Designing your own fleet
One of the reasons for the popularity of Microsoft Flight Simulator is the possibility of adding new features to the simulation.
For almost ten years, flight simmers have relied on Louis Sinclair's FS Design Studio (FSDS) to create tens of thousands of aircraft that fly the FS skies. Built from the ground up specifically for Flight Simulator, FSDS puts an impressive visual tool into your hands for you to mold drawings into ready-to-fly models.
Several years in the writing, Adam Howe has released the first of five "books" that will guide the modeler from the basics to the advanced stages of aircraft design using FSDS.
Aircraft Design Guide Book 1 starts the series with many of the FSDS basics.
Table of Contents - 80 pages
Chapter 1: Basic Setup
System Requirements
Windows Vista and Windows 7
Chapter 2: Installing
Installing the SDKs
Installing FS Design Studio
How Compiling Works
Chapter 3: FS Design Studio Preferences
Setting the Paths to the Compilers
Default Texture Location Project File Location
Compiler Settings
General Preferences
Design Units
AutoSave and Undo
Display High-Res Textures Full Size
Chapter 4: Compiling
Testing the Scenery Compile
Troubleshooting
Testing the Aircraft Compile
Chapter 5: Planning The Design
3-View Drawings
Gimp 2
Screen Capture Method
Opening A Saved Image
Editing the Image for Backdrops
Chapter 6: Loading the Backdrops
Settings the Scale
Centering the Backdrops
Finding the Center of Gravity (COG)
Available by convenient download
The book is presented in Adobe's PDF format ready to read.
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Other books in the Aircraft Design Guide Series:
- Modeling the Aircraft Exterior - Now Available
- Using the Boolean Operations - coming
- Animation and Texturing - coming
- Modeling he Aircraft Interior and Virtual Cockpits - coming
- Panels, Guagues and Aircraft Configuration - coming