On Friday 17 Dec 2004 01:30, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Is the the "default" aircraft? The current C172 models are very
> functional, but pretty basic. They certainly could be spiffed up a
> bit. I'm not opposed to adding a few polygons if they contribute to the
> model. Part of the trick of 3d modeling is figuring out the most
> effective places to spend your polygon budget. As far as I know, no one
> is currently working on updating the c172 3d models, so I would say feel
> free to move forward. You could always work with a copy, leaving the
> original intact, and then we could vote or if it's clearly better, we
> could just replace the current model. You will have to send your
> changes to one of the core developers in order to get them committed to
> cvs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Curt.
Yes, its the default 172 which I believe represents the 'P' model.
Initially (while I get used to AC3D) I'd like to just get the geometries right
compared to photos and diagrams that I have of a real 172P.
I think your idea would be best that I work on a duplicate of the aircraft
which can later be merged or be a seperate model.
Working on a seperate model would also allow for accidental breakages of the
model in CVS while the default aircraft remains sound.
I shall get what I can done and then contact a core developer and massage
their soul into letting my design into FlightGear ;)
Also In the pipeline I've been working out how to produce other variants of
the piper 'Indians' from the Warrior PA28 in FG.
A Warrior can quite easily be converted to represent a Cherokee (chocolate-bar
wing), Arrow or an Apache. A twin-engine Seminole is even possible with
slightly more intense modifications. Following the methods used by Piper to
develop the real aircraft, the Cherokee 6 and Saratoga could be derived from
the same model and that, of course, paves the way for a Seneca.
(Of course, all of the above would take a lot of time so it is something to be
anticipated for the future I hope).
Hopefully, I will have plenty of time over Christmas to work on the Geometries
of the 172 - Time I will need as I am only just getting used to the XML model
animation format used by FlightGear which is thankfully fairly intuitive.
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