5th October 2007, 04:13 PM | #1 |
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airplanes for ClearView and CAD
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after playing around a bit with AC3D I just had to get it! As said in the headline, I want to use it to make airplanes for the ClearView flight simulator, but then I'd also like to use the design for further CAD operations (via DXF export). Here are my problems/questions so far: 1) While the planes look more or less ok in AC3D, a lot of surfaces are missing when loaded into ClearView. I have checked the normals and am completely clueless here. 2) When adding textures to some surfaces the textures get distorted (in AC3D). I don't know why and haven't found a way around. (BTW, the distorted textures are not related to the surfaces not showing up in ClearView.) 3) When shoving the selection rectangle together in the texture editor that pops up with F10 it is not possible to pull it apart again (under linux at least, don't know about windows). 4) For export, I'd like to be able to export all of the orthogonal views into 2D CAD. Can that be done? Thanks a lot for your time! Cheers Edi PS: The relevant files are on http://www.aerodromerc.de/cv/sidecar.ac (my first try) http://www.aerodromerc.de/cv/tripe1.ac (second try) http://www.aerodromerc.de/cv/tripe1texture.jpg (textures for tripe1.ac) |
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Try selecting the surfaces that are causing problems, and select "Change Vertex Order" from the Surfaces menu. Hopefully, that will fix it. Quote:
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Also, try exporting the 3D DFX and see if your 2D program might handle it already. A lot of 2D programs will pull in a 3D DXF and let you select which projection you want on import--Corel Draw does this. |
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I've downloaded your files, you have some geometry problems here and there (mostly overlapping surfaces). Or maybe it's still very WIP (?). Also you have a lot of Ngons (5+ sided surfaces) ... what format do you use to import your model into ClearView (which I don't know anything about BTW) ? If you use a 3ds file, it might be ok, but with an untriangulated OBJ file it could leads to problems (missing surfaces) ... not every apps support Ngons.
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but I am not sure what that means. The oblong surface on the plane looks somehow warped in the texture editor and I don't know how to change that. Quote:
The .ac format is the format loaded in ClearView. Of course, it's very WIP as I still do not know how to do some of the things. So I'll try triangulating and see whether it helps? And how do I track down the overlapping surfaces which aren't supposed to be there (I am aware of them on the cowling)? Cheers Edi |
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6th October 2007, 01:21 PM | #5 |
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Triangulating did the trick for the missing surfaces! Thanks a lot. I'll try to track down the texture issues now.
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6th October 2007, 03:11 PM | #6 |
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Happy to hear that !
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6th October 2007, 03:24 PM | #7 |
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While I do not yet quite understand *what* I am doing, playing with the UV map has solved my texture problems. Well, it is still not quite what I want in ClearView, but it renders correctly now in ac3d, so I think I'll ask the ClearView people about that other stuff.
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6th October 2007, 11:07 PM | #8 |
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Glad you got it working!
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