 | Fokker Dr1 - ‘Remember Me?’| Modeling Discuss Fokker Dr1 - ‘Remember Me?’ in the Current forums; Not a World War 2 aircraft but I thought this may be of interest to some.
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10-23-2007, 04:08 AM
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To give the 'cloth' something to shrink onto I'm making an accurate fuselage structure. A more detailed plan of the fuselage construction is being used here, supplemented by some line drawings. | 
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10-23-2007, 04:09 AM
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Underway! The longest rails are splines with a sweep nurbs using a cirle spline for the profile. The upright and cross member parts are nothing more complex than cylinder primatives with the caps turned of. Only the outer parts are needed to place the cloth over but while I was making this structure I added some extra bits that may be useful later on - the engine mounting frame, seat frame, etc.
To enable movement of the rudder and tail the parts of each item have been placed into a null object. The reason for testing movement this early is because it's easier to adjust splines now than waste time adjusting mesh after the cloth stage. | |
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10-23-2007, 04:09 AM
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The next major components to tackle are the three wing structures. I will be trying cloth for these. To make a start I used an accurate Fokker DR1 wing profile image, applied to a plane and used as a guide to draw a Cinema spline. This took several attempts to use the least amount of points possible and rely on the spline to smooth the missing bits. Another time saver doing this because it seems easier to adjust a few points rather than loads if the spline shape needs adjusting.
An extrude nurbs is used to determine how the spline performs.
Couldn't resist the temptation to add a couple of shiny metal bits! The engine cowl is a chopped up cylinder and the fuel tank nothing more than a reshaped cube in a hyper nurbs. | |
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10-23-2007, 04:10 AM
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This is the how the wing profile I ended up. The initial attempt at the bottom uses uniform intermediate points, to subdivide the Cinema4D spline, but didn't quite do the job - to get the trailing edge correct would have meant an intermediate point value that would have made far to many polygons. So, with an extra couple of points added to the spline I used the natural intermediate points which looks like a good compromise to my original intentions. | |
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10-23-2007, 04:10 AM
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At render time the natural intermediate points type wins the day - uses fewer polygons and the trailing edge is accurate. The real test is at the cloth stage though!
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10-23-2007, 04:11 AM
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The wings are now just about ready to see how the cloth works out. The problem with completing these was the end caps which on the real aircraft are also cloth. Cinemas extrude nurbs caps wasn't up to the job so in the end I made some from a hypernurbed cube and welded them onto the main wing part. The working airlons also ended up being hand made.
The main wing struts have been positioned to check alignement of the 3 wings and to determine what parts of the wing will not be subject to Cinemas' cloth engine.
The next tedious thing was cutting out the middle wing shape and in the end a cylinder with a deformer was used as the cutting shape in a boole.
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10-23-2007, 04:27 AM
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10-23-2007, 09:31 AM
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Awesome stuff 
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10-23-2007, 09:34 AM
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10-23-2007, 09:39 AM
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10-23-2007, 10:37 AM
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| Oh boy if I could do stuff like that I'de never be off the computer. I have a copy of Maya 6 and all it did was frustrate the hell out of me !
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10-23-2007, 10:53 AM
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10-23-2007, 11:13 AM
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10-24-2007, 01:15 AM
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Figuring all the widths and depths must have been tricky.
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