posted 01-09- 12:53 AM               

As you can see wing sweep works. Control gets tricky but hopefully after more time it'll be all good.

posted 01-09- 12:55 AM               

Or try it from here... http://members.xoom.com/hawkersop/images/

Again this is a plane that I really like, and that's my reason behind building it. I love to see cool planes in SDOE. I started this one today around 5:00PM, and rapidly got to the point you see in the pics, using my F-15 as a template. For those that like/want these, don't worry, you'll get them soon enough. I have a plan.

Tonight and tomorrow I'll start texture mapping this. Hope some of you like it.
It may or may not be a contest bird.

posted 01-09- 05:25 AM               

Don't you like the P-80 (hint hint)?

posted 01-09- 07:29 AM               

Great work Pete, so cool!

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-Sv =FC=

WWI in SDOE!

posted 01-09- 07:42 AM               

The winglet things will work, just as soon as I put them in. I thought out the wing sweep dofs and pivot points in my head, did it in OPS, and it was perfect the first time (this REALLY surprised me that it worked as I thought it should/would/could )

OpenPlane is soooooo cool.

Btw, if any of you are brand new to airplanes, especially F-14's, this plane is nicknamed the Tomcat. And another variation that was intended for mud-moving (ground attack) is known as the Bombcat. I haven't decided which varient this will be yet, but most likely a later one, as opposed to say, an A-model.

Final note, framerates with this go from 60-90 fps! Keeping poly count way way down on this one as much as possible.

posted 01-09- 08:31 AM               

It happened again! I just spent the entire night, and I mean night (it's now 7:00AM) flying this thing! Man is it fun! Can't wait to pass it around to the lot of ya

posted 01-09- 10:19 AM               

1. It looks like you lost smoothing on the nose and canopy of the Tomcat. Any idea what happened?

posted 01-09- 05:38 PM               

One thing I seem to be running up against lately (using smoothing) is this very bad shadowing/flashiness of some parts when flying. I tried one of RoadToads ideas in Nendo, hardening the edges of a part and then export it, smooth it out in Max, and then import it with OPS into the SM file, but sometimes it doesn't come out right.

Just imagine the plane in an aileron roll and certain poly's flash light and dark... it's driving me nuts!! Is there a rock solid way to fix this? JT, I've ICQ'd you recently but I never heard back. I'd love to go over some of this with you if you have a chance.

posted 01-09- 07:41 PM               

>One thing I seem to be running up against lately (using smoothing) is this very bad shadowing/flashiness of some parts when flying.

Hmm.... I've seen this before. I'll bet the vertex normals of the parts in question were lost. I remember that happening to a model I was working on a while back. Open the LOD files of the erroneous parts and look at the vertex normals.
The other possibility is that you need to simply weld vertices. Have you done that?

>JT, I've ICQ'd you recently but I never heard back.

Hey, just email me. I haven't used ICQ in a long time.

jtrivelli@adelphia.net

posted 01-09- 08:14 PM               

Bryan

P.S Isn't this OpenPlane thing great! never designed for swing wings or helicopters but it inheriantly handles it! I wonder what other little treats will surface! I dallied with the idea of doing the Tornado (which is another swing wing) just to see if it would work.

posted 01-09- 09:01 PM               

Maybe between the three of us we can fix the canopy thing. I'm not having any luck with it.