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[deSAD]

flight deck crew added to BHR as seen in game

Great!

Thank you for your work!

[BOYAN]

Good news Karla! I was wondering if there is a way to change the positioning of aircraft on the deck to be closer to angled deck positioning in real life? Like this for example:

[karla]

@deSAD ta.
@BOYAN I will look at 'hooks' relating to aircraft parking after I can get the JBDs to work in game.

Good news: I have managed to get Blendy Blendy exporter working in my Linux setup after on-and-off attempts over the past three months; a slight change of versions numbers seemed to fix it, see  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,43893.0.html. I am still trying to get to grips with the co-ordinates in Blender and the ones generated by BBExporter; there is a slight mis-match at the moment. Once sorted, it will improve my efficiency by a significant factor when I can model and export directly using Blender.

(I have used that image once or twice and it also re-assured me that I can use BHR for Phantom operations)

[karla]

game screenshot of Bon Homme Richard

Good progress has been made because I've transferred all the parts to make one whole model in a single file in Blender and am utilising Blendy Blendy exporter. Details are still being added or existing ones have been improved. A few problems have yet to be overcome: some shadows can't be manipulated properly, arrestor wire hooks aren't working and catapults haven't been tested because I can't park aircraft on the deck. I'll whittle away at these and we should have the ship launched in a couple of weeks.

[duffys tavern]

Thanks for all this hard work, Karla. We all appreciate it and are looking forward operating off her deck. Swell job!

[karla]

an AI F-4D after successful trap on Bonny Dick

The decks have been made more solid with wires in place - and so aircraft can land. I'm finding hooks hard to manipulate but continue to work on them; catapults next. Details still being modified.

[BOYAN]

Impressive work Karla! She looks amazing! Is the mirror landing system operational?
Some cruise books I wanted to share, from navysite.de.... http://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv31-70/index_002.htm 

The skywarrior is huuuge on her...

[karla]

aerial view of CVA-31 in game

Still working on hooks: I'm using modified CVA-19 hooks for the wires and working out the Cartesian coordinates and such in order to create new parking hooks. For entertainment I made two options where elevators may be set in lower positions. They will be set by configuration before loading game - that's all that can be expected from me for now.

Mirror landing system has not been completed but will be ready for plug-in when western has finished his work.

There are still other jobs to do - and I'm still practicing my landing techniques which, to be honest, are getting worse.

[western0221]

I and Diving_hawk had not modelised its 3D for publishing but.... if possible
upper part of the escalator is needed.



This screenshot is my adding to CV-19 but I havn't finished it to the publishing level.

[karla]

Thanks western. I was thinking of that yesterday (I thought it was a smoke uptake); I'll add it on. I'm looking forward to an improved Hancock.

I'm failing to create parking hooks in Blender (_TOW hooks are OK). I can't understand the principle. I see that there is a LOCATION for the cube at the exact position of the hook. a CENTER for the cube/hook which is at an almost an exact opposite spatial location if you follow a line through a particular PIVOT. The pivot seems to be the center of Hull1 or 3. But my tests do not give the correct values.

I know of just-champi's notes on hooks (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,7442.0.html and https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,13710.msg145135.html#msg145135) and, of course, your notes on ship modding (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=20394.0) but there doesn't seem to be much else on creating hooks. Can you help please?

[karla]

She's coming.

Launch of Bon Homme Richard is near. Modelling, modifying and remodelling has to stop; I'm about to cease fiddling with BHR and release her. Western is helping fix hooks (I hope) and I think we should be seeing Bonny Dick in operation before the month is out. (I haven't counted but there must be over 300 hours work in her).

[SAS~Gerax]

She's coming.

Gooood news ...