Helicopter Vehicle

Here is a picture of the vehicle that I will demonstrate tagging on:

It is a Boeing MD-500 model police chopper. Basically used by most American police forces in large cities to provide close air support in the urban environment.

Before I do anything, I like to check the scale of my vehicle in relation to a Ghost Recon Character. John Sonedecker has released some tools for Map making and this scale guy comes in real handy here.

Here is a shot of the guy in max:

As you can see my chopper is a little small compared to the Scale Guy. This is easily fixed by using the Select and Uniform Scale Tool. I just select all of my mesh minus the scale guy then use this tool alternating between this and the Move tool to get it right.

Here is a picture of what I ended up with:

Looks much better now that it isn't so tiny. Now I can go ahead and delete the Scale Guy since I am done with him. Go into any side view and adjust the vehicle so that its bottom most mesh is flush with the 0 point on the grid lines. Once you are ready, click on the Blades button to continue.