Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display existing path?

2011-10-14 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Adam, It took me a while, but I finally got a chance to take a look at this, thanks! I can see that I probably want to do it totally different, but I like quite a bit about your approach and how you track the points you draw so you can remove them cleanly. For myself, I'd like to draw the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display existing path?

2011-09-24 Thread Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E. wrote: Is there any easy way to show a prior route in Flightgear? In other words, if I have a set of recorded GPS points (lat,long, alt) in a text file can I display them in 3-D space, as I am flying in flightgear? Ideally I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display existing path?

2011-09-12 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Nasal can handle pretty general problems (you can run a whole weather system in it...). 3) Finally, what seems most general would be to write some code in nasal that can read in a csv file, and then to display objects in those locations. Is this feasible? Can nasal import a csv file or

[Flightgear-devel] Display existing path?

2011-09-11 Thread Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.
Is there any easy way to show a prior route in Flightgear? In other words, if I have a set of recorded GPS points (lat,long, alt) in a text file can I display them in 3-D space, as I am flying in flightgear? Ideally I would like points (some box or sphere icon?) connected with line segments.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display existing path?

2011-09-11 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Adam, This has been something I thought would be a nice feature too. It should be possible. I've placed other models using nasal to create interesting scenes. It would be kind of cool for simulated UAV work to see your exact waypoint target in 3d space. Curt. On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at