> Tim Jelliffe wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a general question regarding the creation of a model. I have been > working on creating a model of a Learjet 55, using CATIA V5. This is > mainly because I used this during my degree and am basically familiar > with it. I am also determined to have a model which is as close to the > real thing as possible. This means if the fuselage is 2m in diameter, I > want the model to have a 2m diameter fuselage as well! CATIA is awesome > for this. > The problem is that CATIA works with surfaces, as you can see in the > pic, but things like blender and ac3d seem to use nodes. This makes it > hard to convert into .ac format. I can save the file as either wrl, stp, > igs, or cgr file formats. I have tried saving it as a wrl format, and > using this directly in flightgear. The file size is around 2 Mb, and the > frame rate drops from ~20 to ~2 fps. I have also tried using the demo > version of AC3D, and saving directly into .ac format. This still gives > very big files though.
If you can export the model in VRML2, try to use, if you can, 3DSMax. You can import the model and reduce the number of polygons and export it in the ASE format. I've made the same thing with my model of MB339, generating a file of 1.5 Mb, and it looks great in FlightGear and the frames doesn't drop. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
