on 07 July 2004 18:12 Mathias Fr�hlich wrote > > On Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2004 18:59, Andy Ross wrote: > > The only "special" hardware on the carrier are the > arresting wires and > > catapults. It would be easier to just model these and let generic > > intersection code handle the deck intersection stuff. > Yes, this is what I meant. > > What I thought of is a kind of 'wire surface' which covers > the area between > the first and the last wire. If the hook intersects this > surface we caught a > wire. > That is not the whole truth, but may be a sufficient approximation.
It would be a shame if we can't model individual wires, then we could experience hook-skip whereby the hook can miss all the wires. A chum of mine went around 14 times trying to catch a wire in a Gannet aboard HMS Hermes. But I think the 'wire-surface' would do quite well. > For the catapult I am not sure how this can be done. May be > with a surface > where the gear can be mounted onto the catapult and a line > providing the > direction where the force vector will point to. > If the nose gear intersects this surface, the aircraft can be > mounted onto the > catapult. It's very difficult to manoeuvre an aircraft onto a cat. You should consider modelling the self-aligning rollers and chocks which bodily shift the aircraft into the correct position. This need be no more than a area on the deck on which, if the main wheels are resting on it, a press of a key will automatically correctly position the aircraft. A key press should signify when the pilot is ready for launch, then the cat should fire after a random interval after. The Jet Blast Deflectors (JBDs) could also be modelled. A nose wheel tow system was used from about the F4 Phantom onwards, but prior to that a launching strop was attached to 2 hooks on the fuselage. I can provide more details if you are interested. Regards Vivian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
