Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-23 Thread Joacim Persson
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On November 22, 2005 10:51 am, Joacim Persson wrote: How about simply taking photos from various angles, ... I don't see how that's going to work unless one has a fisheye lense and is able to take pictures with exactly 180 degrees view. ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: \ Finally, here is a thought that has been floating in my mind for a while, and I hope you could try it out: take some stereoscopic views of aircrafts. Having some stereoscopic photographs of an aircraft may help modellers make estimations better. (Okay, this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Joacim Persson
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Josh Babcock wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Having some stereoscopic photographs of an aircraft may help modellers make estimations better. (Okay, this is just a theory, but this would be a good opportunity to vertify my theory with an experiment.) :P Good theory,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Not being an aircraft modeller myself, I don't know exactly what's needed; but those with specific requirements could also try posting in the rec.aviation.* newsgroups (the .piloting and .simulators come to mind), and folks out there will probably respond. Google

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Yeah, a while back I stopped posting me email address on usenet news. It gets into the web archives, goes all over the internet and the world, and pretty soon you are back to measure your spam in messages per second ... :-( I'm proudly posting my email address on the webpages and never

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: I was also thinking that this community must have a treasure trove of airshow pics. Obviously most people won't want to put them up on airliners.net, but maybe we could have some sort of forum where we can post wanted ads and lists of planes we have pics of. Or we could just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 22, 2005 10:51 am, Joacim Persson wrote: How about simply taking photos from various angles, but document the exact position from which each photo is taken? From that it should be possible to calculate the position for a number of points with (hopefully) fairly good precision. I

[Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Had an airshow at the local airforce base which enabled me to get some pic's. So if anyone is looking for pic's of the following aircraft give me a bell KC135 tanker with CFM 56 engines BAE Hawk BAE 146 Pilartis PC9 P3 Orian C130J B1 Bomber F18 F16 F111 Metroliner Gulfstream DHC Dash 8

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-20 Thread Enrique Vaamonde
Hi Innis! I would really like to see your photos of the F/A-18 and the P-3 Orion. I'll be trying to model a Hornet over the christmas holidays. thank you ! cheers, -E Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi All Had an airshow at the local airforce base which enabled me to get some pic's. So if anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 20, 2005 09:52 am, Innis Cunningham wrote: BAE 146 Metroliner Gulfstream DHC Dash 8 Fokker 50 Erik? If you could get into the cockpit of the above aircrafts, you might want to get some 360 shots of the cockpit. It might also be worthwhile to bring a measuring tape along. :P