Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

[asj5547]

Photoshopped some headlight and windscreen mounted light lenses on to the model (looks better than just paint)

 

[technoid]

Looks great.

 

[asj5547]

Thanks Technoid

 

[space boy]

Photoshopped some headlight and windscreen mounted light lenses on to the model (looks better than just paint)

those are good looking. I wonder if you could put those light lens textures in the color scheme itself. but you're probably right; it might not look good.

 

[uncle twist]

those are good looking. I wonder if you could put those light lens textures in the color scheme itself. but you're probably right; it might not look good.

That`s probably what he did space boy, I`ve used that technique before on a lot of my CS`s.

 

[space boy]

That`s probably what he did space boy, I`ve used that technique before on a lot of my CS`s.

you're probably right, uncle twist. I'm not sure what he meant by "photoshopped on to the model."

Photoshopped some headlight and windscreen mounted light lenses on to the model (looks better than just paint)

 

[uncle twist]

And Asj, it looks GREAT..!!!, I didn`t chime in on the lit up lights yet, BUT they look GREAT as well, OH, and the elev. and canard too.

 

[space boy]

OH, and the elev. and canard too.

good catch, uncle twist. I didn't notice the canard.

 

[uncle twist]

"photoshopped on to the model."

That generally means that it`s been applied to the .TGA file - AKA the color scheme file.

 

[Bill Stuntz]

OK, here's another of my dumb questions. Are the aerodynamics & flight characteristics actually based on the wing & control surface areas, weights, thrust, & etc. of the car? Or is it a completely different model whose graphic representation in the sim just looks like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I can't imagine a way that thing could actually fly. Then again, I can't really imagine a flying lawnmower, either. But I know the flying lawnmower is real. And bumble bees aren't supposed to be able to fly, either. But they do.

 

[space boy]

That generally means that it`s been applied to the .TGA file - AKA the color scheme file.

yeah but he also could have meant that he photoshopped them onto a screenshot of the model.

 

[uncle twist]

yeah but he also could have meant that he photoshopped them onto a screenshot of the model.

I seriously doubt that, it`s just as easy to apply it (the headlight lens pic.) to the .TGA file.

 

[space boy]

OK, here's another of my dumb questions. Are the aerodynamics & flight characteristics actually based on the wing & control surface areas, weights, thrust, & etc. of the car? Or is it a completely different model whose graphic representation in the sim just looks like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I can't imagine a way that thing could actually fly. Then again, I can't really imagine a flying lawnmower, either. But I know the flying lawnmower is real. And bumble bees aren't supposed to be able to fly, either. But they do.

That's such an intriguing question, bill. I am betting that asj probably didn't actually model the physics based on the visual model, because, as you say, it flies so well. and I agree that, if if it were a real, physical aircraft, it couldn't fly with those wings and that propeller... not without a good dose of magic.

I've seen (pictures of) an actual flying lawn mower, and although it is a real RC aircraft, it is not an actual lawn mower, as you probably know already.

 

[space boy]

I seriously doubt that, it`s just as easy to apply it (the headlight lens pic.) to the .TGA file.

indeed.

 

[asj5547]

The lights lens and instrument panel gauges are simply images off the web that are pasted onto the tga in the relative 3d mapped position.

 

[asj5547]

yeah but he also could have meant that he photoshopped them onto a screenshot of the model.

To show the light lens in 3dsmax I still have to map the model and make the tga file, then apply the tga to the model in max to see the effect, here are a couple of screenshots in max, that way we can see the result before we export out of max and import into RF.

 

[space boy]

To show the light lens in 3dsmax I still have to map the model and make the tga file, then apply the tga to the model in max to see the effect, here are a couple of screenshots in max, that way we can see the result before we export out of max and import into RF.

okay I get it. A large part of my confusion was probably from the popular notion of "photoshopping," where someone takes an existing image and manipulates it in some way.

... and now that I think about it, I realize that that's exactly what you did with the TGA.

 

[asj5547]

I forgot to map the sides of the fenders (only did top and bottom maps) so I could not apply a red pinstripes.
Pic-1 is the area remapped (plain grey) and pics 2 & 3 are with pinstripes applied.

 

[space boy]

I forgot to map the sides of the fenders (only did top and bottom maps) so I could not apply a red pinstripes.
Pic-1 is the area remapped (plain grey) and pics 2 & 3 are with pinstripes applied.

wow. little details like that looks so good.

 

[uncle twist]

I forgot to map the sides of the fenders (only did top and bottom maps) so I could not apply a red pinstripes.
Pic-1 is the area remapped (plain grey) and pics 2 & 3 are with pinstripes applied.

Nice catch Asj, looking better and better with every update....