"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I just took the latest 3D Cessna 310 u3a (in cvs) for a spin and wow! > I hadn't looked at this for a while and it's really looking nice. > Thanks to everyone who's pitched in to make this possible. Wonderful > job. :-) >
Thanks! I really struggled with the prop disk. David probably knows what I mean about that. Finally gave up and said "good enough". For screen shots - if you don't mind my showing off a bit ;-) Night time - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3anight.png Cockpit. You can see under the dash a little bit, but that will be covered when I get to the higher detail cockpit stuff - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3acockpit.png Climbing. When the 3d panel is done, I'll add switches to turn the lights off during the day - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3aclimb.png Startup at KSFO showing new props and exterior detail - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3anewprops.png View toward the left from inside - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3aviewleft.png Most of the credit for the appearance of this model goes to Chris Lampard who did the original exterior model and all the painting except the prop. He donated it to the project a couple months ago. Everything has been done with ac3d so as you can see it is quite capable of doing aircraft models for Flight Gear and is very easy to learn. For the lights I had to edit the ac3d (.ac is a text file) file because I couldn't find the option on the menu. Note that subsequent work in ac3d, even on the tiles that reference this material did not affect my edits. To illuminate a poly with red light, I first selected "red" for a polygon in ac3d which generated a material record like this: MATERIAL "NoName" rgb 1 0 0 amb 1 0 0 emis 0 0 0 spec 1 1 1 shi 50 trans 0 After a change to the "emis" array it looked like this (note that you can change the name as the MATERIAL entries are referenced by the object using a number): MATERIAL "RedLights" rgb 1 0 0 amb 1 0 0 emis 1 0 0 spec 1 1 1 shi 50 trans 0 Note that the material arrays are values that range from 0 to 1 and can be fractions (to get other colors or effects). The three values coincide with R-G-B levels. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
