VDrift Graphical Upgrades

[zimluura]

progress report:
all the way up to the MI on importing and resizing. the importer brings them in with their normals flipped, so i've been flipping them back. not really a bother, just wanted to mention it in case it means i'm doing something wrong.

wikipedia says the term "rims" is a misnomer for "alloy wheels" so i've been doing my best to change the way i say it and the way i name the files.

here's a list of cars i've encountered with shared rim...er, _wheels_
360, 350z = pentagonal_hub
g4, gt, gtr = 10_spoke
m3, m3d = 5_spoke_magwheels
3s, m7, m8 = 5_spoke
fe, tl = snowflake

when there's a shared wheel, i'm putting it in the carparts/wheels/blender_files directory
when the wheel is not shared i'm putting it in cardir/blender_files/oem_wheel.blend. with the hope that we get each car eventually having a true oem style in its own directory and then aftermarket wheels which can be put on any car.


i've got lots of design questions relating to texturing, and mesh positioning,, they'll have to be answered at some point. but thinking about all of them is a little daunting 'cause there are so many. maybe best to wrestle with them after integration.



edit: can't get the RS2's wheels to import:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/zimluura/.blender/scripts/import-joe.py", line 64, in bevent
joe.to_mesh(Blender.sys.basename(g_joe_filename.val), image)
File "/home/zimluura/.blender/scripts/vdrift.py", line 318, in to_mesh
self.frames[i].to_mesh(name, image)
File "/home/zimluura/.blender/scripts/vdrift.py", line 266, in to_mesh
uv = [Vector(self.texcoords[ti[0]].uv()), Vector(self.texcoords[ti[1]].uv()), Vector(self.texcoords[ti[2]].uv())]

if it's not a big deal we can just point it to one of the shared wheels.