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Topic: Catapult Launch progress report
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Pete Hawk
Pilot
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posted 01-30- 05:39 AM
   
Ok, here was the latest plan. Using my old Saratoga (with the working deck to land on) I added a jetblast barrier and dof that I can raise it up with. It's cool and works fine. Here was the plan. About where the arrestor hook is on the Tomcat I put a wheel with a dof that shoots it straight out the back fairly quickly for the length of the blast barrier to the bow of the ship. I was hoping to be quickly "pushed off the boat" by it. I've checked for hardness of the jetblast barrier by both crashing into it and driving over it when it's down. Both work but I don't see ANY obBodyPts anywhere on the entire ship. Needless to say it's not working, and it also won't work if I pull up near a building and run the dof tire thing into it. It goes right through. I'm gonna attempt to place the bodypts now on the jetbarrier and maybe that'll do the trick. (I hope).Ok, just tried that and it does push it, but only at very slow speeds. Going at a fast takeoff type speed pushes the tire through the barrier wall. Hmmm, if anyone can think of a way to control a dof, either from the ship itself or the airplane, and fling you off the carrier flying let me know and I'll work on it. I'm about stumped on carrier launches at this point. Here are some pics of the progress on the carrier. http://members.xoom.com/hawkersop/images/carrier [This message has been edited by Pete Hawk (edited 01-30-2000).] IP: Logged |
Pete Hawk
Pilot
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posted 01-30- 04:35 PM
Well guys, I did more testing today and I think I'm beating a dead horse here. Unless I can get obBodyPts figured out, it won't work. I've followed the directions for placing them using DOF's and have yet to see them appear in OPS when I go to that mode to view them (in the beta of OPS).So this is a serious bummer. I was very hopeful it'd work, and since I seem to be the only one trying to get a cat launcher working, I'm sad to say I don't see it happening in this version of the sim/OP. IP: Logged |
Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 01-30- 05:16 PM
Spanky here.. What about using creator? Doesn't it have somthing to edit and view BodyPts?
Help him out guys we need this
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