---Download Zip 2.63MB, updated 09 March 03---
Index
- Getting Started with gMax
- Tool Locations & Shortcuts
- Setting up gMax
- Scale
- Getting the Three Views into gMax
- Using Cross-Sectional and other views
- Some Notes on Part Hierarchy New 21 Jan 03!!!
- Making the Fuselage (Cylinder Method)
- Adding a Cylinder
- Modifiers and Such
- Sub-Object Modification
- Shaping the Fuselage & Using "Mirror"
- Moving, Hiding, and Pivot Point
- Creating and Extruding Polygons
- Making the Wing (Extrusion Method)
- Spline and Shape Merge
- Collapsing/Welding Vertices
- Extruding the Wing
- Making the Wingtip
- Some notes on Smoothing Groups
- Detaching the Wing
- Cutting out the Control Surfaces
- Making the Control Surfaces
- Animating the Control Surfaces
- Other Details and Linking Objects New 22 Jan 03!!!
- Detailing the Fuselage
- Making the Tail
- Making the Canopy Frame
- Cutting out the Cockpit
- Other Details
- Landing Gear New 29 Jan 03!!!
- Making the Wheels
- Making the Struts
- Animating the Landing Gear
- Steerable Gear and Link Constraints
- Cutting Out the Wheelwells
- Making the Gear Doors
- Linking the Landing Gear
- Completing the Exterior New 29 Jan 03!!!
- Using Mirror
- Add Last-minute Detail
- Joining the Fuselage
- Mirror Everything Else
- Break Aircraft into Groups
- Add Finishing Touches
- The Virtual Cockpit
- Texture Mapping (a different way) New 09 Feb 03!!!
Introduction
There are currently several excellent gMax tutorials on the net (see Links). However, as I was struggling to build my first aircraft in gMax I had trouble finding a quality tutorial that was "simple" enough to get me started (maybe I'm alone in this, but I found that P-38 tutorial nearly useless).
This tutorial is designed to fill that gap; to give the new gMax user a boost so those more advanced tutorials make sense! The fact is, gMax is so bloody hard when you first start playing with it that I think a lot of guys give up. That's a shame, because my theory is More designers = more (& better) airplanes!
This is a work in progress! You can see I have a long way to go. I'm always looking for corrections, suggestions, and/or better ways of doing things. I'll be constantly updating this as I go, so be sure to hit your Refresh botton a few times to make sure you have the latest version. If there's not a link available in the index, then I haven't finished that part of the tutorial yet, so check back!
Note: Thanks to Conan52 this tutorial is also posted at Simfighter. You can also Download a zipfile containing this tutorial. This is simply my latest version zipped and uploaded, so the hyperlinks at the top for the Gryphon site will not work. Simply unzip into it's own folder and open the gMax_00.htm in your browser.
Gryphon Aviation
Aircraft, Missions, and Utilities for MS Combat Flight Simulator
