Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-31 Thread S Andreason
Curtis Olson wrote: > Hey, that's pretty neat (the bluebird is part of CVS if anyone else > wants to play.) Question, is there a way to turn the walker? I found > forward/back and left/right but he always faces the same direction. Hi Curtis, When in Walk View, mouse mode 2 (view direction), p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-31 Thread S Andreason
Josef Duschl wrote: > Why not start by look for skydiving gps tracks on the net to come up > with a model? > Hi Josef, I didn't think gps was meant to be as accurate on the z-axis. It is all physics anyways. I can draw a smooth curve with the right formula. Here is a link to one of the better

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-31 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:38 AM, S Andreason wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > Has anyone developed a more detailed model of a sky diver? I'm > > especially interested in the free fall phase. (My brother is up to > > his 38th jump now I think.) > I most certainly have! > Have you looked at bluebi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-31 Thread S Andreason
Curtis Olson wrote: > An accurate FDM would be immensely complex considering all the > possible poses a human can achieve. But perhaps something simplistic > could be worked up using the arms and legs as control surfaces. My > focus right now is not so much getting accurate free fall dynamics,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-31 Thread S Andreason
Curtis Olson wrote: > Has anyone developed a more detailed model of a sky diver? I'm > especially interested in the free fall phase. (My brother is up to > his 38th jump now I think.) I most certainly have! Have you looked at bluebird or my other shuttlecraft?? (which for the moment are more u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread syd adams
Insanity sounds like the appropriate word after watching the video ! > > ..we have _some_ sanity here, "galskap" means insanity... ;o) > http://filter.start.no/nettnytt/2977 > > -- Register Now for Creativity and Technolog

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:42:55 +0200, Josef wrote in message <4a218c3f.3010...@googlemail.com>: > leee schrieb: > > On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: > >> > >>> I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 12:16 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: > I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making > it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a > more realistic FDM … Hmmm >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:24 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > I know we have a few aircraft that can drop sky divers. The Noratlas > was the first one I recall. However, these sky divers immediately > pull their chutes and drift down ... and the skydiver/chute model is > very simplistic ... optimized

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, leee schrieb am 30.05.2009 20:20: > ... > For example, the YASim FDM assigns drag to > extended gear elements, which are located at specific points on the > aircraft and so act at those points. It might be possible then to > hack the YASim FDM about a bit to remove the need to solve for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Josef Duschl
leee schrieb: > On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: >> >>> I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making >>> it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a >>> more realistic FDM … Hmmm >>>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread leee
On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: > > I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making > > it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a > > more realistic FDM … Hmmm > > An accurate FDM would be immen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: > I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a > ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM > … Hmmm > An accurate FDM would be immensely complex considering all the possible poses a hum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
opers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall I know we have a few aircraft that can drop sky divers. The Noratlas was the first one I recall. However, these sky divers immediately pull their chutes and drift down ... and the skydiver/chute model is very simplistic ... optimized

[Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Curtis Olson
I know we have a few aircraft that can drop sky divers. The Noratlas was the first one I recall. However, these sky divers immediately pull their chutes and drift down ... and the skydiver/chute model is very simplistic ... optimized to be viewed from the drop plane and optimized to have bunches