driver mesh

[zimluura]

he's more or less ready now.



* thoughts on short term development
right now he sits up real high (so i can see him better for screenshots). this is very easy to change in blender, but how much should be done in code?

might be good to center his geometry at his approximate center of mass. then, when attaching a seperate driver to a vehicle you'd be able to adjust his mass position visually.

but it could be a better long term idea to give each driver an text file with their mass and perhaps a center of mass offset. that way you leave each driver's center of geometry at the origin in blender.

* thoughts on visuals
he could be drawn sortof like a car model.
interior could be most of him, including a face
body could be the shiny helmet (maybe shiny eyeballs)
glass could be the visor

adds some complexity to the system. if loading more that one mesh per driver it would probably be better to have the whole system be interchangeable through the interface. i.e.; select a driver then select a helmet.

any thoughts??