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MSFS20 Airbus A340-600 - Project reopened

Bartolomeus

Bartolomeus

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Hi,

I have decided to put my C-17 on hold and work on my favorite civilian airplane.
The Airbus A340-600.

Actual poly count of the model is 31.964. Next step is to cut the windows in
fuselage.

3d Studio Max Renders with Mental Ray.

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Deep Exploration Renders.

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Regards

Marko
 
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Don't cut cabin windows on such a large model, because window configuration varies from operator to operator and you will have to model a low-polygon cabin!

Other than that, it looks good.
 
Thank you Heretic and Daniel! I thought I get better results with a low poly 3d cabin and "real" windows. But I can try both, a fuselage with textured windows and one with 3d windows.

Marko
 
Bartolomeus said:
Thank you Heretic and Daniel! I thought I get better results with a low poly 3d cabin and "real" windows. But I can try both, a fuselage with textured windows and one with 3d windows.

Marko
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I would actually recommend cutting out the windows and modeling a low poly cabin. This has become sort of a standard nowadays. While it's a decent bit of extra work, the end result is very rewarding. Recommending against doing so is suggesting to lower the quality of the model, IMO. ;)

If you wanted to have window options per plane, you could create an in-game configuration manager that lets you plug/unplug certain windows.
 
Hughes-MDflyer4 said:
I would actually recommend cutting out the windows and modeling a low poly cabin. This has become sort of a standard nowadays. While it's a decent bit of extra work, the end result is very rewarding. Recommending against doing so is suggesting to lower the quality of the model, IMO. ;)

If you wanted to have window options per plane, you could create an in-game configuration manager that lets you plug/unplug certain windows.
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Do you know how bloody impractical that is with at least 30 different window configurations?!
 
Actually, I'd say forget about the different window configurations. Most people aren't going to notice that it doesn't match a particular airline's configuration, and even those who do will for the most part not be bothered by it.
 
Cutted windows always look much nicer than painted windows, and it's easier for repainters as well. The windows are automatically in the right place and you don't have to take them into account while painting. Besides, painted windows always look pixelated while cutted windows are much sharper.

The fact that there are multiple window configurations doesn't matter that much. Nobody is going to count all those windows anyway, as long as it looks more or less like it they're fine with it.
 
Hmm, think about it before you cut anything out. Even make a duplicate of the fuselage before doing this, as backup. I guess cutting will also cause shading artefacts at the edges of the windows (like you can observe near the doors now, but is typical for 3D meshes as far as I know).

And I'm sure there will be people that count windows ;)

Anyway, I like your model! ;)
 
Nice progress! The landinglights seem to be a bit buggy though in the last picture
 
Skinner_11 said:
It's only a render, so I guess we don't have to worry about that :D
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Oh, I'm not worrying at all! By the look of these renders I can tell the developer has some skills, so I bet he has skills to fix that problem ;)

Skinner_11 said:
Looks really nice! Sadly these beasts are getting less and less, the T7 are substituting them... But at least we will still be able to fly it virtually :wave:
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There doesn't seem to be room for 4-engined airplanes besides the A380 anymore... The 747-8 has only 120 orders in total (69 of them were freighers) where the A380 has 319 orders and none of them are freighers. The 747-400 is being phased out slowly. And just like you said, there are getting less A340s at the moment. Not to mention the IL-86 (120 build)and IL-96 (29 build), which only fly in Russia and ex-soviet states.
 
No, we're not. You maybe, but I can do with the already present offerings.
 
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Really? Ok.
Just thought that since the Crash Recovery A340 is still in beta, and that WaterHard don't intend on publishing an A340. Alrighty then! Have a good day! :)
 
Hello,

the Airbus A340 was set to hold, because of my maritime simulation project. And I haven't enough time for other works. But after switching from the P3D platform to MSFS 2020 I'm very excited about the new sim and I will try to give the Airbus a small push.

I completely reworked the fuselage and the wings with the turbines. Next on the to do list is to update the landing gear and the control surfaces. And to start with the interior.

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Marko
 
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