Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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).
Ah, very good. The way you have it is the way I'd prefer for animations. Like you said if I need to look at measurements the info is there. Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
