Jim Wilson wrote: > What do the gear/compression-norm values in YASim represent? Is it > a distance or travel range fraction or something else?
It's a "normalized" value -- a fraction. A value of 0 represents full extension, 1 is full compression. The actual length numbers can be gotten from the aircraft configuration. If you like, exporting a "compression-m" wouldn't be hard at all. The problem is that not all gear compress linearly; think of the spring steel gear on light planes, or the weird "bending" gear on the Hornet. The advantage of a normalized value is that you can interpolate any bizzare animations you want and know that it won't break when someone changes the gear compression in the YASim configuration (this just happened for the 747, for example). 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
