Md Flying Machine

[Mike Pauza]

I got an MD Glider working. Yeah baby Yeah!

It's not very pretty, and it took me way too long, but I'm excited. I can't really "fly it" interactively because there's no way for me to control flaps or give it any power (am I wrong about that?). Anyway, this sort of sim shows the power of MD's parallel air resistence and sets the stage for more complex dynamic machines...like ILM's pod racing simulations for example...assuming MD is beefed up a bit that is.


Here's the glider video (BTW, does anybody know if this is this the first MD flying machine???):
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robpauza/!Glider2.avi


Here's a falling sheet video (what about a hang glider made out of fabric like this?):
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robpauza/FallingSheet.avi


Still far from sold on MD, but the parallel air resistence is super cool I have to admit. Hopefully I can play with some glider steering and wind before I move on to more machines. Again, all this is basically just my attempt to test what MD's strengths and weaknesses are. Please comment if you can. If your interested in MD check out my other recent thread here at the NT site (http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7866&perpage=15&pagenumber=1), or the LW MD threads over at cgtalk. Oh, if you want the scene just email me at sharonpauza@aol.com or mike@3dpiranha.com. :)

-Mike Pauza

[Mike Pauza]

@#$#@%%@#$#$!!$!$!$!$!%^^$%^&$&$ The glider vid is down. I'll see if I can get it on-line tomorrow night. If anybody wants me to email you the scene and or video just let me know.

-Mike

[MarkJTaylor]

The falling sheet is wicked! nice work. I look forward to seeing the glider sometime tomorrow; I would get you to email it to me; but it would distract me; and I need to get this Freddy Kruger head finished :D

[robpauza]

Sorry Mike. My fault. The link is back up.

-Rob

[Mike Pauza]

Hey hey! The link is back up. Here they are again:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robpauza/!Glider2.avi
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robpauza/FallingSheet.avi




MarkJTaylor:

Thanks man. I took a peek at Freddy the other day...awesomely gruesome work.




robpauza:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We need to get some MD on your raptor bro.




-Mike

[MarkJTaylor]

This is excellent! I really *really* need to do some of this stuff at some stage.

Also' thanks for the kind words on freddy; he's almost done; should have an update tonight; or tomorrow

[Neural Riptide]

That is awesome! Very cool. :)

I would think that if you keyframe the position of the flaps and such that you would be able to steer it around. You'd just have to predict where it's going to go in the process. :)

[Mike Pauza]

Neural Riptide:

Thanks. Actually I think the the steering polys can be morphed among various positions. I'm going to try it out tonight.

-Mike