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Topic: Any tricks on getting a turret centered?
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Royohboy
Pilot
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posted 03-30- 01:12 PM
   
Hi everybody! 
The Ju 188 now has a top turret, but a whole afternoon of hard work didn't get it centered. I grabbed the top turret from the Lanc. Does anybody know a trick for getting the stuff centered and the DOFs aligned OK?
This one is obviously not aligned too well:
 Another problem: how does a gun know where its muzzle-flash has to go? Does it have to do with the origin of the mesh? This isn'too much of a problem with smaller guns, but on this one it just looks wrong:
 Peter
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Razer
Pilot
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posted 03-30- 01:40 PM
you know rough, you seem to be retty good at the cockpit glass area. Thats the worst part of anything i make. I want to redo the fuse for the P51B but i suck at the cockpit framing. If i was to send you a new P51B fuse, could you do the cockpit framing and glass for me? ------------------
Tony "Razer" Martin
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Royohboy
Pilot
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posted 03-30- 05:10 PM
Well, that's the fruit of two days of work :-) It took me quite some planning and two days of work, but the canopy frame is about the only thing I really have good info on. Razer, send the P51 over, I'll work over the cockpit-part.Are you any good at turrets or DOFs? Peter [This message has been edited by Royohboy (edited 03-30-2000).] IP: Logged |
charmstar
Pilot
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posted 03-30- 07:59 PM
RoyohBoy-
Did you try looking at the DOFs using OpenPlane 1.21's DOF viewing? You should be able to set them up there without too much trouble. the plane is looking good! charm IP: Logged |
Royohboy
Pilot
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posted 03-31- 12:53 AM
I tried it in the lates OPS-version, and everything looked real good, but actually the whole turret-thing is still off-center. Well, I guess there is no trick but thinking before doing ;-)IP: Logged |
Zoycite
JAG
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posted 03-31- 01:31 AM
Heya,This may or may not help. But it has worked for me once  Try moving your lod/s in your 3d program towards the direction you want. Save the new lod, then in OPS, replace the old lod with the lod you just made. This takes patience and a bit of trial and error but it might work. Good luck.
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Zoycite 33rd~GS  visit The War Paint Factory IP: Logged |
Royohboy
Pilot
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posted 03-31- 04:49 AM
I just solved the turret-rotation problem! Here's how: I took a look at the .asc-file to see where the parent of the turret was centered (especially the X-coordinate). Since I was sure I had all the parts centered pretty good in OPS I went to the DOF-record of the turret and put in the X-coordinate I found for the parent object as the X-origin of the turret-DOF - and it worked!Thanks everybody! IP: Logged |
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