Andy Ross writes: > That's exactly the idea. You take a "plane of instruments" (what > we're currently calling a panel XML file) and project it into 3D space > via specifying corners. It draws on top of the existing stuff, with > no problems whatsoever. If you want to have only one instrument per > panel, that works fine. Most (well, all) cockpits, though, have a > bunch of flat boards with instruments mounted on them. Call each one > of those a "panel" and we're done. All the work carries over > automatically. > > The only code changes required are to allow the corner vertices to be > specified in the configuration (/sim/panels[n]/bottom-left/x-m, > etc...), and allow more than one panel to be created at once. Maybe > there's a need for a "cockpit" xml file to unify some of this.
I don't look at raw OpenGL all that often -- I guess I'll have to do a bit of trig to figure out the transformation, given the corners. If you have even the slightest inclination to try this yourself, please be my guest. I do need to get the panel into a proper SSG scene graph some day soon. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
