Blender is awesome. I just imported a T6(Raytheon) built in Blender using the ac3d format. I haven't gotten to the animations yet, I too was wondering how/if they work work. My 3ds models from blender didn't keep the texture mappings.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Elliott Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:51 PM To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 undercarriage animation / Blender / SF.net lists On Thursday 18 May 2006 22:11, AJ MacLeod wrote: > Forwarding this to the list as requested. And because there > are lots of people here much better qualified than I to answer > the animation questions :-) > > Cheers, > > AJ > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > From: "flying.toaster" > To: AJ MacLeod > > Hi there > > I send you this e-mail because the anti-spam at sourceforge > is filtering my domain name (voila.fr, which is sort of like > hotmail). I know that lots of spam come from that kind of > domain but this restriction is kind of violent ! Do you have > any idea how I could get my posts sent ? > > Here is the latest one I wanted to send regarding the tomcat > if you want to forward it ... > > I posted a preview of animations (landing gear retraction) at > avsim forum. " > I think I got the blender inverse kinematics right now, but I > am wondering if this is of any use since blender uses "bones" > as a replacement for transforms in the animations (actually > bones are pseudo objects redefining the axes of its childs in > the hierarchy). > > Bones are very elegant but I don't think there is such a thing > on plib animations. Furthermore, animations are interpolated > across multiple frames but how do I export a particular > animation for a particular part (say ground spoilers) for use > in flight gear ? > > I just feel like all the pretty work on blender is going to be > useless. > > Anybody tried blender export before ? > > " > > regards > > Enrique Hi AJ, Enrique, there's no support for IK in FG - you'll have to use axis and the existing rotate and translate animation methods. This has become a lot easier to do since it was possible to define axis by their endpoints instead of normalised values. Getting them right when the axis is compounded between x, y & z still requires some effort and it can help if you temporarily bind the control-input axis for the animation you're working on to one of your joystick axis and then, for rotation animations, set the factor so that the rotating object rotates through 360 degrees. This should make the rotation axis a lot clearer. You've still got to fire up FG after each change to check stuff though. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
