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break it down into it's parts and debug, also give recalsrf.pl a try and invert the normals that way.
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Export each mesh as an srf, and then re-assemble the model. So far in my efforts to do this I have encountered a few things.
1) make sure to scale the parts before exporting them. The scale I was building in was 1/10th real size, so I scaled it up before dealing exporting the srfs
2) make sure that the parts are centered. I forgot that the drawings I was using were not centered properly, and such all the meshes are off in the y direction. To compensate for this, once I import them into the new blend file, I open up edit mode and select all and set the average y value to 0.
3) making the moving parts parented without inverse to the empty objects, may not allow for animation. I will test this soon after I build up the fuselage.
By exporting the meshes as SRFs, their position in object mode and edit mode are switched so that in object mode they are at (0,0,0) while in Edit mode they are at (x,y,z)
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It's still coming, just not as quickly I ran into a slight scaling problem after 5 hours of work and took a break. I'll be getting back on that probably in a couple weeks.bernholm wrote:Wholly offtopic, but... When will you update us on the Philippines.
Tu-95
I did a quick propeller animation test last night that failed spectacularly, so I will have to try a few more things. I'll try the rudder next, because that seems the easier to do according to the animation tutorial.
The good news is that the model looks the way it should in YSF now, so WOOHOO!

-- Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:43 pm --
Okay, My initial success with getting the Tu-95 body to work crumbled into non-existance as any attempt I made to animate it failed completely.
Therefore, I decided to work on the F-18 Aggressors for a while. I am proud to say that the D model is almost ready for release.
I re-vamped the cockpit animations to match the physical model's movement so that for example, when the canopy was open, the instrument panel said it was.
I added the fuel probe from Flake's YSAAF hornets and matched the animation CLA.
I found and fixed a rouge part of the afterburner that was happily spinning and flying around 20m outside the plane.
To get the rest of the C models ready, I have to do a lot of dnm work and CLA editing to get everything in place, but now that I know the things I have to do, it should go faster.
Once I get that done, I will then deal with the A/B/C/D "blanks" and get those animation CLA's ironed out.
Then I can do final touch-ups on the dat and then release them!

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A little update on another little project.

a while back I made a missile that was designed to be carried by the Tu-22M3. To match the missile, I have upgraded the Tu-22M3 from the Oranleed Pack to include a few decals and other mesh changes to match this plane: 1 2
I will include a couple of features such as a realistic bomb load, per wikipedia and other images I've seen.
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I looked at a bunch of different models, and it seems that all of the empty objects are in a different layer. I have yet to see how to move the empties while keeping the parented parts in the normal layer as the non-moving parts.
My animation woes aside,
After fine-tuning the F-18 aggressors, I have begun the final painting and part inserting to create the final pack. I fixed my .lst issues as well as it was stupidity on my part that caused them in the first place...

I have decided to release the A/B/C/D blanks as a separate pack.
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Here's the beginning of the first livery. Can anyone guess the carrier?

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Spotted one at YYZ a while back and fell in love with the paint.



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I think I'll label them B737-700_WestJet_C-FGWJ of something like that so that you can select different planes. For some airlines, there may be different schemes for the different tail numbers, but those will probably be different model types (B737-500, -700 etc)
I think that making the 737 AEW&C could be reasonably be done with the blanks I've made, I'll probably give that a shot later on after some other paints.
I'm thinking of doing these planes, I'm not sure if I will be able to, but a few would be nice. Garuda Indonesia -800
Canjet-800
Cargoair -500
British Midland -500
Malaysia Airlines -800
Regional cargo -200
Mango -800
La Sante icaro -200
Jat Airways -500
Air Central West Africa -800
Norwegian -700
Turkish -800
Zambezi-400
Transavia -800
Thomson-800
Air-Berlin-700
European-200
Avolar -400
Jet2.com-400 I definitely want to get a Kulula, not sure what scheme to go with. Maybe a This way up -800
Do you guys have any suggestions that would be fairly simple but good looking?
Here's the Westjet-700

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Registration numbers are now on the undersides of the wings as well as normal spot on fuselage.
3 different Westjet 737-700 serial #s and tail numbers and an update to the winglet.

Two 737-200 Air Berlin liveries. I will probably do a -700 or -800, more current livery.


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