Julhelm

Sure. This is how the pit looks now. Still lots to do.

Well it's mostly done. The real holdup atm is the cockpit which I haven't had time to work on lately. Also I need to setup decals for it and model a couple special stores it needs.

There was also a shooting spree in Orlando. Guess these nutters inspire one another.

If he really was a sleeper he'd probably have pulled a McVeigh and blown up some serious infrastructure on the base. Shooting sprees like these where random guy goes postal and guns down a bunch of random strangers happen all the time and it's always because random guy is a nutcase, so why would it be any different this time around?

It sounds like he's one of those guys who signed up for the college benefits and then freaked out when he realised his butt might be in danger, so he used his religion as a cover.

This is shocking news to say the least. Noone should die so young. RIP

I have a truckload of early Macair concepts for what became the F-15, including VG variants. Would you like me to post them or not?

Good initiative. There's also the possibility of recycling and refining surplus fat (from food joints or even tummy tucks) into jet fuel. The only reason biofuels are 'less efficient' atm is because current engines are optimized for running on oil-based fuels.

Looks like Q-5 Fantans.

The joys of testing

Very nice.

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Did you find the flight manual useful?

The A-12 was one hell of a s**tty design that was even less suited for carrier use than the commonly derided F-111B. Basically the navy had no idea what it really wanted (Hint: A stealth strike a/c does not need to have AIM-120's for self defence since the whole point of LO is to not be detected, and especially when these requires bays to be cut out in the most highly stressed part of the entire airframe. Also the need to carry 24 Mk82's internally is a ridiculous demand). Also even if the A-12A had met it's 40.000lbs weight limit it would still have lacked a waveoff capability, so I'd wager the flight characteristics are quite accurate. It should basically be a suicide plane to land on a carrier as you only have one shot.

It has a lot of shallow panels on the sides that you could just texture on by using max's render to texture function using a projection. Would save tons of polys.

Why so many sides? I bet you can save several thousands of polys by just making all those parts 8 sides instead of 18 or whatever it is you're using now. Also the wheels seem to have objects inside them that aren't doing anything?

Well it does look like 5-6000 poly mesh to me. Do you have lots of sides for the cylinders that form the landing gear and such stuff?

Could you post some wireframe images?

The models look accurate and nice but you are using way too many polys for that level of detail. Generally you can get away with only 12 sides on cylindrical objects like guns or oleos in order to make them appear smoothly rounded. Generally, for realtime graphics, smoothness is not a valid excuse to use lots and lots of polies. 10.000 is a good goal for a plane with most details modelled. Anything more than that and there should be geometrical detail that cannot be faked with textures to justify it. If you can optimize these down to a reasonable polycount like that I can help you get the models ingame.

Hope WPNSSGT finds use for that EB-52 I sent him.

I get a single aircraft appearing in the sky now. So does the sim only handle one transport mission/nation at one time? Also I have DC-8's that are supposed to operate as recon flights from the neutral airbases, but these don't seem to show up at all. Maybe each airline needs to be it's own country?

I'd recommend you guys visit www.cgtextures.com to ease the workload a bit.

Are you going to do any of the stuff I posted, too? :D

So what's the reason for the insane polycount?

I've a hard time seeing how that can be over 40.000 triangles as it doesn't look that highly detailed. Can you post wires please?