* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Selig) [2002.02.23 20:08]: > At 2/23/02, you wrote: > >Michael, > >You had to have put that there yourself because that was never committed > >to CVS (I know...I wrote it). It works, but it's a major hack and > >shouldn't be in the official FG source (IMHO). > > > >Someone needs to rewrite the viewer code to allow viewpoints to be added > >at runtime; then, we can define a tower position for specific airports > >and allow you to switch to the nearest tower. And as usual, I don't > >have the time (much less the programming prowess) to take on such a > >task. > > Hummmm ... That's interesting. I was under the impression that it was > part of the fgfs CVS. Its apparently a case of the right hand not knowing > what the left hand was doing, i.e. I don't know how we got it. > > I don't like hacks, but I will tell you I sure like flying from the tower > view. As you know it works w/ the 'v' key toggling from cockpit, to > external view, to tower view. When I get to the tower I can zoom in w/ 'x' > to get a better view of the aircraft.
There were a couple[1] reasons[2] why I didn't finish this, but I had planned on adding an auto-zoom feature. Manual zooming is annoying. > Though I am a glider pilot, I also fly R/C models and the tower view suits > me best. A few of the UIUC (Roskam) aircraft models have bad yaw damping > and/or a dutch roll, and with those I get sick flying from the cockpit. R/C'ing is the reason I added it in the first place. Now that I have an R/C joystick again (see footnote #1), I may try to work on this viewpoint stuff again if I ever get enough time. > I sure hope something like this tower view gets to be permanent. Once someone actually impliments it intelligently, it should be permanent. :-) [1] I had to give back the the transmitter/joystick that comes with the RealFlight R/C simulator that I was borrowing from a family member. I got it back again this weekend. ;-) [2] I accidently deleted my development directory and lost a lot of the code I had written. I wasn't in the mood to do rewrite after that. :-/ -- Cameron Moore [ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
