Recent content by Fly_electric

Long busy work days, but have got some time in on the sport jet. Mapping well on the way, and there have been some quick visits to the paint booth. Sorry for the slow updates!

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Legoman, Interesting info on using Blender. I assume so, but does Blender support snaps to align the axis to an edge? For tapered/dihedraled wings that is useful.

Got back to the sport jet last week. Gear and main gear doors are in and animated, but no nose gear doors yet. Was a bit surprised it flies KE pretty well-- although I freely admit to not being great at it. More to learn with this version of Max as with prior versions there was a way to get a...

ASJ, Yes, that was the first attempt. As for new models, the setup procedure can be repeated or the existing scene can be "saved as" under a new filename I think. But as you say the fix is simple. Thanks again for the help!

Thanks UT. A full 180 as Blender use to be the rarest 3d modeling pgm, with Wings a bit more popular. Models from both ( I thought) required running through Max for the pivots, but that has obviously changed.. ASJ, Thanks for your help. That was the ticket to get the test plane into RF8...

Started getting back into some modeling again. In the time since the last work, 3ds Max has changed from the 2018 to 2021 version. The issue I'm having is RF8 has always been ok with diffuse color map material for the tga file, but that choice looks to not be present in Max 2021. If a scene...

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