Tony Peden writes:
> Norman Vine wrote:
>> Jon S Berndt 
>> >  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?

I believe that the view->UP matrix will come in handy here

Norman


 

Norman

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