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New wheels...

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:31 am

I could only find one picture that halfway decently showed the wheels, but I think I got them down pretty good...
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Re: New wheels...

Postby Fr. Bill » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:54 am

Nice!  8-)
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Re: New wheels...

Postby Travis » Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:01 pm

Lots and lots of polys!  Yay!

Looking great so far, Kevin.
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Re: New wheels...

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:06 pm

Oh come one, it's only 7200 per wheel!
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Re: New wheels...

Postby garryrussell » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:10 am

Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres :o

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Re: New wheels...

Postby Alejandro Rhodes » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:34 am

Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres :o

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I was about to say the same thing..

Carefull ! with the poly countdown  as Travis saids , he's right ,may parts can be imitate using Bitmaps ,watch the wheels of the default FSX planes the engines ,the fuse the are a little bit square saving polygon and even though the Surface map "Bump" made the B747_400.mdl has 8 mb :o
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Re: New wheels...

Postby Windycat » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:01 am

Just a  remark about your tyres, just check the following details to make it a bit more realistic, add the inflat valve,or any significant technical details that could be set by means of  textures.
check if there are some grooves or pads on the rubber, to drawn your own texture with traces of wear.
I' currently use FSDS flight similator design studio to built my own creation. If you want I can try to make such a texture for you.
the low pressure look of such wheels can be figured using a specific shape of tyre as engine and Aircraft has stopped.  
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Re: New wheels...

Postby Wing Nut » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:30 am

Sounds like you are building it in feet while the scale is set to metres :o

Garry



Actually, what I usually do is find out what size the images are, make sure they are all relative to each other, the create a plane the same size as the pixels of the image using generic units.

Just a  remark about your tyres,


Thanks for the advice, but the exercise was in the rims, not the tires...   ;)

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Re: New wheels...

Postby Fr. Bill » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:45 pm

Kevin, set your Preferences to 1 unit = 1 meter. This value is for EXPORT ONLY, and has nothing to do with your modeling.

You can then choose any system of measurement you want to work with IN Max/GMax
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