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i use fsds 3.5.1 for static scenery. i am using gmax 1.2 for my first aircraft build. i am new to this, so that makes me a noob, or is it dweeb?. as i use both it probably makes me a dwoob.i am whizzing around gmax with ease. it was tough at first, but know i am very comfortable with it. this applies to modelling only at the moment, i am constantly remodelling all my components
as refinements reveal themselvses...

i will have to master both photo and self designed texturing using paint shop pro x2,lithunwrap,etc...
i will have to master animation,effects,sound,air,3dvc interactive.etc.its daunting....my weapons are, stubborness, painstaking attencsion to detail, and
a completely irrational faith in my own ability.notice i spelt attencsion wrongly.
question, how do i use fsds to make dummy files for my gmax aircraft,is this a
good idea, and will it save me some work, or is there an easier way as a temporary way of putting of building my own air files etc.or am i being silly...jim
 
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I'm not even going to try to tell you to stick to one program (I should talk, as I have FSDS 1 2 3 loaded up as well as gmax, AC3D, TrueSpace7, blender, ... etc



In it's most basic form,

Set up FSDS with the backdrop images as if you were going to model in FS.

Set up your reference parts (gear.center, gear.left, etc)

merely for visual cues, create basic shapes to locate your models structure - wings, fuselage, tires, for example.

Do your first, non-textured, non animated compile to "set" the files in FS-X.

Using Arno's MOdelConvertX, import your fsc, and export as 3DS into gmax.

Your reference parts and basic body structure should now be in gmax.

Remember to either discard the reference parts (once you don't need them anymore) or set them as a separate group of parts, and freeze them in gmax.

You next compiled model should strictly be the MDL file, to replace the first FSDS created MDL.

(Suggestion = keep that first MDL.....)
 
thanks for the info, i have a theory. fsds was very user friendly, it didnt make many demands, i couldnt get the nice clean shape i wanted..i thought it was fsds...i switched to gmax, it forced me to actually learn the hard way..if i went back to fsds, i think i could end up with identicle models..

its the knowledge, not the tools..artistic integrity seems the most important at the moment,ie how to build a simple model that looks complicated.rather than a complicated model that looks complex..my first attempt with fsds was the lovell radio telescope at jodrel bank..i was quite pleased with myself, until fsds informed me that it had more vertices than atoms in the known universe.

back to the drawing board, followed by eventual success.i have in the past made single cylinder engine camshafts from a billet of steel armed only with a set of hand files, and a linisher. i am stubborn, or crazy,probably both..thanks for the heads up ...jim
 
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