Citation Excel Project

[EirePlane]

did you click on I agree at the bottom

[EirePlane]

BTW do we need an easier to remember address e.g www.citation.fly.to

[jlvandem]

Hey Katahu the cockpit is incredible! I'll have to send you the cabin as soon as possible so you can add it up to the DVC then when that's all together I can attach it to the exterior model so it's viewable when flying. Thanks alot for the forum Mitchel it looks great and hopefully we'll get some more people registered. Oz thanks for the CJ2 I'll start work when the Excel is finished. It's going really slow right now because I'm still kinda learning Gmax. Oz could you also please add a link to the forums? The URL is in one of the previous posts by Mitchel. Thanks.

Justin

[adam_h]

Yea, i clicked on the I agree..  If you want to register me you can and you can make it Goose adam adam_h i dont care.  My email is also adamhulse@earthlink.net if you want to go forward with this.

[Oz]

those forums look great mitchel, nice job. hey im thinkin you can just add a color to the forum backround, the aluminum bar doesnt really go with the rest of the page. You can either leave it white and apply the logo which ill send you later or get color 99 148 214 or similar. Unfortunately i cant get into geocities right now but ill try again later. Katahu, been workin on the the VC textures, stayed up till pretty late makin some of em. For the control panel i tried to stick to photo-real switches and all. I found this amazing pic of the Excel cockpit and i am also modifying it so i can make it into a 2d panel.

BTW we'll have to move this conversation to the forums soon, gettin too long..

[Katahu]

Yeah, I agree. Hehe.

Besides, the new forum loads up slighty faster than these simviation forums.

Hey Oz, you're not the only one who stayed up late. I worked so hard on both the cockpit and new project that I actually went to sleep at around 2:30 AM.

As for the cabin of the Excel, try to compress it into a little Zip file so that it can go through the e-mail more easily.

I'll try to test out the DVC in FS2002 so that I can make sure that the animated parts are moving like they are supposed to in the simulation. That way, I won't accidentally send you guys a faulty cockpit.

BTW, I have already registered myself to the new forum.

[jlvandem]

Hey guys, I've been to work on the model for about 2 hours this afternoon and I thought I made some pretty significant progress so I took some pictures...






... Obviously it still needs some work. Right now I'm trying to fix the areas bleeding through the outer part of the fuselage (any ideas how to fix this?) Then after that I need to model the airstair on the inside part of the door. After that I'll do the gear, then cut out control surfaces, and finally do all of the animations I need. I'd also like to cut out the cockpit windows and get the DVC placed in the model. Could you please send it to me Katahu? I also remember reading about making a lite version of the model. I think it was Katahu. We're gonna have to decide which version is gonna have what. I mean for the lite version are we just gonna take out the interior so it's easier on FPS or should we be taking out more? Let me know what you guys want. Thanks.

Justin

PS Katahu I saw the car you're working on and it's incredible. Would ya mind making me a '76 Corvette Stingray II in your spare time? Pleeeeaassee It's ok if you can't though.

[Oz]

thats some very good progress indeed. keep up the good work

[Katahu]

Excellent work there Jlvandam.

As for the car of your choice, no problem. Corvettes are my favorates as well.

I'll send you the DVC soon. I'm still testing it out on the simulator.

I have more pics of the car I was busy with. It looks better than before.

But this time, I'll post it on the Raw Screenshots forum. I want to see a lot more feedback.

As for the giving the Citation Excel a simple form as well, I would suggest taking out the cockpit since it has a moderate to high polygon count (due to the wall). Or maybe I would just get rid of the Meshsmooth Modifier so that the wall will be in its simple form.

This project has progressed so fast in a short time already. We are really making good progess.

[Oz]

Hey im thinkin, how bout we send Avsim or flightsim.com an 'announcement' of our joining as a group and our current projects? This way we'll have more traffic to the site and more posts in the forums and all that. Anyways just a suggestion...

BTW im workin on the 2d panel now and just a few things left to do on it. I might post a pic when i get a bit more progress.

PS: Katahu as soon as i get done with the 2d panel, maybe tonight or tomorow ill send you all the VC textures. Almost all are done except a few.

[Oz]

Also, ive got this panel pic of the excel



But as you can see the panel's color is a bit bluish, 125 140 181 to be exact. The Lear gauges are grey and really dont match this panel. So can someone provide me with at least a very closeup pic of the panel, specifically the PFD, or simply a pic of the citation PFD.

BTW lets start using our own forums, 100 replies now in this topic...Also Eireplane, i sort of have an idea of the 'decoration and image arrangement' of the forum site. If you dont mind please send me the sign-in site address and ID name and password if nessesary (PM it to me). Just wanna change some things around, but you'll be the webmaster for this forum site though

[jlvandem]

Ok my last post in this thread. First off that's awesome that you love Corvettes too Katahu! I love the Corvette Stingrays. They're just awesome! I'll look for some pics. Ok now back to the topic. Whenever you feel the DVC is ready I'll take it. We'll have to decide what to do to make the aircraft more framerate friendly once we start testing it. I run pretty much the slowest PC you can run FS2002 on so if we can get decent FPS on my PC we'll be good. I'm running a PIII @ 500Mhz and a GeForce 2 MX400 so I think it'd be good for low-end system tests. Oz I've never really figured out how to submit an announcement to Avsim or Flight Sim so if you know how that'd be awesome! It'd definately let the public know what's going on over at our site. Also on the 2D panel there's a handy little tool somewhere on this site that lets you change the colors on gauges. That should help adjust the Lear gauges for you. If you e-mail me I have the administrator's login address so you can make some cosmetic changes to the forums. I agree that the silver bars for background need to go. Well I'm to our forum now.

Justin

[Oz]

Ok ive worked on the forum page a bit now. Took away the backround and just left it white - nice and basic. Changed some of the color around to match the CC logo text and have added a new logo to the top. I have created a screenshots forum and have deleted the new ideas forum. Eireplane, your post is safe, its in the Citation Excel forum. IMO anything relating to the project/model should be placed in there. Also, while tinkering with the settings i accidently changed the font size and cant find the option to change it. Eireplane or Justin, if you dont like this font you may change it however you want - that goes for anything you do not like including color or backround (made it white cause couldnt think of anything else..but it doesnt look bad IMO) Well there ya go

http://citationcrew.proboards22.com/index.cgi

NOTE: Ive made the all of us moderators, and Justin and Eire are administrators. 'Webmaster' was me for a while, but this can be used as an emergency admin account. If any of you have problems getting into the site, please tell me. Adam, ill try and make an account for you later on if no one can do it

[EirePlane]

I have made your account adam and yur usrname is Goose, your password is in the E-Mail
BTW wuld we be better off with a shorter URL like www.citation-crew.fly.to

[Oz]

yeah, should have thought of that at the begining, but we'll have to stick to geocities for a while. Hew BTW is the logo at the forums site working? I can see it fine but justin says he cant

Darn, the main site is down too. too much data tranfer..
Hey eireplane, whats the main fly.to web site to sign up.. i think we may have to change andput a link on the geocities main.