[Bob Kuczewski]

Here's an animation that I created from a tutorial earlier today:

Gus_2015_01_10asrs.gif (1.5 MiB) Viewed 7730 times

He looks like one of Joe's happy wing runners ... who forgot his wing.   

You can find the instructions for how to make this at:
    http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/1.A_static_Gingerbread_Man

Update on December 14, 2021: The original link above doesn't work anymore. The instructions are now here:
    https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/1.A_static_Gingerbread_Man/
    https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/2.Animating_the_Gingerbread_Man/

The Gingerbread Man in the tutorial is named "Gus" so I also searched Google for "Blender Gus", and found these two videos. I haven't watched them, but they might be easier to follow than the instructions published on the web site:





This wasn't an easy tutorial to follow, but it produced a pretty neat result.   

[Rick Masters]

http://daedelus.typepad.com/blog/2011/1 ... -time.html

[Bob Kuczewski]

http://daedelus.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/arduino-controls-blender-object-in-real-time.html

Very cool Rick!!!

For anyone who hasn't watched the video, it shows 3 variable resistors connected to an arduino processor that converts the resistances to values that are sent (via USB or Serial or Parallel?) to a computer running Blender. Blender uses those three values to control the pitch, roll, and yaw of a 3-D model wing.

Very Cool Rick!!

[Bob Kuczewski]

Back to Blender ... I tried playing around with the "Sapling" addon this evening to make a tree line:

tree_line_800.jpg (105.53 KiB) Viewed 7590 times

I figure it will be handy for animating our training manual.     

[Rick Masters]

Paraglider landing area!

[Bob Kuczewski]

Paraglider landing area!

[Bob Kuczewski]

I just discovered that Finis is quite a Blender expert!!

Here's one of his projects:



Check out the woman dancing in the water!!! WOW!!!

I don't have anywhere near the Blender skills that Finis has. So I've been stuck with a hang glider wing and no pilot. I am hoping that Finis can share some of his Blender skills to help us build a reasonably good pilot to use for our training manual. That would be great!!!

[Craig Muhonen]

How about this pilot. HG rating 4++ .. ha ..

Control Bar 3.jpg (926.55 KiB) Viewed 2030 times

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