Trains are not enough!
We went to visit the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, which is surprisingly near where we live.
Now Beanie-Ben is hooked.
Everyday he wants me to show him the “mosquito airplane”.
He’s only a year and a half old!
Youtube can supply a few good images and flyby’s of this lovely aircraft, but it’s not that transportable.
So, to make things easier to handle, I built him one in Blender, and using Unity, loaded it on my iPhone:
For Moonbase: Lander I needed a way to calibrate the starting or neutral position of the device in a manner that could be stored and re-used during game play.
I looked on the Unity3D forums, and found this thread:
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=15684
… where Sandoze, from Fuel Games posted their solution.
I converted this from C# to Unity.js, and later modified it with the help of Neil Carter (NCarter) on the #unity3d irc channel.
And this is what I finally came up with:
