Making and Texturing aircraft

[nic49548 15]

When you're making an aircraft, do you have to also make the windows (Cabin), or don't? I've seen windowless models on various websites. I ask this because I've seen the windows light up on various props in SC4 (VLT or something like that downloaded on Simtropolis).

Also, how do you make textures of different models of aircraft?

[Nomadic 23]

There are many ways to do this,

if you want to make a low poly model, just make the shape of the plane and grab a skin from a website. But this requires some skills in working with UVW maps, to light up a certain area, make a spotlight, set it rectangle and adjust the parameters and point it to where the window is.

Another simple method is to "carve out" the windows.

In this model, I converted the mesh into Editable Poly mode and Select Polygons and selected the black portion, applied an extrude (-.5 in this case) then Detached the object.

Result.

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There are some tutorials for 3ds Max that show these techniques and sometimes work in GMAX.