Hi all, maybe I want to talk about already well-known stuff, anyway I don't remember having red this on the list, so...
yesterday a very creative FG 3D plane models (helijah) showed me the md2 3D file format. This format is able to make the object moving standalone. He sent me a test file (it is a goblin) and I watched it using osgviewer. It was amazing to see the model moving itself. so I tried to incorporate it in a FG scenery, and wouah, wonderfull, I could see the goblin moving in the scenery too ;) I don't know anything about the md2 format but it is binary format (non-readable ascii as .ac format), I don't know if it is an open format, but it opens multiple possibilities as moving trees and cows, flags, etc. that could populate the FG world Here http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/md2, you could find 2 snapshots of the 3D model showing the movement, and the two files for the models (tris.md2 and skin.bmp). I placed the tris.md2 model editing "by hand" the stg file so it is not really correctly placed, I had to take the snaps from under the ground, and unfortunatly the skinning doesn't work (neither using osgviewer directly) the full scenery has been created for an organized meeting which took place one month ago in LFBT. you can find a tarball containaing all scenery here: http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/lfbt/meeting.tar.gz (included the goblin). btw, the whole scenery with objects will be improved in the next days before being released in the John Stockill's database (we need to make some changes, particulary low-poly aircrafts populating the tarmac) and it's not related but I get, as it as been reported before in this list, impressive frame rates for my little 3D card (nvidia GeForce4 Go 420 with 32MB VRAM, linux nvidia drivers 0.9736, on a debian unstable system, athlon-xp), with the yesterday night svn and cvs compile of osg/sg/fg (using freeglut) best regards seb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
