Can you direct me to where i can find HitList::fgCurrentElevation()?  i 
have run grep on simgear and flightgear plus searched in google and 
I still cant find mention of this function.

Seamus

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Norman Vine wrote:

> Seamus Thomas Carroll writes:
> > 
> > Is it possible to determine if a vehicle is in the viewing area of the 
> > plane using the lon, lat of the vehicle?  
> 
> No
> 
> FWIW
> Using a Lat Lon representation of your position is horribly inefficient
> 
> So I recommend doing all your motion relative to a local plane
> then use a slightly modified HitList::fgCurrentElevation()  to determine 
> your actual contact point
> 
> It's not really not that tough but there are a few wrinkles that you
> must internalize < i.e. current tile center based world >
> 
> Note that the hitlist structure saves a pointer to the actual PLib
> Collection intersected and the index of the 'hit' triangle from which
> you can determine your new position.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Norman
> 
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