sophocles

Hello all, just a small update, getting all the details into the cockpit. There's plenty more to do .. I'm also thrilled to say that Brain32 and I are joining forces to complete the cockpit!

You mean to include the external model mesh in the cockpit mesh lods? I'd appreciate some clarification, as dynamic shadows are very cool!

Holy Moly!!! There's some excellent work there .. that MiG-15 looks absolutely gorgeous!!!!

I too learned the hard way .. had to cut my fuselage into 4 pieces (was forced to collapse my mesh after sub division and then cut it..) regards

Centurion-1, The polies themselves are not that many with the extra meshsmooth iteration; you just have to be careful that no one mesh in the model is greater that 4-5K polys. Given that, the A-37 could benefit from the extra smoothing as is evidenced by the improvements in the air-intakes. I am however curious as to why the difference in smoothing is not so pronounced on the other parts of the plane (wings, vertical stabilizer and such). Are you using smoothing groups which may be impeding the smooth process? You're doing a fasntastic job .. this second rendition is eons better than the original. Regards

Just curious Centurion-1, What would the polycount go to with one more iteration in meshsmooth? Could be worth it? Regards, Sophocles

Oh Yeah!! Centurion-1 that is a really good start! Glad you're adding polys

Outstanding work!!!!! You have a pm ....

Ooooooh! I'd love to see it! Coming from you it'll be darn good!! Maybe we could talk about commonality? I'm thinking of super-detailing mine .. perhaps we could avoid duplication of labour?

Oooops!!! I know the legend ... ehm "The Wrench" Sorry, just not good with 1st names .. ok; I'll stop putting my foot in my mouth now .... I too am seriously looking forward to Centurion's A-37!!!!

Forgive me Veltro2K, but who is Kev? (I know I'm an ignorant bastage.. How do I contact him? Thanks for the encouragement Muy bien, but it'll be months before I get the model anywhere near release..

Also, does anyone know a site which details modern era (1960s-70s) us aircraft gauges and graphics? Thanks in advance

Hello all! After suffering some burnout for about 6 weeks I've fallen in love with my project again. Here's a first glimpse of the cockpit .. Anyone know what the standard gunsight was for one of these? All the pics I have show different ones?

Absolutely Drop-dead Gorgeous!!!!!!! Ablolutely love the colors on the HAF camo scheme; is it based on a real example of a HAF paint-scheme or is there some artistic license?

Thanks to all for your encouragement Weekend's here! hope to have an initial view of the cockpit by Sunday. Regards

Hello all, Just a little update; I've got the animations sorted out and the plane now sits nicely on the ground (now just to unravel the rest of the flight model .. I know next to nothing on this so may take a while..) Also nearly finished this version's external model. I think I'll start on the cockpit for a bit of a break before modelling the other versions. I've also just added the wing pylons and some 150/275 gallon tanks. Regards

Looking absolutely gorgeous!!

Yes, I see it would look odd. I am going to try with the 3 separate animations. Thanks again

Oh great! Thanks Florian, this is the type of info I'm looking for .. I'll try a separate animation for the gear compression; you mean 3 different sets of 10 keys (41-50, 61-70, 71-80) one each for left gear, right gear, nose gear? Can't I just assign all 3 to one set? say 41-50,animation id 5? Regards

Thanks, // Landing Gears --------------------------------------------------------- [NoseGear] SystemType=LANDING_GEAR Retractable=TRUE DeployTime=5.0 AnimationID=2 DragArea=0.25 HideGearNode=TRUE ModelNodeName=NoseGearStrut InsideNodeName= ShockNodeName=NoseGearHydraulics02 ShockAnimationID=2 ShockStroke=0.275 SpringFactor=2.0 DampingFactor=0.75 WheelNodeName=NoseGearTire RotationAxis=X-AXIS RollingRadius=0.50 CastoringWheel=TRUE CastoringNodeName= Steerable=TRUE MaxSteeringSpeed=41.15 Locking=FALSE MaxSteeringAngle=75.0 InputName=YAW_CONTROL ControlRate=1.0 HasBrakes=FALSE RollingCoefficient=0.05 MaxDeploySpeed=115.75 [LeftMainGear] SystemType=LANDING_GEAR Retractable=TRUE DeployTime=5.0 AnimationID=1 DragArea=0.50 HideGearNode=TRUE ModelNodeName=LeftMainGearStrut InsideNodeName= ShockNodeName=LeftMainGearHydraulics01 ShockAnimationID=1 //ReverseShockOrientation=TRUE ShockStroke=0.20 SpringFactor=3.0 DampingFactor=2.0 WheelNodeName=LeftMainGearTire RotationAxis=X-AXIS ReverseModelOrientation=FALSE ReverseWheelRotation=TRUE RollingRadius=0.50 CastoringWheel=FALSE HasBrakes=TRUE BrakingCoefficient=0.75 RollingCoefficient=0.05 MaxDeploySpeed=115.75 [RightMainGear] SystemType=LANDING_GEAR Retractable=TRUE DeployTime=5.0 AnimationID=1 DragArea=0.50 HideGearNode=TRUE ModelNodeName=RightMainGearStrut InsideNodeName= ShockNodeName=RightMainGearHydraulics01 ShockAnimationID=1 ShockStroke=0.20 SpringFactor=3.0 DampingFactor=2.0 WheelNodeName=RightMainGearTire RotationAxis=X-AXIS ReverseModelOrientation=TRUE RollingRadius=0.50 CastoringWheel=FALSE HasBrakes=TRUE BrakingCoefficient=0.75 RollingCoefficient=0.05 MaxDeploySpeed=115.75

Just to make it clearer; I'm only getting this problem on the ground. Once the bird has cleared the runway, everything goes back to normal and the retractions are fine .. I'm just wondering if there's something in the data.ini that may be causing it?? Thanks for the replies Raven and Blackbird!

Hello all, I've finally unwrapped and animated all moving surfaces. Although the gear animations work perfectly in the air, when on the ground I get this (see pic). Once I get into the take off run and the nose rises, the gear look normal again and retract properly. The co-ordinates (pivot point) of my parent fuselage mesh are at pecisely 0,0,0 Any ideas?

Checked .. and hat's off to you! You're a real gentleman

Russouk, that would be great I've been fumbling along trying the get the animations working.. and its really disheartening. Sophocles

Thank you all so very much I'll check everything and see it is in order. Regards