Video tutorial suggestions
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Use this page to suggest topic for new video tutorials. We can not promise that somebody will be able to make a tutorial about everything suggested here, but at least it would be useful to have a wishlist of topics that people have trouble with and would like to see a video tutorial about. Feel free to add your own suggestions!
- Types of scenery
- Scenery consists of many elements (airports, 3D objects, terrain, etc), this tutorial would give you an introduction to them and make you more aware of what you can do with each of them.
- Drawcalls
- What are drawcalls and why are they important for the performance?
- Conditional animations (FS2004)
- Show how to make an animated hangar door and how to condition it using the CAT tool
- ModelConverterX
- Introduction to the program and showing how to get your old API macro into FSX and GMax
- Ground poly
- Learn how to create, export and texture a ground poly.
- DXT texture compression
- Explain how it works and what influence it can have on the quality of your textures.
- Making textures
- How to make a good texture for a 3D object
- Using Sketchup for FSX
- How to use Sketchup to make a model for FSX
- Animation
- how to make smoke, fire, etc
- Texturing in GMax
- How to texture an object with all the FSX specific options (bump maps, specular maps, etc)
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