SR71 Blackbird Project

[grandsurf]

Have test it and its the same ;),

[borchi_2b]

ok good to know

[Vindicator]

Nice project !! Can't wait for this one to be finished.

[Yeniceri]

Some draw arguments that works for AI are not working for player aircrafts.

[borchi_2b]

ok good to know,

 

yeniceri, will work more then one animation on one argument?

 

so when i close the canopy, that the pilots will close thier glass from the helmet?

 

greetings sven

[muehle007]

More than one animation will work fine.

 

An example:

I've animated the tail and main rotors of a heli rotating.

At time frame 0 the blades get invisible and a blurred texture is shown, like that one from the original lomac aircrafts.

The rotors remain in rotation.

 

PS: Off course you have to use the same argument no. for all animations that should be shown at the same effect.

[borchi_2b]

new update from the blackbird project:

 

well sorry for spelling mistakes, i am not awacke alot anymore, cause now it is 05:11am and i am going to bed now.

well i had to built a complete new ejectionseat from just a bit of picture material which wasn´t the best too, cause most of the times the pilots were in the way :-)

 

not much is missing now in the cockpit.

then i will finish the nozzles and finaly i will get to the gear.

 

@muehle: thanks for the information :-)

 

here we go with a picture

 

[warthogmadman987]

Keep up the nice work. Wish I had this talent.

[nesher]

Hay Borchi,

 

glad you are back and are able to process furhter with the project.

You are so talented, thx for the input and overtimes. ;)

We greatly appreciate your work.:)

 

Keep up the good work man, and have some rest, you'll need it...:smilewink:

[FWT]

Keep up the good work

[Mnemonic]

Nice! :)

[-akyla-]

wow, thats looking great!

[borchi_2b]

ok guys, got the cockpit fixed so far,

 

i have all together now about 10000 polys for the whole model. gears and nozzle are still missing plus 2 blackbird pilots.

 

here we go with the newest picture.

i guess i will do the rest of the cockpit details with the appropriate skins so i can save polys and have enough for the pilots and the gear.

 

what do you think, i would appreciate some professional answers, also from you yeniceri :-)

 

[Deadman]

Doing th two seat version is very unusual at the airbase i was stationed st they had two of the single seat versions here are some pictures of the seats

http://www.ejectionsite.com/frame_sg.htm

under Lockheed SR-1 SR-71, YF-12A, and A-12 Blackbird, U2R, TR-1,

ER-1, NASA Shuttle OV-1, NASA Shuttle OV-2

 

Hope this helps

[borchi_2b]

lol,

 

the side where i have uploaded all the pictures is down, so all the nice pics of this project are gone in the nirvana.

well, at least i have saved them all to my comp, hehe.

do you know a diffrent uploadpage, were they stay more then just a day

?

 

@deaman: jup it will help alot, well unfortunatly most of the seat is cover by the pilot, but i which i would have had the pics earlier:-)

 

lol again, well it is maybe not down? i have no clue :-)

[Yeniceri]

try http://www.photobucket.com

I use it and its just fine :)

[nesher]

Doing th two seat version is very unusual at the airbase i was stationed st they had two of the single seat versions

 

No single seat version of the Blackbird exists, only the SR-71B has two seperate pilot seats for training opportunities (the the trainer sits above the student). But the SR-71A variant has two seats either, but for two crew operation (they sit behind each other).

 

check it out...

SR-71A

 

SR-71B

[Deadman]

Sorry mad only been out 20 years and only got to sit in the front seat nice place to hide. Love the color pink oh I guess it was never really called the Habu with a red snake on the tail either. Time warps one memories sorry about the confusion great work

[borchi_2b]

well well,

i am wondering if it is possible to model such a nice parachute, cause the blackbird does not have any flaps like the f-15 that might slow it down on the ground. has anyone ever modelled a parachute for lockon and knows how to animate it, the two small flaps of the chutebox are allready modelled.

 

???

[thesystem]

but the YF-12 was simgle seat i thought thou...maby he means that one

[borchi_2b]

 

well locks a bit like the picture that was posted, lol.

 

i hope i get the gear done in a few days so that i only need to finish the nozzles.

i guess i will finish all first before i put the model into the game the first time.

i will do the unwrap after the first testings.

i need to adjust the size of the plane too:-)

 

does anybody know how i can get the 3dmax 9 files into 3dmax 8 ?

cause i have built the blackbird with the max 9 so far

[nesher]

Time warps one memories sorry about the confusion

 

It just happens...;)

 

but the YF-12 was simgle seat i thought thou

 

The YF-12 was a two seater either...:)

:music_whistling:

 

well locks a bit like the picture that was posted, lol.

:doh:

 

:megalol:

 

Nice progress Borchi...:thumbup:

[Yeniceri]

does anybody know how i can get the 3dmax 9 files into 3dmax 8 ?

cause i have built the blackbird with the max 9 so far

 

I had the same problem..

Try exporting it as 3ds..

then import to max8..

but let me warn you..

 

some times it makes weird things to 3ds file...

[warthogmadman987]

 

well locks a bit like the picture that was posted, lol.

 

i hope i get the gear done in a few days so that i only need to finish the nozzles.

i guess i will finish all first before i put the model into the game the first time.

i will do the unwrap after the first testings.

i need to adjust the size of the plane too:-)

 

does anybody know how i can get the 3dmax 9 files into 3dmax 8 ?

cause i have built the blackbird with the max 9 so far

 

 

Looks just like the blackbird in here in Nebraska at the Strategic Air and Space Command Museum. Keep up the good work.

[borchi_2b]

@warthogmadman987:

 

yes that is true, i forgot about it, lol, must have burned into my memory :-)

maybe somewhere in my brain there is data, that tells me exactly what the bird locks like and that i used it, lmao.

 

which is could visit it some day in the near future again, but well, some day it will happen:-)

 

@yeniceri: thanks, i will see what max will do to this file, i hope it will export and import it how it is supposed to be :-)