* Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 09:48: > Michael Selig wrote: > > In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase > > views we had are now ***very*** different. There's a lag effect that is > > giving me serious vertigo and there's roll now as well which is > > compounding the vertigo.
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The traditional view only had heading damping added, which was supposed to make taxiing and taking off/landing easier. If the viewer "flies" behind the aircraft, we wouldn't really expect the environment to twist on rudder input, but rather the aircraft. The traditional ("helicopter") chase view didn't change roll =at all=. That is only in the new "chase" view, which nobody is forced to use. But I can of course change the helicopter view in my own configuration (just like everybody else can maintain his own settings, independent of the default settings).
The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. Thanks!
These are the current views in the preferences.xml:
1 <name>Cockpit View</name> 2 <name>Helicopter View</name> 3 <name>Chase View</name> 4 <name>Tower View</name> 5 <name>Tower View Look From</name> 6 <name>Chase View wo yaw</name>
View #2 is the one I use w/ demos. All sorts of people can handle this one because the view direction is fixed and the horizon is level --- no one gets sick.
View #6 is a small variation on the theme --- the heading angle changes w/ the direction of the airplane (w/ the UIUC airplanes it is the flight path "heading angle", not the aircraft heading angle). In doing demos, most people can handle this view.
FYI -- View #3 does not 'play' well w/ my computer (Linux w/ a GeForce4 Ti 4400 card). The screen update sometimes lags, and then jumps w/ updates. So about every 2 secs, I get a 'jerk' in the view.
I think if we start creating more views, we should *add* them and not *exchange* them (i.e. not delete an old view for a new one). I'd vote for adding them to the 'v' key and/or F1...F8 keys.
Again, thanks for the quick mods.
Regards, Michael
[...] > In the mean time I I'll comment out the damping factors until we decide > how to handle this.
OK. :-)
m.
PS: The jitter in damped chase view isn't supposed to be a feature. It's of course a bug, and I'm investigating.
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