Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:07:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problems: - blender has problems with flipping normals to the outside of the model automaticaly, so i had to do that by hand. It is likely that I overlooked a surface or two... That's not a problem, but a feature. Really.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread flightgear
On Saturday 10 September 2005 08:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Problems: - blender has problems with flipping normals to the outside of the model automaticaly, so i had to do that by hand. It is likely that I overlooked a surface or two... That's not a problem, but a feature. Really. After

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik: I tried to use your jsbsim FDM frist, but I was too stupid to get that to work... It's hard to believe that. Maybe you're too inexperienced. I'll take a look at it today and send you the required updates. Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: That's not a problem, but a feature. Really. After mirroring an object you have to 'apply the rotation'. (Some key combination with a, IIRC. Ctrl-A?) I don't know why this isn't done automatically, but it is braindamage 'by design'. It's hard to fix. When you mirror a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 10 September 2005 18:42, Andy Ross wrote: It's hard to fix. When you mirror a mesh, the winding order of all the polygons gets reversed, which means their normals change direction. If the mesh is stored in an optimized format (strips, fans, etc...) then it needs to be broken down

[Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread flightgear
Hi all. I am making progress with my DHC-6: - added and animated controll surfaces and propellers - added a simple livery (proof of concept) - added a very optimistic FDM (behaves like I think it should) Screenshots: - http://thorben-mit-th.de/files/dhc6-alpha009.jpg -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Thorben, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screenshots: [...] These look very promising. The most significant difference to the Twin Otters that I've seen in real life is the lack of floats :-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !