My Interactive Realtime 3D Meccano® Project
Page 1 : Beginnings, testing and feasabilities.
Page 2 : Building No.10 Set's Lifting Shovel
Page 3 : "Aunt Sally" Fun Machine
Page 4 : This page.... MeccanoRAMA
Page 5 : Meccano Mechanisms
Page 1 : Beginnings, testing and feasabilities.
Page 2 : Building No.10 Set's Lifting Shovel
Page 3 : "Aunt Sally" Fun Machine
Page 4 : This page.... MeccanoRAMA
Page 5 : Meccano Mechanisms
MeccanoRAMA – the Realtime Animated Model Assembler for Meccano®
(copyright © 2012 Allan C Farquharson)
The above image is a screenshot of the startup screen for the MeccanoRAMA Demo Kit, consisting of a simple windmill model to assemble from a given set of virtual Meccano® parts. The application guides the user through the assembly step by step. The user will only be allowed to proceed to a successive step only once the parts for the current step are correctly assembled. On completing the final step, the user will be able to advance to the Grand Finale in an environment where he/she can interact with their completed model!
My main objective in providing this application has been to demonstrate, in the simplest manner possible, how a newcomer to 3D graphics, by assembling a basic Meccano® model, can gain some insight into the virtual 3D world. With this in mind, the operator interface has been kept to the bare minimum, with no confusing terminology to clutter and confuse.
My main objective in providing this application has been to demonstrate, in the simplest manner possible, how a newcomer to 3D graphics, by assembling a basic Meccano® model, can gain some insight into the virtual 3D world. With this in mind, the operator interface has been kept to the bare minimum, with no confusing terminology to clutter and confuse.
Fully illustrated "Instructions and Tutorial" in Windows Word .doc format can be downloaded here:
| meccanorama_instructions_tutorial.doc |
The MeccanoRAMA_Demo Installer (approx 15Mb) can be downloaded here:
NOTE: If you downloaded before 9th August 2012, then please note that a small change was made to the user interface since then, and the download below is now the LATEST version:
NOTE: If you downloaded before 9th August 2012, then please note that a small change was made to the user interface since then, and the download below is now the LATEST version:
| meccanorama_demo_installer.zip |
Requirements are: A Windows based system, as well as a good nVidia graphics card, installed in a more recent computer. You will also need to ensure that you have the latest DirectX 9.0c runtimes from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
01/09/2012
If you have not been able to complete all six steps, then here is a little assistance in the form of my saved set of .dat files for all the steps. Just unzip them into the existing "savedata" folder, off the main MeccanoRama application folder.
| all_steps.zip |
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If you consider this software to be worthwhile, then please feel free to make a small donation to the Allan C Farquharson Pension Supplementation Fund (*wink and smile*)
