Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:20 pmALPHA have produced a "lite" Cessna 170B for "low-end" systems.
It's interesting to see how their thoughts went, the external model is great, there is no 2D panel, and it has a functional but fairly low-poly VC:
When they finished the model, they discovered they had some spare poly's, so they made 3D rivets (you may need to run this full size to see it properly):
What's this then? Bump mapping in FS9? Nope, just 7,000 polygons toward modelling those 3D rivets…brilliant.
Unfortunately they modelled a girl pilot figure, and since girls use up more poly's than boys (because they have more erm, bumps) it is a pretty poor pilot figure indeed.
So much so, that the model has been given a quick NZ rego and demoted to AI status
At NZD23-00 it is probably not a very cost-effective way to get some high-class AI…
However there may well be a market for such planes in the bargain-basement FS9 category.
Be interesting to see if the trend continues.
It's interesting to see how their thoughts went, the external model is great, there is no 2D panel, and it has a functional but fairly low-poly VC:
When they finished the model, they discovered they had some spare poly's, so they made 3D rivets (you may need to run this full size to see it properly):
What's this then? Bump mapping in FS9? Nope, just 7,000 polygons toward modelling those 3D rivets…brilliant.
Unfortunately they modelled a girl pilot figure, and since girls use up more poly's than boys (because they have more erm, bumps) it is a pretty poor pilot figure indeed.
So much so, that the model has been given a quick NZ rego and demoted to AI status
At NZD23-00 it is probably not a very cost-effective way to get some high-class AI…
However there may well be a market for such planes in the bargain-basement FS9 category.
Be interesting to see if the trend continues.