Simviation Forum - Inside out

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Design Forums › Aircraft & 3D Design › Inside out

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Inside out (Read 165 times)

Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 10:35am

Smoke2much Offline
Colonel
The Unrepentant Heretic
Sittingbourne, Kent,

Posts: 3879

I very carefully built my wing for the Blenheim IV I am building. Having built half the wing I used the Mirror:Clone function to create the other half. In the Sim it's inside out and I can't understand why.

I believe a Brain Transplant may be in order.

If someone can explain my error I would be grateful.

Will

Who switched the lights off? I can't see a thing....... Hold on, my eyes were closed. Oops, my bad...............&&

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 10:53am

Felix/FFDS Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender:
Posts: 1000000627

Quote:

Having built half the wing I used the Mirror:Clone function to create the other half.

That's why.

Quote:

I believe a Brain Transplant may be in order.

Not really .. . as you've found out, it's the makemdl/FS combination that does not like the Mirror tool function.

Quote:

If someone can explain my error I would be grateful.

Your undying gratitude to Inspecto Poly will be sufficient

What you want to do in gWax, is to clone the object - the wing, in this case - THEN apply a mirror parametric modifier to it from the modify tab, etc.

Felix/FFDS

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 11:18am

Smoke2much Offline
Colonel
The Unrepentant Heretic
Sittingbourne, Kent,

Posts: 3879

You have my undying gratitude Inspector Grin

Would this be why my gear animation looks so remarkably odd then? Roll Eyes

Will

Who switched the lights off? I can't see a thing....... Hold on, my eyes were closed. Oops, my bad...............&&

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 11:27am

Felix/FFDS Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender:
Posts: 1000000627

Quote:

Would this be why my gear animation looks so remarkably odd then? Roll Eyes

Will

Inpsector Poly refuses to speculate on the oddness of the landing gear, when no credible evidence exists other than unsubstantiated rumors of some caterpillar type gear having been installed (don't laugh - it was tried on a B-36!)

Felix/FFDS

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 11:40am

Smoke2much Offline
Colonel
The Unrepentant Heretic
Sittingbourne, Kent,

Posts: 3879

An all terrain B-36 hey? Works for me, a stall speed of 3 knots I guess....

Who switched the lights off? I can't see a thing....... Hold on, my eyes were closed. Oops, my bad...............&&

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Mar 2^nd, 2005 at 1:18pm

Felix/FFDS Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender:
Posts: 1000000627

Quote:

An all terrain B-36 hey? Works for me, a stall speed of 3 knots I guess....

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/research/bombers/b3-69.htm

While it's been discussed here before, it's an item worth looking at every once in a while...

Felix/FFDS

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Mar 3^rd, 2005 at 7:39pm

KDSM Offline
Colonel
SimV Forum Flyer

Gender:
Posts: 1340

did the b-36 see any real combat? or was it just in service long enough to make the movie "Strategic Air Command"?

oh that reminds me ....I am switching back and forth between FSD pro and G-max trying to learn both of them.

is there a scaling tool in G-max like the one in FSDS pro where you select a cross-section and it scales just the points selected?

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Mar 3^rd, 2005 at 8:44pm

Felix/FFDS Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender:
Posts: 1000000627

Quote:

did the b-36 see any real combat? or was it just in service long enough to make the movie "Strategic Air Command"?

Fortunately, the B-36 did not see any combat - remember it was built with one purpose - to deliver nuclear bombs.

Quote:

is there a scaling tool in G-max like the one in FSDS pro where you select a cross-section and it scales just the points selected?

Most definitely it has scaling tools - and how it scales is a function of how you're scaling (uniform, non-uniform, and squash) and how you want the scalling point to be defined ...

Felix/FFDS

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page