Using Blender from a Raspberry Pi to edit or improve LAC's 3d models
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LAC uses the legacy ".3ds" format for its 3d models. Once very popular, that format is now regarded as outdated, and at the time of this writing in Feb2023, few currently published versions of Blender still support the .3ds format without some kind of external conversion utility.
There are web sites that will convert 3d models to and from the .3ds format, but their use can be cumbersome, and sometimes the .3ds models that they create are not very efficient, causing LAC to render them slowly. This can result in low frame rates and poor performance in flight.
As of Feb2023, the published version of Blender in use on the "Raspbian" operating system for Raspberry Pi still supports the .3ds format directly. As a consequence, most of the 3d graphic development that has been done by LAC graphic developers is now done on Raspberry Pi equipment.