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Aircraft
Made
with FS Design Studio
Here's
a few of the many examples of working aircraft models made with FS Design. Click on any image to enlarge. |
by Massimo Taccoli |
Stinson by Paul Clawson
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Sonex by Olivier Marechal |
Prototype P-51 by Warwick Carter |
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Gee Bee by Warwick Carter |
PBY Catalina by Warwick Carter & Dave Eckert
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Setting up to cut a door in fuselage by Bob Hayes...
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... Door is now cut and ready for steps and rails |
Over the years, tens of thousand of
aircraft available today were made
using FS Design Studio
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Windows cut into fuselage by Massimo Taccoli
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Click on any image to enlarge
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Scenery
Made
with FS Design Studio
As
you can see from the example above, users around the world
rely on FSDS to build some very complex aircraft for Flight
Simulator.
What may be one its hidden secrets is that many thousands of users are also making very detailed 3D scenery objects using FSDS.
As you can see by Steve Chase's oil rig below, no
scenery project is too big for FSDS to handle. Whether you
want to make standalone BGLs or MDLs for adding to FSX and FS2004-compatible libraries, FSDS can produce them easily and quickly.
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USS Gerald R Ford by Ron Jeffers
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Galaxy Oil Rig North Sea by Steve Chase
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Constructing a picket fence by Massimo Taccoli
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| FS Design Studio delivers these powerful design features for creating incredible new models: |
- Design using 4-view interface. Simultaneously, you'll see the top, back, side and a fully movable 3D perspective of your project.
- Zoom in or out on any of the views when you need to perform extremely detailed work.
- Change the screen and background colors to suit your preference
- Overlay "background" images, for example an outline view of a building or aircraft to help shape your parts.
- Use any of the predefined "primitive" objects and drop them into your project to your exacting numerical specifications.
- Change the size and shape of the objects using one or more of the built-in tools.
- Move, rotate or resize any individual part or set of parts in your projects easily. As you make changes, they are instantly reflected in the other 3 on screen views.
- Powerful Copy, Paste and Delete commands for manipulating parts and assemblies (group of parts).
- Switch from part mode to polygon mode for super detailed designs when it's critical to have the part edges meet perfectly.
- Set display characteristic of the project components using the extensive "Properties" page.
- "Paint" your projects using extensive methods for applying textures including reflective and night time variations.
- Add stock animation such as ailerons, rudder and elevator movement using standard "tags"
- Use key frame animation for advanced motion such as landing gear or multi-axis parts.
- Use conditional processing tags for projects for which you want to change the appearance of the model depending on a given state of the simulator.
- Create your own reusable parts library. FSDS supports saving and loading of individual parts.
- Create several types of output. For example, you can convert a flyable aircraft into a static scenery so you can have "extras" sitting on the tarmac for added effect.
- Create 3D scenery objects compatible with FSX and FS2004 libraries
- Create projects with multiple models: main external view, virtual cockpit view, one or more level of detail views, more.
- Powerful boolean operations for 'cutting' windows or doors.
- Autosave protects your projects from computer failure.
- Unlimited undo / redo capability. Protects you from inadvertent design errors - you can back out changes step by step.
- Sample projects for FSX and FS2004 that you can use as starting point for your own designs:
- A7M2-3
- Cessna 152
- Curtis Jenny
- Douglas DC-3
- Dornier DO-335
- F-14
Tomcat
- F/A 18 Hornet
- Short 360
- Ooil rig scenery
- Animated ferris wheel
scenery
- Support for materials diffuse color with alpha transparency, ambient color, specular color, emissive color, specular power
- Advanced texture properties
- Normal mapping with Alpha channel support
- Night version of texture supported
- Reflection Mapped vesion of texture supported. Alpha channel is used as reflection map rather than transparency.
- Light Mapped version of texture supported
- Large, convenient window for applying texture maps to your projects.
- Texture tiling - for applying multiple copies of a texture to a part.
- Includes extensive online HELP with step-by-step tutorials
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4 simultaneous views - essential for detailed design
Myriad of tools let you shape, resize, rotate, ...
Instantly change part characteristics
Use the latest texture technologies
Powerful boolean operations simplfies "cutting"
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