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Hello,
I recently started my project called "Project Dreamliner".
I know there are allready one or two 787s out, but I hope to make an aircraft for FS9 and X,
which has a very high quality and much detail. I'm pretty sure I'll release it both pay- AND freeware,
with differences in version and painting variety I think.
Guys who are interested in helping me with airfiling, lighting or texturing are welcome! I would of course strictly seperate the texture ressources from pay and free version. Of course if you want to help me and you'd also do for the commercial version,
we'd need to find a good contract , but I'm open for all tips, critic, and every arguement  8-) .

From time to time I'll show you my work - if you're interested or not!

Now I'll start with a question, I need your help!

Remember, I want to get this to really good quality!
What do you think of the polygon density this fuselage has?
Please tell me if you think it is too low-poly, too high-poly or whatever you believe how it should be.
And note that this fuselage has turned smoothing of for better visibilty while designing and no window and door cut-outs , yet.



best,
rev

Looks rather interesting...Will it have a VC?

Hey Rev. Thats a good poly count for such a large tube and it looks fairly good from that perspective. Could we see a non wireframe with some smooth applied you can always take the modifier back out.

Thanks!

Yes, I will include a VC, but need to find how I can make the gauges clickable in VC view.

Of course, I'll show you a smoothed picture in about an hour; I'm busy now.
I also just set it to non-smoothe because of I can better see which polies are wrong.

rev

Well, the view you requested

Edit:

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http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/preamup02.jpg - Original file.

I just overworked the fuselage! here the new file:

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I just saw I need to overwork the width of many segments, the top view backdrop wasn't scaled correctly.....

Now that looks beautiful! The shape looks very accurate...This should be good...But being me stupid me, I'm gonna wait till the actual 787 flies until I download it :-/

Good to hear about the VC...

Thanks again!  :D

But being me stupid me, I'm gonna wait till the actual 787 flies [...].

Well, I hope I get it finished before, though!  ;D

Didn't they fly it yesterday for the first time commercialy into Australia???  :-/

No, definitly not!????  :o
I am modelling a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that had it's roll-out on 7.8.2007,
not on the A380 that was delivered to Singapore Air at 15.10.2007!  ;D
best,
rev

Hi rev.

I'd be happy to provide the flight dynamics, if that would help. I did the FD for Moach's 737 Experience and have one on the stocks for his new 777 Experience also.

Let me know.

Great, as far as I know, the 787 Flight Dynamics are much like 777's.

Thank you very much, I'll contact you then!

best,
rev

PS: It may take a while I first have to finish FullSplash, and school is hard at the moment.
Earliest would be in Christmas vacations.

I wonder...Are there any shots of the actual 787's cockpit floating about? It would be a shame to see a fake VC...LOL...

You mean like this, Ash? Google's a wonderful thing ...  




Not a problem rev, take your time. I already have a rough first version: test-flying it over Washington state right now!

One question - which variant are you modelling? The -3, -8 and -9 have different specifications. (Not to mention different wings!)

Thanks.
Though the first picture looks like a fake to me (real background, computer-created Cockpit), I think I'll just refer to original Boeing pictures.
And as I have to make the exterior first, Boeing still has some time to upload more pictures of their VC.

Though I can't find the version info of my 787 on my hard drive I believe it was a 787-8.
I'll google for it later.

That's good - by coincidence I decided to make the FD for the -8. It's almost complete - pretty much just needs matching to the model now.