posted 11-24- 06:26 PM               

You can also try these pages and read what answers I got when I asked similar questions. http://www.fightersquadron.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000662.html http://www.fightersquadron.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000675.html
/Robert

posted 11-24- 07:28 PM            

And, no i havnīt changed the tex. The only thing i made was, i cut one of the three propellerblades, so the are now two blades,then i moved one blade opposite to the other one.
Now i will add a few lines to the tex.tif so i can see if there is a tex on the prop or if i have hit the black part of the tif.

I have also changed a little bit of a wing, and there is no problem with the tex.tif.

This procedure has one goal: I will look, if it is possible for me to create a plane, so i want to make some tests first,like this!

One question, how did i know that the scale of a plane is correct.I saw nothing in OPS to show me a scale,so it is possible to create a spit in a scale of a B17!??
Or is it a nearby, to look at other planes and think it is ok or not???

posted 11-24- 09:24 PM               

I believe that one unit in your 3d modeling tool is 1 foot in OpenPlane. I use AC3D for my 3d work, and the background image feature for my plans. In AC3D, 100 pixels of the background images = 1 foot in OpenPlane, so my models are to prefect scale.

Hippie has created specail plugins for AC3D that work with is extractor tools (now called OL tools for "OpenPlane Language). This makes working with meshes VERY easy! Texture indecies are created at the polygon level - and assigned via AC3D's surface tool. Red might = 4 and Blue = 14, whatever! These texture ID's are referenced in the yourAircraft.ol text file created when you extract an aircraft .sm file. It is very easy to add new textures to this .ol file, and then use these new texture ID's in ac3d.