How to change external 3D model?

[Tulkas]

Hi everybody, first post here. Very impressed with your work guys.

 

Can someone explain me how to change the external 3D model from one plane to another?

 

Let's say for example that I want to fly the Su25T with the external aspect of an F5. Is it possible?

 

Thank you very much

 

Regards

 

Tulkas

[OldCrow]

Yes, very possible;)

 

You will need 3dsmax7 or 8 and the lockon tools found on this forum. When you have made the model of the f-5, you animate it using the arguments for lockon.

 

The arguments work like this: Each argument controlls one animation in lockon, so forexample argument 0 controlls the nose gear retraction, 3 controlls the right gear retraction, 4 contolls the right gear suspension and so on. THere is an argument for each controll surfaces. There is a list of all arguments with the lockon tools.

 

When you have finished animating and mapping the model, you export the model to a lom file. The lom file is the file type lockon uses for displaying models. Then you name the lom file to the aircraft you want it to replace in lockon. So forexample if u want to have an f-5 over the su-25t, you simply name the lom file of the f-5 to su-25t.lom. then you place this file into bazar/world/shapes folder in your main lockon directory. The skins you can place in hte bazar/temptextures folder.

 

Later on you can compress the textures to .dds format to improve fps in the game. This process is explained in some posts on this forum.

 

You decide yourself how detailed and how many features you want to have in your model. Forexample, damage model to view the damaged parts when you aircraft gets shot, and lod models to show less detailed variants of your model when seeing it from a distance.

 

For an F-5 I would probably choose the F-15 or Mig-29 instead of the su-25 since their flight models are alittle bit more accurate (still not very accurate) for how the f-5 fly. There is unfortunately no way of making custom flight models for lockon.

 

Hope this helps you alittle;)

[Tulkas]

Tussen takk, det var stor hjelp :thumbup:

 

I had the chance to use the F-5B-MLU simulator that the Spanish Air Force use to train the future fighter pilots (being the F5 the training ac before moving onto F18, EF or F1), the thing is I got sorprise when I notice how similar the handling was to that of the Su25T in Lomac, then I thought it would be nice to fly it with a F5 3D external model and the Spanish training Sqn skin.

 

Right now I will just use the Lomac default F5 3D model (very crappy btw :( ) and make myself the Spanish skin, I don't have the skills to build the 3D model... let me know if there is any model available for the F5...

 

P.D: Jeg er Spansk, men jeg er gift til ei Norsk jenta og jeg bor i Norge! Best land i verden ;)

 

Venlig hilsen

 

Tulkas

[OldCrow]

hehe kult!:)

 

Funny you mension that, I do have a f-5 model hanging around, not completed, and with no damage or lod model. Its the same model as the virtual turkish star uses, if you are interested I can send you some pics, feel free to add me in your msn;)

[Tulkas]

hehe kult!:)

 

Funny you mension that, I do have a f-5 model hanging around, not completed, and with no damage or lod model. Its the same model as the virtual turkish star uses, if you are interested I can send you some pics, feel free to add me in your msn;)

 

 

Cool!!!

 

I am VERY interested. I will add you to my MSN when I get home in the evening.

 

Thanks!

[czarnyolek]

On meshfactory website is few free models do download. One of them is F5.

You can ak them for permission to use it, or just do the mod for your personal use, without need of any permission :)

They granted permission to VNAO and f-14 model, to release it free to LO community.

Still, it would be a lot of work to do in 3ds, to animate and wrap this plane in textures.