David Megginson > Norman Vine writes: > > > I will still argue that the method used was and still is poor > > > > There are those who want 'steam' and those who don't > > Sure, and we make both available through the property tree. If you > want to know the exact true heading, look at /orientation/heading-deg; > if you want to know the indicated compass heading, look at > /steam/<whatever>, soon > /instrumentation/magnetic-compass/indicated-heading-deg. No one took > away information that you had before, and the HUD still displays the > exact heading if you're interested. > > On the other hand, it's just silly to build a control panel that looks > like a real one and not have it act that way -- why waste all the > texture memory to simulate analog gauges when the HUD can do the job > better? > > > Forcing BOGUS values into the ONLY autopilot wasa CRASS > > thing for 'Johnny come lately's' to do. IF you had built a NEW > > autopilot and left the old one as is I would have been one of > > the biggest proponents of 'steam', In stead you forced > > me to take an adversarial position which I still hold > > I have no objection to a new autopilot module if someone wants to > build it; the current one is fine but it's showing its age a bit. > That said, it shouldn't be hard to make it configurable to use > different property sources for specialized applications like your > (Norm's) GIS work. > > > To sum up I think that the work that has been done to make the > > 'instruments' act like a C172 is fantastic but it SHOULD be an option > > and not 'the way' > > It should be not just an option but the default option, at least when > we're simulating a C172. Still, the property tree does make it easy > to do things different ways when you want to -- that was its > intention. > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel >
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