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Few question from a beginner

mkonareff

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Hi everyone,

This is my first post here and this is much probably not the last one :) My name is Maxime and I am the founder of TOGA project that you may already know since the release of Envtex, a few weeks ago.
I am completely new to the fsdevelopers community but I am reading you for ages as this forum is a huge source of useful information.

Today I registered because I finally decided to begin in scenery design, and of course the goal is to create high quality sceneries. I know I will need to learn a few things and new tools before getting good results. I will start with small airfields first and may be in the future I will create international airports... who knows? :)

First of all, I would like to ask you what is the program you guys are mainly using to create your sceneries, especially payware (but also freeware, there are of course excellent freeware sceneries!). Do you use one for buildings, another for ground polys or just the same tool for everything?

I tried sketchup and it seems pretty easy to use at first sight, especially for 3D buildings, but I have the feeling that it is less powerfull to build detailed ground polygons (not sure about how to create center line in sketchup and easy edge blending).
Do you recommend to try gmax or blender instead? 3DSmax looks too expensive, at least for now :D

Finally, I would like to read the following tutorial but it is unfortunately unavailable as the links are dead, could someone send them or reupload them? It seems it was a great tutorial and a good place to start.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ground_Poly_Tutorial_for_the_year_2014+

Thank you by advance for your help,
Maxime.
 
Hi Maxime, welcome to the forum!

In my first project i started using Sketchup for 3d buildings, it was a small project. I encountered difficulties to texturize and to do some of other stuffs, so i decided to move to Gmax. Also, i made the ground polygon of this project using Gmax. It is a very powerfull tool. Now i'm using Gmax, but i'll try Blender to see what i can do. So, i'd recommend you try and see what is the betters for you. There are people who use Sketchup for 3d buildings and ground poly, people who use Gmax, etc. So you can see which one is better for you.

I don't have the file that you looking for, but maybe someone can send to you.

Good luck with your projects!
 
Hi Felipe,

Thank you for your answer and your encouragement :)
That's an interesting feedback about Sketchup, that seems very powerful at first sight but seems like it can quickly be limited. I will try to find a few Gmax tutorial and see what I can do with it.

About the tutorial I would be very grateful if someone could send it to me.

Thanks !
 
Hi Maxime,

I'm not much a modeler, but I find gmax the easier way to go when it comes to fs development. 3DS max is the natural path after it.

Jorge.
 
Yes Danie, on the wiki site the link to Dropbox does not contain any file. I would like to return with one of my projects and those manuals would be very helpful :P
 
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