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Wing warping...

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Is it possible to model wing warping in FS? Not working on it now, but I am thinking two projects down the road. :)
 
Not sure, but that should be animatable if you set up a skinned mesh and tag the bones as ailerons. Planning on a Fokker Eindecker or a Morane-Saulnier?

Greetz
Felix
 
Not sure, but that should be animatable if you set up a skinned mesh and tag the bones as ailerons. Planning on a Fokker Eindecker or a Morane-Saulnier?

Greetz
Felix

Or....... Any of the WRight Bros. early biplanes, Fokker D-1, etc...

(the Other Felix)
 
Or....... Any of the WRight Bros. early biplanes, Fokker D-1, etc...

(the Other Felix)
First thing I have to do is finish the Peashooter, then maybe this:


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If not that, Fantasy of Flight has a nice replica of the Super Solution...
 
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I'm trying to build a Morane-Saulnier Type G (problems with the joystick at the moment!) and I've treated the wings as ailerons in the absence of a greater knowledge of FSDS. I tried making the rotating axis from inboard leading edge to outboard trailing edge but though it looked OK in FSDS the model compiled using that axis as the leading edge. Is there a more attractive practical way of producing the warping?

froggy
 
The best way to attack wing warping is with a bones system - as in the flexing wings.

You can't go that route in FSDS.

The best way would be to create a series of wing segments, linked, and tagged as ailerons.

My suggestion on wing warping planes is that unless you are absol;utely SURE of how the wing warping works visually, I think that the real life visual effect is not that great, that a regular "fixed" wing model wouldn't do just as good.

Don't forget, with wing warpers, you then also have to deal with the animations of the attached cable....
 
Thanks Felix, sounds like a challenge and a half - are there any examples of either FSDS or Gmax warping wing models available do you know?

froggy
 
Thanks Felix, sounds like a challenge and a half - are there any examples of either FSDS or Gmax warping wing models available do you know?

froggy

The "best" example of a wing flexing gmax model is the FS-X DC-3 sample (max model converted to gmax).

While the model is (was?) available from the Microsoft FS/ESP developer's site, it's available from the modelling forum at FFDS.

That shows the wing structure, with the various elements, etc.
 
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