Thank-you Fred,
I now have the light visible from the correct angles. I did notice a few
things in my experimenting;
- The flash animation *requires* the rotate animation to be present. If I
comment out the rotate animation, the light stops flashing and is only
visible from one side.
- No matter what values I adjust, I can't get the light to give that
*bright* flash when the beam hits the observer like the airport beacon does.
The main difference I can see is; the beacon uses a <axis><z> value=0.1 and
a <power>value=100. If I understand correctly the axis/z value tilts the
beam in the horizontal plane and power value narrows the beam in the
vertical plane?
:-D ene
From: Frederic Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] XML Rotate/Flash
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:40:16 +0200
Quoting dene maxwell :
> The light is only visible from above the plane of of the *lamp* object
ie
> 49m.
>
> The *lamp* object only seems to be visable form reasonably close
ranges....
> <1000m (approx) despite the boosted power setting.
???
If you read carefully the doc, power is not in watt ( ;-) ) but is an
exposant
of a value that is in the [-1,1] range ( the cosine ). That means that
greater
the <power> value is, narrower the beam would be.
That could imply that your lamp is just faded by the ambiant fog.
> The *lamp* object only seems visible from a relatively small angle above
the
> horizontal plane. Def NOT BELOW the hor plane.
That's because you have a <z> axis component that is not null. The angle of
the
beam is atan( 0.1 / 1 ) radian, approx 5.7 degrees up from the horizontal.
You negative y axis shouldn't help.
>
> BTW Fred...thanks for the revised model-howto.htm doc.... sincere thanks
> mate...
> :-D ene
-Fred
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