On Thursday 10 July 2003 23:43, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > WillyB wrote: > > I have a 3 view of the AC .. is it best to start from the front view and > > get > > > a general circlesh outline of the fusilage and extrude back? > > > > From other postings I know to make the wings seperate as well as the > > flight > > > surfaces.. but it's getting the first general shapes that I"m wondering > > about. > > > > Basically what I'm asking for are a few Tips from the Experienced ;) > > Do you know that you can put an image in the background of a 3D view that > zoom with the rest of the model ? > > What I do is to split the main view in 4 (2x2), convert my 3 view into > 3 jpeg images cropped at the exact with of the model and add one of them > in each view in the '=' menu, with the exact width entered in blender. > Look here to see what I am trying to mean : > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-blender.png > > You have to tweak the height of the images and the position of the plane > in it in order that the 3 views match with each order, because blender > always center the image at (0,0) in the view. > > -Fred >
I found that out from the blender chatroom actually :) I have not tried cropping the images though, but I do copy each view into seperate images... I use gimp and just move it around and then see what it looks like, then move it a little more.... You can see the black edges around the sides. Here's what it looks like at the moment, I still need to adjust the front view a little as it is not lined up correctly yet. I'll have to do that before I go any further now. http://24.121.17.106/fgfs/cassutt-racer/bld-ss1.png You can probably spot some other things I've started to do wrong. The 3 view is not quite architect quality either :) The going is slow, but I'm still plugging along. Thanks for the reply! WillyB _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
