons . If you really want to know what it looks like, you'll have to do a render of it. I think Max does this because it's very RAM-hungry, and so having stuff displayed in super-duper-o-vision would probably kill your PC. It also mean that you can see textures in a viewport when you play animating objects, so in order to do that it has to keep it simple. I guess this isn't needed in AC3D, because (AFAIK) it has no animation option (??)

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