Melchior FRANZ said:

> * Chris Horler -- Friday 30 April 2004 17:41:
> > I've been messing around in my spare moments recently... I've a few more 
> > things to do before finishing.
> 
> Don't want to rain on your parade, but someone donated a Concorde
> already. There was just nobody who wanted to reduce the *many* vertices
> and re-apply the textures afterwards. Blender is quite good at reducing,
> but it would still mean a lot of work. If you want to continue to work
> on your Concorde then you might at least want to use some parts of this:
> 
>   http://members.aon.at/mfranz/concorde.tar.gz  (1 MB)
>   http://members.aon.at/mfranz/concorde.jpg     (41 kB)
> 

It's actually a very nice model and I don't think it has too many vertices for
modern computers.  IIRC it is comparable to the 1903 Wright flyer model's
size.  It worked fine on my 32mb geforce2 card.  We could have a lower detail
version of course, but this one is worth setting up and animating.

But it does lack a flight dynamics model which in this case is the most
difficult part, and the only reason I didn't commit the 3D model a while back.
 I do not believe we have any elevon controlled jet aircraft or full support
for tailess configurations.  The shuttle is the closest and I'm not sure what
the status is of it.

Best,

Jim


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