On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:05, Curtis Olson wrote: > On 1/31/07, Joacim Persson wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Tony Pelton wrote: > > > and as a passing comment, i wonder if one of the train simulators > > > might be a better train simulator that flightgear for your intended > > > purpose ... > > > > Or better still, a car simulator. (Assuming the mentioned train crossing > > signs are to be viewed from the driving seats of moving cars.) > > > > Perhaps the freeware racing simulator Torcs (www.torcs.org) could be > > something for the psychology professor's experiment? Torcs uses plib, so > > it > > can load the same 3d fileformats FlightGear can, and also has physic > > models > > of road vehicles ready, and far better looking roads than FG. > > I appreciate the suggestions, but FlightGear will be perfect for this > project. :-) > > We only need a small area of land/road/track coverage ... just the approach > of a single road to a single railway crossing, plus some context and we > have a guy who can build all that for this project. > > We need to carefully animate, and automate the train motion ... something I > can easily do in FlightGear, but it's unclear if that is possible in a > proprietary train sim. I looked at torcs pretty closely a few years ago > and back then it was all about designing robot race cars that race > themselves. It didn't have the fine grained level of object control and > sign animation that we need for this project. > > In addition, we need to create our own custom crossing approach signage and > animate it based on the train position. Again, should be a breeze with > nasal and flightgear. > > We can build all the models we need and get things done, I was just > wondering [originatlly] if anyone had any train models in the back pocket. > Of course Lee would have something. :-) But I think we need to find/build > something that would be typically found on north american train tracks. > > Regards, > > Curt.
Saves me a lot of work:) but seriously though, I agree that if the idea of the project is to test human responses you really don't want to introduce irrelevant anomalies into the equation i.e. a U.K loco in a U.S. scenario. I could make something suitable, given the drawings, but it would take a lot of time and effort. The best bet might be to buy the models if no free ones can be found - I'll have a bit of a dig around, see what I can find and get back to you. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
