It's looking good! (I look forward to flying or crashing it as the case may be).
Chris On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 01:41, Jim Wilson wrote: > Progress has been slow, mostly because of real work getting in the way, but > the Wright Flyer is getting much closer to completion. > > Most of the detail and animation is done. Here's a shot from the front with > the elevator mechanism tilted up for initial ascent.: > http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/wrightflyer-starting.png > > >From the earlier discussion and pictures available I took a guess on the wing > warping. For now the animation is pretty crude (only three positions), but > better than nothing. This is a shot from behind showing the wings warped for > a roll toward the left: > http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/wrightflyer-warp.png > > This is the startup line I'm using. The location and heading is based on a > best guess from various accounts. Pictures of the Wright National Monument > and a scan of a guide brochure from the Park helped a lot in at least matching > reasonably close to the "best guess" that was arrived at in 1928 by a > contingent of witnesses to the original event: > > fgfs --aircraft=wrightFlyer1903-v1-nl-uiuc --lat=36.020247 --lon=-75.669041 > --heading=5 --disable-random-objects --enable-auto-coordination > > Crazy details left on my todo list: > > - Adding control cables/chains and blocks for all the control surfaces. > - Animating Orville's hips and the cradle. > - As soon as I figure out the exact shape, adding the foot stop that kept > Orville from sliding off the back of the wing at startup. > - As soon as I get some more information (a good picture or diagram), modeling > the "instrument cluster" that was mounted just to the right of Orville's right > arm. > - Correct the elevator animation once information on its actual range is > learned (anyone know this?) > - Modeling the rail. > - Modeling the rear skid (this is tricky because it gets dropped and left > behind when the aircraft becomes airborn). > > I'm really not up to speed on scenery modeling, but if someone wants to it'd > be great to have a tiny bit of territory covering just Kill Devil Hills, NC > and the Outer Banks, that was simply covered with a nice beach sand texture as > it was back in 1903. > > Another idea: if we had that little chunk of sandy scenery we might want to > put together a special release (that included a binary and a tiny subset of > the base package) for school teachers and whoever else to download during the > centennial year. Might be kind of cool to release it next month on December > 17th, the 99th aniversary of the first flight. Sounds like a potential > promotional thing for the FlightGear project too, I'd think. > > Best, > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
