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I Need Some Help
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I would suggest that you check out the tutorials on GMax that are here www.scenery.org/tutorials.htm GMax is not the sort of thing that someone can just talk you though in half an hour. I think you will find that it will take some weeks to learn.
As in - I've had it since it came out with FS2002Pro (what, about 6 -7 years now?) and I still can't model <poop> with it?
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You are wanting someone to talk you through weeks of work?
If I were you, I would start with the Gmax tutorials. Start with the first one. Dont go to tutorial 2 until you can do tutorial 1 by heart/memory, remembering where all buttons/controls/tools are at. "Then" go to the next tutorial.
This isnt a 'learn in 10 min's' 3D program, this is based on 3DS Max, which is one of the best, most powerful 3D Design engines made, used for making animated movies now. (Maya is used for animating, Max for model mesh, shading, etc).
So just buckle down and learn where all the commands and tools are, learn to make basic boxes with extrusions and cuts in them, then google the 'stupid idiots guide to gmax' which will show you how to make a cool plane. But until you know where your command keys and tools are, you are lost. Learn that first, and in order. (The tutorials are designed that if you skip one, you dont know where certain things are for the next tutorial).
and be patient...! (You too Felix).
Bill
If I were you, I would start with the Gmax tutorials. Start with the first one. Dont go to tutorial 2 until you can do tutorial 1 by heart/memory, remembering where all buttons/controls/tools are at. "Then" go to the next tutorial.
This isnt a 'learn in 10 min's' 3D program, this is based on 3DS Max, which is one of the best, most powerful 3D Design engines made, used for making animated movies now. (Maya is used for animating, Max for model mesh, shading, etc).
So just buckle down and learn where all the commands and tools are, learn to make basic boxes with extrusions and cuts in them, then google the 'stupid idiots guide to gmax' which will show you how to make a cool plane. But until you know where your command keys and tools are, you are lost. Learn that first, and in order. (The tutorials are designed that if you skip one, you dont know where certain things are for the next tutorial).
and be patient...! (You too Felix).
Bill
and, without casting doubts on Bill's modelling abilities (he's sort of got the hang of gmax by now), even experienced modellers ask for help every once in a while. For that matter, there have been cases where complete gmax newbies help the experienced modellers out because the expert has "rediscovered" a newbie error (hmmmm what's that little blue/white checkered button in the material manager again for? 
quilty parties shall not be named)
Learning (and using) gmax is one thing, it's the "modelling for FS-n quirks that trip many of us up!
quilty parties shall not be named)Learning (and using) gmax is one thing, it's the "modelling for FS-n quirks that trip many of us up!