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

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    Downloads are now active. You may proceed with downloading as desired

    The download limits are a work in progress. Some settings are likely to need tweaking in the coming days.

Learning to model

NachtPiloten

NachtPiloten

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Well that is a question. To tell you the truth I started in FSDS and moved to gmax despite all the warnings how hard it is. It is exacting and the naming conventions must be adhered to etc. It is not impossible at all. It takes a no fear attitude, a recognition that you will fail, become frustrated, want to quit and generally ask yourself, is this what I want to do with my freetime?

Truly, there is a great tutorial at

http://www.simviation.com/gryphon/tutorials/gMax_00.htm

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=19204

There was a tut by Gerard Van Der Haast, excellent beyond words!

here's a fun one

http://www.tutcity.com/view/building-an-aerial-bomb-in-3ds-max.11659.html

These are the tools I used to learn. Not saying I am the source of great advice (just ask my wife). I'll help anyone wanting to learn, as I have helped a few over the past couple of years.

:ukraine:
 
I am learning to use G Max, and these tutorials have been a blessing during this process, as have the advice given by the Masters here at SOH..
It is a slow process for me, and i realize that it does take time..
To all whom maybe interested in Modeling, I say Give it a try,
If a Hobbit can try to learn this anyone can..
LOL..LOL..
 
NachtPiloten said:
Well that is a question. To tell you the truth I started in FSDS and moved to gmax despite all the warnings how hard it is. It is exacting and the naming conventions must be adhered to etc. It is not impossible at all. It takes a no fear attitude, a recognition that you will fail, become frustrated, want to quit and generally ask yourself, is this what I want to do with my freetime?

:ukraine:
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Amen. It's also a lot of fun when something you hacked away at for weeks suddenly looks like the real thing.

My habitual broken record, but there's also a great tutorial series for the beginning modeller by Milton Shupe. It's targeted at FS9, but much in practice is the same for CFS3. By the time the differences start to show, it'll be obvious you need to read the CFS3 sdk for real.

There's a sticky New links for old for this at the Aircraft Design and Animation forum here at SOH:- http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=93

the direct link to the series is:- http://www.flightsimonline.com/C162/
 
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