Help with getting non-plane designs into realflight from blender

[grooveybf109e]

Hi,
This is my first time building anything from scratch, and I was struggling with the naming, pivots, and mapping for CS's.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
I was trying a simple Akagi carrier as a test.
I have watched some videos, but only succeeded in confusing myself.
Thanks all

 

[legoman]

for airport objects naming and pivots are less important. select and object then press F2 to rename, control+F2 to "batch rename"

parenting select child (left click) the shift left click the parent finally control+p (or the right click menu choose parent) to parent left click select. object.. you can parent multiple children to one oject at once make sure the parent is the last one (shift clicked)/

uhh...... mapping in blender...... it is possible.......somehow. not sure how I usually use wings3d to do the mapping.

To set the pivot


To fine tune the pivots. if children move check the parents box


Usually correct the orientation

 

[grooveybf109e]

Okay, thank you so much for the detailed response legoman!!
I'll report with how it goes.

 

[grooveybf109e]

Does this look right?
Or am I doing something wrong?

 

[legoman]

the hierarchy looks fine for a airport object. if you want it flyable there should be a object called FUSELAGE. it would normally the center most object or what other pieces woulkd break off of. of what other large "sub structures" and there children would break off from eg. wings, landing gear,

the pivot I can only see the one for the rudder and not its orientation so I am not sure

cant see the materials so not sure.

it might need edge split or smoothing groups if some uglyness shows up in rf

 

[grooveybf109e]

Okay, thanks, I'll try the pivot for the rudder, and make the hull into the fuse.

 

[grooveybf109e]

Is this correct?

 

[legoman]

Is this correct?
View attachment 135563

for a moveable pod yes.
for a control surface no.

A control surface always uses the X axis (red) for the axis it pivots on. for wings that are do not have both a right and left the red axis should point towards the tip for "symmetrical" setup 99.9% of all main wings the axis should be toward the tip of the right wing and the root of the left.

also the pivot should be at or at least very near the hinge axis or pivot point

 

[grooveybf109e]

Is this a correct pivot?

 

[legoman]

the red axis (X) should be inline with the angle that you want the surface to rotate so either straight up or straight down the the wing has +90 dihedral the X axis should be up if -90 dihedral the the X axis should be point down.

 

[grooveybf109e]

How do I rotate the pivot?

 

[grooveybf109e]

Is this right?

 

[legoman]

yes but since the rudder extends below the fuse and I would have the dihedral of the wing at -90 the x axis should be down the orientation shown would be correct for 99.9% of planes

 

[grooveybf109e]

Like this?

 

[legoman]

Like this?
View attachment 135573

that should do

 

[grooveybf109e]

Okay, thank you so much for helping me with learning how to create in blender!

 

[braved]

Is blender free?

 

[legoman]

Is blender free?

yes as long as you dont use it for profit

 

[braved]

Is making planes for Real Flight using it for profit?

 

[legoman]

Is making planes for Real Flight using it for profit?

are you charging money? if no then it is not for profit. I think there might be a threshold before they care. but I make no money off my models so it is free. we would count as hobbyist's so we are covered.