posted 02-04- 08:01 AM               

It depends on your answers what I will do next :

wait (and meanwhile start with the Il-2 or Pe-2)

position the I-16 parts per hand (and maybe the plane looks like crap in the game)

punish my machine..

posted 02-05- 08:36 AM               

Could you do something like a transform type in for OPS (if Vertex snap is to hard to do ) So we just had to notice the object transform in MAX/whatever prg and simply type it in to OPS - then all should be right positioned in OPS (???) .

I noticed that the coordinates in the status bar didnīt change when I move a part (I just had to deselect and reselect the part till they refresh). Could you fix this ?

Thanks again for reading this !

posted 02-06- 06:02 PM               

However, if you are prepared to compromise your OpenPlane principles and bend your mind to the way mine works then I will be writing a "Bryans's way to make Aircraft using OPS and MAX " that will detail what you need to do in Max and OPS to create planes.

It actually works quite well (IMO of course), my biggest hurdle is finding the time and getting the model stuff good enough. I don't have any of the transparency/smoothing/texture/positioning problems that I've seen mentioned in the projects and tech info forums.

This isn't to say that I'm doing it right and every one else is doing it wrong, just that I make the tools so that it works for me.

It might take a couple of days to get the stuff together, so if you want to do OpenPlane the Bryan way, i would suggest that you get as many objects into MAX as possible for your aircraft, and make it look as complete as possible, even stuff you don't intend to actually import.

Bryan