[X] My Assistant

[MaxSt]

I'll post the converter soon (later today), I need to clean up the code a little...

Meanwhile, try this model.

You'll need the PNG texture from here:
http://anserver1.eprsl.wustl.edu/navigator...FL0500P1800L0M1

And X3D viewer. I used this one:
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/applications/xj3d/

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I knew it would be fun, but playing with these models is much more fun than I expected!

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[djellison]

This stuff is WAY too much fun. I'm finding that, suprisingly, the LOD2 is the best to use - the others probably do contain more geometric information, but not so much as to make the 10 fold increase in poly count worth it, and they have a lot more poly 'drop outs' so to speak. I've done a few bits and pieces with it - getting them aligned to one another is still a bit trickey (PFB's would be AWESOME for this) - but attached (later) will be two pictures, my 3ds max Eagle crater, and a PFB eagle crater. Yes, that is a frame number of an animation, yes, that is a MOC image underneath so yes, you can probably see where I'm going with this

Doug

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[algorimancer]

This stuff is WAY too much fun. I'm finding that, suprisingly, the LOD2 is the best to use - the others probably do contain more geometric information, but not so much as to make the 10 fold increase in poly count worth it, and they have a lot more poly 'drop outs' so to speak. I've done a few bits and pieces with it - getting them aligned to one another is still a bit trickey (PFB's would be AWESOME for this) - but attached (later) will be two pictures, my 3ds max Eagle crater, and a PFB eagle crater. Yes, that is a frame number of an animation, yes, that is a MOC image underneath so yes, you can probably see where I'm going with this

Doug

Impressive progress. Ultimately I have this fantasy notion of a complete virtual environment about each of the rovers' traverses, something very much to the "you are there!" effect. Seems feasible in the next 5-10 years. Possibly in time for the MSL. The trick will be to register all the 3D detail from all the images throughout the traverses, probably overlaid on orbiter imagery and terrain models. Put on the glasses, step onto something like a 2-D treadmill (surface of a sphere?), and start walking... Some sort of dynamic texture underfoot and simulation of the sound of gravel crunching under your feet, perhaps a little high-pitched keening wind effect. We're drifting in that direction.

Looking forward to the animations

[jamescanvin]

Yep, that's what we need, get to it Doug.