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FSXA Airbus A350 XWB

hairyspin said:
Ground crew have been careless too, some blighter has dented the cabin roof. I like how the open doors sit against the hull and the little details. Keep going!
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Oops... You're right... Thanks for the notice!
I don't know if the doors are rightly placed. Meaning I don't know if they should be so close to the hull...
 
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So today I worked on the front gear whell and the doors... also the rear gear got a look at:

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Hello, very good job! Congratulations! Do you want help with modeling the Virtual Cockpit and other parts? I use Blender and I realy want to help you with this project.
 
krispy1001 said:
Looks Good F747fly!:)
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Thank you! Not as great as your Ultrralight though ;)

AASE said:
loving the details and model keep it up.
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Thank you, I try to add as much details as possible!

Dito1209 said:
Hello, very good job! Congratulations! Do you want help with modeling the Virtual Cockpit and other parts? I use Blender and I realy want to help you with this project.
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Thank you! but I don't think I need help at this stage ;)
 
The amount of detail at the nose gear cover holders is too much in my opinion and a threat to fps.
I recommend to put such details in the texture.
 
I'm willing to discuss on the topic of FPS vs details... In this case I referenced to other addons (my favorite addons to be precise) and found that what you're discribing is indeed commen, those it is goodby for most vertexis in those gear cover holders... Also to get back on the wheel thread topix... I've decided to do that with textures aswell... seems like most developers of addons are and I obviously try to resemble them as mush as possible ;)
 
Yeah that's how I meant this.;)
I hope you did not delete the high poly one though as it can be used to bake high quality textures.
 
dave hoeffgen said:
Yeah that's how I meant this.;)
I hope you did not delete the high poly one though as it can be used to bake high quality textures.
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No unfortunately I don't however I've seen that the detailing isn't verry necersarry... I looked at some addons and none of them have detailed gear cover holder.
 
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Have you started animating the gear? It's a good idea to work the animation process while modelling the parts to see how they will work together. I see now that you will need to do some more work on the nose gear for the steering to work properly.
 
Paul Domingue said:
Have you started animating the gear? It's a good idea to work the animation process while modelling the parts to see how they will work together. I see now that you will need to do some more work on the nose gear for the steering to work properly.
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I've not yet started animations... I think I'll be animatin soon though.... I was going to start doing that while a repainter (with whom I'm currently talking through about what to do) is working on a livery or two.... But could you please tell me what you noticed on the front gear?
 
You have the steering mechanism attached to the shock tube but I don't see a rotation collar that will allow the drag links to rotate.
 
You would have eventually figured it out that's why it good practice to start your test animation early in the modelling stage and save yourself a lot of rework later.
 
Thanks man, a simple moving operation fixed it, now all she needs is two plates (they seem to have no name is the airbus drawings):


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But perhaps it's a good idea to see what some animations do at this point...
 
Actually I'm curious who'll guess what this part is (while keeping in mind that the cylinders are springs) ;)

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EDIT: I guess that it is a bit too difficult... So here's the awnser, it is the Forward Side Stay of the Rear Landing Gear:

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I personally think it looks better then the primitive one I had before...
Also you can see some parts are still missing, those are in the making.
 
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The gear before:

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after:

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And still working on, although I must say I'm not certain about the way I connected the door....
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Finally, I'm glad to see such an amazing work on the A350!
I'm really looking forward to it.

If you think you ever need beta-testers, please count me in.
I've also been in Airbus X Extended betas.
 
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