Idea Modelling the General Dynamics AIM-97 Seekbat

[Loru]

Another one from the requirement management:

How should the warhead effect be like?

Few rapidly growing particles with proper "explosion" emissive texture.

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[Urwumpe]

Did it use the same warhead as the Standard missile? Then it is a Continuous rod warhead, a test of such a warhead looks like that:

This page also explains warheads of the era pretty well:

http://www.okieboat.com/Warhead history.html

 

[Loru]

Did it use the same warhead as the Standard missile? Then it is a Continuous rod warhead, a test of such a warhead looks like that:

This page also explains warheads of the era pretty well:

http://www.okieboat.com/Warhead history.html

No. That was range safety detonation we investigated few years ago for our rockets. Sizing of explosion is just matter of adjusting particle emiters.

Model is UVW mapped - rendering ambient occlussion map now. Then spliting into logical meshgroups and texturing.

 

[Urwumpe]

No. That was range safety detonation we investigated few years ago for our rockets. Sizing of explosion is just matter of adjusting particle emiters.

I meant the explosion for the Seekbat. :lol:

 

[Loru]

I meant the explosion for the Seekbat. :lol:

Well - if you can code it, I can provide texture.


Anyways, ambient oclussion lighting done, simple texture generated and meshes are scaled to correct size.

 

[Urwumpe]

I am not sure the seeker window is blue. It looks like it is the same seeker as deployed on the AIM-9L sidewinder.

The kind of glass used in the 9L has been used for nearly all sidewinders since then.

 

[Loru]

No problem. That's just texture color to modify. I'll take care of it tomorrow when I port model to orbiter.

 

[Urwumpe]

No problem. That's just texture color to modify. I'll take care of it tomorrow when I port model to orbiter.

OK. I am not sure about the colour being exactly that. Different photographs of the same Sidewinder model with the same seeker and the same MgF2 window glass look like a opaque white, others this brownish colour. Possibly the white ones are covered, I am not 100% sure there.

I would say, this is clearly a mock.

 

[Graham2001]

Let's wait till target audience speaks then.

Yes to the articulated rear fins. Been doing a bit of research and these were to have been used by F-15s and possibly F-4s, the only models of those we have are a bit old and I've not yet tested their compatability with Orbiter 2016.

 

[Loru]

Yes to the articulated rear fins. Been doing a bit of research and these were to have been used by F-15s and possibly F-4s, the only models of those we have are a bit old and I've not yet tested their compatability with Orbiter 2016.

Fins are already separate meshgroups with single point of rotation (pivot) to simplyfy coding (0, 0, -2.1). Now question: should I export it with + or X arangement (fin pointing up, down, left right, or angled at 45 degrees)?

 

[Urwumpe]

Fins are already separate meshgroups with single point of rotation (pivot) to simplyfy coding (0, 0, -2.1). Now question: should I export it with + or X arangement (fin pointing up, down, left right, or angled at 45 degrees)?

Well, I would prefer X. Most missiles that are not rotation-symmetric also show a typical X arrangement, as well as the newer German submarines...

 

[Loru]

Damn. Got a bit distracted while making this missile

http://loru.bluespiderhosting.net/random/topgun.ogg

 

[Urwumpe]

Damn. Got a bit distracted while making this missile

http://loru.bluespiderhosting.net/random/topgun.ogg

:thumbup:

But hey, this ain't no Phoenix missile. :lol: