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Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby ebrowser » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:54 am


I just want to make the wings streamlined, aerodynamically shaped.
I'm always moving the vertices on the wings, but sometimes this is not very effective and efficient.
So I wonder whether there is such kind of tools in GMax.

???
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Re: Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:40 am

There isn't a streamline tool per se.

One of the ways to build a wing shape is to create a spline in the aerodynamic shape you want and loft it along a path.

Check out Firestriker's wing making (and other) tutorials (links from the FFDS Tutorials page - http://www.freeflightdesign.com)
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Re: Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby Milton » Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:53 am

If the wing uses a standard type foil and you have that foil, create a planar, set it facing left or right at centerline of the aircraft.  Size the planar the length of the root chord.

Apply your foil texture to it filling the length of the planar, therefore the length of the root chord.

In either left or right view, create a box with as many segments as necessary to structure the wing curvature.  Convert the box to editable poly, then move each row of vertices until you have the box shaped per the wing foil.

Just one more of many ways to do the job.  :-)

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Once done, repeat for the wing tip foil.

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Re: Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby ebrowser » Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:23 am

Thank you! Thank you!

I've found several gmax tutorials at those websites.
They're helpful. At least, they're much better than the P-38 tutorial of gmax!

Milton, I'll have a try.
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Re: Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby Mike Thurman » Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:27 pm

Try messh smooth, works for me ;D
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Re: Q:Are there any Streamline Tools in GMax ???

Postby ebrowser » Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:23 am

thanks,MikeT075.

I think I need a lot of practice. :)
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