new plane announced

Posted 30 April 2012 - 01:48 AM

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Posted 30 April 2012 - 12:51 PM

SwitchFX, on Apr 30 2012, 01:48 AM, said:

What's your field of work? I tried C4D once but I just never got the hang of it. I had never heard of Rhino before your post. 3D Max was the only program that was superb back in the early days. I've got an old copy of 3D Max in my folder. I haven't used it in years. A year ago I gave something called Blender a whirl and it was a little difficult to use. The software ergonomics were a pain in the butt. I downloaded a newer revision the other day and it's much easier to use. Main interests were only custom device architecture and room development.

naval architecture / marine engineering. rhino is.. awesome... especially v5 coming out. way cheaper than solidedge or solidworks or other surface modelers. it uses nurbs and is designed for engineering so it's a lot more precise than max or c4d which are more just for visual work.  plus it has plugins for stability, hydrodynamics, structural analysis including FEA and CFD.  gmax has a direct import for .3dm files.. which is rhino. i think a few fs developers use rhino.  i actually do have blender also... you can't beet something that's free lol.  that's what i used for a long time before i could afford c4d ($650 even for the student license   ) in the last year blender has really exploded with all kinds of new tech.. now there's even water, particle, cloth, and hair simulation.. it's become basically the free version of c4d.. but lacks the user friendless and due to it's coding a lot of the plugins are way over complicated.

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Posted 30 April 2012 - 05:40 PM

jcovelli, on Apr 30 2012, 10:51 AM, said:

naval architecture / marine engineering. rhino is.. awesome... especially v5 coming out. way cheaper than solidedge or solidworks or other surface modelers. it uses nurbs and is designed for engineering so it's a lot more precise than max or c4d which are more just for visual work.  plus it has plugins for stability, hydrodynamics, structural analysis including FEA and CFD.  gmax has a direct import for .3dm files.. which is rhino. i think a few fs developers use rhino.  i actually do have blender also... you can't beet something that's free lol.  that's what i used for a long time before i could afford c4d ($650 even for the student license   ) in the last year blender has really exploded with all kinds of new tech.. now there's even water, particle, cloth, and hair simulation.. it's become basically the free version of c4d.. but lacks the user friendless and due to it's coding a lot of the plugins are way over complicated.

Very nice. I just looked up your information; will you be heading into a privately held company or go the government route since many of your university's graduates have gone that route? I did some digging around at work today because I thought you could do just that with AutoCAD but apparently you can't. It seems Rhino 3D is the industry "standard" for ship design, development and virtual testing. Rhino 3D is affordable in terms of Adobe product affordability as a comparison. I've always said that it's not the tool that matters, it's how you use it. Blender is free, but it's very powerful if you know your way around it.

Edited by SwitchFX, 30 April 2012 - 05:41 PM.

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Posted 01 May 2012 - 12:29 AM

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Posted 01 May 2012 - 12:42 AM

jcovelli, on Apr 30 2012, 10:29 PM, said:

i was working at a firm that designed small commercial craft.. fishing vessels, ferries, tugs, stuff like that. but now, i'm actually gonna be doing a payed internship with Bill Prince.. who's a well known yacht designer. that's really what i want to do.. pleasure crafts, yachts, and smaller passenger vessels. there's a lot more freedom and creativity along with that rather than going with the government or "big" shipping.. tankers and such.  eventually i'll start my own studio.  and yeah.. there's the ShipConstructor software that is autocad based.. they buy a license from Autodesk and basically change things around and add a bunch of plugins and make it more geared for ships than civil engineering... a single seat license is $35,000.. and $7,000 a year after....  i won't be touching that anytime soon lol.  (i would assume AutoDesk charges them a fortune.. )

Indeed they do. I'm very familiar with Autodesk's business models. Sounds like a good plan. Good luck. Off topic question, but do you know if Prepar3d allows for destructible material or things possible that FS didn't? It would be awesome to finally shoot missiles and have the land destruct.

Edit: If it does, I'll probably start modeling some of my very old plane designs I came up with. They're a little over 15 years old, but they're still good.

Edited by SwitchFX, 01 May 2012 - 12:53 AM.

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 07:13 PM

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 07:44 PM

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 04:12 AM

SwitchFX, on May 1 2012, 12:42 AM, said:

Off topic question, but do you know if Prepar3d allows for destructible material or things possible that FS didn't? It would be awesome to finally shoot missiles and have the land destruct.

There is almost nothing that FSX doesn't allow.
What you're looking for is nammed TacPack, made by VRS, in beta phase right now.

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Posted 03 May 2012 - 02:29 PM

It would be nice if the plane crumbles if you land it wrong, though it was already pretty good in FSPassengers, with the failing gears, propellor that stops working when it hits the ground and the screaming occupants.

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 10:49 PM

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 10:56 PM

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 12:05 AM

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 06:57 AM

SwitchFX, on May 4 2012, 10:49 PM, said:

Sure, I'd love to use something graphic intensive with code that delivers crap gaming performance. Genius.

FSX delivers crap gaming experience ?  Sorry, it seems I forgot I was on FlightSimWorld forums here. My bad  

Edited by Daube, 05 May 2012 - 07:11 AM.

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 07:30 AM

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 03:50 PM

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 11:14 AM

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 11:27 AM

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 01:05 PM

_TW_, on May 6 2012, 11:27 AM, said:

Yeesh!  2500K = $180.  Graphics card = $200.  Motherboard = $150.

The rig in my sig is handling FSX beautifully at 1920x1080 with Payware add-ons.

No no no nooooooo... no.
You're on FlightSimWorld forums here. The rule is simple: IF it doesn't run on maximum settings at more than 100 FPS, then it doesn't run at all.

Also, you DO need more than 30.000,00$ in order to run FSX at more than 5 FPS on medium settings.

Keep that in mind, and stop trying to be smart  

Edited by Daube, 06 May 2012 - 01:07 PM.

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 02:58 PM

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 03:38 PM

Daube - I am sensing lots of sarcasm  

Switch - Definitely bigger than a small bump.  I've been here since '03, started running FSX on a Athlon X2 machine and a 256MB X800XT.  Ran nice on Medium settings and 4xAA. I've upgraded plenty of times and have went through countless amounts of graphic cards.  I'm telling you, the system in my rig will run FSX the way it's supposed to run; smooth and with the appropriate filtering applying (8xAA) with almost all settings close to max.  And at the prices that I listed above, that certainly isn't the end of the world.

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