#1392517 - 08/13/04 02:40 AM
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Did it take to do the HP 0/400?
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#1392519 - 08/13/04 01:24 PM
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Curiosity I'm sure. Some folks here have some experience modeling, and they probably want to make some comparisons. So, about 165 hours of work. That's only a week, if you don't sleep or anything. Easy, right? So you can toss together a Zeppelin-Staaken Giant bomber, one of the large Caproni bombers, maybe a Blackburn Kangaroo and the Dornier Rs III, in s snap now. Attack of the big planes! Droops
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#1392522 - 08/13/04 02:46 PM
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Originally posted by Xeidos2:
Why do you ask? I heard how easy it is and it didn't sound right.
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#1392524 - 08/13/04 11:27 PM
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I can tell you for OpenPlane FS-WWI, making a single seat fighter with cockpit, damage model, flight model and skinning can be done in about 2 weeks. Usually tho it takes much longer as no one has THAT much free time all of the time. P.S. This is with 3 people working on the project, not one.
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#1392525 - 08/14/04 01:39 AM
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I do!!!! Not by choice though.
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#1392526 - 08/14/04 05:09 AM
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For an RB model I averaged over 150 iterations per model before I was ready to publish. That normally translated into about three months of steady work from start to finish. Now mind you I didn't have to produce a single texture for the model since I was able to use stock bitmaps for everything.
One of the first models I decided to tackle was the FDHG3. This is in many ways very similar to the HP 0/400 since it's a large complex twin engine bomber. I swear after a while you seem to establish a strange love hate/relationship with your models. You do so much research that in your minds eye you know what this thing looks like even though you've never seen one. The hate comes from all the hundreds of hours you have to spend at the computer to make it a reality. Add in the frustration of getting your model through the conversion process and it's a wonder that any modeler decides to do another one.
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#1392528 - 08/14/04 07:48 AM
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I agree... Really a love/hate relationship going... I've actually never built a whole 3d model from scratch. I usually assemble, program, code and tweak existing models. I've also never completed an entire skin from scratch either. I tweak existing skins, and remap models to fit most of the time. Call me the head quality control man for FS-WWI who just happens to be the project leader and distributor and community liason all at the same time. It is indeed no easy task by any means for anybody to complete a model, get it-game and such. I have respect for anyone who does it, esp modders out there.
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#1392529 - 08/14/04 07:52 AM
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So do I.
Years ago I used to do flip books in my spare time. And it was not easy. So I can imagine just how much harder it is to model for a game like this or Il2.
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#1392530 - 08/14/04 06:08 PM
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Oh, there can be any number of frustrating moments even after you've completed a model. For instance I built mine at a time before rigging a plane was ever considered possible. Some guy slaps wires on his model and now it's the hot ticket so yours just sits there, and will probably never be used. Months of hard work wasted for the want of a simple bitmap.
There are humbling experiances too like the time I was working on my tank project, and ran into the guy that started the whole modeling craze for RB. Blackjack as he was known then wanted to show me his new RB model, so he sent me the files and we jumped into a server so I could see his new toy. There he was flying a perfect replica of a 262 with animated exhaust flames and everything...lol. Don't you just hate guys that are that good?
I learned a lot from Blackjack, and one of those was to take time off to have some fun with a new idea. Building my fire breathing, wing flapping, Dragon was a lot more enjoyable then any plane I ever did.
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#1392531 - 08/15/04 08:53 AM
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With any model it is the horrible long drawn out slog between building the big bits and finishing off the fine detail. With some it's not too bad. The SPAD VII was a dream to build. I had good pics ( inside and out ) and the plane just seemed to build itself! Lovely. The Nieuport Bebe was a case in point. Lovely plane outside... bit of a problem on the interior... Nothing compared the the Gotha GI though Or the Caproni Ca33.... finding good cockpit pics and interior detail was like finding rocking horse manure
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#1392532 - 08/15/04 09:00 AM
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Yeah I was finally able to find good interior pics for the Ca.33 and Ilya V. The Ca.33 pit is on the to-do list.
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#1392533 - 08/15/04 10:21 AM
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With any model it is the horrible long drawn out slog between building the big bits and finishing off the fine detail.
Yes, indeed. Gibbage, who has both modelled freeware flight sim planes and commercial ones, says that to make the plane model for a screenie needs two days and to make it work in the game (LoDs, DM, animation, posibly texture mapping etc) takes the rest of the month. A realistic view and something to keep in mind when seeing screenies or when talking to people that have modelled something, but never finished something for a game, or that do ship the plane without LoDs in a sim that needs them. You can then create the screenies in game instead of in the 3D modeller . finding good cockpit pics and interior detail was like finding rocking horse manure
Yes. people reading WWII or WWI stuff see pictures or drawings of exotic parts of exotic planes and think historic research should be easy. But when you need something specific (say cockpit of Gotha GI), it can be hard or even impossible. I was on the airshow in Baden Baden (no typo ) last weekend and spoke to the owner of an aviation bookshop. We spoke about the bucket under the Ju52 auxiluary bomber. Of course the Ju52 was one of the premier planes of WWII, maybe after the Me109 the second most photographed German WWII airplane, although admittedly not as aux. bomber. The bookshop owner told me that until shortly ago there were no photos or drawings of it's inside!! Just recently some came to light in Russia. Another case in point: Even WWII manufacturer drawings can be wrong. We just the last few days looked for Hawker Hurricane drawings. There are of course a lot around, but most are different from each other, so which to use. Our expert said to use those by Arthur Bentley. Bentley first drew the plans with everything a plastic modeller needs, which is thankfully very similar to what a 3D modeller needs. Only then did he go to Hawker and compare them to the plans Hawker had stored on microfilm. They were one of the first firms to convert the old paper planes to mircofilm to archive them for posterity. His plans did not match with Hawker's general plans at all! After a bit of time he saw Hawker's "general outline" plans were wrong, actually different plans from Hawker contradicted each other. So, it is not surprising there are so many cr*p plans around.
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