Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-13 Thread Geoff Reidy
Michael Selig wrote: I added the new 5th view which I have mentioned. This is an external view looking in a fixed direction at the airplane, e.g. the view looks north even as the airplane may turn. Mousing around will change the view direction. The advantage is that the horizon does not s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
>That sounds fine. We might want to use this as a replacement for the 4th >view. The 4th view is a tower view that doesn't track the FDM location as >the >3rd view does; that is, you can look around the airport with the mouse. >Mostly that was something I threw in there as both a test and >demo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Selig
At 11/12/02, you wrote: Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Toggling 'v' eventually gets to this view. > > Rob Deters' came up w/ this, and I've been flying w/ it thinking that it > was part of the fgfs cvs for all to use. > > Can this be added to the cvs fgfsbase package? I can add it. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Toggling 'v' eventually gets to this view. > > Rob Deters' came up w/ this, and I've been flying w/ it thinking that it > was part of the fgfs cvs for all to use. > > Can this be added to the cvs fgfsbase package? I can add it. > > Any objections? >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Selig
ps In preferences.xml, the number of views also needs to be changed from 4 to 5: 5 At 11/11/02, you wrote: Hi All, I'd like to share w/ everyone a new view that is *extremely* useful I think. The view looks at the aircraft externally and always looks in a fixed direction so that when the a

[Flightgear-devel] new 'v' view for preferences.xml

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Selig
Hi All, I'd like to share w/ everyone a new view that is *extremely* useful I think. The view looks at the aircraft externally and always looks in a fixed direction so that when the aircraft yaws back and forth the view does not swing back and forth. This is especially useful for studying airc