Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Chase views: > > [1] One view like the old one, but minus the sway that was due to > sideslip. In this case the horizon on the screen is always level. (I > don't think the new chase view behaves like this. The horizon is not > level, it rolls w/ the aircraft.) >
Actually only the pitch is applied to the model. The roll is not. From the side it does look a little funky. In relation to the horizon, the pitch angle gets doubled. > [2] What would be seen from a following aircraft. In this case, the > horizon will move like it does on the HSI. The final view will look very > much like the current cockpit view minus the instruments but w/ the 3D > model of the aircraft shown. > Hmmm...try setting the z-offset to -25.0 in the pilot view. > [3] A lagged version of [2]. Not as important, but neat. It would > effectively show what one would record from a video camera in the chase > plane. The 3D model of the aircraft will not always be centered on the > screen. In extremely rapid maneuvers, the 3D model might even move off of > the screen (out of the camera field of view). > > It seems that to do 2 and 3, the aircraft trajectory history (so many feet > of flight path trajectory) needs to be saved and used by the viewer code. Yes, some sort of fifo buffer would work. > Tower view: > > [1] One version w/ the view positioned at the end of the runway and > slightly behind and above the aircraft, looking down on the aircraft. This > view is extremely useful for testing new-aircraft nonlinear-aero > models. It's hard to judge stall and other extreme maneuvers from the > cockpit, but from the tower one can gauge these things pretty well. > > [2] Another from the tower at the particular airport. > > Maybe the latest code can already do these things w/ input via xml(?). > Almost. It should by the end of the week, maybe sooner. Once I have the basic viewer xml configuration setup, I will probably be expanding it to allow quite a lot of control via xml configs. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
