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 2 explains the techniques for creating the aircraft's exterior.
Table of Contents - 190 pages
Making a Tube
Adjusting the Tube to Match the Backdrop
Scaling
Constraints
Cross Sections
Symmetry
Copy and Conform cross sections To Template
Chapter 2 Creating the Wing
Wing Wizard
Clearing Templates
Creating a Template
Airfoil Specifications
Adjusting the Wing
Duplicating the Wing Work on the Other Side
Smoothing the Wings
Chapter 3 Creating the Tail
Horizontal Stabilizer
Extruding a Template
Vertical Stabilizer
Rotating the Part
Chapter 4 Creating the Prop
Creating a Polygon to From Points
Selecting Points
Creating the Prop Spinner
Making the Prop Disk
Rotating Using the Menu
Creating the Prop Blades
Chapter 5 Compiling the Model
Flight Model Selection
New Aircraft Specifications
Creating the Tires
Creating the Struts and Shock System
Creating the Scissor Hinges
Duplicating the Gear on the Other Side
Creating the Tire Shroud
Selecting and Deleting Points
Inverting A Part
Joining Parts
Finishing the Rear Gear
Compiling the Model Again
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:
- FD Design Studio Basics - 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