On 10/26/07, Curtis Olson wrote:
>
> I ... remembed that I have access to a snowplow/truck model from a past
> life ... Would anyone out there be interested in fiddling with the model and
> maybe making the body orange and the tires black?
Just as a quick follow up. Here is a picture of the sort of vehicle I'm
talking about. The 3d model is relatively simple and doesn't have all the
little details of lights and mirrors so that stuff we wouldn't need to worry
about. There's never been any textures associated with this model so if we
just assigned colors to the faces that would probably be good enough:
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/equipment/contracts/used_equip/BaxterPlow1.JPG
For what it's worth, back in 2000-2002 we were putting sensors and huds and
warning systems on these sorts of vehicles. We put all our computers in a
big box where the passenger normally would sit which required us to remove
the passenger seat ... so I remember long days/nights of riding on top of
that box with my feet on the dash and laptop in my lap trying to diangose
and tune and fix things out on the road. We'd be out there at night and
when you bounce around in these trucks which are not designed to have a
smooth ride, you can't see your fingers, you can't steer the mouse, your
butt starts hurting about 5 minutes into it ... ahh those were the days. :-)
Curt.
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