Plane Maker Video Tutorials

Below is a list of X-Plane.org member danklaue's exceptional video tutorial series which details virtually all aspects of aircraft creation and customization. On each page linked to below, you can choose to either stream the video from YouTube or download the file directly. Most of the videos are approximately 10 minutes in length.

Note: This list was last updated 1 June 2010.


 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 1: Intro, Research, preparation
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 2: Fuselage Modeling
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 3: Modeling the Wings
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 4: Engines and Nacelles
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 5: Landing Gear and Weight
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 6: Control Surfaces and Deflection
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 7: Test-flying the rough plane
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 8: Misc bodies, pylons, intro to cockpit
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 9: Starting The Cockpit
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 10: Using GIMP to paint your plane
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 11: Hi-def photo textures, multiple liveries
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 12: Day/Night textures & more
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 13: Customizing the Cockpit
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 14: Wrapping things up.
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 15, Blender Tutorial 1: Establishing a Link between PlaneMaker & Blender
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 16, Blender Tutorial 2: Learning Blender's Interface
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 17, Blender Tutorial 3: Moving, Scaling, Rotating Objects in Blender
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 18, Blender Tutorial 4: Editing objects, texturing, and using the object in PlaneMaker
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 19, Blender Tutorial 5: Creating a simple 3D cockpit
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 20, Blender Tutorial 6: Tweaking PlaneMaker to work with 3D objects
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 21, Blender Tutorial 7: Loading BG image for detailed modeling
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 22, Blender Tutorial 8: Starting hi-detail windshield
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 23, Blender Tutorial 9: Continuing hi-detail windshield
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 24, Blender Tutorial 10: Skinning the roof and sides of the cockpit exterior
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 25, Blender Tutorial 11: Skinning the rest of the Nose
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 26, Blender Tutorial 12: Modeling Cockpit Interior
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 27, Blender Tutorial 13: Modeling and skinning Instruments on Panel
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 28, Blender Tutorial 14: Animated Textures in Cockpit
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 29, Blender Tutorial 15: Animating Knobs and Levers
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 30, Blender Tutorial 16: Intro to Datarefs
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 31, Blender Tutorial 17: Sideslip indicator in 3D!
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 32, Blender Tutorial 18: Appending objects and dealing with multiple textures
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 33, Blender Tutorial 19: Texturing, Object manipulators, etc.
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 34, Blender Tutorial 20: 3D manipulators
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 35, Blender Tutorial 21: 3D Manipulators, cont'd.
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 36, Blender Tutorial 22: Script update, tips, news, etc.
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 37, Blender Tutorial 23: Manipulators redone with new script
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 38, Blender Tutorial 24: LIT texture regions
 * PlaneMaker Tutorial 39, Blender Tutorial 25: Nose Gear Animation