Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

reported and b) I have time -- I think Tony already has JSBSim reporting gear and flap position. I'll fix up the elevator today. Thanks, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] 'position/altitude-ft' property with UIUC model ?

Martin Spott writes: Fortunately this is really simple. But it does not recognize the position altitude-ft1500/altitude-ft /position JSBSim has an on-ground trimming routine. Try also setting the velocity to non-zero. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

people. We cannot do real trimming without force-feedback controllers (that can hold a non-neutral position). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Broken Code

finished, or else I might not have food or a house, much less a computer to use for contributing new code. We're all in the same position. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] Inconsitent naming in src/FDM/JSBSim

Rainer Emrich writes: Compilation stops with: JSBSim.cpp file not found. I had the same problem. You have to remove src/FDM/JSBSim/.deps then recompile (yes, it took me an hour to figure that out). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

in case there's a plane somewhere that uses both. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

the rotation centers and axes right. People can use $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/c172/Models/c172-dpm.xml as a model for writing a wrapper. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Model Configuration Changes

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

it into two, hinged objects. With the properties coming from the FDMs, I'll be able to animate gear and flaps much more smoothly. The fixed gear planes make gear retraction noise Yeah, that's because the state changes right at the start when the sim starts. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

on the flightgear.org site. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Access

-- I'm doing a profiling build now to help me hunt down the problem. So far, we're making far fewer than 500 property lookups per frame, so there is no noticable drop, and you may be just as well off using fg(Get|Set)* directly for now. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

them, but it's not a lot of extra trouble (except for Tony, if he has to change his last checkin). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Performance and dc3 donuts

yet. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Performance and dc3 donuts

it to 1.0, and bind the release event to set it to 0.0. That way, the brakes come on a little more gradually, and you can pump the button to avoid full brakes. If you have some spare joystick axes, they'd work great for the brakes. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Profiling run

and generating textures is going to be expensive at startup. I ran it for only 30 seconds. I'll do another run for 5 minutes, with an actual flight, and report the results. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear

re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

committed the changes to CVS, and with luck, they'll fix Jim Wilson's problem as well. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

re: [Flightgear-devel] Sorted property picker list

I've committed Andy's patch for sorting the properties in the property browser. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Animated C172

Tony Peden writes: Is there a way to dump the entire tree to xml (whether or not the archivable bit is set)? Not currently, but I can modified writeProperties to take an extra, optional argument, then make a dump-properties command. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL

re: [Flightgear-devel] patches?

patch with the new ground-view mode. Thanks, and all the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Profiling run

Tony Peden writes: It seems very strange to me, however, that FGInterface::operator= would show up at all. According to that output, it was called almost 200,000 times. What's up with that? Do we keep two copies and swap between them? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] patches?

on punch cards too? ;-) Those are for wimps. You should be entering machine instructions directly using toggles. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 model now animated

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 model now animated

- relative wind (for each gear) - weight on wheel - normalized retraction position - vertical velocity (for each engine) - RPM - manifold pressure What is the most intuitive way to organize all of this? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] Animation comments

windmilling. YASim used to keep it spinning forever, but Andy's latest changes should allow it to stop. What FDM are you using? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] Help offered !!!

. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

, especially for joysticks. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: DC-3 model now animated

using today, not what we plan to use. Cowl flaps are important on the DC-3, for example, not only for cooling but for drag. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: DC-3 model now animated

but cut the cooling as well. Usually they're open for take off and landing and closed for cruise (since there's lots of air anyway). Some DC-3 pilots actually calculate the extra drag into their approaches. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

). Is there any standard unit abbreviation that conflicts with that and is useful for flight simulation? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

re: [Flightgear-devel] Fixing Runway Locations Placing Objects

that it would be possible to generate airports dynamically at runtime by cutting a hole in the mesh, but it would be a lot of work and no one's volunteering yet. It's something we'll want to get to eventually. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

, knots or fps. I'm still undecided myself, but the argument in favour is that the suffix does show a kind of unit (a normalized value). Otherwise, the throttle setting could be in inches, the ailerons in degrees, etc. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

Jon Stockill writes: Now, feet, inches, miles, furlongs, etc are another matter :-) Why don't we give this thread a rest, then resume it in a fortnight? I have half a stone of paperwork to get through first. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

Jon S Berndt writes: Metric isn't perfect either - it's been sort of perverted by ... I don't know who. Napoleon. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 flaps?

