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- Eagle model for Real 3d.
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- This is a model of the Eagle the multipurpose spacecraft from the sci-fi
- series 'Space 1999' for Real 3d. I have made it a year or two ago in V1.4
- and recently i have upgraded for use with V2 and V3. (I have updated it in
- V3, but have not used V3 specific things and a quick test in V2 showed no
- problems)
-
- Setting up is strait forward. Just import with load object and load the
- materials with load matrials. Only the pad for the textures probably needs
- to be altered. The pad is now: work, anim-file/eagle/textures
-
- I like my models to be as accurate as possible. To do this i have made use
- of the well know model for Airfix. There had been one lying around in pieces
- so i measured it, put everything down in 8 A3 drawings and used them as
- reference. It is a proven method with works very well. For details not in
- the model i referred to photos's from the book 'UFO and Space 1999' from
- Chris Drake and published by Boxtree (ISBN 1 85283 393 9) , but mostly to
- very old photo i had lying around from a broadcast magazine. (most likely
- the Dutch AVRO bode), because there are several different configurations
- and it is difficult to pinpoint with's photo's are for with's model.
-
- Of course, being accurate also has it's drawbacks. You can forget about
- rendering this model on a stock 1200. My Eagle most have at least around 10
- MB. I have tried to degrade the size by making the panels from the landing-
- gearboxes with bumpmaps, but i just can't get the right look so they remain
- objects. Also the beak remained the same. It would have been great to do it
- in B-splins, but again, i just couldn't get enough control it do it right,
- and still have a reasonable amount of savings on memory used.
-
- Despite these problems, i hope this model makes a nice addition to the
- growing collection of sci-fi models for 3D rendering packages. At least it
- is something else than the ***** version off the USS Enterprise.
-
- This model is Public domain. apart from a reasonable amount to cover the
- cost of coping the files no money should be charged for it.
-
- I have put a lot of work in it so be fair, if you use it give the guy who
- made it a little credit and don't act like you made it yourself.
-
- It may be altered for your own use but only the unaltered model with the
- accompanying files may be passed on.
-
- The copyrights to the original model belong probably to ITC. The original
- model design is from Brain Johnson.
-
- Designer for the Real 3d version : Albert Vermeule.
- E-mail adress: dreamer@tref.nl
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- A Twilight dreamer production.
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