Josh Babcock wrote: > Vivian Meazza wrote: > >>Josh Babcock >> >> >> >> >>>I just made up a tutorial about making gear retraction animations run >>>smoothly with complicated landing gears. It's still missing the final >>>animation code, but I thought I'd throw it up to see what everybody >>>thinks. It's got lots of in-line images, so be warned. I'm considering >>>changing this to in-line thumbnails hotlinked to the full sized images. >>>Please give feedback. >>> >>>http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/gear-tutorial/gear-tutorial.html >>> >> >> >>Gosh, Josh, what an effort. Well done. Couple of points. First, I model the >>gear with the oleos extended, which helps with getting the compression >>right. Most drawings show the gear with the oleos at some intermediate >>compression. Some interpretation/intelligent guesswork is usually required. >>Second, sometimes the movement of jacks and draglinks etc. is too difficult >>to model well, so I cheat and hide them once they can no longer be seen >>readily (I do that anyway to save vertices). >> >>And one typo: separate. >> >>I'm impressed! >> >>Vivian >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Flightgear-devel mailing list >>Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org >>http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel >>2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >> > > > Good point. I also do this, but because this model has knees (not sure > what to call them) instead of oleos, I skipped it. Still, it should be > extended to that it is below the ground in its resting pos. I will add > this, and a section for dealing with gear-compression-norm and > gear-compression-m. > > I'll also add a LOD section. The neat thing about this method is that > it's so east to get everything in the right position, so you don't > really need to hide it until you close the doors. > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
OK, here's a new draft. I need to get a screenshot from FG, as well as the distance that the gear compresses, which is a bit of a problem right now. Putting in the rest of the code and the second missing image should happen today. It is now in the right place: http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/gear-tutorial/gear-tutorial.html Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
