Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-10 Thread Julian Foad
Andy Ross wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: > Anyway, what I now remember is this: the camera position as configured > for the chase view is always in relation to the FDM location. And in > the case of Yasim that location is always the nose. Oh, good point. This will create problems for view directi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Actually, wouldn't a sane default for the view code be to *always* > pick a center point for the offset? That is, just pick the center of > a bounding box computed from the model (or the FDM). Not sure, but it would seem like the pitch axis would generally b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: > I need to get per-gear tunable spring constants and damping > coefficients working; the automatically generated ones are almost, but > not quite, good enough for all cases. Well, that was easy enough. You can now use "spring" and "damp" attributes on gear objects to modify the default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Norman Vine
Sigh ... I thought we had already solved this one http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/archive-200204/msg00176.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: > After moving the AC3D model origin to where Yasim wants it (at the > nose) the aircraft rotates fine. (Note that it appears the gear still > compresses abit too much as when doing Curt's throw on the breaks at > 40kts test, the nose comes very close to the ground). Yeah, the n

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Selig
At 11/9/02, Jim Wilson wrote: It seems that a while back this came up when I was working on the viewer or maybe tweaking the original 3D aircraft model rotations. After moving the AC3D model origin to where Yasim wants it (at the nose) the aircraft rotates fine. (Note that it appears the gear st

[Flightgear-devel] Yasim origin and model offsets

2002-11-09 Thread Jim Wilson
It seems that a while back this came up when I was working on the viewer or maybe tweaking the original 3D aircraft model rotations. After moving the AC3D model origin to where Yasim wants it (at the nose) the aircraft rotates fine. (Note that it appears the gear still compresses abit too much a