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The politics of flight sim communities
bomber:
I'm not into it...I've done my time at Warbirds, Targetware and Flightgear and dived right in, took the brickbats on the chin, frankly it does my head in and at 50 I'm too old for this sh t.
We're right at the start here, a fantastic Outerra modding community can evolve and I don't know if I could take seeing overtime this community become competitive, self serving and cliche, with groups working against other groups.
Now a vehicle takes a lot of work.... many disciplines 3d, 2d, animation, control systems, flight model.... add to that a combat element of damage for those doing combat mods. There's also the terrain moding, adding objects, buildings, bridges, roads, rail, shipping etc the list is endless.
Now some people love it, but it's slow working having to learn blender, photoshop, javascript, jsbsim xml.
I've a web site....
http://target4today.com/
with an invitation...
But the offer I want to make here is that I'll do flight models for 2 years (and then review) I've a few planes.... DR1, Camel, Spitfire, potez25 and a glider... now non of them are where I want to be (heavy bombers) but they are a means to an end, a learning curve. I've the 3d and flight models for all but I've gota get them into Outerra.... I'd real not have to battle through all the disciplines to get them in when I could be working on YOUR flight model.
So do you guys want to be a jack of all trades, master of non or specialise in your chosen subject ?
Levi:
I'll be more than happy to join this adventure. I have some experience with Blender, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Cinema 4D, AutoCAD...etc. I could prepare the models for scripting and/or make some visual improvements if necessary.
And of course, I could import them into Outerra, and configure all the necessary files.
And about JavaScript, I'm not sure if my little experience can help too much... Maybe for animations?
bomber:
Levi, in collaboration with Flightgear you can download the Ask-13 it's got the .ac 3d masters in it....
http://target4today.com/index.php/downloads/category/3-t4t-ask13-glider
The challenge I have now is to get the flight model to work in Outerra... but I need the model preping for animation in Outerra.
Levi:
--- Quote from: bomber on August 13, 2014, 02:36:56 pm ---Levi, in collaboration with Flightgear you can download the Ask-13 it's got the .ac 3d masters in it....
http://target4today.com/index.php/downloads/category/3-t4t-ask13-glider
The challenge I have now is to get the flight model to work in Outerra... but I need the model preping for animation in Outerra.
--- End quote ---
That's a great looking model!
So, I took a quick look at it, and it seem that all 3D animated parts are separate files, but thank God there's a .xml file that tells me where each part is placed/orientated in 3D space, so I don't have to manually guess the exact location and orientation for each.
Also, I will need to re-position and re-orient all the pivots for animated parts, and re-do the smoothing groups as well.
Do you need the model to be prepared very soon? I ask you that because I would like to release the A380 first, it's almost ready for it's first release :)
bomber:
No real rush, it's just nice to know I can concentrate on flight models
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