Tag Archives: Supercar

Supercar in Spatial

Posted on February 14, 2023 by bat

Visit Supercar in Spatial Here Using the Spatial Creator Toolkit for Unity (see this blog post for resources) I have imported the Blender/FBX version of our Gerry Anderson’s Supercar model into a scene which can be visited by multiple simultaneous … Continue reading →

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Supercar Wall Ice Cream Advert

Posted on September 23, 2021 by bat

And a set of adverts using Gerry Anderson productions… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K1W-T1naA

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Shane Pickering – Supercar Cutaway Take Two

Posted on May 11, 2021 by bat

Shane Pickering, a graphic artist and private pilot in New Zealand, in the late 1990s worked on schematics and internal details for Supercar compatible with the TV shows and annuals. Details in this blog post (20-Jan-2016). We had a lot … Continue reading →

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Trying to make sense of Black Rock Laboratory

Posted on April 1, 2021 by bat

The fictional base in the Nevada desert for the team in Gerry Anderson’s Supercar TV series is called Black Rock Laboratory. For 3D modellers it is a nightmare as many of the sets used in the TV series are separate … Continue reading →

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Mick Imrie – Supercar Take Two

Posted on February 23, 2021 by bat

Mick Imrie created a detailed Supercar 3D model in Cinema4D back in 1998-1999 and this has been used as the basis for many ports to other 3D modelling tools, game platforms, flight and space simulators and virtual worlds platforms since … Continue reading →

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Supercar @ 60

Posted on January 28, 2021 by bat

This is an extended version of an article which appeared at https://www.gerryanderson.co.uk/ on 28th January 2021 –60th Anniversary of the first broadcast of Supercar on TV. Supercar – The Wonder of the Age for Six Decades! First Broadcast: 28th January … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Second Life – Anaglyph 3D

Posted on April 13, 2020 by bat

Kirstens Viewer for Second Life can render the view in Anaglyph 3D for Red/Cyan 3D Glasses… for more details and download links see this blog post. So its a good excuse to take the 3D model of Supercar for another … Continue reading →

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Dimension X – Supercar Display

Posted on February 16, 2020 by bat

Supercar puppet scale model made by Andrew Grimshaw of Wigan and Phil Howard and displayed in the Dimension X Sci-Fi and Fantasy collectables shop in Hoylake in the Wirral near Liverpool, UK (at Unit 9A, The Quadrant, Hoylake, CH47 2EE) … Continue reading →

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Supercar in FSX in 2019

Posted on May 20, 2019 by bat

Supercar still works great in Flight Simulator FSX nearly 25 years since the first version of the add-on was created for Flight Simulator 5 using Flightshop Aircraft Factory in 1995… http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar-msfs.html And it can be used in the Oculus Rift … Continue reading →

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Supercar over Bellisseria

Posted on April 24, 2019 by bat

The new airstrips, boat rez zones and car rez zones have now appeared on and around Bellisseria continent, the location of the New Linden Homes in Second Life. Daniel Voyager – Blog Post 24-Apr-2019 – Airstrip, Boat and Car Rez … Continue reading →

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Sine Space – Gerry Anderson Region

Posted on August 18, 2017 by bat

The Sine Space (now rebranded “sinespace”) virtual world “Space City” region contains 3D models and scenes from a number of Gerry Anderson TV productions… Supercar and Black Rock Laboratory Fireball XL5 and Space City Stingray and Marineville Thunderbirds Space:1999 Visit … Continue reading →

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Sine.space – Gerry Anderson Regions

Posted on November 18, 2016 by bat

Sine.space by Sine Wave Entertainment is a multi-user virtual world based on Unity3D. Another blog post gives details of the development process for a custom region using content created in OpenSim and brought across to Unity3D via the OAR Converter. … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Blender

Posted on September 22, 2016 by bat

This blog post is a resource area for a project to create good 3D models of Gerry Anderson’s Supercar and Black Rock Laboratory in Blender that can be used for a range of new applications in virtual worlds, flight simulators, … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Second Life through VR

Posted on August 4, 2016 by bat

CtrlAltStudio viewer 1.2.6.43412 has provided 3D/VR access for the Oculus Rift in Second Life and OpenSim. VR Performance using Oculus Debug Tool With “Ultra” graphics levels (including shadows) and 256m view distance, the performance is excellent and with exterior or … Continue reading →

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On AiLand Black Rock Region with Supercar via VorpX

Posted on July 28, 2016 by bat

As described in this blog post virtual world viewers can be used to visit Second Life and OpenSim grids and regions in VR on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive using VorpX. These are images of Gerry Anderson’s Supercar in the … Continue reading →

