Looks really good, and would be all the more impressive with thruster sound effects.
The ship
looks to be out of control though :-)

Andy Cocker

"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message news:3e6e6c04@news.povray.org...
> This is an animated version of the still I posted on p.b.i
>
> Basically I've come up with a fairly simplistic way of lighting up the boosters
> on this rocket ship according to the acceleration and angular acceleration it's
> experiencing. The physics is a bit unrealistic, because it's inverse kinematics
> it's quite possible for the ship to move in a direction where it has no boosters
> to propel it. Also at present it pays no attention to the size and number of
> boosters.
>
> In this test I have a simple spline that I use to set the rotation of the ship
> object, then I run a few calculations to approximate the angular acceleration. I
> dot product this with the angular thrust vector for each booster (just the cross
> product of the booster direction and position relative to the centre of mass).
> I'm probably getting way too technical here :) but anyway the result is a value
> telling me how much to light up the booster.
>
> The next stage will be to insert this into a full scene, then eventually I'll
> have an irtc entry!
>
> Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
>
>
>
>


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