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Main Gear Animation

Paul Domingue

Paul Domingue

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I thought I'd do a little showing of what I have been working on. This is my part of a joint project. It has been a crash course in ambient occlusion (my thanks to Lionheart for his tutorial), bones and rigging (thanks to Chuck Jodry for his tutorial) and my experiments with inverse and forward kinematics. This is the first time I have tried animating flexible hose with bones and I have been learning it the hard way through T&E. The hardest part was figuring out how the whole contraption worked just from photographs and an old service manual that left a lot to be desired. I have to do some final testing in the sim, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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Looks great Paul! Although I cannot figure out what aircraft it belongs to :D But I love the details with the Hydraulic tubes and such :)

F747fly
 
Gosh! Something small and mid-winged, I suppose. That looks like a couple months of figuring out...
 
Thanks Sergio and F747fly. You're right on the money hairyspin its been over two months and the rest of the team are getting real antsy waiting on me. Heretic, some of you should know what it is from other sources, I'll give you a hint it's made in the USA.
 
Could you give us a hint of what direction to search in? I mean I think it could be a GA aircraft or an old jet fighter (e.g. something like an F-5 Tiger), but I might be totally thinking wrong here...
 
louprouge said:
grumman mallard ?
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Give the man a cigar! It's for Milton's model of the Mallard. LDR Productions took it on for conversion to FSX and I volunteered to do the gear animation, well one thing led to another and I ended up remodeling the entire gear to the chagrin of the people involved. They are anxiously awaiting my completion.
 
Paul Domingue said:
Give the man a cigar! It's for Milton's model of the Mallard. LDR Productions took it on for conversion to FSX and I volunteered to do the gear animation, well one thing led to another and I ended up remodeling the entire gear to the chagrin of the people involved. They are anxiously awaiting my completion.
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It looks amazingly detailed Paul! Looks amazing :)
 
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