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Supercar in VR

Posted on July 26, 2016 by bat

This is Gerry Anderson’s Supercar mesh model (with non-physical flight scripts) in Second Life viewed in VR via the CtrlAltStudio viewer 1.2.6.43412 for Oculus Rift DK2 and CV1. The Supercar mesh has a “prim equivalent” of 705. More information on … Continue reading →

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Supercar Schematics

Posted on January 20, 2016 by bat

Supercar Schematics Shane Pickering and Austin Tate version: 21-Nov-1999. Minor Revision: 9-Mar-2021 Overview of Supercar Schematics (PDF version) More detailed version of Supercar Schematics (PDF Format) Supercar Internal Schematics Rear Navigation Lights (2) Port & Starboard, with rear ballast eject … Continue reading →

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Supercar Take Two: Avgas, Will Travel

Posted on January 20, 2016 by bat

The “Supercar: Take Two” project (“Take 2” for short) is a collaborative venture, originally started in 1998, involving a number of Supercar enthusiasts and those with an interest in Gerry Anderson productions. Its aim is to develop an on-line multi-media … Continue reading →

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Creating the Supercar Comic

Posted on January 14, 2016 by bat

Kez Wilson and Michael Wolff at Misc!Mayhem Comics in the US were fans of Gerry Anderson’s Supercar and other TV shows and in 1999 wrote new stories about Supercar, the team of characters at Black Rock Laboratory, the baddies in … Continue reading →

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FSX Supercar at Knight Inlet BC

Posted on January 13, 2016 by bat

The FSX version of Supercar (latest: version 5.0 1-Jan-2013) has been tested to work in FSX Steam Edition and in Virtual Reality using Flyinside FSX. Here she is in flight and landing in the Knight Inlet area in British Columbia… … Continue reading →

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Flight Simulator in Virtual Reality with Flyinside FSX

Posted on November 19, 2015 by bat

Virtual Reality comes to Microsoft Flight Simulator today as Flyinside FSX (https://flyinside-fsx.com/) reached its first full version 1.0 release. It has been created by Daniel Church with Kickstarter backing and is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator boxed versions and … Continue reading →

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Virtual Reality for Gerry Anderson Locations

Posted on October 16, 2015 by bat

Gerry Anderson locations for the TV series Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray have been recreated using fan produced 3D models of the buildings, scenery and vehicles used in the TV shows. These have been used in OpenSimulator to create 3D … Continue reading →

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Supercar Airborne in Unity

Posted on September 15, 2015 by bat

Some time ago I used one of the Unity tutorial examples involving a race track and race car game to try out Unity, and replaced the visual model of the included car with our Gerry Anderson Supercar 3D Model (using … Continue reading →

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Supercar Club 2000

Posted on June 21, 2015 by bat

The Supercar Club 2000 was launched on 1st October 2000. It’s web site was at http://www.supercarclub.net is no longer active, but was created by Kez Wilson of Misc Mayhem with assistance from Austin Tate. The material is available now at … Continue reading →

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Supercar 3D Print

Posted on June 18, 2015 by bat

At the suggestion of Chris (corlando52) we tried an experimental 3D print of the Supercar 3D Model. The Studio 3D max model version was used and I split it into the core model with wings extended and a separate part … Continue reading →

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Suters Store Slough – Supercar Window Display in 1962

Posted on April 8, 2015 by bat

On February 1, 2015 James Fielding posted an article on the Gerry Anderson/Anderson Entertainment web site showing images taken at the time by a then 11-year old Philip Suter of the displays in his family’s Suters Store in Slough on … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Celestia

Posted on March 5, 2015 by bat

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar-celestia.html I have previously written in a blog post about the wide range of educational space and spaceflight simulators that have been created by educators, scientists and open source user communities. One of these was Celestia and its many educational … Continue reading →

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Supercar on Flight Simulator X Steam Edition

Posted on December 18, 2014 by bat

Dovetail Games has licenced Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) to update and make it more widely available. A version was released by them on the Steam Platform on 18th December 2014. Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition is available on … Continue reading →

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Oculus Rift DK2 – Supercar at Calton Hill

Posted on October 27, 2014 by bat

More testing of the Oculus Rift DK2 in Second Life using the Linden Labs Project Viewer 3.7.18 (295296). Check if a later version has been released. This version uses Oculus SDK 0.4.2 Beta so still works with the Rift DK2 … Continue reading →

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AiLand – New OpenSimulator Grid

Posted on October 1, 2014 by bat

OSGrid is used by many as a freely accessible grid run by some of those involved in OpenSimulator development onto which locally hosted regions can be added. While the main Virtual University of Edinburgh facilities are in Second Life (region … Continue reading →

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