re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Michael Selig writes: I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Jim Wilson is working on the rewrite. We do plan to support

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Michael Selig writes: That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models. It also makes the sim well-primed for R/C use.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Michael Selig writes: I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Jim Wilson is working on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Michael Selig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models. It also makes the sim well-primed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Talking about views. Currently when looking around in the cockpit you turn around a single point (if I recall it correctly). Wouldn't it be nessercary to actually incoorporate the eye distance from the middle of the head into that action (and limit

re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Selig
At 3/17/02, you wrote: Michael Selig writes: I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Jim Wilson is working on the rewrite.

[Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Selig
I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Regards, Michael ** Prof. Michael S. Selig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:29, you wrote: I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more. Sounds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simple tower view

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Selig
At 3/17/02, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:29, you wrote: I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8 to a recent CVS checkout leaves me