Hi Curt, On Thursday 16 April 2009 20:24:02 Curtis Olson wrote: > I was hoping for a reasonably simple solution without needing new external > software development, but the idea of leveraging the multiplayer protocol > is interesting. I notice that with our existing multiplayer servers, there > is at least a many second delay in positioning the MP aircraft. Is that > delay imposed by the server side, or is there something built into the > protocol that could cause position updates to be delayed before they are > drawn? There is not 'hard' time relationship in the multiplayer protocol. This is due to the totally unreliable lags between the participiants. The multiuplayer protocol just tries its best to have something that behaves like the external multiplayer ...
So, for that puropse you are trying to do I believe that this loose time coupling of the mp protocol might introduce problems you do not want to have. OTOH, if the mp players happen in a local network, at least my personal experience with the mp stuff tells me that you do not see to much of that time adjustments so this might work well enough. But whatever you try to debug with that visualization, keep in mind that there is a loose coupling of simulations times. > Back to my other idea. It shouldn't be hard to figure out an XYZ offset of > a 2nd piggyback model. But in terms of orientation, are there animation > primitives that would allow me to specify absolute euler angles for the 2nd > model, or would those angle also have to be computed relative to the > primary model orientation (that's doable I suppose, but my brain has begun > to hurt just at the suggestion of having to do it.) :-) As far as I remember, we do not have an absolute euler angle animation in this sense. But you can compute the relative orientation using the quaternion stuff and use the relative orientations euler angles in the animation. Greetings Mathias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
