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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Milviz Updates 24 Oct 2010, T-38 Unveiling!

There we are ;-) Much better !
Pay attention to the lower rear fuselage where the fuselage outer lower corners joins the fwd edge of the skinning of the tail pipes. I believe this area is too tapered/rounded. The aft end should be more squared here and the aft end vents in this area, should be more prominent.
Apart from this, the model looks superb !!!

Thanks
 
krazycolin said:
oh... i forgot to mention... the landing light isn't fully extended and that's why it looks wierd... sorry about that...
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Even if it's not fully extended it just doesn't look right. The light assembly looks too big and the back of it looks sloped in a funny unusal way for what is essential a simple fold out light?!!!

I'm sure you've done your homework, I guess I'd need to see more to be certain.
 
We will take a look at the landing light. We have a lot of good documentation and photos of this bird. It never hurts to go back and verify. Especially at this stage as it is a lot easier to just go in and change it.
 
Quality work!

But then again, you guys are MilViz. Anything else than to notch is the beginning of the end of the (FSX world). :icon_lol:
 
Question for one of the Milviz folks . At the milviz visualization site there are large amounts on models . Are these work in progress for FSX .
 
No. Colin and his company have done a lot of those models for movies, demo's, presentations, etc. He also does government contract work and such. He also has done various models across the flight sim industry (for companies such as Alphasim, A2A, Iris, FSD, etc.). I came on board when he decided he wanted to try it for himself, and we have managed to get together a good team of people (Bill, Bernt, Gunnar, Ken, and many others!) who love what we do. Some of the models that we have released were re-worked from some of those models you are asking about. Unfortunately that is what led to the really bad frame rates in earlier models (many of them are several hundred thousand poly's)... So now we custom build all FSX models from the ground up in order to help improve the FPS. So many of those models on the website will not be re-worked. We have a couple in the pipeline right now that are being re-done, but the vast majority of stuff we have upcoming (like this T-38) are brand new projects. Hope this answers the question. If you have any aircraft you would like to see we are wide open for ideas. Especially if we already have a model in the inventory as that means we have the necessary research material. It wouldn't be until probably a year from now before we even start though.
 
The F-111 I cannot talk about because that is a partner project went sour and is most likely dead now. They have moved on and released other birds... As for the Hawkeye well. We will see what the future brings (and I am pushing hard for it), but it is not on the table at the moment. That was going to be the aircraft I learned to do poly reduction on, but I got another project instead. :jump: At some point though I would like to see a C-2/Hawkeye type package. I think they are very cool aircraft, and I am hoping my next set of military orders allows me to go work on them in real life. Right now though we are knee deep in about 5 to 6 projects (obviously the Nemeth's code our helo's, and the F-15 was sourced out for coding as well), so our workload is truly only focused on about 3-4 of those specifically. Once we clear the T-38, F-15, and a couple of these other aircraft from the slate hopefully before X-mas we can then take a pause and get started on next years stuff. That is the plan anyway, and you all know how that goes. :isadizzy: I know with the 310 we had a good timeline for that, but we kept wanting to push it farther and farther which wound up making us push the date farther and farther back.. I think the aircraft turned out very well though, and we learned quite a lot.
 
OK!!

Roadburner440 said:
No. Colin and his company have done a lot of those models for movies, demo's, presentations, etc. He also does government contract work and such. He also has done various models across the flight sim industry (for companies such as Alphasim, A2A, Iris, FSD, etc.). I came on board when he decided he wanted to try it for himself, and we have managed to get together a good team of people (Bill, Bernt, Gunnar, Ken, and many others!) who love what we do. Some of the models that we have released were re-worked from some of those models you are asking about. Unfortunately that is what led to the really bad frame rates in earlier models (many of them are several hundred thousand poly's)... So now we custom build all FSX models from the ground up in order to help improve the FPS. So many of those models on the website will not be re-worked. We have a couple in the pipeline right now that are being re-done, but the vast majority of stuff we have upcoming (like this T-38) are brand new projects. Hope this answers the question. If you have any aircraft you would like to see we are wide open for ideas. Especially if we already have a model in the inventory as that means we have the necessary research material. It wouldn't be until probably a year from now before we even start though.
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But Does he Know what he is Talking About?:bump:
 
In terms of what I know or don't know... well... I will leave that to others to decide. We (the Milviz team) just want to make the best AC possible for the best price point.

