Falcon Trainer

Welcome

The Basics

To start sit on the disk

Select a pose button or...

Choose A Red Dragon

Touch The Dragon above the perch

In Dragon Menu

Select New
Select Begin

To stop The Dragon
Select End

The Dragon will return to the perch

What is does

Selecting new will generate a flight path
That flightpath will be governed by
Range,Cycle Time,Number of curves and Frames per curve
All these you can change through the menu which adds even more realism
Any changes made will be added after selecting NEW in the menu

To set a Dragon free and no control by you select 'KILL SCRIPT'
This can be used to add animated sim props in the sky or around trees etc

Selecting this options saves the current setting to that Dragon alone which means you could have several with different flight paths adding more realism

To check a path select 'smoke on'

This is good for positioning the Dragon around trees etc

This can be turned off again before killing script

There are endless combinations you can have in the flight path

Standing up from the disk will remove perch but not the dragon

You can delete if not needed

The Dragon Trainer Menu

New

Will compute new curves from new randomly picked points in space
The points will be picked inside a box with the Dragon in the center and rotated just like the Dragon
Do not press New when the Dragon is moving, if you want any control of the curve

Begin

Begin the Dragon travel

End

End the travel and reset Dragon to start position and start rotation

Range

The range in which random points will be picked for the Bézier curves
It is given by 3 coordinates X, Y and Z
The coordinates form a box with the Dragon in the middle: prim position ±X, ±Y and ±Z
This imaginary box is rotated just like the prim!
In edit mode you can see the Dragon’s axes when you choose local coordinates (as opposed to world coordinates)
Note that the Dragon will not stay inside the box on its journey, only the points used to compute the journey are guarantied to be inside

Cycle Time

The time it takes to complete one cycle from start to start

Frames/Curve

The number of keyframes for each Bézier curve

Smoke ON/OFF

Toggles the particle emitter ON/OFF to check the flight path

CurveNumb

The number of Bézier curves from start to start

Kill Script

Will remove the script and the bird can’t be controlled anymore
The bird will continue doing what it did when the script was removed


Setting example how too's

to set range type like this 50,50,50

this means 50 meters by 50 meters by 50 meters

to set time cycle type like this 45

this means 45 secs for complete cycle (higher the number slower dragon will fly)

MUST ALWAYS HAVE DRAGON AT START POSITION WHEN CHANGING SETTINGS FOR MENU

MUST SELECT SUBMIT TO ADD CHANGE

MUST SELECT NEW FOR CHANGES TO BE ADDED TO MENU OPTIONS

1000'S Of possible flight paths can be added

Have fun ;)

My Sword is Faithfully Yours

Sir William of Oxonfield