Jon S. Berndt wrote: > If the aircraft is not aligned vertically (or nearly so), the wingtips > (or other contact points) will scrape and gear location will be > irrelevant. Indeed, at extreme angles the gear will either be > inaccessible or will be treated as a hard contact point. We can get > complicated at some point in the future. Right now all we want is to > be able to determine the elevation at a given lat/lon.
Ski jumps are an immediate counter example. But again, it's not that the compression vector is significantly non-vertical, it's that the amount of compression is very sensitive to the direction of this vector. The point to doing per-gear collision detection is to account for non-flatness of the ground plane. That gets defeated if you treat the gear compression configuration as a flat space normal to the earth. :) Really, we have a perfectly acceptable gear model for many situations right now. We're already getting complicated by considering per-gear collisionn. If we're going to do it, I'd rather we do it right. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
