designing aircraft

[cb747]

I want to start making my own aircraft and i have no clue how to do it. So i was wondering if anyone could give me an in-depth tutorial about designing aircraft and if anyone could recomend some freeware for designing.   thanks alot

[alrot]

Tough question I recomend you by starting to install the freeware Gmax is inside of the cd 1 or also you can download it,

then download the gmax game pack here and install this package it will add more complement to the Gmax sofware intalation that youll need= gmax game pack

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsi ... ds_sdk.asp


and this guide is good for starting try to make something very simple a cilinder a table ,..

[Travis]

All the little bits of creating an aircraft are an ongoing project.  You won't have a complete aircraft very quickly, so don't worry about making things perfect for your first export.  Just start fiddling with Gmax, learning its quirks and issues.  There's plenty of time until FSX comes out, so I would recommend you just mess around with the program and figure out the basics of modelling before trying to get anything on the net.

You could also take a look at http://www.freeflightdesign.com since there are many downloadable creations there that can give you a sort of idea on how to create something of your own, along with a very nice forum that can give you some really nifty advice.  Many of the members here are also members there, as well as many others that are much more versed in the manipulations of Gmax than us.

Good luck, and don't get too frustrated!

[IanK]

Do you mean flight dynamics or graphics.

For the former see:
Never use FSEdit as it is broken. Use AAM or AirEdit or AirUpDate.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hsors/FS_Soft/index.html

for editors
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hsors/FS_Soft/fsairfile.html

for forum support
http://www.avhistory.org/scripts/MegaBB ... ?forumid=5

Ian