Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Selig
At 3/17/02, you wrote: >Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 > > ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start > with. That > > view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models.

re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Selig
At 3/17/02, you wrote: >Michael Selig writes: > > > I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple > > tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in > 0.7.8 > > to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. > >Jim Wilson is working on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Talking about views. > Currently when looking around in the cockpit you turn around a single > point (if I recall it correctly). Wouldn't it be nessercary to actually > incoorporate the eye distance from the middle of the head into that > action (and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Michael Selig writes: > > > That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 > > ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That > > view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft mod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 > ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That > view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models. It also > makes the sim well-p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: > Currently when looking around in the cockpit you turn around a > single point (if I recall it correctly). Wouldn't it be nessercary > to actually incoorporate the eye distance from the middle of the > head into that action (and limit the rotation to about 270 > degrees)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > Michael Selig writes: > > > I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple > > tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 > > to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. > > Jim Wilson is working on t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Michael Selig writes: > That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 > ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That > view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models. It also > makes the sim well-primed for R/C u

re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Michael Selig writes: > I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple > tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 > to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Jim Wilson is working on the rewrite. We do plan to support to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Selig
At 3/17/02, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:29, you wrote: > > I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple > > tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 > > to a recent CVS checkout

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:29, you wrote: > I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple > tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 > to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Sounds

[Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Selig
I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Regards, Michael ** Prof. Michael S. Selig