Norman Vine writes:
> David Megginson writes:
> 
> >We need two relatively complicated pieces of self-contained code
> >written to move much further with FlightGear:
> >
> >1. a function that, given an ssgBranch and the current viewer
> >   transformation, can return the descendant of the branch (if any)
> >   under a specific screen coordinate; and
> 
> ssgCullAndPick()  perchance ?

I've never messed with this, but it sounds promising.

> >2. a new intersect routine that starts by looking downwards, so that a
> >   plane (for example) can taxi into a hangar or under a bridge
> >   without suddenly jumping on top.
> 
> hmm... I thought that the current routine did this as is

Given that the intersection routine returns a list of all "terrain"
intersections and then you just need to reject all the ones that are
above your current aircraft elevation.

Regards,

Curt.
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