sophocles

Absolutely gorgeous!! Love the details

Speaking for myself, I really appreciate your gesture cocas . The vets on this forum have already been extremely helpful and forthcoming with any help I have requested and I am sincerely grateful .. this is a great community! That said, I am actually looking forward to when one of my projects is released so that I can "earn" modder status. I really do not expect any priviledges that come with the "promotion" before then. Centurion's ideas are great and I would be more than happy to contribute my stuff to fellow modders in order to avoid duplication of effort. Regards

You're right there RussoUK2004, but who knows? it may be that we some day get the type of views we had in FSX where you can pan around the cockpit .. or for the sake of dynamic shadows in the pit, we'll have to have closed mesh.

Thanks for the tip:)

Thanks all for your encouragement! Finally .. I think I've got the control column done .. it wasn't easy:)

Thankyou very much for the reply Paladrian. Including the cockpit mesh into the external model mesh would be far too taxing as far as polys are concerned .. at least for my for my F-5 .. guess I'll have to make the most of baked textures:)

Oh My!!! she looks absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!

Hello Centurion-1, it's not as high-poly as one might think. With only one meshmooth iteration, the polycount is just under a K

one more ..

Hello all, just a small update, getting all the details into the cockpit. There's plenty more to do .. I'm also thrilled to say that Brain32 and I are joining forces to complete the cockpit!

You mean to include the external model mesh in the cockpit mesh lods? I'd appreciate some clarification, as dynamic shadows are very cool!

Holy Moly!!! There's some excellent work there .. that MiG-15 looks absolutely gorgeous!!!!

I too learned the hard way .. had to cut my fuselage into 4 pieces (was forced to collapse my mesh after sub division and then cut it..) regards

Centurion-1, The polies themselves are not that many with the extra meshsmooth iteration; you just have to be careful that no one mesh in the model is greater that 4-5K polys. Given that, the A-37 could benefit from the extra smoothing as is evidenced by the improvements in the air-intakes. I am however curious as to why the difference in smoothing is not so pronounced on the other parts of the plane (wings, vertical stabilizer and such). Are you using smoothing groups which may be impeding the smooth process? You're doing a fasntastic job .. this second rendition is eons better than the original. Regards

Just curious Centurion-1, What would the polycount go to with one more iteration in meshsmooth? Could be worth it? Regards, Sophocles

Oh Yeah!! Centurion-1 that is a really good start! Glad you're adding polys

Outstanding work!!!!! You have a pm ....

Ooooooh! I'd love to see it! Coming from you it'll be darn good!! Maybe we could talk about commonality? I'm thinking of super-detailing mine .. perhaps we could avoid duplication of labour?

Oooops!!! I know the legend ... ehm "The Wrench" Sorry, just not good with 1st names .. ok; I'll stop putting my foot in my mouth now .... I too am seriously looking forward to Centurion's A-37!!!!

Forgive me Veltro2K, but who is Kev? (I know I'm an ignorant bastage.. How do I contact him? Thanks for the encouragement Muy bien, but it'll be months before I get the model anywhere near release..

Also, does anyone know a site which details modern era (1960s-70s) us aircraft gauges and graphics? Thanks in advance

Hello all! After suffering some burnout for about 6 weeks I've fallen in love with my project again. Here's a first glimpse of the cockpit .. Anyone know what the standard gunsight was for one of these? All the pics I have show different ones?

Absolutely Drop-dead Gorgeous!!!!!!! Ablolutely love the colors on the HAF camo scheme; is it based on a real example of a HAF paint-scheme or is there some artistic license?

Thanks to all for your encouragement Weekend's here! hope to have an initial view of the cockpit by Sunday. Regards

Hello all, Just a little update; I've got the animations sorted out and the plane now sits nicely on the ground (now just to unravel the rest of the flight model .. I know next to nothing on this so may take a while..) Also nearly finished this version's external model. I think I'll start on the cockpit for a bit of a break before modelling the other versions. I've also just added the wing pylons and some 150/275 gallon tanks. Regards