ALPHA Cessna 170B

[Charl]

ALPHA have produced a "lite" Cessna 170B for "low-end" systems.





It's interesting to see how their thoughts went, the external model is great, there is no 2D panel, and it has a functional but fairly low-poly VC:





When they finished the model, they discovered they had some spare poly's, so they made 3D rivets (you may need to run this full size to see it properly):






What's this then? Bump mapping in FS9? Nope, just 7,000 polygons toward modelling those 3D rivets…brilliant.

Unfortunately they modelled a girl pilot figure, and since girls use up more poly's than boys (because they have more erm, bumps) it is a pretty poor pilot figure indeed.
So much so, that the model has been given a quick NZ rego and demoted to AI status







At NZD23-00 it is probably not a very cost-effective way to get some high-class AI…

However there may well be a market for such planes in the bargain-basement FS9 category.

Be interesting to see if the trend continues.

[Ian Warren]

I think be a newbie devolper for Alpha in the making,not my type of AC.. Good to see AS going Civil !

[ardypilot]

The 170 is on the front cover of this month's TopGear magazine, with James May (one of the three presenters at the controls)- would be good to see his private aircraft repainted for this model.

[Naki]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jun 5 2008, 10:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The 170 is on the front cover of this month's TopGear magazine, with James May (one of the three presenters at the controls)- would be good to see his private aircraft repainted for this model.

James May's aircaft is a Luscombe Silvaire not a Cessna 170 Andrew. Nice little model there - apparently Alpha is bringing out more GA aircraft - maybe a Cessna 180?