Here is an informative (but necro'd) forum thread from way back when people were hoping for commercial devs jumping into Aerofly FS2 aircraft addon market, in this case FlyingIron Simulations (a X-Plane 11 payware dev) trying to find out more about Aerofly FS2 aircraft development.
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Aircraft Development
Hi all!
I've recently purchased Aerofly and have fallen in love with it. The VR is top-notch.
I'm an aircraft developer for another Flight Sim and I am doing some RnD to assess the viability of porting my aircraft over to AFS. If it's something that is achievable (within a reasonable amount of time), I will seriously consider porting all my future aircraft over as well.
I'm wondering if anyone has any tips with bringing an aircraft into AFS? It'd be great to get both the developers perspectives,…
I've recently purchased Aerofly and have fallen in love with it. The VR is top-notch.
I'm an aircraft developer for another Flight Sim and I am doing some RnD to assess the viability of porting my aircraft over to AFS. If it's something that is achievable (within a reasonable amount of time), I will seriously consider porting all my future aircraft over as well.
I'm wondering if anyone has any tips with bringing an aircraft into AFS? It'd be great to get both the developers perspectives,…
Donny
From my reading of his travails, I am pretty sure all animations are defined in the tmd file, not the cad program.
The only place I saw someone mention using 3ds Max for animations was in a thread about having animated people in an airport scenery for Aerofly FS 2.
Further confirmation read this thread
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RE: Using AC3D to make Aircraft for AF2
Jeff, may I correct you a bit?
The animations aren't done in Max (or any other modelling program). They are all done within the TMD file. Yes, it's tricky and much more complex, compared to FSX/P3D. At the other hand, you have much more possibilities and basically all the freedom you want.
Kai
The animations aren't done in Max (or any other modelling program). They are all done within the TMD file. Yes, it's tricky and much more complex, compared to FSX/P3D. At the other hand, you have much more possibilities and basically all the freedom you want.
Kai
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