borchi_2b

hey yeniceri, nice update, well you might give the new tank to mitch too, so that he is able to skin the tank too, cuase i don´t know the colors he will use, so i thought it would be better when he skins it again. i fiugred one thing, that might cause problems, don´t know why but the blank skins do not fit the best, mitch can try it by making to vertical lines into the skins, that might help him finding the right spot greetings borchi

@warthogmadman987: yes that is true, i forgot about it, lol, must have burned into my memory :-) maybe somewhere in my brain there is data, that tells me exactly what the bird locks like and that i used it, lmao. which is could visit it some day in the near future again, but well, some day it will happen:-) @yeniceri: thanks, i will see what max will do to this file, i hope it will export and import it how it is supposed to be :-)

well locks a bit like the picture that was posted, lol. i hope i get the gear done in a few days so that i only need to finish the nozzles. i guess i will finish all first before i put the model into the game the first time. i will do the unwrap after the first testings. i need to adjust the size of the plane too:-) does anybody know how i can get the 3dmax 9 files into 3dmax 8 ? cause i have built the blackbird with the max 9 so far

well well, i am wondering if it is possible to model such a nice parachute, cause the blackbird does not have any flaps like the f-15 that might slow it down on the ground. has anyone ever modelled a parachute for lockon and knows how to animate it, the two small flaps of the chutebox are allready modelled. ???

lol, the side where i have uploaded all the pictures is down, so all the nice pics of this project are gone in the nirvana. well, at least i have saved them all to my comp, hehe. do you know a diffrent uploadpage, were they stay more then just a day ? @deaman: jup it will help alot, well unfortunatly most of the seat is cover by the pilot, but i which i would have had the pics earlier:-) lol again, well it is maybe not down? i have no clue :-)

@ superkongfu, well lom utilities, which one do you talk about, the plugins for 3dmax, please explain where i could find it. an exact link would be great thanks borchi_2b

ok guys, got the cockpit fixed so far, i have all together now about 10000 polys for the whole model. gears and nozzle are still missing plus 2 blackbird pilots. here we go with the newest picture. i guess i will do the rest of the cockpit details with the appropriate skins so i can save polys and have enough for the pilots and the gear. what do you think, i would appreciate some professional answers, also from you yeniceri :-)

when it opens the fins, does it slow down? greetings borchi_2b

hey mitch, nice model, does the bomb slow down how it is supposed to do? i hope lockon simulates that, cause the snake eye is made for low level attacks. greetings borchi_2b

here we go, two pages were you can find damage to the hog http://www.a-10.org/ http://www.warthogpen.com/ hope it will help a little bit

yeniceri, i could sent you the lom file of the fueltank and the 2 clean bmps, so you can make the tankskin fit the skin you are working on right now. where should i upload it it for you? but remember it will replace the su24 fueltank cause it is the only one that has about the original fuelamount. themeinit file has to be modified with lope and you would have to add at the stations 4 6 8 the 3000 liter tanks. the best is, that the tank works :-) greetings borchi

well not all the hogs have the golden windshields, but most likely the have it. well i guess it is allright when you make it lock like you feel it is right. i have to do the same with the blackbird at some parts, cause there are not to many pictures existing :-)

new update from the blackbird project: well sorry for spelling mistakes, i am not awacke alot anymore, cause now it is 05:11am and i am going to bed now. well i had to built a complete new ejectionseat from just a bit of picture material which wasn´t the best too, cause most of the times the pilots were in the way :-) not much is missing now in the cockpit. then i will finish the nozzles and finaly i will get to the gear. @muehle: thanks for the information :-) here we go with a picture

Originally Posted by graywo1fg i'm in the middle of nowhere nebraska :D stop by :P lol hey greywo1fg, i have lifedin nebraska for a year. stayed there for a highschool year in a town, a small town, close to lincoln. the town is called friend zip postal 68359 do you know that town? greetings borchi_2b

well i could not imagine, that the f-18 would not have nctr. well i read something about the israelies. well that is what they do most of the times. they got submarines from the germans, the so called u 212a which is called dolphin class, which indicated the isreali once. they have modified it, with or without agreement of the german government, but i am sure germany never wante the u212a to become a longrange tacktical missile capable sub what it might be now. the same with some vessels, they only bought the fuselage of the ships, everything else was done by israel themselfs. but i like the fact that they will not be able to by the f-22, cause contracts are contracts, and nobody should make an exception cause they are israel. who know what they would use the f-22 for? ok, enough :-) well the aussies are smart though, but well i guess they will ot buy am fighters so quick again, the germans stped buying am fighters too, and made a fearly good deal with britain, italy and spain. that does not mean that am fighters are worth nothing. they built good planes but the germans learned from the starfighter missery

ok good to know, yeniceri, will work more then one animation on one argument? so when i close the canopy, that the pilots will close thier glass from the helmet? greetings sven

ok good to know

hey steffen , i don´t know, maybe you ask somebody from the ed testers, cause my blackbird will be flyable so i did not concearn with that. but i would be intersted if we would have to do the argumentation for ai aircrafts. greetings sven

ok guys, i only have one thing i can say. f...... awesome !!!!!! sorry for the words, but that hits the point i guess :-)

jup i am still working on it. right now i am working on the ejectionseat and cockpit. well time is the only thing that sometimes makes trouble, cause my university takes alot of it. well i talked to yeniceri, and he is a very helping hand. okay, i have no further pictures right now, cause the progress is not so far that i think pictures are worth it yet. lets wait untill the end of next week. ok? i have holidays and time now :-)

how many polys do you want to have for the pilot, do you have a personal max? just write me, i have a very good tutorial about creating a human and it is no big deal to make a pilot suite. lock at the picture of me, do you want to have the newest materials that are available in the us air force? the oxygenmask for example? the helmet would not apply cause it is from the f-15c cuing system borchi

hey yeniceri, it is defenetly payware, just do it this way, have a lock at the model and try to make a new one with all that you need. whyt would be great is the glass of the helmet, when it would move together with the opening of the canopy and it would also be possible to let the pilot move his arm together with the glas, so it would lock like him moving it. but well , lets get the hog into the air, all the orther things is just playing around. greets borchi

locks like the a-10 for the fs 2004

can we be sure that thrustvectoring will work also we do not have the hardcode? thats one thing i would really like to know. does the animations have any effect on the flightpath of the planes that might use the thrustvector?

just pm the people you think of being a good beta tester for the hog, without the damage model, so everything can be talked about with good critisism that is productive, cause it will not hepl when everybody tests, the model and say well great and everything is fine. that would not make you as a modeler happy. thats the way i want to handle the blackbird testing, but well it first has to be done. hopefully tomcatz will be back soon