I am not sure I understand what you are trying - but: -we use something like that in ATCing -- keeping Target in view -- zooming -- relocating tower etc. -- saving and retrieving settings You may try my test ATC-ML model. Download from http://emmerich-j.de/FGFS/ATC-ML.zip
see inside the description README.pdf and the model-nasal. joe On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 14:44 +1030, Ian Dall wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:39 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > If you wish to set your own tower position, it's pretty straight > > forward and can be done manually or via nasal or probably a few other > > mechanisms. > > > > > > By default flightgear will set the tower position to the nearest > > airfield, so to disable that, set: /sim/tower/auto-position = 0 > > > > > > Then you can set /sim/tower/longitude-deg, /sim/tower/latitude-deg, > > and /sim/tower/altitude-ft > > > Ah, my "significant effort" comment was more to do with making an R/C > Flying Field as an "airport" than with tweaking the tower position. Also > people might not want the list of recognised airports cluttered up with > fake airports. > > What I am trying to a achieve is an interface a kid can operate with no > more difficulty than selecting a view (and preferably automatic). > Manually figuring out what latitude and longitude will give an offset of > a few meters in the right direction is definitely in the too hard > basket. The locate tower with a mouse click suggested by Gijs is closer > to the mark (though the link to the script doesn't work for me). Anyway, > the point is not so much how to implement the right view, as how the > user should invoke it. A "view" with the right characteristics seems to > be the best solution. An alternative, which you seem to suggest, would > be to customise the existing "Tower View". But to achieve the ease of > use I was looking for would need some additional menu, available when in > "Tower View", which would allow it to be customised and for those > customisations to be saved. > > > For RC views, you may also wish to play around with auto-zooming -- > > either to help keep the aircraft large enough to see, or help keep the > > horizon in view -- either can be useful at times with RC flying. > > Good point. I had though of (but not implemented) the "keep the aircraft > large enough" aspect but not the "keep horizon in view" one. Actually I > have just found your forum comment on this exact issue: > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&p=151251 > > I assume one would implement auto-zooming by adding nasal "update" > methods in view.nas. There is no existing support? > > As I said, I have an initial implementation and I am happy to do some > more work, perhaps adding an auto-zoom function. What I would like to > know is whether this is likely to be adopted. If there is a feeling that > we have enough views, or that R/C is out of scope for FlightGear then > I'll probably just keep it as a local hack. > > Regards, > Ian > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
