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    Which Wacom tablet you recommend?

    If you do serious illustration work, go get an Intuos. The extra functions on the pen aren't really cutting it (for me at least), but the ergonomics alone (The felt nibs *drool*) are worth it. Wether you want to go larger than size Medium you have to check for yourself. I still have a size Large...
  2. J

    Texture baking

    To iterate on what previous posters have written - there is no need to unwrap the hi-poly when setting up for normals baking. You really just need to unwrap the lo-poly so the engine knows how to organize the render output.
  3. J

    P3D v1 Ambient Occlusion Settings

    https://www.knaldtech.com/ Just leaving this here, might be of interest to some. ps. If you find the contrast in your AO bakes to be lacking, you can always layer and blend multiple copies of the render output in Photoshop ;)
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    F-105 Thud is stuck!

    For Boolean operations it's usually safer to detach copies of the geometry that you want to work on, then do the actual Boolean op, then clean up the resulting geometry and re-attach it to the main mesh. Like you said, the Boolean tools in max can often be a bit 'unpredictable' and the more...
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    Part time or full time job

    There's people out there not working full time for zero pay? :eek::D On a more serious note: I honestly doubt that a full-time business would work for long. The market is just too small and demanding these days.
  6. J

    German speaker

    Equipment of the Arado IV No. Device Scale of measurement Manufacturer 1 Carburetor fire extinguisher 2 Heading 3 Gyrorektor voltage indicator 4 Altitude indicator 5 Gyrorektor push button (Off switch for the Gyro support drive) 6 Heading indicator...
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    FSX Ambient occlusion question?

    Easiest way is to layer copies of your baked AO texture in your favourite image editing software and play with levels, layer opacity and layer modes until you're satisfied with the outcome. Another way would be to tweak parameters in the renderer, that can be a wee bit more time-consuming and...
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    FSX mapping in 3ds max?

    There's not much to UV maps in the way you puzzle together your UV shells. Really try all the tools AD bought into 3ds and see which returns you the best result (When you apply a checker map material to your mesh, the checkers should be perfectly square and of an even size across the whole...
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    UTM to LAT/LONG reprojection issue

    Hej Holger, I feared that would be the answer. I feel a little bit more lost now - how can I use the reprojected TIFF I have to do FSX compatible photoscenery and how do I use it to build an airport ground poly in 3ds max? LCsims - thanks for the link, much appreciated!
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    UTM to LAT/LONG reprojection issue

    Hej all, I'm just dabbling around with the FSX SDK, trying to establish a workflow for developing addon scenery after having been a 'consumer' for the last twelve or so years. Problem is - I'm a bloody newbie when it comes to working with GIS data and bumped into the first show-stopper issue...
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