"J. Diehl" <j.d### [at] firemailde> wrote in
news:web.3d715afea31ba4aac8339f710@news.povray.org: 


> That was a nice topic for my homepage: I've just finished a site
> describing my model with all math and trigonometry in more detail.
> Inclusive a realtime flash-simulation and a POV animation with
> realistic steering front wheels (commented POV source available).

Your site looks great! and the flash thingy is excellent, great fun to play 
with.

I tried the last two evenings to implement it and I ran into all kinds of 
weird problems, mostly because the stuff I'm trying to animate are a bit 
limited compared to you model. This is one of the models I'm trying to get 
going is:

http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/2000/2149/

As you can see the front wheels of the truck don't steer, And I have been 
playing with some real Lego for the last few days at my desk and decided 
that I just turn the truck around the point in the middle between the two 
axle's (I simplified my model a bit more than the 2149, just two axle's on 
the truck and a single on the trailer). I do realize that that is not 
entirely realistic but it seems that real Lego "squeezes" through corners 
as well.

The second problem seems to be that the point where the trailer is attached 
to the truck is not directly on an axle as it in your model. I tried to get  
a single pole model going but something goes wrong..... :(

> No alcohol when driving!

Oooooopppppssss to late ;)


Thomas

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