How to make an Aircraft! Video Tutorials

After requests from a few people, I've decided to create video tutorials on how "I create an aircraft". I've started with a video but that didn't record audio so I'll be starting over. Here are the lists of videos I'll be creating for this. In this series of tutorials, I'll be modeling and putting into FlightGear British Aerospace's BAe-146-200 aircraft from scratch.

Creating the Aircraft Model (ac3d)

• Basic Aircraft Fuselage (Nose, body and tail frame)
  
• Basic Aircraft Wings (Shape, Orientation, Winglets)
  
• Belly Fairing and Attaching the wings <--- NEW!
  
• Modeling and Fitting the Engines
  
• Basic Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers
  
• Cockpit Windshield and Cutting Windows
  
• Cutting out the Control Surfaces (all surfaces)
  
• Landing Gears, Control Rods and Doors
  
• Texture Mapping and Creating a paintkit
  

Creating the Flight Dynamics Model

• JSBSim Aeromatic Base
  
• Tweaking to fit the Aircraft's Data 1
  
• Tweaking to fit the Aircraft's Data 2
  
• Tests and Modifications
  

Modeling the Cockpit and Instruments

• Basic Cockpit Shell
  
• Cutting out Instrument Areas
  
• The Instruments themselves
  
• XML configurations and animations
  
• Texturing and Ambient Occlusions
  

Animating the Aircraft

• Control Surface Animations
  
• Gear door and Gear compressions
  
• Doors, Cargo holds and other cool stuff
  

Cabin, Lighting, Sounds and other features

• Modeling and texturing a cabin
  
• Aircraft Lighting and dialog
  
• Aircraft Sounds and Announcements
  
• Airport Operations and Placement
  

NOTE - I'll make a mention of available systems while modeling the FDM and the cockpit.

I'll get started on this today or tomorrow and I'll add a link to the title when the video's ready.

awesome i need this for my plane just the right time!!

Alright, for some reason I can't get my GOOD HD Screen Recorder (XVidCap) to record audio so I'll be using another one (rekordmydesktop) for this. But it should be good enough. I'll start over from teh fuselage as Nick and Diogo didn't understand it without audio... It's like 1:45 am here so I think I'll just start it later "today"

VIDEO 1 RECORDED! Currently Rendering...

omega95 wrote:Alright, for some reason I can't get my GOOD HD Screen Recorder (XVidCap) to record audio so I'll be using another one (rekordmydesktop) for this. But it should be good enough. I'll start over from teh fuselage as Nick and Diogo didn't understand it without audio... It's like 1:45 am here so I think I'll just start it later "today"

bahhaha. I understood it without audio.

ADDED VIDEO 2

awsome stuff can't wait for the next part

ADDED VIDEO 3, currently uploading 6

hey omega95 how are the .xml and FDM tutorials coming?
pls make them!!!
if you dont ill be sad ((((((((((

what can i open the other files ?? i can´t touch on this ones..