> From: "Mike Kopack" > > > > Gosh I don't know, a Piper Cub UAV would be pretty impressive. > > Michael Selig has a screenshot of one on his web page, so he might > > know where you can get yourself a UAV 3D model. Google "uiuc selig > > flightgear" > > > > Best, > > > > Jim > > Jim, > > I did as you suggested, and it appears he has a UAV on there, but all of > the aircraft are for a VERY old version of FG (0.7.2) and examination of > the files shows that they're not even close to the same sort of format > that the 0.9.8 codebase uses. Bummer! > > Anyone else have any ideas or could they tell me how to get the predator > model from flightsim.com 's file library converted over to work on FG. > Heck, at this point, if somebody could do the conversion for me I might > even be able to get my company to kick some $$$ your way (although we'd > really prefer an even smaller UAV model, like a Raven or a Silverfox or > Hunter or something like that.) >
Hi Mike, The FS2000 model converted fine. You can find at the following links the converted model and texture file: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/predator.ac http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/tblades.rgb By the time I recalled how to do the conversion I was done: There is a 3dconvert utility included with FlightGear that will read in the .mdl file and produce a .ac file (based on the extensions of the files named in the parameters e.g. 3dconvert filein.mdl fileout.ac). Then the indexed bmp file was loaded into gimp and converted to rgb (sgi) format. Finally I loaded the predator.ac into a text editor and did a global replace of the text "tblades.bmp" to "tblades.rgb". BTW, the only textured portion of the model is the propellor disk, but since the aircraft are all white anyway...it looks fine. You could always add numbers. The only information in the flightsim.com archive is that the author is K.Furuya, with no copyright notice included in the package. Let me know when you have downloaded the files as I do not wish to leave them on the server for general distribution (i.e. outside the context of this discussion). Best regards, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
