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So... I am cooking along on my model. I have a very cool cabin in this one that uses some new technology of window extrusions to form inner window sills that are very nicely rounded. Awesome fuselage, rounded windows (no corner edges), looking very sharp.


Then, today, I notice a shimmering edge!!!! On the cargo door, a very bright edge, sparkling.... NOOOO!!!!!! (Usually with Gmax, door edges will utterly disappear. Amazing finishes possible).

So I go to wireframes mode, hunt around. At first I think the innder cargo door panel was accidentally moved outward and is showing. Nope..... The entire Cabin assembly (mainly one giant part) had some how been 'scaled' inwards about 1/2 inch 'real world' scale. AND.... its only along the middle. The top is fine. HOW?????


So there I was for about 45 min's, moving one Vertice at a time outward to meet the window openings of the Fuselage window cutouts. Some Vertices couldnt be moved precisely enough with the mouse, no matter how much I tried, so I had to use the Move 'manual entry' mini panel to move it .00XX distance, usually in lots of .0010 to .0020 of a distance to set the Vertice on edge.


Done.

What a mess.

I went back about 20+ saves to find the point where it had happened, never found it, and updates have been made, so I couldnt go all the way back as I would lose the latest touchups on the cabin. Best to just fix it.


Nightmares in the world of dots and Polys.... :S
 
Bill,

Could you not just merge the best previous version of the cockpit and then attach the best bits of that mesh to the current mesh?
 
Hey Skippy,

Since I figured out how to do the 'Control/Shift/S' that saves 'next version number up', I have been going crazy, as the gMax crashes do happen. I do SOOOOO many updates on parts, here and there, there is no way I could figure out where all the updates are... In 2 weeks, I am at 2 hundred saves already.

Its a new approach to my normal curved window openings. I am really greatful for this.

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Very nice, Bill. That Mooney is looking sharp indeed! BTW, why didn't you set up Max/GMax to auto-increment on save years ago? I've certainly beat that drum often enough!

IOW, I simply cannot save any scene without it auto-incrementing the save number...

...without manually over-riding the automatic process.

Further BTW, what probably happened in your interior mesh is an accidental scale operation, where the x axis got scaled a tiny amount. I've had that happen before when I was tired and not paying sufficient attention to what I was doing. :(
 
Very tidy model Bill! Never mind the airbrakes, I like the details on the undercarriage. :)
 
why didn't you set up Max/GMax to auto-increment on save years ago? I've certainly beat that drum often enough!

N4Gix
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I am always in such a hurry, I put things off. Amazingly, they can get up to a year or more in getting around to making something happen. Sad, isnt it. My days flash by so fast.



Thanks guys.

Yes, this is a Mooney, their latest, hottest model, the Acclaim Type S. Cruises at 234 knots KTAS, top out at 243 KTAS. A new, more powerful engine with turbos (says superchargers on the website) and 3 bladed prop, new aerodynamics enhancements (new wings?) and oxygen, so it can cruise at 25,000' Alt. now.


This isnt payware, this is a donation to Prepar3D. Their old Mooney Bravo is tired, ancient, needs a facelift. This will be one of the stock planes in their lineup in the sim.

Ive been redoing the airfiles as well. She now handles nicely, like 'butter'. Very balanced feel to her.


I do love those air brakes though. I did some cool little flyout plates and found the tune for making them slower in deployment. The early version moves out so fast, its like a blink...

So, if you have Prepar3D (only $10 a month for Devs), then its freeware. It will be in team P3D's hands to do with as they want.



Bill
 
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