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// viewer.cxx -- class for managing a viewer in the flightgear world.
//
// Written by Curtis Olson, started August 1997.
// overhaul started October 2000.
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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// partially rewritten by Jim Wilson jim@kelcomaine.com using interface
// by David Megginson March 2002
//
// Copyright (C) 1997 - 2000 Curtis L. Olson - curt@flightgear.org
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
// published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
// License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
// WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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// $Id$
#include <simgear/compiler.h>
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#include "fg_props.hxx"
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
#include <simgear/debug/logstream.hxx>
#include <simgear/constants.h>
#include <simgear/math/point3d.hxx>
#include <simgear/math/polar3d.hxx>
#include <simgear/math/sg_geodesy.hxx>
#include <Scenery/scenery.hxx>
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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#include <simgear/math/vector.hxx>
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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#include <Main/globals.hxx>
#include <Model/acmodel.hxx>
#include <Model/model.hxx>
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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#include "viewer.hxx"
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Norman's Optimized matrix rotators! //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Since these are pure rotation matrices we can save some bookwork
// by considering them to be 3x3 until the very end -- NHV
static void MakeVIEW_OFFSET( sgMat4 dst,
const float angle1, const sgVec3 axis1,
const float angle2, const sgVec3 axis2 )
{
// make rotmatrix1 from angle and axis
float s = (float) sin ( angle1 ) ;
float c = (float) cos ( angle1 ) ;
float t = SG_ONE - c ;
sgMat3 mat1;
float tmp = t * axis1[0];
mat1[0][0] = tmp * axis1[0] + c ;
mat1[0][1] = tmp * axis1[1] + s * axis1[2] ;
mat1[0][2] = tmp * axis1[2] - s * axis1[1] ;
tmp = t * axis1[1];
mat1[1][0] = tmp * axis1[0] - s * axis1[2] ;
mat1[1][1] = tmp * axis1[1] + c ;
mat1[1][2] = tmp * axis1[2] + s * axis1[0] ;
tmp = t * axis1[2];
mat1[2][0] = tmp * axis1[0] + s * axis1[1] ;
mat1[2][1] = tmp * axis1[1] - s * axis1[0] ;
mat1[2][2] = tmp * axis1[2] + c ;
// make rotmatrix2 from angle and axis
s = (float) sin ( angle2 ) ;
c = (float) cos ( angle2 ) ;
t = SG_ONE - c ;
sgMat3 mat2;
tmp = t * axis2[0];
mat2[0][0] = tmp * axis2[0] + c ;
mat2[0][1] = tmp * axis2[1] + s * axis2[2] ;
mat2[0][2] = tmp * axis2[2] - s * axis2[1] ;
tmp = t * axis2[1];
mat2[1][0] = tmp * axis2[0] - s * axis2[2] ;
mat2[1][1] = tmp * axis2[1] + c ;
mat2[1][2] = tmp * axis2[2] + s * axis2[0] ;
tmp = t * axis2[2];
mat2[2][0] = tmp * axis2[0] + s * axis2[1] ;
mat2[2][1] = tmp * axis2[1] - s * axis2[0] ;
mat2[2][2] = tmp * axis2[2] + c ;
// multiply matrices
for ( int j = 0 ; j < 3 ; j++ ) {
dst[0][j] = mat2[0][0] * mat1[0][j] +
mat2[0][1] * mat1[1][j] +
mat2[0][2] * mat1[2][j];
dst[1][j] = mat2[1][0] * mat1[0][j] +
mat2[1][1] * mat1[1][j] +
mat2[1][2] * mat1[2][j];
dst[2][j] = mat2[2][0] * mat1[0][j] +
mat2[2][1] * mat1[1][j] +
mat2[2][2] * mat1[2][j];
}
// fill in 4x4 matrix elements
dst[0][3] = SG_ZERO;
dst[1][3] = SG_ZERO;
dst[2][3] = SG_ZERO;
dst[3][0] = SG_ZERO;
dst[3][1] = SG_ZERO;
dst[3][2] = SG_ZERO;
dst[3][3] = SG_ONE;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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// Implementation of FGViewer.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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// Constructor
FGViewer::FGViewer( fgViewType Type, bool from_model, int from_model_index, bool at_model, int at_model_index, double x_offset_m, double y_offset_m, double z_offset_m, double near_m ):
_scaling_type(FG_SCALING_MAX),
_fov_deg(55.0),
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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_dirty(true),
_lon_deg(0),
_lat_deg(0),
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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_alt_ft(0),
_target_lon_deg(0),
_target_lat_deg(0),
_target_alt_ft(0),
_roll_deg(0),
_pitch_deg(0),
_heading_deg(0),
_heading_offset_deg(0),
_pitch_offset_deg(0),
_roll_offset_deg(0),
_goal_heading_offset_deg(0.0),
_goal_pitch_offset_deg(0.0)
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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{
