Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 10 September 2005 18:42, Andy Ross wrote: > It's hard to fix. When you mirror a mesh, the winding order of > all the polygons gets reversed, which means their normals change > direction. If the mesh is stored in an optimized format (strips, > fans, etc...) then it needs to be broken d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > That's not a problem, but a feature. Really. After mirroring an > object you have to 'apply the rotation'. (Some key combination > with "a", IIRC. Ctrl-A?) I don't know why this isn't done > automatically, but it is braindamage 'by design'. It's hard to fix. When you mirro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-10 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erik: I tried to use your jsbsim FDM frist, but I was too stupid to get that to work... It's hard to believe that. Maybe you're too inexperienced. I'll take a look at it today and send you the required updates. Erik ___ Fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread flightgear
On Saturday 10 September 2005 08:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Problems: > > - blender has problems with flipping normals to the outside of the model > > automaticaly, so i had to do that by hand. It is likely that I overlooked > > a surface or two... > > That's not a problem, but a feature. Really

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:07:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problems: > - blender has problems with flipping normals to the outside of the model > automaticaly, so i had to do that by hand. It is likely that I overlooked a > surface or two... That's not a problem, but a feature. Really.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Thorben, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Screenshots: [...] These look very promising. The most significant difference to the Twin Otters that I've seen in real life is the lack of floats :-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -

[Flightgear-devel] DHC-6 progress

2005-09-09 Thread flightgear
Hi all. I am making progress with my DHC-6: - added and animated controll surfaces and propellers - added a simple livery (proof of concept) - added a very optimistic FDM (behaves like I think it should) Screenshots: - http://thorben-mit-th.de/files/dhc6-alpha009.jpg - http://thorben-mit-th.de/f