On 9 Sep 2009, at 17:22, dave perry wrote: >> - secondly, I'm changing (or will) the glideslope deviation to be >> 'correct' degrees: [-0.7 .. 0.7], i.e removing the spurious 5x scalar >> that has somehow crept in, and fixing many clients which assumed the >> range was [-10 .. 10], or something else again. This is in keeping >> with your flight instructor, I believe. >> > I just looked at the latest navradio.cxx in CVS. You added the > normalised _gsNeedleDeflectionNorm > but did not remove the 5x from > _gsNeedleDeflection. > > This is to avoid breaking the clients that have not been updated, > right? > > Am I safe to assume that once most of the client updates are done, the > 5x will be removed. That is, is it OK to do the nas and xml updates > and > optimisation using degrees and not the normalized values.
Correct - I want to wait another couple of days before removing the 5x hack, because once I do, every existing aircraft will definitely be wrong. Since it seems that most of the animation nodes are easier fixed by using the -norm property, I can safely update those now without upsetting anyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