sgdZeroVec3(_absolute_view_pos);
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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_type = Type;
_from_model = from_model;
_from_model_index = from_model_index;
_at_model = at_model;
_at_model_index = at_model_index;
_x_offset_m = x_offset_m;
_y_offset_m = y_offset_m;
_z_offset_m = z_offset_m;
_ground_level_nearplane_m = near_m;
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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//a reasonable guess for init, so that the math doesn't blow up
}
// Destructor
FGViewer::~FGViewer( void ) {
}
void
FGViewer::init ()
{
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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if ( _from_model )
_location = (FGLocation *) globals->get_aircraft_model()->get3DModel()->getFGLocation();
else
_location = (FGLocation *) new FGLocation;
if ( _type == FG_LOOKAT ) {
if ( _at_model )
_target_location = (FGLocation *) globals->get_aircraft_model()->get3DModel()->getFGLocation();
else
_target_location = (FGLocation *) new FGLocation;
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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}
void
FGViewer::bind ()
{
}
void
FGViewer::unbind ()
{
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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void
FGViewer::setType ( int type )
{
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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if (type == 0)
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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_type = FG_LOOKFROM;
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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if (type == 1)
_type = FG_LOOKAT;
}
void
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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FGViewer::setLongitude_deg (double lon_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_lon_deg = lon_deg;
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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}
void
FGViewer::setLatitude_deg (double lat_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_lat_deg = lat_deg;
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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}
void
FGViewer::setAltitude_ft (double alt_ft)
{
_dirty = true;
_alt_ft = alt_ft;
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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void
FGViewer::setPosition (double lon_deg, double lat_deg, double alt_ft)
{
_dirty = true;
_lon_deg = lon_deg;
_lat_deg = lat_deg;
_alt_ft = alt_ft;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetLongitude_deg (double lon_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_lon_deg = lon_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetLatitude_deg (double lat_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_lat_deg = lat_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetAltitude_ft (double alt_ft)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_alt_ft = alt_ft;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetPosition (double lon_deg, double lat_deg, double alt_ft)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_lon_deg = lon_deg;
_target_lat_deg = lat_deg;
_target_alt_ft = alt_ft;
}
void
FGViewer::setRoll_deg (double roll_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_roll_deg = roll_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setPitch_deg (double pitch_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_pitch_deg = pitch_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setHeading_deg (double heading_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_heading_deg = heading_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setOrientation (double roll_deg, double pitch_deg, double heading_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_roll_deg = roll_deg;
_pitch_deg = pitch_deg;
_heading_deg = heading_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetRoll_deg (double target_roll_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_roll_deg = target_roll_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetPitch_deg (double target_pitch_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_pitch_deg = target_pitch_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetHeading_deg (double target_heading_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_heading_deg = target_heading_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setTargetOrientation (double target_roll_deg, double target_pitch_deg, double target_heading_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_target_roll_deg = target_roll_deg;
