Has someone or can someone make this model?



More information,
http://www.bvmjets.com/JetKits/KingCat/kingcat.htm



This might be the finest of all the sport jets. Is there any interest in making one for AFPD the finest of all RC simulators?

Joe Kelley[8D]

My friend Michael and his king cat.


Joe

Your three-ways are awesome. It makes the hole wireframe modeling much easier. I’ll make a King Cat for aerofly when my time frees-up a little. Please be patient:-)
Pat

Thanks TWRC!! THis is the finest sport jet in the industry. It would be a blast to have for AFPD!~).

JOe

I was inspired by your thread so much I started the wire/frame right away. Didn't have allot of time but here's what I have so far.

You are the man!!!! I will look for videos!

joe

Got in a couple more minutes on the King Cat this afternoon, more like two hours
Here's another picture.

Dude! You rock! That is absoultly gorgeous! You are a magician!

Here is the product page,
http://www.bvmjets.com/JetKits/KingCat/kingcat.htm


JOe

Thank you Joe for your kind words. I surely leave allot of room for improvement. I’ve only been at the 3D art for a year now. Here’s yet another picture of the progress. The wire frame now needs landing gear and then I can start the TMG and TMD file writing. Only a couple hours left before the first Test flight. Need some sleep now. ZZZZZZZZ


Pat

wow thats just awesome! you should write a tutorial on how to do it that good!

do you just follow the lins on the 3View? and then add bits to make it look better? whats your secret?

Ian

Hi Pat,

That's beautiful[X(]!!! I'm thinking vectoring thrust!!

Thanks Guys

Hi Ian,

To answer your questions, I simply create my objects with an alpha channel assigned to the texture @ a setting of 50-60. This makes the object translucent so I can work over a picture, plan, or 3-way drawing. With the King Cat I just set one of the 3-ways Joe provided as the background and worked the wire frame over the drawing.
With the translucency I can see the background through the wire frame. I like to have a texture assigned to the object so I can rotate the object occasionally in order to make sure I like what I’m seeing. The wire frame alone gives me little depth or contour comprehension. Use F1 F2 and F3 keys to square up the wire frame on one of your three axes. I attached some images below to illustrate what I’m talking about.
I also like to create all my parts separate and then import them later into one model file. The Clone symmetric tool literally cut your time in half.

Hey Greg,

Thrust vectoring did go through my mind after flying Dietmar Kühn’s Harpoon "Freestyle" for AFPD. Might have to figure out how to configure the TMD file

TWRC very nice............thank you and have a great weekend....Max1[8D]

Pat, this is going to be awesome. Your work speaks for itself, very very nice.

Joe

Here is a video. I will look for some more.
http://www.voy-tech.net/Videos/kc/KingCat1-1.wmv

Joe

thanks for your tips Pat!!! i think im gonna have to get metasoi.....cant spell it, again, i lost it when i got my new PC and i cant find a working link[:@]

got a link, thanks greg!

do you start to work from a cylinder and extrude it in different directions? or do you create all the faces manually?

Pat is this Patrick Libby? Looks realllllly nice!

Dion, this is gonna be the best model in a very long time for AFPD. It is a mixture of old and new pattern with turbine smoothness. The smoothest jet aerobatic plane I have ever flown and may ever. This is my very very top of the wish list plane. Pat you are awesome!!

JOe Kelley

Ian, I do use a cylinder for round or compound curved fuselages. Use the shape closest to the part your making. Also handy is you can segment primitive objects before you create them. Click on the button called segment that aperies after selecting the primitive function under the command control box. I found a cool site for making models in Metasequoia. The site is for FMS modeling but the basics of creating shapes is the same. This is an awesome site with great tutorials.

http://kimagure-hikoki.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index_e.html

Here's the Metasequoia link. I have used all the versions and recommend the MetasequoiaLE R2.3b-2 version. The least buggy, but keep a zipped back-up of the original version as Metasequoia can corrupt itself once in a great while.Save your projects offend and delete the hold program and unzipped the backup if Metasequoia gets funky The first sign that Metasequoia has corrupted is the free select tool will stop working or select only surface faces.

http://www.metaseq.net/english/index.html

Hi Dion, Ive be away from the computer modeling for a while now. I can only allow myself to spend small amouts of time at it but almost enoy it as much as designing the real thing......Almost

I started to wright the TMD and TMG files last night. I hope to get back to it tonight. I would also like to spend some time on some nice textures as the textures I have on it now are only the 3-way graphics the Joe provided.


Hi Joe, I don't know if it will be the best model for AFPD in a very long time as there is some very nice work out there at this time but I hope people will like the King cat.

Later, Pat

Vector thrusted? :P

I'll have a crack at that if you like!

Well duh ....

Pat,

your work looks fabulous!
We're all eagerly waiting for the result.

Great job.

Regards
Karl-Heinz (Rodeo)
www.rodeo.onlinehome.de