, ending at the wingtip fuel tanks; the flaps might be beside them, ending at the nacelles, they might be tucked in between the nacelles and the body, or there might even be leading-edge flaps. Help. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 flaps?

as I can see. Thanks, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 flaps?

flaps from the top as well? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim changes

nice, but since Tony and Andy have agreed on -norm, we may as well leave the whole discussion closed. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lost sounds

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re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim changes / new XML files

conventions. The DC-3 gear do indeed pull up slowly. What are the direction/orientation conventions that cause trouble? This is a good time to fix things, before there are a lot of animation files out there. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Surface Positions (almost there)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Surface Positions (almost there)

loop the sound instead, playing it as long as the gear position is changing and stoping it (with a clank sound?) when the movement stops. Would it help for the FDM to supply a moving flag in the property tree? I don't think that should be necessary. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights tested

John Wojnaroski writes: Any ETA when new properties for gear/surfaces will make it into CVS? Everything's there. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights tested

John Wojnaroski writes: For both YASim and JSBSim the flaps seem inop. Gear, flight surfaces, engines are okay. Except it looks like the YASim 747 needs a nose gear Do you have the latest CVS code for both FlightGear and the base package? All the best, David -- David Megginson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

to respond. I agree. I have brought this up once or twice, but given the more serious gear problems, I've never pushed it. Do you find YASim's nose-gear handling more reasonable? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear

Re: re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC; Was: Release schedule for 0.7.9 (fwd)

it should be possible, but no one has done that yet. Right ? Yes, it is possible. I did some gear for the Twin Otter, but it either never made it into the base package or got overwritten. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] JSBSim: sudden plane crashes

and acceleration. Yes, I can reproduce this as well. Of course, you shouldn't push the stick all the way forward like that during normal flight, but the program still shouldn't crash I wonder if this still happens with the engine turned off. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings

, but should also take common practice into accounts (i.e. key bindings that people are used to from other sims). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Cockpit!

I've added the patches. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 flaps?

? It shouldn't be too much work to fix up the 3D model. Thanks, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

at least slightly. That means that when you look from the right, the wheels might appear to be floating 6 in above the ground, while from the left, the wheels might appear to be sunk 6 in underground. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

. If he's not using the latest CVS, the default model he's referring to might be the yellow and blue glider. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

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re: [Flightgear-devel] ancient 'ascii' scenery format

Curtis L. Olson writes: Is anyone still using this ancient file format? Does anyone have any objections to ending support in flightgear for it? I think that PPE has support for the old ASCII format but not the new binary one. Other than that, chuck it. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

no good to make public noise about how important Linux is to their operations (they still need goodwill from the commercial vendors), but trust me, it's mission critical to at least one I've been involved with, and it's not Microsoft who's losing the sales. All the best, David -- David Megginson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

. I'll get a new one put together soon, if you don't want to do it yourself. I did it today. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

. That wouldn't be hard to do from JSBSim (which actually knows the pitch angle), but it might be trickier from YASim. I'm worried about how far this will all lead, though. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

value. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view code. was Virtual Cockpit!

, look towards the plane, reverse view direction [for external], etc.). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Mainmain.cxx,1.245,1.246

with the change, before I put it back? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.245,1.246

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re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Strangeness

the near clip plane to get 3D interior views working. I'm fixing it now (the problem doesn't show up on newer hardware, like the GeForce2). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.245,1.246

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re: [Flightgear-devel] Changes in raw_ctrls.hxx

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re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway

Altitude = -2.09 -1.85 forcing to 1.15 FGLaRCsim::set_Altitude: 1.14519 Any Ideas? It probably has something to do with the UIUC gear code. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual cockpit notes

on flight modelling; contributions to other areas from other people aren't taking away from that. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rationalizing view

its reference point, orientation, offsets, etc. are, it doesn't need to know whether we're modelling a control tower, chase view, etc. Eventually we might even control some of the views through external scripting. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual cockpit notes

think we should aim a lot higher than fixed 2D renditions. Try the Battle of Britain demo to see what a 3D cockpit is like, and you won't want to go back. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rationalizing view

position and the world-up vector. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual cockpit notes

