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RobertVA Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: designing a plane in FSDS" 08-10-02, 05:45z  Are you planning on making planes for versions of MSFS earlier than 2002? One thing I REALY like about FS 2002 is the virtual cockpits on the FS 2002 specific planes. I gather the GMAX included with FS 2002 Pro is required to make planes with virtual cockpits though. Apparently there is a newer version of GMAX that has to be downloaded or installed off a recent issue of PC Pilot magazine's companion CD(#17 issue 08). I gather GMAX still needs files from the FS 2002 pro CDs to produce planes though. I haven't seen enough about GMAX to see how similar using it might be to using FSDS. I get impression both involve connecting series of cross sections to make each part (wing, fuselage, engine nacelle etc) of the plane. I gather a better level paint program is required for making textures to cover the parts (additional shareware fee for program on FSDS disk). Been thinking of trying my hand at a few fantasy planes myself. Don't know enough about how any real world plane's handleing characteristics to use the name of a real world plane on anything I might create. Robert Near KORF Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      designing a plane in FSDS    Extra300S       08-09-02              RE: designing a plane in FSDS    RobertVA       08-10-02       1            RE: designing a plane in FSDS    Extra300S       08-12-02       3         RE: designing a plane in FSDS    DeeWaldron       08-11-02       2

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