TARDIS for FlightGear - GPL v.2

[V12]

There are many unfinished aircrafts in FG, but someone has spare time to make this absurdity.
But very nice absurdity

And next time, please Snoopy on his dog house

[bugman]

That's a cool donation to the FG community! Does it work when you switch the view from inside to out? The inside is technically infinite in size whereas the outside is limited, so that might cause some problems. Especially if you have the walker go from the outside to the inside. Maybe what you need - though will probably never happen - is have a c++ developer write a simple FDM to simply teleport to a new location, with a 30 second pause where the tardis flies through a 3D model of a wormhole and simultaneously play the theme music:

Regards,
Edward


Edit: @V12 - read the posts. This is an old model from 2017 made in context outside of FlightGear, but is being donated!

[bugman]

Actually, looking at the code in src/FDM/SP (the Special Purpose FDMs) and src/FDM/flight.hxx, it actually may not be too hard to create a 'teleport' FDM

Regards,
Edward

[ckruetze]

That's a cool donation to the FG community! Does it work when you switch the view from inside to out? The inside is technically infinite in size whereas the outside is limited, so that might cause some problems.

As a big Doctor Who fan I agree, it's a great addition and I look forward trying it.

The switching from inside to outside might not be the biggest problem. There are several episodes where the TARDIS flies with an open door so you would need a huge indoor room with an open door through which you can see the small shadow the TARDIS casts due to the small outside dimensions.
And if that isn't fun enough don't forget that it can also get semi transparent and fade in and out of view. Oh and it also sometimes changes the outside dimensions to be matchbox sized for example.

Great and fun work, only thing missing for a perfect Doctor Who experience is the BBC regenerating the doctor and turning her (the current one) into a good new one as she isn't the best.

[cobe571]

There are many unfinished aircrafts in FG, but someone has spare time to make this absurdity.
But very nice absurdity

And next time, please Snoopy on his dog house

Hello, I assure you that as soon as the TARDIS is complete I will also dedicate myself to the flying snoopy kennel but I can't promise it.

Thanks anyway

P.

[cobe571]

That's a cool donation to the FG community! Does it work when you switch the view from inside to out? The inside is technically infinite in size whereas the outside is limited, so that might cause some problems. Especially if you have the walker go from the outside to the inside. Maybe what you need - though will probably never happen - is have a c++ developer write a simple FDM to simply teleport to a new location, with a 30 second pause where the tardis flies through a 3D model of a wormhole and simultaneously play the theme music:

Regards,
Edward

I added a GIT repo. -> https://github.com/cobe571/TARDIS

At this very moment there will be just the external part I think, cause I've to finish to set-up interior materials along the way and remap almost everything my previous UVmap process, going to catch a single textures for the interior part itself. My last files included alot of textures. Knowing FlightGear how it manages textures I have to reduce to one texture only. but I have to add as some plus .png for transparent areas of the model. My FULL blend file weights 125 MB right now -> the .ac I obtained is almost 87.7 MB. I'm in doubt about the weight of my files that I have to upload. There's a limit on public GIT repoes? If so, I have to cut my model into sub-models, to achieve a pretty functional one. Lately also I had an hard disk failure crash too on top of my historycal workin laptop. Lucky I have my back-ups. Now I'm working with an old SONY VAIO VPCEL. Very low and slow specs actually! Said that I want to say thank you all for your interest on this project.

Kind regards

Patrizio.

[Thorsten]

There's a limit on public GIT repoes?

Depends, I guess github is asking people to stay below 5 GB.

[bugman]

I'm pretty sure there is a 1 Gb limit for individual files, or for the whole commit diiff. So you are no where near the limit. Your considerations should be to have something that can be added to FGAddon, so that future generations of FlightGear users will continue to enjoy your works. Have you looked at the FGAddon wiki article? You should really push for inclusion there to future proof your contributions, long after github has shut down, for decades to come. Note that some files do not belong in FGAddon, such as Blender blend files.

Regards,
Edward

[cobe571]

I'm pretty sure there is a 1 Gb limit for individual files, or for the whole commit diiff. So you are no where near the limit. Your considerations should be to have something that can be added to FGAddon, so that future generations of FlightGear users will continue to enjoy your works. Have you looked at the FGAddon wiki article? You should really push for inclusion there to future proof your contributions, long after github has shut down, for decades to come. Note that some files do not belong in FGAddon, such as Blender blend files.

Regards,
Edward

Hello dear Edward,
I had very challenging and difficult days lately that have kept me away from my biggest passion. Model planes or anything that flies in general. I've always wanted to be able to add all my planes to FG Addon, not just this TARDIS. I gave the wiki a reading, but I have to read it a couple of times to understand how I can do it. Every help is precious.

Kind regards

Patrizio.

[cobe571]

Meanwhile I implemented the spinning and the cloaking device (at 1:23) .
Actually I have not so much resources with my hardware so the video below was taken with an old smartphone.
Post-editing video made with OpenShot for Windows10.

Kind regards
P.

[Necolatis]

haha, cool. Looks good.

[cobe571]

Hello everyone,
This morning I made a small change to the TARDIS. The rotation speed (*the SPINNING ANIMATION) has been increased from factor 0.004 to 0.009. A video will follow shortly, certainly better than the previous one. I finally found a way to make decent video captures with my outdated, low-performance hardware.

Kind regards

Patrizio.

[cobe571]

Trying CLOAKING DEVICE - Honolulu International (PHNL): a runway 08L

I reached out this little file with these little specs:
Windows 10 Home
AMD E-350 Procesor 1.60 Ghz
RAM 4.00 GB (3.60)
64 bit x64

[yanfiz]

Your work is admirable. Thanks.

[cobe571]

Your work is admirable. Thanks.

Thank you for the interest shown in the project and your kindly words. Here's another video, quite decent, obtained with my fantastic obsolete hardware. Show that if you know how to use the little you have, you can still get some kind of good results. If it works well for me, it will certainly be even better for those who can use ultra-high performance computers. But those who know me know very well that I do not create exclusive projects for that specific category of power users, but for a much wider and more general public. After twenty years and more I do 3D modeling I am still very far from being able to say that my 3D models are perfect or the "best". Simply I can't! I leave similar statements to others.

Kind regards.
Patrizio