Visual Aircraft & Scenery Studio

Visual Aircraft & Scenery Studio Gold Edition (VASS Gold) is a modern tool created to make the aircraft and scenery objects painting process easier for for Microsoft Flight Simulator ® and also for Microsoft Combat Simulator ®.

VASS Gold brings all necessary tools to let the user, in a very easy and intuitive way, create, position or modify textures used by aircraft and scenery objects which have been created with Abacus' FS Design Studio (FSDS version one and two) ®, for further use with the simulators from Microsoft.

To accomplish the painting process, the user interacts with a powerful 3D interface, supporting multiple views, with real time visualization of the work being done, to provide an immediate view of the painted model as it will be displayed in MS Flight Simulator. This feature itself gives the user great control and precision in the painting process.

VASS Gold provides unique features, which makes the painting of aircraft and scenery objects very easy and intuitive. Among them:

Real time visualization of the 3D model being painted.
Up to four 3D windows for simultaneous visualization of the model from several angles.
Support for multiple texture formats, such as bmp, jpeg, pcx, r8 and ?af.
Texture grouping, for integrated painting of large parts, as fuselages, for example.
A complete built in texture editor.
Support for external editors, if you don't want to use the built in one.
Model visualization under several environment conditions, such as day, night, summer, winter, spring and fall.
Light tool, to create lighting sources for night textures.

VASS Gold is being distributed by Abacus Software, Inc - USA.

Paint Abacus' FSDS 3D models in real time! What you see is what you fly!

. With VASS Gold, any painting job can be easily accomplished in a fraction of time because you see in real time what you're doing. You will not need anymore to load FSDS or Microsoft Flight Simulator to check the results.

No matter if you're an aircraft or scenery designer, VASS Gold is the right choice for you!

VASS Gold is plenty capable of texturing 3D scenery objects in addition to aircraft.

In fact, you'll be able to texturize any object created with Abacus' FS Design Studio, the most used CAD system when creating aircraft and scenery objects for Microsoft Flight and Combat Simulators.

Built in texture editor.

. VASS Gold brings a powerful integrated texture editor to make your painting job easier and intuitive.

Support for third party texture editors.

. If, for some reason, you do not wish to use the built in editor, you'll be able to do your paint job using your favorite painting program. VASS Gold supports several image editors widely available, such as Corel Photopaint e Paint Shop Pro.

"Light" tool to create light maps.

. The light tools With our light tool, you can add several light sources over the textures to create amazing night effects for your aircraft or scenery objects. There are three kinds of light sources available: Ambient, Omnidirectional e directional.

Friendly interface.

. VASS Gold provides a very friendly user interface. You can rotate, drag or zoom in and out from the model just using the mouse. Up to four 3D windows are available to let you see your job from several angles.

Customizable environment.

. Almost anything is customizable regarding the VASS user interface. You can set toolbars' position and exhibition, light sources, background bitmaps and colors for several items.

Support for several texture file formats

Textures stored in the following file formats can be used with VASS Gold:
PCX, JPEG, BMP, Extended BMP, R8 e ?AF.

Selective Painting

VASS Gold provides a feature which, when enabled, shows only the part or polygon that is selected at the moment, leaving the remaining parts and polygons all transparent. The transparency level can be adjusted.

Texture Mapping!

VASS Gold provides a texture mapping tool which lets you visually apply your textures over parts and polygons.

True Color painting with Alpha Channel

VASS Gold provides millions of colors which can be used to paint your objects. You can also create realistic transparent textures when working with the alpha channel.