On Thursday 16 October 2003 07:20, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:19, Lee Elliott wrote: > > On Thursday 16 October 2003 01:21, Andy Ross wrote: > > > Matthew Johnson wrote: > > > > Thought I'd take a stab at this, decided to try and make a 3D > > > > rendition of the Sea Harrier, especially since we have the Harrier in > > > > FG, but without a 3D model (I think it needs one!). > > > > > > > > So far I have started by looking for a plan that I can follow, but > > have > > > > only found a 3 view plan for the FA2 (upgraded version with HOTASS > > and > > > > new radar), anyone happen to know a 3 view plan of the FRS.1 version > > is > > > > hiding? Failing ever finding one, what options are open? > > > > > > Let me pop out of hibernation for a moment to respond to > > > this. [Curt/Jim/Maik: I *am* going to try out the helicopter patches > > > to YASim, I promise. Cursorily they look good, except for some > > > high-level design issues that can be ironed out later via code motion. > > > Feel free to commit them anyway, of course] > > > > > > I did the harrier flight model, and actually almost sorta got started > > > on a 3D model to go with it. The harrier is actually quite difficult > > > to figure out from a 3-view, honestly. Due to features like the > > > negative camber wings, forward-slanted "elephant ear" intakes and > > > protruding nozzles on the fuselage, it's very poorly represented by a > > > single diagram. I looked through a *lot* of photos, and never did > > > really come up with a good plan for how to do it in blender. Maybe > > > your best bet would be to purchase a traditional plastic model, disect > > > it, and use digital photos of that as your basis for 3D work. > > > > > > Andy > > > > Yes, this is quite a tricky one to model - I started on one too but > > stopped when I found out you were working on one as I didn't want to > > intrude on your patch, as it were. > > > > By all mean intrude on my patch, just want FlightGear to have its planes > :). Plenty of planes to last quite some time (no Spitfire yet for > instance...). > > > The intakes and neg camber wing aren't too difficult to get around - I'd > > suggest doing the front fuselage as two sections, split at the intakes, > > and then join them together, to deal with the intakes. I can't actually > > see a problem with the wings. > > > > Main issue I am having right now is the cockpit area, just have not had > it form correctly. Loading other planes, like the P51 has not really > shown me enough to figure this out yet. > > > The side nozzles were tricky though because they aren't just stuck on the > > sides of a smoothly curving fuselage. I had a lot of trouble trying to > > get a clear idea in my mind of the shape and curves of the fuselage in > > this region and stopped work on it before I'd figured it out. > > > > Ugh, you're challenged by this... > > Anyway, I have put the ac file up here: > > http://pwp.netzon.net/~stargoat/sharskel.ac > > Been using the pictures that were sent earlier :). Not sure if I can > post them here (in a link of course). > > Matt
I'm afraid that link doesn't work for me:( LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
