This software is the first choice for thousands of Flight Simulation modelers worldwide, FS Design Studio is at the same time flight sim friendly and powerful. This bestselling software gives you an easy way to make professional quality aircraft and quality 3D scenery that you'll be proud of.

Of the tens of thousands of aircraft available for Flight Simulator, the overwhelming number of them were made with FS Design Studio. This is newest version of FS Design Studio and adds the latest visual techniques and graphic effects to an already large repertoire of commands, time-saving shortcuts, and comfortable user interface. Together they'll let you create any kind of accurate, detailed textured models at record speed.

FS Design Studio V3 puts an aircraft factory at your fingertips. Now modelers are able to create even more accurate and great looking aircraft and "knock-your-socks off" 3D scenery.

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FS Design Studio V3

With FS Design Studio Version 3, you have these powerful design features available to create incredible new models:
- Design using a comfortable 4-view interface. Simultaneously, you'll see the top, back, side and a fully movable 3D perspective of your project.

- Zoom in or out on any of the views when you need to perform extremely detailed work.
- Change the screen and background colors to suit your preference
- Overlay "background" images, for example an outline view of a building or aircraft to help shape your parts.
- Use any of the predefined "primitive" objects and drop them into your project to your exacting numerical specifications.
- Change the size and shape of the objects using one or more of the built-in tools.
- Move, rotate or resize any individual part or set of parts in your projects easily. As you make changes, they are instantly reflected in the other 3 on screen views.

- Powerful Copy, Paste and Delete commands for manipulating parts and assemblies (group of parts).
- Switch from part mode to polygon mode for super detailed designs when it's critical to have the part edges meet perfectly.
- Set display characteristic of the project components using the extensive "Properties" page.
- "Paint" your projects using extensive methods for applying textures including reflective and night time variations.
- Add stock animation such as ailerons, rudder and elevator movement using standard "tags"
- Use key frame animation for advanced motion such as landing gear or multi-axis parts.
- Use conditional processing tags for projects for which you want to change the appearance of the model depending on a given state of the simulator.
- Create your own reusable parts library. FSDS supports saving and loading of individual parts.
- Create several types of output. For example, you can convert a flyable aircraft into a static scenery so you can have "extras" sitting on the tarmac for added effect.
- Create 3D scenery objects compatible with FS2004 libraries (e.g. for EZ-Scenery or other 3rd party software)
- Create projects with multiple models: main external view, virtual cockpit view, one or more level of detail views, more.
- Powerful boolean operations for 'cutting' windows or doors.

- Autosave protects your projects from computer failure.
- Unlimited undo / redo capability. Protects you from inadvertent design errors - you can back out changes step by step.
- Support for materials diffuse color with alpha transparency, ambient color, specular color, emissive color, specular power
Advanced texture properties

- Normal mapping with Alpha channel support
- Night version of texture supported
- Reflection Mapped version of texture supported. Alpha channel is used as reflection map rather than transparency.

- Light Mapped version of texture supported
- Large, convenient window for applying texture maps to your projects.
- Texture tiling - for applying multiple copies of a texture to a part.
- Includes extensive online HELP with step-by-step tutorials

Sample projects included to use as starting point for designs:
- A7M2-3
- Cessna 152
- Curtis Jenny
- Douglas DC-3
- Dornier DO-335
- F/A 18 Hornet
- LA-7
- Short 360

New and Improved Features

Louis Sinclair, the inventor of FS Design Studio has added new and improved features to the most widely used design tool for Flight Simulator. Here's a partial list of the new features in the upgrade:

- New Full FS2004 compatiblity. Uses MakeMDL and BGLComp tools to provide complete FS2004 feature set
- New Scenery compatible with FS2004 Libraries
- New Boolean operations provide powerful way to cut and split parts.
- New Animation capabilities as provided by the FS2004 documentation
- New Support for using specialized textures: nighttime, lightmaps, more.
- New Export to .x file fomat. For advanced users who want to "tweak" the .x file for MakeMDL.
- New Unlimited Undo / Redo. Protects your model from inadvertent design errors. Roll back each design operation, step-by-step.
- New User selectable Autosave interval. Safeguards your model from computer failure.
- New FSDS V2 compatibility. New version recognizes and handles earlier file versions.
- New Aircraft Specification Sheet simplifies setup of new aircraft for Flight Simulator
- Updated Pre-Processes allow for conditional display of parts
- Updated HELP files with tutorials for making animated scenery.

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