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MSFS20 Saab MFI-17 "Mushshak (The proficient)"

pfabian said:
Well you are on a good road to make a career of it one day, if you so decide :D

Looks properly great. I can't imagine myself making anything like that.
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Well, it can be a part time hobby kinda thing..lol

Thanks guys, its all because of FSDEVELOPER members that I have made it this far!
 
mskhan1991 said:
Last one for the week, from Max2014.. although I won't be using it, here it is from developers POV...

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JP "Penz" Pedersen said:
That last shot is just finger lickin' tasty. :)
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You got that right, this thing looks so S-O-G-double-O-D Gooooooood. (Sorry, I couldn't resist making a KFC reference. :p)

 
ozzman1997 said:
You got that right, this thing looks so S-O-G-double-O-D Gooooooood. (Sorry, I couldn't resist making a KFC reference. :p)

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Haha, I m kinda hungry now....

So...I couldn't resist these two shots which actually show how small this cockpit really is..... I was stuck in there man....Don't worry about the textures... they are 2048x2048 px... I just forgot to turn them on... SO basically this is WIP from inside the sim... I removed the gauges because they weren't textured yet.... No buttons and no animations and a few missing parts right now.

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WOW!....It looks so nice. Where are you learning? I think I got to go back to school now.
 
jtanabodee said:
WOW!....It looks so nice. Where are you learning? I think I got to go back to school now.
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Its fsdeveloper all the way.. and google images > from there if i find the right kind of related image I am looking for, I go for VISIT PAGE and find what I need! :P

So I was working on 3D gauge textures and had a question, but I thought I'll hold if off until I start animating the needles and other stuff.


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Actually, they are 'needles' but of a rather peculiar sort. For the altimeter, there is a rotating disc with the pressure numbers inscribed on them (hectopascals (HPa) on the left, and kohlsman (InHg) on the right. The disc is just a round 'needle' as far as animation goes... ;)

Your 'artificial horizon' is likewise a disc that is animated in two dimensions; up/down for pitch, and rotated left/right for bank. I create a hidden bank object to which the "rotation" is applied. The actual disc is animated up/down, then Linked to the bank object.
 
n4gix said:
Actually, they are 'needles' but of a rather peculiar sort. For the altimeter, there is a rotating disc with the pressure numbers inscribed on them (hectopascals (HPa) on the left, and kohlsman (InHg) on the right. The disc is just a round 'needle' as far as animation goes... ;)

Your 'artificial horizon' is likewise a disc that is animated in two dimensions; up/down for pitch, and rotated left/right for bank. I create a hidden bank object to which the "rotation" is applied. The actual disc is animated up/down, then Linked to the bank object.
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Just what I thought! :scratchch
 
Hey guys, I was designing this aircraft clock and came across the one that I took pictures of that it had four hands.... I get the basic 3 hands of the clock but what is with this 4th hand?

Here it is:
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pfabian said:
stopwatch timer maybe?
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Hmmmm, let me visit one of the instructors to see if he can actually help me out with all these gauges........

n4gix said:
Actually, they are 'needles' but of a rather peculiar sort. For the altimeter, there is a rotating disc with the pressure numbers inscribed on them (hectopascals (HPa) on the left, and kohlsman (InHg) on the right. The disc is just a round 'needle' as far as animation goes... ;)

Your 'artificial horizon' is likewise a disc that is animated in two dimensions; up/down for pitch, and rotated left/right for bank. I create a hidden bank object to which the "rotation" is applied. The actual disc is animated up/down, then Linked to the bank object.
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Bill I was actually stuck at the kohlsman disc!..... I don't know where to start? I mean if it were a compass I would start it from North (being in upright position at keyframe 0) but in a kohlsman(/hectopascals!?) disc where should I start from?

Secondly on the artificial horizon how much is the bank of the rotating object in the animation?
 
Here's a preview......

And Bill I almost forgot to ask about the hours on the RPM gauge? how to work with them....I mean when the sim boots up what should they show.... 00000?

WIP!

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I think they show just how much time does the engine have. Maybe take a look at default Cessna how it does it? IIRC it also has this feature.
 
mskhan1991 said:
Here's a preview......

And Bill I almost forgot to ask about the hours on the RPM gauge? how to work with them....I mean when the sim boots up what should they show.... 00000?
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The sim keeps track of the engine hours for you.
Code: 
(A:GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME:index,hours)
You will need to extract each digit individually to drive the number disks:
Code: 
Tenth's of an hour:
(A:GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME:1, hours) 100 / flr
 
1's digit:
(A:GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME:1, hours) 10 / flr 10 %
10's digit:
(A:GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME:1, hours) flr 100 % 10 %
100's digit:
(A:GENERAL ENG ELAPSED TIME:1, hours) s2 l2 int - 10 *
 
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Still working on the virtual cockpit so here's an exterior shot.... showing spec and bump map usage
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