Jon S Berndt writes: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:15:04 -0500 > "Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Who better then the FDM to know the offsets of the points to test for > >contact. It certainly shouldn't be anything in the Scenery Module !! > > > >Norman > > > Yep. I think all we (FDM) need is a function that returns > the terrain radius (or elevation ASL?) at a given lat/lon. > We *do* know where our gear is!
You know where the gear is, but you don't know how much it should be compressed until you know something about the ground elevation, but the amount of compression might change the lat/lon if the gear isn't aligned vertically at the moment. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