_target_pitch_deg = target_pitch_deg;
_target_heading_deg = target_heading_deg;
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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void
FGViewer::setXOffset_m (double x_offset_m)
{
_dirty = true;
_x_offset_m = x_offset_m;
}
void
FGViewer::setYOffset_m (double y_offset_m)
{
_dirty = true;
_y_offset_m = y_offset_m;
}
void
FGViewer::setZOffset_m (double z_offset_m)
{
_dirty = true;
_z_offset_m = z_offset_m;
}
void
FGViewer::setPositionOffsets (double x_offset_m, double y_offset_m, double z_offset_m)
{
_dirty = true;
_x_offset_m = x_offset_m;
_y_offset_m = y_offset_m;
_z_offset_m = z_offset_m;
}
void
FGViewer::setRollOffset_deg (double roll_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_roll_offset_deg = roll_offset_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setPitchOffset_deg (double pitch_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_pitch_offset_deg = pitch_offset_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setHeadingOffset_deg (double heading_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_heading_offset_deg = heading_offset_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setGoalRollOffset_deg (double goal_roll_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_goal_roll_offset_deg = goal_roll_offset_deg;
}
void
FGViewer::setGoalPitchOffset_deg (double goal_pitch_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_goal_pitch_offset_deg = goal_pitch_offset_deg;
if ( _goal_pitch_offset_deg < -90 ) {
_goal_pitch_offset_deg = -90.0;
}
if ( _goal_pitch_offset_deg > 90.0 ) {
_goal_pitch_offset_deg = 90.0;
}
}
void
FGViewer::setGoalHeadingOffset_deg (double goal_heading_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_goal_heading_offset_deg = goal_heading_offset_deg;
while ( _goal_heading_offset_deg < 0.0 ) {
_goal_heading_offset_deg += 360;
}
while ( _goal_heading_offset_deg > 360 ) {
_goal_heading_offset_deg -= 360;
}
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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void
FGViewer::setOrientationOffsets (double roll_offset_deg, double pitch_offset_deg, double heading_offset_deg)
{
_dirty = true;
_roll_offset_deg = roll_offset_deg;
_pitch_offset_deg = pitch_offset_deg;
_heading_offset_deg = heading_offset_deg;
}
double *
FGViewer::get_absolute_view_pos ()
{
if (_dirty)
recalc();
return _absolute_view_pos;
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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float *
FGViewer::getRelativeViewPos ()
{
if (_dirty)
recalc();
return _relative_view_pos;
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
float *
FGViewer::getZeroElevViewPos ()
{
if (_dirty)
recalc();
return _zero_elev_view_pos;
}
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
void
FGViewer::updateFromModelLocation (FGLocation * location)
{
sgCopyMat4(LOCAL, location->getCachedTransformMatrix());
}
void
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
FGViewer::recalcOurOwnLocation (FGLocation * location, double lon_deg, double lat_deg, double alt_ft,
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
double roll_deg, double pitch_deg, double heading_deg)
{
// update from our own data...
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
location->setPosition( lon_deg, lat_deg, alt_ft );
location->setOrientation( roll_deg, pitch_deg, heading_deg );
sgCopyMat4(LOCAL, location->getTransformMatrix());
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
}
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
// recalc() is done every time one of the setters is called (making the
// cached data "dirty") on the next "get". It calculates all the outputs
// for viewer.
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
void
FGViewer::recalc ()
{
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
if (_type == FG_LOOKFROM) {
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
recalcLookFrom();
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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} else {
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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recalcLookAt();
}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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set_clean();
}
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// recalculate for LookFrom view type...
void
FGViewer::recalcLookFrom ()
{
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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sgVec3 right, forward;
sgVec3 eye_pos;
sgVec3 position_offset; // eye position offsets (xyz)
// LOOKFROM mode...
