Hi all!
Best thing to do would be bounding boxes. It's fast to calculate and
relative accurate.
You can calculate bounding box for each object one time and use every
time!
> On Friday 02 June 2006 01:44, Mick - wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a type of collision avoidance capability, and would
> > need AGL data from in front of the aircraft.
> > Could someone suggest where (in the code) I could get "projected elevation"
> > information, for example, AGL data 10 meters in front. My understanding is
> > that AGL is taken from the nose of the aircraft.
> In C++ code src/Scenery/scenery.hxx one of:
>
> FGScenery::get_elevation_m;
> FGScenery::get_cart_elevation_m;
>
> should do what you need.
> Dependent on how often you need to compute that and how far away from the
> actual aircraft you need to know that the groundcache accessible from
> FGInterface might be faster.
> That provides you with the same information in a small area around the
> aircraft (usually only the bonunding sphere of the aircraft model plus a few
> meters) in a more performant way.
>
> Greetings
>
> Mathias
>
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