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mmacey

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Gmax P38 tutorial help

Posted 10-Feb-2008 9:27 PM

I have recently downloaded Gmax and Im going throught the tutorials.

I am trying to do the P38 tutorial and am having trouble. Trying to make the "Configuration box" around the aricraft drawing, i follow the instruction to the letter but my box is allways turning out too small and the wrong shape.

I have tryed to attach a screen shot to show my problem, though its a bit small

Fr. Bill

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RE: Gmax P38 tutorial help

Posted 11-Feb-2008 11:34 AM
Modified by Fr. Bill On 11-Feb-2008 11:35 AM

As I did with my previous reply, allow me to invite you to join the Freeflight Design forums: http://www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

There are some major problems with that particular tutorial, the most glaring of which is - even if you managed to complete it and compile for flight simulator - your aircraft would be flying backwards...

Also, using the method describe in that tutorial for "Viewport backdrops" is quite possibly the worst possible method one could choose... ;)

...note that in the "Left Viewport" your aircraft is facing right!

mmacey

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RE: Gmax P38 tutorial help

Posted 11-Feb-2008 7:23 PM

I wasnt going to put it into flightsim. Just to learn how to make models in general.

I was having trouble trying to get each view to line up with each other. I tryed to draw my own box around the aircraft trying to line it up in all 3 views, but cant get the background images to line up

Fr. Bill

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RE: Gmax P38 tutorial help

Posted 12-Feb-2008 1:46 PM
Modified by Fr. Bill On 12-Feb-2008 1:49 PM

Whether you are going to flightsim or not, the specific techniques for modelling remain constant.

Particularly of interest to you would be the technique of creating a "calibration box" on which the 3-view are displayed. There are even instructions on a variant to the technique whereby the drawing itself is displayed in the Viewport as "illuminated lines hanging in virtual space" with everything else transparent.


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