NightRaven's Shed

[Alpha Star]

Looking good man! Don't forget to PM those HQP-GAC Migs to me! They are looking awesome.

[NightRaven]

They on Dropbox already. Download them from my Dropbox folder, complete with blanks, dat, dnm, coll and cockpits.

-- Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:33 pm --

Added TF58's 747 turbine fans with his permission. Also added main fuel tank and more spikey little lightning dissipators on the elevators and rudder. Thrust reversers as well.

[MrFunnybone]

God dammit! you're progressing way faster than me. I've been slacking on updates recently

[NightRaven]

Made some good progress.

Landing lights (part 1) are done.
AND THE FRIKIN HARD TO DO COCKPIT WINDOWS ARGH

Rebuilt the central tank to accommodate the main gears.

Spoilers separated and rotated for upcoming animation.

-- Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:02 pm --

Remade the cockpit windows. Manually shrinkwrapped onto the fuselage.
It took me 45 minutes...

[Flake]

Transparency for the lights: SLOWLY gradients down from 254 at the farthest point, one step at a time. keep the color the same. Trust me I'm an engineer, etc. etc.

[NightRaven]

The colour is the same. The entire landing light srf is a transparency. I split it into 6, then assigned ZA values of 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180. It's just Blender bitching up and giving that nasty peep-hole effect.

-- Sun Mar 30, 2014 3:23 pm --

Been busy of late...

Main gears are done. Wheels and body have had subsurf applied.

Ailerons and inner flaps are completed and rotated.

Rebuilt the wing as well to accommodate the gear doors.

[decaff_42]

looks good.

Just be careful with the subsurfs. you don't want to explode the number of verticies and lag up the model.

[NightRaven]

Been very busy...

I've only managed to start on the nose gear. Most of it is done, though. Including the lamps for the gear lights.

aaaaaaaaaand .blend file is 2.24MB...

[aeTIos]

whenn are you ready. I want to give this thing a paintjob ASAP. :3

[NightRaven]

Nose gear lamps are done.

Also started animating the dnm
and then
I noticed that I missed out on lots of things
but still


As you can see, the left wing is done, complete with flaps, ailerons, spoilers and slats. The wing will be edited later (I hate the slats now).
Also, thrust reverser animation is complete, and so is the rudder.
One little tid-bit:
There is an inner aileron that works only when the flaps are down (I think), so I went ahead and made one.
So, when flaps are up:

The aileron doesn't move.
But when flaps are down:

The aileron moves accordingly.
Gear and gear door animation are also complete.

Things to patch:
The actuators for the flaps.

Gear bay (yep just realised that)

And a nose gear bay and doors.

[decaff_42]

looks really good! I like it.

[NightRaven]

So, more progress on the DC-10-30...

Gear bays are done (though the other parts had to be redone).

You might notice the left and right main gear doors aren't working anymore, as I remade them from scratch to accommodate the gear bays. The flaps were also redone for the same reason.
Actuators for the flaps are also finished.

In the actual aircraft, the flaps pivot around these actuators, so...


Yep, they are now connected, instead of just floating there.
Its pretty cool, IMO.

[decaff_42]

Looks amazing. My only suggestion for the flaps, is for there to be a little piece about mid-mover that connects the two halves of the mover. Sorta like the 737s.

I think that little piece would add a lot of bang for the vertex.

With that aside, let me go find my eyebrows and jaw...they're around here somewhere...I hope.

[Turbofan]

You know I'm always excited when someone's making a brand new detailed model of an aircraft and this time's no exception.

Just a few tips if I may:
-if you can, adjust the front of the #1 and #3 engine cowlings so that they don't taper as much, like in this shot. They're almost flat.
-it might just be the screenshot playing tricks on me, but the gear *might* need to be a bit taller

I know you are trying your best on this so no criticism here, just some things to do if you can, no worries either way .

[Dan]

Looking tidy

[VNAF ONE]

Wuuut, how come I didn't see this before? I smell mid-air refueling

[NightRaven]

-if you can, adjust the front of the #1 and #3 engine cowlings so that they don't taper as much, like in this shot. They're almost flat.

hue

and

[Greenhorn]

Looking good... *jealousy intensifies*

[NightRaven]

The flaps are almost done, just need a few edits here and there...

With that almost complete, the DC-10-30 blank is nearing completion.
Also added some landing lights
which exploded the dnm size

They are small, but noticeable.

[iqmal_97]