* Martin Spott -- Thursday 17 August 2006 12:33: > I find it very irritating to have someone else moving my view direction > in the simulator. You're right, this somehow resembles real live,
Bingo. If we walk, or drive, or fly, or jump from branch to branch in a tree -- we don't experience ourselves as static in a jumping, drifting world. We experience the terrain as static. Our brain, eyes and equilibrium organs do a great job in stabilizing the surrounding world. The dynamic view in the bo stabilizes the terrain in very slow flight, just as our *automatic* view & head movements would. This effect becomes less as speed increases. > but there's a significant difference: In real live you have a feeling of > the forces that correspond to the movement of your head, which lack in > the simulator. Exactly. And because this sensation is missing, we need additional visual cue. In the bo's dynamic view this is achieved by the helicopter parts having the freedom to move indepent from terrain (obviously :-) and pilot. This gives a feeling of movements and acceleration -- much like your butt would tell you. You, well I at least, almost *feel* the G when the ground plate comes up in slow flight when I pull back. And much like in real life on my helicopter flights. I can concentrate on the *stable* helipad -- rolling doesn't move the helipad, and not my view, but just the helicopter frame. And in real life it's *very* painless to keep the interesting region in the view. Just move your head. It's automatic, you don't have to think about it. In FlightGear you have to do a distracting operation to get the region of interest in the view (moving the mouse), especially if you need your right hand on the stick and the left hand on the collective. (I'd say that 99.9% of fgfs users don't have panaroama screen or head-tracker.) The dynamic view makes keeping the interesting region in the view as automatic as in Real Life. Sure, it may move the panel out of view when you want to look, but who want's to read the ASI in a sharp turn?! And in the few cases when you want to, you can still use the mouse. Just like before. (BTW: I have bound the left flap button to instantly move to panel view, and I want to make the other flap button look in drift direction for sideways slipping.) > Therefore I consider the 'managed-view' still an interesting feature, > but inappropriate for the given case. I'm turning it off when sitting > in the BO, That's OK. Doesn't come as a surprise that there are different views and preferences. That's why it is configurable, always was thought to be configurable, and will always be configurable. I'd be surprised, though, if the majoriy agreed with your preference. :-) m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
