Adam’s FS Design Blog

Here I am again with many weeks (months) between posts… I have been hunkered down writing the 3rd book in the Aircraft Design Guide series - the Boolean Operation. After 6 months from releasing the first 2, I’m happy to say that the 3rd book is now complete!

This third book Boolean Operation, covers how to cut out parts from existing parts - like the flap and ailerons from the wings, rudder from the vertical stabilizer, the elevator from the horizontal stabilizer and the windows and doors from the fuselage. Aside from the Boolean Operation, other topics covered include:

• Splitting Polygons into New Parts
• Adding Points
• Making a Polygon from Selected Points
• Creating and Assigning Materials
• And More!

This guide will walks through every step to create the tools and perform the Boolean Operation. It even shows you common road blocks and how to avoid them in future projects.! This book is 190 pages and costs only $14.95!

The books comes as PDF file that is installed onto your computer and can be accessed through the Start | Programs | Abacus | Aircraft Design Guide menu. Each book in the series comes with the FS Design Studio projects that are saved through out the book - so in case you get stuck wile following along, you can load in a project and see it in detail.

On schedule for the next book is texturing and then on to animation! I’m not sure yet if both will fit into one book - but it I’ll do what I can!

Check out this new book at the Abacus website at:

• Book 3: www.abacuspub.com/catalog/B816.htm

Get the first 2 books in the series from here:

• Book 1: www.abacuspub.com/catalog/b814.htm
• Book 2: www.abacuspub.com/catalog/b815.htm

Visit the sites to see the table of contents!

Thanks for everyone who purchased the first 2 books and their feedback! It makes it much easier to write the book knowing people find it useful! Please enjoy!

I know it’s been a long time and I have not been doing many new posts on here… I’ve actually taken the idea of these mini-tutorials to an extreme and have actually embarked upon writing a book that will walk you through designing an aircraft from start to finish. The book, or rather series of books, are called the Aircraft Design Guides.

I have completed 2 book in the series:

The first book, titled FS Design Studio Basics, covers the installation of FS Design Studio, the FSX SDKs, setting up the Preferences in FS Design Studio, test compiling and even 3-view drawings. I’m talking where to find the drawings, how to edit them using a freeware paint program, how to load them into FS Design Studio and how to scale them and center them! This book is 80 pages and costs only $6.95!

The second book is titled Modeling the Exterior and covers how to create parts and conform them to the shape of the backdrops. The book shows you how to model the fuselage, wings, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, tires and the complete landing gear assembly. The example plane is a Piper Cherokee PA-28. The second book is 190 pages costs $14.95.

The books comes as PDF file that is installed onto your computer and can be accessed through the Start | Programs | Abacus | Aircraft Design Guide menu. Each book comes with the FS Design Studio projects that are saved through out the book - so in case you get stuck wile following along, you can load in a project and see it in detail.

On schedule for the next book is the Boolean operation where I’ll cut out all the animated parts and windows of the plane including the ailerons, flaps, rudder, elevator, windshield, doors and door windows. After that, I’ll get into texturing and then on to animation!

Check out these new books at the Abacus website at:

Book 1: www.abacuspub.com/catalog/b814.htm
Book 2: www.abacuspub.com/catalog/b815.htm

Visit the sites to see the table of contents and coming soon - sample pages from the books!

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted and I am sorry for that! I thought this would be a good time to drop you all a note letting you know that Abacus has just released the FS Repaint v2.22!

Check the version you are using in the Help | About menu. If you area registered user of version 2 and are using a version lower than version 2.22, you can download and install the new version over top of your current version. You will need to enter your registration key/serial number during the installation.

• NEW - Support for more folders under SimObjects including Vehicles, Animals, Boats and Misc.
• NEW - Fine-tune the zoom using the mouse wheel (useful when very close to the aircraft)
• FIX - Maximum Screen Rosolution is locked to 2048 pixels wide to prevent crashing with large Desktop displays and the Matrox TrippleHeadToGo setups.
• FIX - Clipboard was not working on Windows XP when exporting to some graphic applications
• FIX - Access Violation when using the internal editor’s flip image
• FIX - Texture display with some ATI cards is imporved

It might interest some of you to know that there is a new pay-ware aircraft that was just released. The aircraft is the Cessna Citation X from Eaglesoft Development Group and was designed using FS Design Studio! Currently the Citation X is only for FS9 I beleive, but an FSX version is rumored to be on the way…

Check out the video!

 

I know I’ve been lacking in my posts recently and I apologize. We are busy getting new products out and I thought I’d drop you a line and let you know about a few of them. Some of these may not be on the site just yet, but they will be very shortly, others are already available… Continue Reading »