Tigermoth re-work

[dewoitine]

Nice work Andre!

I am completely in GW3.
I am like you for a period between 1930 and 1940 with CFS3 (may be).


above Lympne with WACO aircraft !

[ndicki]

Where on earth did you get that from!?!

[hairyspin]

GW3 = Golden Wings 3. I think he's flying FS9 with the Golden Wings add-on: no ATC or Jumbos, just fly in the 1930s.

[ndicki]

Oh blast, I thought it was CFS3 with Johnno's scenery. Not interested in FS9/X/etc. Nothing to be unpleasant to.

[Pat Pattle]

A quick update, the LOD 100 is about done, on to the cockpits next.
There's very little of Ole's original model left now, as it always is, it would have been easier to start from scratch!

[gecko]

Very nice Clive! And your scenery seems to be coming along well too.

[Led Zeppelin]

Nice project!

[hairyspin]

That's looking rather good Clive! If you need anything just yell.

[Pat Pattle]

The 'pit is underway, lots yet to do!

If you need anything just yell.

Tom..or any of you other gurus...how do you calibrate the gauges? The SDK is not too clear and I'm fearing that it involves maths!

[hairyspin]

(wheels out and dusts off arithmetic CSE pass , C minus: cough cough)

The airspeed needle animation is calibrated in km/hr and 0 km/h is frame 0, 2000 km/h is frame 2000, so for a Tiggie you'll be rotating airspeed_needle to the 160mph mark at frame 257 (257 km/h). Set the needle for the other calibration marks, don't depend on the scale to be uniform all the way around.

vertical_speed_needle is not terribly obvious, so this from my crib sheet:-

-4000 feet/min (descending...!) at keyframe 80
-3000 fpm at keyframe 85
-2000 fpm at keyframe 90
-1000 fpm at keyframe 95

steady flight 0 fpm at keyframe 100

+1000 fpm (climbing) at keyframe 105
+2000 fpm at keyframe 110
+3000 fpm at keyframe 115
+4000 fpm at keyframe 120

Altimeter animations are pure rotation animations around the needle's Z axis handled by CFS3 itself, one full turn for a hundred, thousand or ten thousand feet depending on which needle you're talking about.

For the turn rate, neutral is at keyframe 100; standard, double, 3x and 4x turns left are at keyframes 75, 50, 25 and 0 whereas standard, double, 3x and 4x turns right are at keyframes 125, 150, 175 and 200.

Slip is neutral at keyframe 50, 3 balls left at 0 and 3 balls right at 100.

This should give you the idea. I also find the gauge tooltips incredibly useful for checking this in-sim: I name the gauge body by the tooltip name and in CFS3 you can read off what the sim thinks the value is to compare with what the needle is pointing to.

Hope this helps! (and I like the compass bezel - P11 or P4 type?)


A terribly useful prog when working these out is convert.exe, Milton put me on to this one. Converts from gallons to Hindustani firkins by way of troy ounces, should you so wish.

Convert



OT: Ben Ainslie just lifted his fourth sailing gold in four Olympics - not bad for a lad!

[Pat Pattle]

Thanks Tom! Doesn't look too onerous. Luckily there's no rate of climb, just speed, alt, turn & slip and rpm. There are also two spirit levels for nose and bank and a mechanical airspeed indictor. The compass is a P8 (I think!).

But to confuse matters every photo and illusrtation I can fnd of a TM cockpit is different!

[HouseHobbit]

A quick update, the LOD 100 is about done, on to the cockpits next.
There's very little of Ole's original model left now, as it always is, it would have been easier to start from scratch!

Just beautiful!
Can't wait to give her a good wrecking..

Of course there will need to be a purple and pink polka dotted one for us hobbits!!

[Thudman]

Do you plan on doing the auster and/or the Cub too when you finish the Tiger Moth? Did you have to re-map the mesh after you "rebuilt" it?

[sdsbolt]

But to confuse matters every photo and illusrtation I can fnd of a TM cockpit is different!

lol..yeah, when your lucky enough to get a few good cockpit photos they never quite match up. certainly better than having no sources to work from.

shaping up to be a pretty good aircraft

[Pat Pattle]

It’s got a full damage model just for you Owen!

Do you plan on doing the auster and/or the Cub too when you finish the Tiger Moth? Did you have to re-map the mesh after you "rebuilt" it?

A few parts of Ole Egholms original mesh still remain but the mapping is revised. Rob Stevenson is kindly preparing the textures and tidying up the fm’s etc.
The templates will be released with the model to facilitate easier skinning

I have Ole’s Auster model as well but I don’t know when I’ll get round to doing anything with it.

shaping up to be a pretty good aircraft

...just don't look too closely Steve!!


Edit... have just come across this forum where a chap has built a stunning model from the old Airfix kit. I've just ordered the kit so this is great inspiration - not that mine will look anything like as good as he has achieved!

http://aeroscale.co.uk/modules.php?o...opic_id=144050

There's also a link in amongst the replies to a great set of walk-around photos which have thrown up some good detail and bits that I've got wrong.