On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 07:55, Andy Ross wrote:
> Norman Vine wrote:
> > Somethng like this is easy enough to implement with the current
> > hitlist code but ... I don't understand why the compressability of
> > the gear has any bearing on the point of contact. It is the AC that is
> > changing not
Andy Ross writes:
> Norman Vine wrote:
> > Somethng like this is easy enough to implement with the current
> > hitlist code but ... I don't understand why the compressability of
> > the gear has any bearing on the point of contact. It is the AC that is
> > changing not the Terrain
>
> Gear don't
Norman Vine wrote:
> Somethng like this is easy enough to implement with the current
> hitlist code but ... I don't understand why the compressability of
> the gear has any bearing on the point of contact. It is the AC that is
> changing not the Terrain
Gear don't always compress perpendicular to
Andy Ross writes:
>
> The existing hit list code works well and runs fast, so it hasn't been
> tinkered with to try to fix this. The "right" interface would be a
> way for the FDM to hand a bunch of line segments (not points; landing
> gear can compress) to FlightGear and get back an indication o
Erik Hofman writes:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > Jim Howarth wrote:
> >
> >>Ahhh... Well.. I got to it.. Started to fly under it and flightgear
> >>crapped out..
> >
> >
> > No. It just flagged a collision. The FDMs can only ask FlightGear
> > "how high above sea level is the ground at this locatio
Andy Ross wrote:
Jim Howarth wrote:
Ahhh... Well.. I got to it.. Started to fly under it and flightgear
crapped out..
No. It just flagged a collision. The FDMs can only ask FlightGear
"how high above sea level is the ground at this location?". This is
fine for doing ground handling on runway
Jim Howarth wrote:
> Ahhh... Well.. I got to it.. Started to fly under it and flightgear
> crapped out..
No. It just flagged a collision. The FDMs can only ask FlightGear
"how high above sea level is the ground at this location?". This is
fine for doing ground handling on runways.
But the pro
