Oct 20 2003
AI-AARDVARK 737-300 (Air Asia Package) README

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Repaints by: Vladimir Svoboda(Cesmina) (http://www.boback.com/repaints)
Model & Original Paint by:  David Rawlins (http://www.ai-aardvark.com)
FDE by David Carter


Thanks for downloading the AI-AARDVARK Air Asia 737-300 Package. All  Air Asia  Boeing 737-300 liveries are included in this package. This is a complete package ready to be added to your AI. You may require Air Asia  flightplans, by Steve Tran which can be found  on AVSIM. Many thanks to David Rawlins for his wonderful low poly AI plane, and a well thought out paintkit. Enjoy this package.



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IMPORTANT NOTICE:

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO UPLOAD ANY OF THESE FILES TO THE ANY OTHER INTERNET SITES OR TO ANY OTHER MEDIA WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S WRITTEN PERMISSION. THESE REPAINTS ARE FREEWARE AND SHOULD NOT BE SOLD, OR PUT ON ANY SITE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOADING FREE FILES. THE FILES FOUND IN THIS ARCHIVE MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED ON CD OR ANY MEDIUM FOR ANY KIND OF FEE, INCLUDING THE COST OF PRODUCTION, MATERIALS OR POSTAGE.


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INSTALLATION:

Just drop the "AIA_733_AXM" folder into your FS2k aircraft folder.

If you are using any of the other AI Aardvark 737-300's that use the "aia_737_300.mdl" you can use this texture with it in the same folder, after making the needed changes to the aircraft.cfg file.

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NOTES

This aircraft was designed specifically for use as an AI aircraft.  As such, the primary design criteria were that it look good sitting at the gate, or as seen when landing from an aircraft waiting to take off. 

This plane also uses 4 different LOD (levels of detail) models, which means that as the plane gets visually smaller, the model displayed becomes simpler and simpler, thus reducing the drag on your computer.  

If you download a GMAX aircraft that is just gorgeous, but really chews up your frame rates when used as AI if several of them appear on the screen at once, the designer probably did not use the LOD feature, so the model is always 20,000 polygons no matter how far away from you it is.  

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AI FLIGHT DYNAMICS

FDE's for AI aircraft are somewhat of a compromise.  Dynamics that allow beautiful takeoffs often result in planes that will not land or land very badly.  AIA fde's are also designed with traffic flow in mind.  This means an AIA aircraft is going to touch down very near the end of the runway and quickly exit to make room for the next aircraft.  If you want more "float" on landing, you can adjust the cruise lift, parasite drag and induced drag parameters in the aircraft.cfg file.

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REPAINTS

Ai Aardvark hopes that you will want to repaint our planes and we have blank paintkit versions of our aircraft available.  The paintkit includes uncompressed .bmps of both the texture and light maps.  It also comes with a layered photoshop file that includes windows, doors, details, panel lines, shadows and weathering.  For non-photoshop user, Aardvark is planning to offer a service, where a painter can email their uncompressed basic texture to us, we will apply the photoshop layers to it, and send it back.  Look for details in the paint section of our website:  www.ai-aardvark.com

We place no restrictions on where repaints are uploaded to, but we would like this readme to be included with all repaints.  If you would like your repaint listed on our website, please email us and let us know the name of the repaint and where it may be downloaded.    Email: [email protected]

AIA original release repaints:

Delta Airlines (old)
Delta Airlines (mid 90's)
Delta Airlines (new)
Qantas
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines

IMPORTANT
Not affiliated with, or endorsed by Delta Airlines or Boeing Aircraft.
Not for commercial sale.
THIS AIRCRAFT IS FREEWARE. 

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THIS MODEL (*.MDL) MAY NOT BE DECOMPILED AND EDITED/MODIFIED IN ANY WAY WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE DESIGNER!!!

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enjoy!

David Rawlins     [email protected]
David Carter      [email protected]
Dec. 11, 2002

Comments or suggestions:
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