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FS2004 Bell 407 V2.0

hairyspin said:
Worse still is hair on your palms: first sign of madness y'know. Second sign is looking for them. Conclusive proof is finding 'em. You have been warned.
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According to sources in "Eat, Pray, Sleep Inc.", aren't hairy palms a punishment for, well...y'know..."being pilot in command"?
 
Good evening gents!

A small progress in the control department
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Pedal_assembly_01.jpg

Pedal_assembly_02.jpg

Sergio.
:cool:
 
Good evening chaps

kalong said:
Just suggestion, better use lower polygon for cylinder.
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Hello! Well, so far, the larger number in my cylinders is 16 sides; then 12, 8 and 6. Thank you for your advice. Not very congruent I guess... :oops:

If the mountain does not go to Muhammad, Muhammad goes to the mountain. It's still an ongoing task; but closer than before:
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Pedal_assembly_03.jpg


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I hope you like it.
Sergio.
 
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Good morning lads

Another small update; I would say that the components of the cockpit and cabin are about 60% - 70% of their completion (including UVW mapping and texture design). Well, there you go:

407_VC_textures_01.jpg


The work to design these dreaded tables, took me a few hours...
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407_VC_textures_04.jpg


I hope you like it.
Sergio.
 
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A little more detailed image describing the Airspeed limitations. Since I made a little mistake, I linearly interpolated all data in the -30 Cº row (in the real table, it doesn't exist...) :duck: :duck: :duck:

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:D :D :D
 
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Good day folks

Another update...
fire_ext_01.jpg


I haven't found a picture with the exact details in the nozzle section; so I'd keep trying or finish this attempt. :confused:
 
kalong said:
cool stuff, just careful with drawcall, don't let them eat the frame rate
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Hello friend, would you mind to elaborate more on the drawcalls? A few weeks ago, I was researching in forums in this regard and I wasn't able to learn the finer details about it. So far, the entire model has an overall count of 16 textures (all 1024 x 1024 pixels). :oops: :oops: :oops:

Looking forward to know your thoughts concerning to this matter. :idea: :idea: :idea:
Thank you kindly.
Sergio.
:)
 
that good news, I use FS9 just few month before FSX came out. no nothing about it. thought it has similar behave
 
Hi lads

@Björn
Still wondering what are exactly? I know, I know... we talked about this a few weeks ago but I can't remember where!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Such a failure of mine, my memory is also the worst asset I have. :( :( :(

@kalong
On the bright side, this model hasn't reached 100k polygons yet! For the 429 the overall count was up to 220k polys! Perhaps I am working better in this heli.

Thanks my friends.
Sergio.
;)
 
Heretic said:
That one, Sergio? ;)
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Ahh!!! That's why I really can rely on you! You're the man!
Cheers brother.
:D :D :D

P.S. This is exactly what I was looking for:
"The rules of thumb for drawcall- and memory-efficient models remains: As much detail as necessary with as little vertices, animations, materials and texture size as possible."

So, this doesn't apply to FS9? o_O o_O o_O

And it was a quote from a certain friend of mine...:wizard::wizard::wizard:
 
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It's not that FS9 can't run out of memory, it's just that it'll do it much later than FSX. And it's driven by modern CPUs with 3 to 5 GHz now, so framerates shouldn't be an issue.
So in most cases, you don't have to worry about mimizing drawcalls and memory consumption.
In loght of a possible FSX conversion (with minimal workload), however...
 
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