Happy coding!
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 17:59, Andy Ross wrote: > This gear collision stuff is going in horrific circles, and I've > clearly done a piss poor job of explaining it. Here is what I want, > from the top: > > I want a gear interface where I specify the following two (2) points > in 3D space: One is the point of gear minimum compression, the other > is the point of full extension. > > I want the scenery code to compute an intersection between the gear > and the ground that lies between these two points, based on the > scene geometry. > > I want the returned intersection point to disambiguate the following > two edge cases: one where the gear minimum compression point is > under ground, and one where the maximum compression point is above > ground. > > If there are more than two geometry intersections along that line, I > want the one closes to the minimum compression point. > > Forget anything else you might think I want. I don't want that. I > want the above interface. That is all I want. I no longer claim > (publically) that this interface is better. I no longer claim that > any other interfaces are wrong. I just want them, OK? > > Does anyone have a reason why such interface should not be duly > granted to the poor YASim developer? Speak now, or forever hold your, > ... whatever. > > Did I mention that it's really a very simple interface? > > 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 > -- 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