, you're supposed to try to get visual confirmation of which prop is spinning more slowly. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

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

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

re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

might represent in LISP as ('person ('name David Megginson) ('citizenship Canadian)) you can represent in XML as person nameDavid Megginson/name citizenshipCanadian/citizenship /person An element name must begin with an alpha or '_', and may contain only alphabetic characters

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

the property browser inside FlightGear). Then all you need is a simple schema format (which can also be property-list-based) to say what is and isn't allowed in each format, and the UI will be dynamically reconfigurable. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard.xml

is rearranged, but other european layouts move the letters around as well. What we need to do is have FlightGear read a local config file in a user directory after reading the defaults from $FG_ROOT. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

Cameron Moore writes: [ Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? ] Jane, n'est-ce pas? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rationalizing view

, and all of the FlightGear-related stuff in the view manager class. That way, person A who knows nothing about matrix math can design new views, etc., and person B who knows little about the rest of FlightGear, properties, etc. can optimize the matrix math, etc. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with XML and preferences.xml

-- a file with the same name as a 3D model and the XML extension is a wrapper file for the 3D model containing animation and placement information. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

,-0.936000 17965,-0.00,-0.534000 19013,-0.00,-0.294000 20044,-0.00,0.27 21090,-0.00,-1.00 22097,-0.00,-0.168000 All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile failure of latest CVS

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

stuff like forces and moments. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

saying this for a couple months now...but hey I'm slow :-)). Thanks -- the internal cockpit view seems much better. Now the ball's in Andy's court to patch up the virtual panel code (and de-quat the mouse code), and we're flying! All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

Norman Vine writes: David Megginson writes: (and de-quat the mouse code) exactly the kind of response that led me to coin the phrase MAYDAY MAYDAY FlightGear has been hijacked Actually, that was Andy's idea, but I do agree with it entirely. I'm not saying to de-quat

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

it as FlightGear becomes more sophisticated. We all owe Norm an enormous debt of gratitude for getting all this stuff working in the program's early days, or there would have been no program for us to work on now. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Simplifying the Property Code

. This will matter if the C++ code ever runs slower than the framerate (i.e. if 200fps video cards become common). Comments? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

so that we know what we actually have to support. I'll look forward to seeing the patch. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Douglas DC-3 Dakota

John Check writes: It doesn't have everything you need but incase you haven't seen it: http:www.douglasdc3.com Yes, it's an excellent source for photos and low-res technical drawings. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Coordinates fact check

to calculate the scenery center for each tile can simply go away. That sounds like an excellent idea. Are there any hidden gotchas? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] A viewer interface suggestion

() const; // Matrices virtual const sgVec4 * get_VIEW () const; virtual const sgVec4 * get_VIEW_ROT () const; virtual const sgVec4 * get_UP () const; private: // whatever we decide to put here }; All the best, David -- David Megginson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A viewer interface suggestion

the position offsets may live elsewhere, of course, but it makes sense to let the viewer calculate the actual transformation from the reference geodetic position, since it will already have rotation and transformation matrices set up. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A viewer interface suggestion

Andy Ross writes: This looks really good to me. Thanks. A few nits below, based on the way I think about the problem. David Megginson wrote: 1. looking from a known position outwards 2. looking at a known position from an offset 3. looking at one known position from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A viewer interface suggestion

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Cockpit, cont'd

Jim Wilson writes: Nice seats too :-) I'm probably not going to be able to get away with such low poly counts for the interior for long, but I don't want to fork the models quite yet. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear, FS2K2 and GMAX

to model interior as well as exterior views of 3-D models. There's not much, yet, but you might want to keep that in mind. The most important thing, under all circumstances, is to keep the polygon count low. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear, FS2K2 and GMAX

David Megginson writes: Danie Heath writes: Just a question. If I create a 3-d model in GMAX, convert it into a .MDL file for FS2K2, is there a way to get it (as well as detail things like rotating wheels, moving control surfaces) into Flightgear ? Yes. Or no, according

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