Introduction
FlightGear (http://www.flightgear.org) is an open source flight simulator that is even used in flight schools to train basic maneuvers, radio communication and navigation tasks. It is available for windows, mac and linux.
In this article I want to introduce my development of the Off-Highway Truck 793D from Caterpillar.
Characteristics
-Official Caterpillar homepage
- Mining Off-highway truck, 219 tonns payload, 4020 hp
- maximal speed is 37 kt
- 3 brake systems: Parking brake=Emergency Brake, normal brakes, engine brake (automatic, with reduced throttle)
- drifting action with contra steering and 4 different animations depending on surfaces
- original sounds for emergency braking, drifting, loader open and close, engines sound for starting, normal speed and high speed
- full smoke effects for drifting, emergency braking, engine start up, unloading action (payload will be on ground for some minutes)
- full rembrandt and multiplayer support for all functions, (works perfect without rembrandt also)
- no killer grass problems, driving on all surfaces possible
- for snow effect switch to winter settings and go on frozen water.
- Mouse control is also implemented,
- extra liveries with different colors
Development steps
I developed this project as a secret till it was finished. The initial upload to git was 22 Aug 2017.
My latest work was now to adjust the colors for the rembrandt lighting, as the former versions do not look realistic. Also some effects and the panel are now more realisic. Work was done in Blender and in different xml-files. Updated to new version 3.0.
Link to the repository
https://github.com/HerbyW/cat793D
Latest commit
https://github.com/HerbyW/cat793D/commit/e47836fb20667123d6090e880d40a5c711f69055
Update for installing: https://github.com/HerbyW/cat793D/commit/1e81bca48343b1a2d1ddaaa93de74ba1ec0ed02a
Proof of work
In my profile on Utopian.io, the github repo cat793D is listed in my project
page, which is show in the screenshot as follows:
The login page on github.com is shown in the following screenshot:
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Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
I was pretty surprised to see a truck in a flight simulator, as were the other mods! The model is very cool, and the code well written, maintained and documented. Also great to see someone correctly license all their repositories!
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Thanks!
The truck has a FDM from an aircraft, which can not fly very well :) Some jumps are possible, I will show this in a following video tutorial. We even have motorbikes, ships, carrier to land on, every idea has to be tried to get to the limits of the simulation. I have build 2 mines in Siberia 1:1 for this model, they are included in the model folder! A Video is coming up with it.
We had quite a hard fight on FlightGear about the license, so I know a little bit about it :)
Again...such a wonderful 3D photograpy by @schamanferbert sir...
Actualy I'm really like ur posts..
Cheers~~~
Well done This is very good content article.Thanks for share with us
Amazing creativity! People Who can program a simulation models probably have two brains!! Wonderful capacity and skill to render thinking process onto virtual reality!
Very Good!! 267% upvoted
i don't get it how you suppose to make money here !
Posting own material helps a lot, building follower, and comments which makes sense.
Absolutely awesome stuff!! Do you mind if I share this to my facebook? I have loads of people on there in the construction industry that would love this!!!
so cool thanks for upvote.
Feel free to do so :)
its really Amazing work thankyou for shere
Das hat jetzt nichts mit dem spiel zu tun, aber es gibt RC Bagger, die ziehen sogar ein ganzes auto habe ich videos davon gesehen. Verrückt was es da alles schon gibt. Ich muss kurz mit 1% voten, weil ich bei 13%SP Power bin, danach kann ich erst wieder mit voller Kraft voraus ;-)
Ich komme seit Wochen nicht mehr auf 100% :)
Nice post beautiful presented and explained. . thank you for sharing this with us, Upvoted
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Captain wen do we get to fly.....nice post by the way
I am on mumble, maybe in 2 hours?
what a creativity!!
great work...
thats pretty good review on highly mining truck.
Awesome project!!
good post
good work i need to chack it
again ? great games i need to dwnload it then i can tell about your work :)
Vote?
that's pretty cool to know....
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