The landing light is correct. We have two (not one but TWO) actual T-38 pilots and both agree that it is correct.

NEXT!!!!
 
Since you asked, I'd still love to see a beautiful P-40E. I'm sure MilViz could do a superb job on this. I'd like to see one that's of the caliber of some of the latest FSX models that have been introduced lately.
 
I'll have to say it again...... I would love an F-100C model with no tanks. However, I don't really care what a developer makes, so long as it is a work of love. If the developer is really into the aircraft, then the final product will be enjoyed by all. This T-38 looks first class, I can't hardly wait.
:salute::salute:

Chris
 
Roadburner440 said:
No. Colin and his company have done a lot of those models for movies, demo's, presentations, etc. He also does government contract work and such. He also has done various models across the flight sim industry (for companies such as Alphasim, A2A, Iris, FSD, etc.). I came on board when he decided he wanted to try it for himself, and we have managed to get together a good team of people (Bill, Bernt, Gunnar, Ken, and many others!) who love what we do. Some of the models that we have released were re-worked from some of those models you are asking about. Unfortunately that is what led to the really bad frame rates in earlier models (many of them are several hundred thousand poly's)... So now we custom build all FSX models from the ground up in order to help improve the FPS. So many of those models on the website will not be re-worked. We have a couple in the pipeline right now that are being re-done, but the vast majority of stuff we have upcoming (like this T-38) are brand new projects. Hope this answers the question. If you have any aircraft you would like to see we are wide open for ideas. Especially if we already have a model in the inventory as that means we have the necessary research material. It wouldn't be until probably a year from now before we even start though.
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Thanks for sharing that . So if you start to build a plane than it gos sour,is that it for that plane . Not talking about the model .
 
skyblazer3 said:
I'll have to say it again...... I would love an F-100C model with no tanks. However, I don't really care what a developer makes, so long as it is a work of love. If the developer is really into the aircraft, then the final product will be enjoyed by all. This T-38 looks first class, I can't hardly wait.
:salute::salute:

Chris
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I know what you mean. All I want is a F-22. Hopefully one will come before the end of FSX .
 
We really do not like to shelve products. Unfortunately the issue for us is not building models. We can build a model in about 3-5 weeks, and then send it off for texturing for about another 2-3 weeks. Our issue is coders. We were fortunate enough to get Bill on board for the 310 to do the hard coding, and Bernt to do the flight model. Without them the 310 would be nothing more than a rendering in 3DS max like the other models... We do not want to make a model and not do it justice. While we do not go as far as modeling oil levels and such. We do like to have a large degree of realism in the numbers, and flight model itself. Bernt has been working tirelessly for about the last week on the F-15's and T-38's high altitude performance numbers, and finally had a breakthrough with that in the last 2 days. The F-111 add's a lot more to that mix being it is a sweep wing, and that completely changes your aerodynamic loading depending on the sweep angle (and about a million other factors it seems). It may come into the pipeline at some point, but that remains to be seen. That is the main reason we started doing models in house ourselves. The F-15's were initially going to be an outsourced project, and that is why they got shelved due to us not having the technical capibilities until recently. So stuff does get picked back up.
 
Unfortunately with the F-22 the modeler has been extremely sick for some months now (I do not personally know him, but have always wished him well).. When he recovers, and hopefully can resume work on the F-22 we will progress forward with that. The F-15 is going to give us a good base for that, especially with the weapons systems. As far as legacy birds go here is what I would like to see. While the F-100, P-40, and all are good choices. I myself am pushing for Naval aircraft (I guess you can say I am biased :cool:). I would like to see us do a C-2A, E-2C, S-3B, H-60B/F/H, An-225, Tu-95, and Mi-26 (this is my wishlist, not a list of upcoming aircraft by any means). I think everyone will be happy with our upcoming lineup though. The T-38, F-15, A-109, and CH-47 are the tip of the ice berg.
 
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