Hi All,
I'd like to share w/ everyone a new view that is *extremely* useful I think.
The view looks at the aircraft externally and always looks in a fixed
direction so that when the aircraft yaws back and forth the view does not
swing back and forth. This is especially useful for studying aircraft
motions in aerobatic/wild maneuvers. Mousing around will change the view
direction. Personally, I fly in this mode 99% of the time.
Here's the xml code (a 5th view) that can be included in
~/fgfsbase/preferences.xml
<view>
<name>Chase View wo yaw</name>
<type>lookat</type>
<config>
<from-model type="bool">false</from-model>
<from-model-idx type="int">0</from-model-idx>
<eye-lat-deg-path>/position/latitude-deg</eye-lat-deg-path>
<eye-lon-deg-path>/position/longitude-deg</eye-lon-deg-path>
<eye-alt-ft-path>/position/altitude-ft</eye-alt-ft-path>
<at-model type="bool">true</at-model>
<at-model-idx type="int">0</at-model-idx>
<ground-level-nearplane-m type="double">0.5f</ground-level-nearplane-m>
<x-offset-m type="double">0</x-offset-m>
<y-offset-m type="double">0</y-offset-m>
<z-offset-m type="double">-25</z-offset-m>
</config>
</view>
Toggling 'v' eventually gets to this view.
Rob Deters' came up w/ this, and I've been flying w/ it thinking that it
was part of the fgfs cvs for all to use.
Can this be added to the cvs fgfsbase package? I can add it.
Any objections?
Regards,
Michael
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