At 4/3/02, you wrote: >Michael Selig writes: > > I have found the Ctrl-U very useful to jumping up in altitude. Beginners > > like this feature too. The current deal where the aircraft freezes on > > crashes is not so handy to me. Why not have some sort of realism feature > > that at one extreme does not freeze on crashes and allows for some sort of > > slew to altitude feature and then on the other extreme you've got to claw > > your way up and when you crash your done. > >LaRCsim was good at 'bouncing' on impact, but at least two other FDM's >I'm dealing with are more likely to have their math blow up when faced >with the excessively weird stuff that happens on impact. This >depending on the situation can lead to the entire sim crashing if the >positions returned by the FDM are entirely bogus. It's not >unreasonable to make crash behavior configurable if someone out there >is willing to do the work. > >Regards, > >Curt. >-- >Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project >Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
I definitely understand the arguments for freezing on crash. I'm just saying I liked it the other way (and I believe that on the LaRCsim/UIUC side things still work this way ... we've not changed it). With the new UIUC models that have more reasonable gear parameters, the fgfs *very rarely* crashes like it used to do. I realize that trying to model wild ground handling is not high priority right now. It's also a perspective thing ... big aircraft vs small aircraft. RC models can take a lot of abuse and the funky cart wheeling is nice to have. >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ************************************************** Prof. Michael S. Selig Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 306 Talbot Laboratory 104 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801-2935 (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
