StrikeMax

MAybe...The softeare logic "AND's" the light arg. with the landing gear Arg. since the Landing light is usually mounted on the Gear's Shaft. Not sure..just guessing

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I changed host. It is fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers

yes, think it is

Don't worry about that. Its not a matter of not functioning, its just a preference for real time rendering/playability. Just make sure you create the lods. But technically speaking, there is no poly count constraint of les than 50k, 25k, or whatever by the game engine. I have created a 100k poly shape, and textured it just to see if the game would accept it. To my pleasant surprise the fps drop from a similar 50k object is trivial..but don't make the A10 a 100k..that was just for testing. Good luck

I have a very busy week ahead, so I thought of posting the little progress of today. I won't be able to post further updates before next friday. Almost done with the Central Air brake ( the grey bottom bulge visible in the upper AC) No textures are involved yet. The quick procedural paint is just for a change ( from the boring blue material :D) And yes, I forgot to cut the 12O'clock windshield. cheers

Looks more convincing now.

I don't think so. This is the first time I see this. VERY nice and helpful closeups. Thanks And for those who are too much concerned about the poly count, even before I finish the project , cheerup and have a good look at this: This is the 26k poly. version of the work. You can hardly spot any significant degradation in the mesh. So trust me, the whole project is under controle and the final poly count is a decision related issue. cheers

re missing parts: Maybe its not so obvious in the pic, but I work only on one half of the frame, the other half is just a mirrored object. All borderline details (centreline when the 2 sides are welded) will be done only when the 2 sides are welded. Re. poly count, yes its approaching 50k but this is how i work, like my flanker, every thing at high poly, then at the optimization stage I keep the high poly for the tight curved parts like nose , cones, front edge of wing..etc, and dramatically remove polys from flat and semi flat areas. For ex. the following pic. shows a cutout of the wing/wing base. Cloned then optimized. One of the objects below is only 50% poly count of the other. ;) Finally, its Work in progress, comments are appreciated for what is done and how they should be fixed if they need to. Not for what is missing!!!!, After all if nothing is missing then the thing should be "Release" and not " Work in progress"

...and going on.

Lots of cones/conicals in this elegant bird!!

lo-fi, I didn,t make this from scratch. I just optimized the original.

Lo-fi I need ur email address thanks

Ok, the bottom one is a reduced mesh, 57k all the way down from 118(top one). I believe it did not loose much quality. So if any one is willing and have the time to adapt it to the game I can try to clean up the bottom one and maybe further reduce it. Pls let me know.

Yes m8. I usually use lofting and rail sweeps part nurbs then finish off mesh edit. In this particular Mig, for speed, I am using edit poly with mesh smooth.

Maybe this looks more accurate:

I had a good session last night, reworking the tail. Since the whole plane is a single mesh ( no intersecting separate cones, objects, etc...) It took me a while to adjust the transition between different parts ends and the fuselage. When Im satisfied with the tail, the whole plane should be ready any time. ( it will look better in the final version when the smoothing groups are better distributed). Initially I had in mind to finish it in a couple of days, but she turned out to be a beautiful bird, deserves some more time. ;) Your valued comments/remarks would be highly appreciated. Thanks

Not in this case, there is one for the su27 left wing and one for the su27 right wing. Infact, there is one for each plane, specific.

Hi, Just wanted to stress the following: - I am still experimenting with this. - The completed one should be animated. - No argument to controle that in AC model , I am creating them in the same file to get relative positioning/placement. They will eventually go into another file.The same file that displays the Wing_tip vortex. Which means that the display time window must be a subset of the wingtip vortex display window.the whole span or just partial. No other options. Which also nesseciates the recreation of the wingtip vortex effect since you can't simply import it and add the LERX to it. As simple as that ( or as difficult as that, don't know) ;)

:) And for the "classics", we might have a high poly Mig-21 http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=19640&page=13

Experimenting with possibilities is what delays me. Today , After the Mig-21 "75" first draft( http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=19640&page=13 ), I experimented with some effects and tested them in the viewer. for ex: Still experimenting ;)