posted 02-21- 05:29 AM               

First a big thank you to Bryan Russel for OPS! It's such a great prog:-)
I'm working on a Ju 88C-6 (based on Lector's G-7). The C-variant was used as a Zerstoerer (heavy fighter/attackaer/gunship with up to 5cm-gun) and as a nightfighter. The C-6 was the main-nightfighter-version before the G came out. This is what I've done so far:
1. Ripped the Bola (the gun-station below the cockpit) from the A-4.
2. Deleted the nose-cone from Lector's G-7 canopy.
3. Made a correctly shaped nose-cone.
I have also changed armament and specs to match a C-6, but that's not important here.

Here's my problem:
After putting my parts together, everything looks fine except for the new nosecone. It is still untextured and un-smoothed.
Now, how do I 1.) smooth the part (preferably by editing the LOD by hand), and 2.) How do I texture the thing to use the skin-texture (with correct mapping, also preferrably by hand)? Any help is welcome. Lector, how did you smooth the nose on your's?

Thanks in advance,

posted 02-21- 05:02 PM               

Doing Vertex normals and texture mapping by hand would be a very painful process, lots of math and lots and lots of time, much better to let your 3d editor help.

I'm sure there are smoothing and texturing info for both MAX and AC3D around here somewhere, if not I'm sure someone would oblige

posted 02-22- 08:34 AM               

After a few detours I got it working like you said. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for OPS!