On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 08:47, Norman Vine wrote: > Jon S Berndt > > >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:00:28 -0500 > > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>That's good news -- I'd like to encourge the FDM writers to query > >>separately for each gear now, at least for the wheels and skids (crash > >>points aren't as serious). > > > >So, when querying, would we supply the lat/lon/radius of > >each bogey of interest, then get the height above ground? > > Easier, well at least faster, then that > > The fgCurrentElev() routine takes > sgdVec3 abs_view_pos as its first argument > > which normally is > globals->get_current_view()->get_abs_view_pos() > > which I believe is still the AP CG > so I believe that you could just add the offset for each query point to > the abs_view_pos vector
So then, we'd need to convert from our body coordinates to FG's global cartesian? > > see tilemgr::update() for whee this is called currently > > HTH > > Norman > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
