Visual Aircraft & Scenery Studio Easily Beautifies your Aircraft & 3D Scenery

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Visual Aircraft & Scenery Studio is new companion to FS Design Studio for painting and texturing aircraft and 3D scenery. VASS provides a seemless way to add detailed "paint jobs" to your aircraft and scenery. It has all of the tools you'll need to select, apply, change and instantly preview the materials and textures without having to start Flight Simulator. It's truly a time-saver. Among its new features are defining all part materials that you'll use, precisely mapping the textures even down to the polygon level and texturing all imbedded FSDS models e.g. VDC and other Level of Detail (LODs). VASS is another one of our essential tools from our huge inventory of add-ons for flight simulator users.

The FSDS Connection The power behind VASS is that it understands and works with the FS Design Studio (FSDS) file format. Since the model's complete structure is known to VASS, it offers a variety of ways to increase your productivity.  Parts List Using VASS, when you open the FSDS model you'll feel right at home. Click the Parts tab to display the entire FSDS structure. Click on a part name to add or change its texture or color. Texture List Click on the Textures tab to display all of the textures that are currently applied to the model. Texturing Tools To modify the texture, a simple click reveals a powerful set of texture editing tools.... of you can create a brand new texture using the texture editor.   Interactive Part Selection Click on the 3D view to select a part. Here we selected the wheel cover by clicking in the 3D view. The red "selection box" immediately outlines the chosen part and the Parts panel tells us that the chosen item is the "Wheel cover, right".    Assign Texture Right-click on the selected part. This lists the commands that you can perform on that part. Choose Texture from the menu and a more complete set of commands are available.    Assign Texture This command lets you choose a texture file and define the area (coordinates) that is to be applied to the selected part. On the right, you can see that the portion of the texture defined by the rubber-banded box is to be "painted" onto the wheel cover. As you apply the texture, the results are immediately displayed in the 3D view   Pick Material The right-click menu also lets you select the material attributes to apply to the selected part. You can effortlessly assign the material color and display attributes to the part. The Material panel lets you define and use as many variations as you need for any model.

3D View - 1, 2, or 4 sides The 3D View has more than just good looks. The authors have tailored VASS to use the 3D views to their maximum capabilities. You can choose 1, 2 or 4 views of the model. This is very useful when you want to see the changes from different perspectives.

VASS helps you design faster and better This classic Albatross is an FSDS model made by Dave Eckert. Our staffer Scott Slaughter is into designer planes and has applied a very interesting set of textures to this famous biplane using VASS. Click image to enlarge. This castle was made by Louis Sinclair - the developer of FS Design Studio. It was "painted" by Jorge Santoro - one of the developers of VASS Gold. As you can see, it's plenty capable of texturing 3D scenery objects in addition to aircraft. Click image to enlarge.

More VASS Features Built-in tools for visualizing nightime Built-in tools for visualizing seasonal textures Drag and drop application of textures to a part Drag and drop colors onto non-textured parts Group editing of textures - precise application to "wide" parts Handy "animate mode" rotates the 3D view Hide all parts except selected part in 3D view - ghosting Support for transparent textures Support for compressed DXT1 and DXT3 textures Compatible with FSDS V2.2x Many other convenient and easy-to-use features Click to see additional information For Previous VASS Users If you're already a user of VASS Gold, you can download the free update to the newest V2.58. You'll need your VASS personalized registration key to complete the installation. To upgrade to the lastest version click here.

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