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F747fly said:
Actually that wouldn't have been a good reply, since (unlike the girl in that image seems to be) I'm not hysterical. And in order to achieve "realism" I will eventuelly have to give it some sort of fly-by-wire system, thus no wouldn't be correct.
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True, true
 
krispy1001 said:
You are very welcome!

You are doing an incredible job modeling!!:)
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Thanks! Now I was thinking of making this a day of two milestones for this. The first one being the textures on the fusalage. ;) The second one I thought would be nice to post an image and perhaps get my 100th like, but I already got that just now :)

Still showing the image though ;) Bare with me here. I'm not a repainter, I have tried it in the past but always without luck. Still I could noot resist testing some texturing myself... ofcourse something went wrong and it turned out black... So it's back to the exporting the textures ;) So here are some alternative images:

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And since today I reached that 100th likes, I'd like to thank everyone for their support, nice words and help with this project. I've still got a long way to go with this project, but I think that with the continuing support from all of you guys I'll have a lot of fun making it! thank you all!
 
Fixed it and now you can see for yourself why I've got someone who knows what he's doing paint it ;)
I painted this and it is awful...

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See...
 
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I'm impressed with the speed that you're making progress.

Either Blender really helps your workflow or you're dedicating 24 hours a day to the model. :D
 
Heretic said:
I'm impressed with the speed that you're making progress.

Either Blender really helps your workflow or you're dedicating 24 hours a day to the model. :D
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I got to spend more time on it lately. Although I'll pause for summer soon. And Blender does make it easier for me but I need to still learn a lot about it. But no I'm not developing 24/7 ;)
 
Well I finally figured it out! I don't like UV unwrapping ;) Don't get me wrong I know it has to be done but it's so annoying....
See I currently got the fusalae unwarp as follows (see image below) with a nose that has been split in 32 pieces and all of those need to come together inde four parts to get a good texture sheet... Also the doors you can see wil be a problem with this. I might have to start the UV unwrap all over again... I'm thinking of just starting modeling of the pilots just to avoid the UV unwrap for a second ;)

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I would recommend you to seam the nose cone from the fuselage and project it from the front instead of making these stripes.
 
Well I guess I'll have to. Also I wanted to share wit you guys an interesting feauture I just found in Blender, I don't know if this is a well know feature or not but still... When pressing the V key in UV unwrap the selected face immediate alligns perfectly with the face it should be alligned with, so no more dragging around faces trying to allign them to their neighbour but just pressing V....
 
the "project from view" feature I guess?
Be careful with this one: Enlarge the outer edges in the UV map so the top faces of the plane ge as much pixels of the texture as the sides.
 
Your doing an amazing job F747fly, it looks amazing! I am really looking forward to painting this bird once the paintkit is released!
 
dave hoeffgen said:
the "project from view" feature I guess?
Be careful with this one: Enlarge the outer edges in the UV map so the top faces of the plane ge as much pixels of the texture as the sides.
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Might very well be, I just don't know. But I must admit I used smart UV unwrap, I don't know if it isn't better to sem everything amd then do a normal unwrap.

Brianguy100 said:
Your doing an amazing job F747fly, it looks amazing! I am really looking forward to painting this bird once the paintkit is released!
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Thanks! I don't know when the paint kit will be out but I might make it accesable before release to give people the opportunity to make some repaints... I don't really know yet.
 
Anyway there are moments that you just want to have some fun flying the creation, today I filmed such a moment. Here it is:


And yes, the ailerons aren't fixed yet... I tried to but it didn't work so another attempt is required ;)
 
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