re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: first experimental 3-D cockpit

2002-03-11 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Megginson writes: 3. The orientation is incorrect when the view is not straight forward and the plane is not flying level (waiting for a fix from me, but I don't understand matrix math well enough) -- that means that when you look out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: first experimental 3-D cockpit

2002-03-11 Thread Andy Ross
[A bunch of notes on Norm's notes. Basically, everything he wrote (even the editorializing) makes sense to me, with a few exceptions as detailed below] Norman Vine wrote: Easy beans - no gimble lock - infinitely stackable orientations - everything has it's own logical spot - quick -

re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: first experimental 3-D cockpit

2002-03-10 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson writes: 3. The orientation is incorrect when the view is not straight forward and the plane is not flying level (waiting for a fix from me, but I don't understand matrix math well enough) -- that means that when you look out the side window during a climb or turn, the