Prop planes! Thread - Vector Thrust

(After some deciding, I found this to be a good board)

Hello,
after some time of wanting to make an A-10, I realized: VT has no Prop planes. (And how do I do Prop Plane Hipster without prop planes for him to hipster in?)

So, I came to your guys' help, but first;
This is going to be the first model of an aircraft I make for a game. Heck, it'll be the first 3D Model I do ever.
The way I utilize this idea is as a bit of a public lesson of how to model: using just info from the web on how to make good models, as well as a blueprint of your aircraft of choice, I want to know if I can end with a really good model that can be used in a game.
This is just an idea of mine, as well..

Without further ado (or where I'm coming from), the only criteria I wish for are:

PROP PLANE
Military! (Of course, you aren't gonna use a Cessna 152 against an X-02, are ya?)
Simple enough that I don't just drop dead apon seeing the complexity (I can't tell if a P-38 fits in this..)

Just an FYI: I will post images when I feel a big accomplishment has.. well... accomplished. But only then!
Of course I'm way over my head, I'm a texturist hoping to become a good modeller with little time, how could this go wrong?

Let's see, how about a *target practice* for the start?

Like....UAVs? Especially Predator/Reaper.

Or IL-2 Strumovik plz.

Edited by: Nergal01

You mean this? (To be honest, it looks really simple and elegant at the same time)

Edited by: szboudreau01

Yup. Consider that as a *not-so-humble* start.

Thanks, then! This and some Blendercookie should get up on a start to modelling! (And it's encouraging me to set a record - the first Prop Plane avaible to public drool (and uploaded to the same public) in VT)

Edited by: szboudreau01

For the next 'real' thing, I'd suggest the P-51 since it has quite simplistic yet elegant design.

Since we know the Tucano is being mulled for the game, the one the springs to mind is the FMA IA 58 Pucara. Upload.wikimedia.org

Oh god, these three suggestions are equally as awesome, it's so hard to choose

Edited by: szboudreau01

szboudreau01 wrote: Oh god, these three suggestions are equally as awesome, it's so hard to choose

May I request one more? Hope this won't be too much for you.
Either Mosquito, Spitty, or OV-10 Bronco.

Okay, okay.. I know a solution:
EMERGENCY POLL TIME!

A: MQ-1/9
B: P-51D
C: FMA IA 58
D: Mosquito
E: Spitty
F: Bronco

Bronco, son.

Well, if I have to choose......

Tiny Bronco.

I just realized that I can add this to the poll later

So that's where Crimson Sky's Warhawk came from.

Yep! :3

For prop planes to look good you need prop blur

To be honest, I don't think blurry props will be that hard. Flat circle/cylinders with blurry prop texture looks okay and, again, shouldn't be very hard.

Now that I think of it, I think it'll be the sounds that are gonna be ruthlessely difficult. I do have a few WWII games, though, so using those as placeholders should work.

And I say Sounds in a general sense: default gun firing sounds won't feel correct with WWII aircraft, for example.

Edited by: szboudreau01

Nah, you can start with more generic gun sound first.

Like, YSFlight's default gun firing sound.

Well, I mean, YS' guns do not sound that far off, though I can't use it's prop sounds, they're abit crap

Edited by: szboudreau01

szboudreau01 wrote: To be honest, I don't think blurry props will be that hard. Flat circle/cylinders with blurry prop texture looks okay and, again, shouldn't be very hard.

That's pretty much what I meant, except it probably still needs to be coded in.

Autodesk posted this series on their youtube channel recently. Might be useful.

Almost forgot about this.

Thanks for the reminder, guys. I am still abit indecisive of what I should start with..

BF-109, P-51, P-39, and many more craft are actually fairly simple, and even so is the A-6M5.

Hey, why not start with a double feature: F4F vs. A-6! A good start, I'd say.

If we're going to have prop planes they should be able to do prop chops and cut telephone lines like the Israeli mustangs did during the suez crisis.

I can only think of the A-1 Skyraider.