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FSXA Airbus A350 XWB

Naruto-kun said:
When it comes to gauges, the only limitations are skill and imagination. Your biggest challenges (assuming you want to go that far) will be the camera displays (P3D will make life easier in this respect), and the airport diagram maps on the navigation displays. The latter I am inclined to think are the most difficult.
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True! And since I'm slowly reading up on C++ coding for FSX we'll figure out if I can make something out of it soon I guess...
 
You will definitely need to read up on Simconnect too if you plan to put an FMC in. I heard that that is how you can modify the route plan data of the game while in flight.
 
TurboCompound said:
You will definitely need to read up on Simconnect too if you plan to put an FMC in. I heard that that is how you can modify the route plan data of the game while in flight.
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Not quite. That's for AI only.

With C++ no one is limited to the APIs provided by FSX. You can do pretty much what you like. The FMC would involve file streaming and string processing which gets handled with all the tools available in the windows SDK and elsewhere.
 
After being a bit bummed out over the news of other peoples projects faring well and mine not having any segnificant progress for a while I finally got back and did some stuff, including testing the UV. Now after seeing a thread here at FSD about someone making a DC-8, nice model BTW / kudos to the developer, which feautured a KLM DC-8 I got the idea for a test livery... It seemed a bunch of people liked that livery so I uninspirably followed. So may I introduce to you PH-XWB (for A350 XWB, no official reg has been released yet) or atleast it's fusalage....

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And now comes the ackward question... One object cannot have multiple texture sheets can it?

Also how do we know I painted this? Well see the doors? Yes, I painted over the window doors.... and forgot the white outlining....
Anyway I think it looks moderately good (or some might find it just about OK). Atleast postable on FSD I thought...

Cheers, and for the Dutch happy "Pakjesavond" tomorrow!

EDIT: BTW If anyone wonders why that is so dark two explanations, first the rendering has been done with a glossy effect, so the gray surrounding (atmosphere if you will) reflects and secondly I took the colour from an image, so it might have been a tone too dark already.... please see through that part....
 
F747fly said:
And now comes the ackward question... One object cannot have multiple texture sheets can it?
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Actually it can. when you are in edit mode just add another material, select the faces you want on the new texture and hit 'assign'. Assign a new texture to the new material.
Repeat as required.
Hope that's what you wanted to know ;)
 
dave hoeffgen said:
Actually it can. when you are in edit mode just add another material, select the faces you want on the new texture and hit 'assign'. Assign a new texture to the new material.
Repeat as required.
Hope that's what you wanted to know ;)
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It is! :) Sorry, should've realized that objects can have multiple materials and materials are inherand to textures.... didn't add those two up to form the conclusion. Thanks!
 
It's the old livery mate ;) No doubt the A350 will have the same livery as the newly delivered B787-9
 
Thanks guys!

And @Roel I know, but I've got a good reason for it, namely the extent of my PS "skills" doesn't cover curves.... forgive me for it ;) Also when I showed an image of it to another KLM-fan his first response also was "new livery! now!" :)

What this means though is that atleast the fusalage is paintable now :) the wings, engines, H_stabalizers and a whole sheet filled with randoms is still to come though. Shall I try another livery? just for fun!
 
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F747fly said:
Thanks guys!

And @Roel I know, but I've got a good reason for it, namely the extent of my PS "skills" doesn't cover curves.... forgive me for it ;) Also when I showed an image of it to another KLM-fan his first response also was "new livery! now!" :)

What this means though is that atleast the fusalage is paintable now :) the wings, engines, H_stabalizers and a whole sheet filled with randoms is still to come though. Shall I try another livery? just for fun!
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Send it over mate, I'll do some liveries for ya. Or teach you how ;) You know where to find me
 
Roel said:
Send it over mate, I'll do some liveries for ya. Or teach you how ;) You know where to find me
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Well I tried finding some pigeons to sent it but apperantly it's too heavy for them, even ten of them couldn't keep it aloft (little inside joke).
I'll mail what I made to you, though it's only the fusalage ATM... I'll send you the .PSD of this (which includes the UVs necessary to make liveries)

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This livery was great to test with because of it's sharpline ;) expect an email in a minute Roel ;)
 
Good work, but make liveries later (or let someone do them for you) but first get the model going. What's the resolution you use for your textures?
 
Dutcheeseblend said:
Good work, but make liveries later (or let someone do them for you) but first get the model going. What's the resolution you use for your textures?
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Well I need to fully unwrap before I can hand over the paint work to Roel. The resolution is 4096 X 4096. That is a big one though that's onlt for the fusalage, the rest will be smaller... Frankly I think the fusalage deserves a large texture, though I must say I took the texture size on recommendation ;)
 
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