Norman Vine wrote: > FWIW - I really don't understand why the FDM folks haven't been using > this as I wrote it several years ago so that one could get an > elevation per wheel
Landing gear struts compress, so there isn't a single point of intersection. Worse, they don't always point down. Even worse, the ground isn't always flat, so a plumb bob won't always tell you the right point even for a vertical landing gear strut. Elevation is the wrong metaphor for this problem. As is being discussed on the plib list, what is really needed is a generic vector intersection test. That would clobber both the mouse click picking problem and the gear strut test in a single blow. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
