* Syd -- Friday 02 May 2008: > I see some commited from Melchior that suggest he might be working > on a solution, just not sure what that is yet :)
Sorry, no. I'm not working on anything like that. Just fixed the missing-unit-suffix bug. (Though the distance should really be in meters internally, not nm.) I don't agree with Lee's suggestion to use the tail as reference point in all FDMs. That's abusing the FDMs internal reference system. Unfortunately, we don't have any information about the location of the gear or other dimensions in the property tree. What comes closest is <chase-distance-m>, which is why this is abused for guessing the aircraft size in fly-by-view. But it's often set badly, especially in bigger aircraft. (We could probably ask the scenegraph for the bounding box, but that wouldn't help much for positioning on the runway.) The simplest solution would be to allow defining an offset that's by default 0, and let fgfs add that to the reference point for positioning. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
