Static corsairs

[Hooky722]

Does anybody know of or khow how to make a static Folded wing corsair i can use as deck traffic??? Doesn't have to be corsairs anything early 50's for use on the CG carriers and AI ships I'm working on a freeware F2H banshee model in Gmax but given i know naff all about GMax and even less about 3D modeling I'm not holding out too much hope

Cheers Hooky

 

[trucker17]

You might want to PM Roger-wilco-66, I think he did a corsair with folded wings for his Solomons scenery.

 

[ian elliot]

Buy coincidence, this turn'd up in the library last night, may not be exactly what you want but he may have more ideas---

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?95943-F7F-3-Tigercat-scenery-objects-zip

cheers ian

 

[Hooky722]

OOOOOOhh thank you gents that maybe just what I'm looking for I'll PM roger wilco and see what he says

Thanks again

Hooky

 

[expat]

Does anybody know of or khow how to make a static Folded wing corsair i can use as deck traffic??? Doesn't have to be corsairs anything early 50's for use on the CG carriers and AI ships I'm working on a freeware F2H banshee model in Gmax but given i know naff all about GMax and even less about 3D modeling I'm not holding out too much hope

Hooky, whatever it is you are up to, I wholeheartedly approve!!

 

[Hooky722]

Anybody know how to add multiple ones and tie them to the same BGL\MDL file?

 

[trucker17]

I usually just copy each and place them.
I use ADEX for my airports.....

 

[Hooky722]

I usually just copy each and place them.
I use ADEX for my airports.....

Thanks trucker, but I'm afriad its no good MDLConverterX cant find any models in the BGL file I'm out of Ideas and time now I'm afraid. Really really wishing we had a tool for this there's more than enough call for one.

 

[Dimus]

You can convert normal or AI aircraft models to static using the SAMM tool. There are options for animations like doors or folded wings. Always seek original creator's approval though if you intend to distribute. You need to do some reading before use of course.

http://stuff4fs.com/open.asp?Folder=SAMM&JS=TRUE

 

[Hooky722]

Thanks for the advice guys these are all very good ideas you see getting a model to show up in sim that's the easy part. The hard part is multiplying the models and positioning them together at a set height so they can stay on the flight deck As it's moving I can see how it's done bit I have no idea of the procedure or the tools used

 

[roger-wilco-66]

There are all kinds of static corsairs in the Solomon 1943 package, see links below! Feel free to use them, but please assign new GUIDs to the models when you extract them out of the bgls and add them to another.

Cheers,
Mark

 

[Hooky722]

Thank you Mark that is most kind of you I really appreciate it.

 

[Hooky722]

Hi All,

Well, I'm afraid I'm calling it a day on this one folks it seems the only way to do what I'm trying to do is to use gmax and since the FSX SDK's (THAT MEANS ANY OF THEM!!) Flatly refuse to install on my system there is no way of me importing anything from Gmax (not that I know the first thing about Gmax anyway) so that as they say is the end of that! Very sorry if I got anybody's hopes up but I don't have the time or patience for this atm. The only people that I know have pulled it off in the past are Lazarus and Warren (WombRaider78) so maybe they could help but that's the end of my pursuit into the Static modeling world!

Thanks to all for the advice and encouragement,

Hooky722

 

[Hooky722]

OK so after I calmed down (And my blood pressure returned to normal levels!) I decided to give installing the SDK and this modeling malarkey one more try and after an arduous few hours I managed to get it to Install I have now sucessfully managed to create a static deckpark of F2H3's using the free Gmax source model by Gray Wolf downloaded from the fs freeware design site. Does anybody Know if Gray Wolf is still around because at present I don't have any texture files for this model and in the README he requests that he produce the texture files before publication? Currently I have colored the Materials in gmax but I would really like some markings and details added. Here's some screenies of what I have so far. I also don't know how to make the glass transparent or shiny yet.

Any advice welcome

Thanks,

Hooky

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

Nice, good start IMHO! My advice would be: keep going!
Do these models have any mapping? If so, you could swap some simple colors at a texture sheet and that would mean a simple but good start.

 

[expat]

Hey, way to go Hooky!

Thats one big heard of Banjo's on deck - not sure in that config if you could launch or trap though . .

That Valley Forge ( your yellow number 45?) looks like the CFS2 boat by Colin converted by Lazerus and here at SOH. My fave Korea boat and aim to add Colin's WWII Intrepid skins to it for warbirds ops. Great effort and result on the statics!

 

[trucker17]

Looking good Hooky.

 

[Hooky722]

Hey, way to go Hooky!

Thats one big heard of Banjo's on deck - not sure in that config if you could launch or trap though . .

That Valley Forge ( your yellow number 45?) looks like the CFS2 boat by Colin converted by Lazerus and here at SOH. My fave Korea boat and aim to add Colin's WWII Intrepid skins to it for warbirds ops. Great effort and result on the statics!

Yes you are correct on all points the screens were taken whilst I was still getting the positioning right so don't worry I'm doing a recovery and launch models but need someone to texture the models and make the cockpit glass transparent although that's not essential I guess.
I'd like to do it with the static corsair tigercat and bearcats but I keep running into trouble when converting from Gmax to MDL I'll try again later today

 

[Hooky722]

Anybody know how i reduce a model to 1 LOD???

Hooky

 

[Hooky722]

This is why I ask:-

Anybody know How I get all the LOD's to show at once for the life of me I can't work it out

Cheers Hooky