Hi,
On Montag 23 Mai 2005 10:52, BONNEVILLE David wrote:
> How could I get the terrain elevation at a given lat/lon at runtime ?
> Could you point me to the right way ?
That depends on what you need.
In src/Scenery/hitlist.* there are the fgCurrentElev(...) functions which
could be used to get a list of intersection points of the scenery with the
line from the given position towards the earths center. You can see in
src/Scenery/tilemgr.cxx in the function
FGTileMgr::updateCurrentElevAtPos(...) how this could be used to compute a
single altitude value.
Alternatively, you can use that ground cache in src/FDM/groundcache* to get
such scenery altitude. You first have to build that cache for a given
position with prepare_ground_cache. Then you can query for the altitude by
get_agl.
The basic difference is that the fgCurrentElev function walks the whole
scenery each time you ask for an altitude.
The ground cache functions build up a small flat subset of the scenery into an
own small scenegraph.
If you need miltiple terrain altitude values at close but different points in
the scene the ground cache will be better.
If you need only a single altitude or values far from each other you need to
use fgCurrentElev.
Greetings
Mathias
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Mathias Fröhlich, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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