Hi Curt, Am Freitag, den 26.10.2007, 23:33 -0500 schrieb Curtis Olson: > 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 > your lucky, before I switched to the Jeep I began with a truck very similar to yours (from my Me-323 heavylift project), so I have a basic FDM already. You can have it if you like.
If you can send me the Model, animating steering and suspension is easy. Greetings Detlef Faber http://www.sol2500.net/flightgear > 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. > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
