Makara Wind turbines

[Timmo]

there already is a animated wind turbine on the fsdeveloper site from memory- no point in reinventing the wheel

I had a play with them a couple of years ago

[NZ255]

Cool....

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=46

[husker]

Here's what the look like for real from the air - useful reference (that's not all of them, still more being built after these photos)


Rodney's Aviation Ramblings

[2fst4u]

Unfortunatly its just a gmax scene and a .mdl file. I'm unsure as to how to use either...

help please?

[Timmo]

Youll need to create a placement xml file and then run this through bglcomp.exe.....by far the easiest way to do this would be to download a program called 'Whisplacer', add the mdl to new library, and then place them when connected to FSX.

[2fst4u]

alrighty then. one last question though...

what height are these turbines modeled at? having used them before i thought you might have found it out. figuring out scale is the hard part

[NZ255]

I've download them and have scaled them to the right size, just having a bit of trouble with animation ATM.

[NZ255]

Quite a sight

[2fst4u]

oh wow, you did all the work for me i started getting the positions right this morning but gave up after three objects because the co-ordinates didnt like me. any prospect of uploading to avsim?

[NZ255]

Yup, just have to make LOD (level of detail) with 60+ of them you get a lot of polygons!

[2fst4u]

yea i was afraid of that

[Timmo]

Good practice is to also vary the levels in the scenery complexity tab so that users with slower machines using lower sliders won't see as many windturbines

Good effort though!

2fst4u- How did you get on with Whisplacer?

[2fst4u]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Aug 26 2009, 11:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good practice is to also vary the levels in the scenery complexity tab so that users with slower machines using lower sliders won't see as many windturbines

Good effort though!

2fst4u- How did you get on with Whisplacer?

not well unfortunatly. it was very hard to choose what object you wanted to place. and i couldnt find a feature for adding .mdl files. object placment tool is good enough for me

[toprob]

QUOTE (2fst4u @ Aug 26 2009, 04:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

not well unfortunatly. it was very hard to choose what object you wanted to place. and i couldnt find a feature for adding .mdl files. object placment tool is good enough for me

Yes, Whisplacer has some brilliant features (eg placing fence segments along a line) but the fact that you need to 'register' each object as a simobject makes it awkward for quick jobs. I'm more likely to fire up Object Placement Tool for most things. Still, I wouldn't want to use OPT for a kilometre of custom fence segments:)

[pilotgallagher01]

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Aug 23 2009, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Quite a sight

Awesome mate,

Let us know when you have uploaded

[Timmo]

QUOTE (toprob @ Aug 26 2009, 04:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes, Whisplacer has some brilliant features (eg placing fence segments along a line) but the fact that you need to 'register' each object as a simobject makes it awkward for quick jobs. I'm more likely to fire up Object Placement Tool for most things. Still, I wouldn't want to use OPT for a kilometre of custom fence segments:)

How do you mean?

Adding your own mdl files takes 5 seconds? (Tools > Library Manager> Current scenery > Rightclick: add objects

[NZ255]

I can't seem to do that

[Timmo]

click the new document icon, then you should be able to.

[toprob]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Aug 26 2009, 05:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

How do you mean?

Adding your own mdl files takes 5 seconds? (Tools > Library Manager> Current scenery > Rightclick: add objects

I'm not talking about adding a single object, I'm talking about maintaining the libraries. My libraries can have hundreds of objects, many of which are updated often. With Whisplacer, you need to recreate the simobjects every time you update a library. I find that very fiddly. Not to mention the resources they use, I have about 400MB of Whisplacer simobjects.

[Timmo]

Oh true about the extra copies of models.....I use the find and replace functionality to update models but I agree if you had hundreds of objects that could fiddly.

What about saving the whisplacer project as XML? or does it still reference the mdls it makes?