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From: Bathurstfreak
Subject: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 1 Dec 2004 00:05:01
Message: <web.41ad506080bb64afce34a90@news.povray.org>
I've probably spent about 50 hrs trying different methods, but I eventually
got this bugger to work properly. In the end I created a 10 component array
with about 4 times as many track points as frames, unioned each track
segment (3 sets of balls and cylinders) before rotating it in each of the
directions separately in the order of banking, pitch and bearing before
moving it to the desired location. Small changes in angle also had to be
made to the rails if the track was banked to keep the rails smooth.


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Attachments:
Download 'coaster_med.wmv.dat' (647 KB)

From: Bathurstfreak
Subject: Re: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 1 Dec 2004 00:10:00
Message: <web.41ad5203a957bc12fce34a90@news.povray.org>
Remove the .dat from the filename once it downloads.


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From: Dan Byers
Subject: Re: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 1 Dec 2004 20:19:55
Message: <41AE6DD2.65CDDE19@huntel.net>
Quicktime did not like it.  Any chance you can make it a mpeg-1 or -4 file?

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Dan
Goofy Graffix - http://www.huntel.net/goofygraffix


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From: Bathurstfreak
Subject: Re: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 3 Dec 2004 05:35:00
Message: <web.41b04114a957bc1270d1465a0@news.povray.org>
> Quicktime did not like it.  Any chance you can make it a mpeg-1 or -4 file?
www.maelstromcreations.com/bathurst/mpegs/coaster.mpg (3.5Mb)


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From: Florian Brucker
Subject: Re: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 3 Dec 2004 13:13:09
Message: <41b0acb5$1@news.povray.org>
Very nice!

How about doing another one, with the camera being inside the wagon, 
like a passenger? Add some vibrations, etc., and you've got an even 
cooler ride :)

Florian
-- 
camera{look_at-y*10location<8,-3,-8>*10}#local a=0;#while(a<999)sphere{
#local _=.01*a-4.99;#local p=a*.01-5;#local c=.01*a-4.995;<sin(p*pi)*5p
*10pow(p,5)*.01>sin(c*c*c*.1)+1pigment{rgb 3}}#local a=a+1;#end
/******** http://www.torfbold.com ******** http://www.imp.org ********/


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From: Andrew the Orchid
Subject: Re: Working Roller Coaster
Date: 4 Dec 2004 10:23:02
Message: <41b1d656$1@news.povray.org>
Man, and I thought the jolt at the end of Nemesis was bad! ;-)

Seriously tho... nice ride.


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