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Update location data...
if ( _from_model ) {
// update or data from model location
updateFromModelLocation(_location);
} else {
// update from our own data...
recalcOurOwnLocation( _location, _lon_deg, _lat_deg, _alt_ft,
_roll_deg, _pitch_deg, _heading_deg );
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// copy data from location class to local items...
copyLocationData();
// make sg vectors view up, right and forward vectors from LOCAL
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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sgSetVec3( _view_up, LOCAL[2][0], LOCAL[2][1], LOCAL[2][2] );
sgSetVec3( right, LOCAL[1][0], LOCAL[1][1], LOCAL[1][2] );
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
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sgSetVec3( forward, -LOCAL[0][0], -LOCAL[0][1], -LOCAL[0][2] );
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Note that when in "lookfrom" view the "view up" vector is always applied
// to the viewer. View up is based on verticle of the aircraft itself. (see
// "LOCAL" matrix above)
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Orientation Offsets matrix
MakeVIEW_OFFSET( VIEW_OFFSET,
_heading_offset_deg * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS, _view_up,
_pitch_offset_deg * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS, right );
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// Make the VIEW matrix.
sgSetVec4(VIEW[0], right[0], right[1], right[2],SG_ZERO);
sgSetVec4(VIEW[1], forward[0], forward[1], forward[2],SG_ZERO);
sgSetVec4(VIEW[2], _view_up[0], _view_up[1], _view_up[2],SG_ZERO);
sgSetVec4(VIEW[3], SG_ZERO, SG_ZERO, SG_ZERO,SG_ONE);
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// rotate matrix to get a matrix to apply Eye Position Offsets
sgMat4 VIEW_UP; // L0 forward L1 right L2 up
sgCopyVec4(VIEW_UP[0], LOCAL[1]);
sgCopyVec4(VIEW_UP[1], LOCAL[2]);
sgCopyVec4(VIEW_UP[2], LOCAL[0]);
sgZeroVec4(VIEW_UP[3]);
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// Eye Position Offsets to vector
sgSetVec3( position_offset, _x_offset_m, _y_offset_m, _z_offset_m );
sgXformVec3( position_offset, position_offset, VIEW_UP);
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// add the offsets including rotations to the translation vector
sgAddVec3( _view_pos, position_offset );
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// multiply the OFFSETS (for heading and pitch) into the VIEW
sgPostMultMat4(VIEW, VIEW_OFFSET);
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// add the position data to the matrix
sgSetVec4(VIEW[3], _view_pos[0], _view_pos[1], _view_pos[2],SG_ONE);
This patch includes the FGLocation class, a few fixes, cleanup in viewer code. Synced to CVS 19:36 EDT 2002-04-10 (after this evenings JSMsim and Base package updates). Description: Added FGLocation class which is new home for calculating matrix rotations. Viewer can now be configured to access rotations created by the model rather than repeating the same calculations again. Changed model initialization for the time being so that its location data is available for the viewer (currently required by other subsystems). At some point we can move this back to fg_init along with the viewer initialization. Seperated the update from the draw function in the model code. The viewer code needs the same matrix data, and moving the update portion at this time does not increase the number of matrix math iterations. Moved the model draw so that it always appears "in front" of lights and clouds. Reogranized viewer update routine for using the FGLocation class and simplified some more tasks. The routine is fairly easy to follow now, with the steps ordered and spelled out in comments. Viewmgr only updates the current (visible) view now, with the exception of an old reference to "chase view" that will be corrected in forthcoming changes. Also will be doing some work on the viewmgr outputs. Model is now clears the z-buffer in all modes. This will be changed with the next viewmgr update. The only side effect is that models always disappear when over 5km distant from the eye point (can't really see them anyway:-)). Other than a flag to indicate "internal" view I don't anticipate the configuration interface for viewmgr/views will be changed a lot for now. It is close to done. The next viewmgr update will however rework the outputs so may change location. This code will run with the previous version of preferences.xml, but will run faster with the newer version. I am attaching a preferences.xml that should not be commited before the code. All the changes are in the /sim/view section and should show a simpler view configuration that references model locations. Note that I've added a 2nd tower view in "lookfrom" mode for illustration purposes. You can look around using the mouse. You may want to remove that or comment it out.
2002-04-11 04:26:07 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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void
FGViewer::recalcLookAt ()
{
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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sgVec3 right;
sgVec3 eye_pos, at_pos;
sgVec3 position_offset; // eye position offsets (xyz)
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// The position vectors originate from the view point or target location
// depending on the type of view.
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// LOOKAT mode...
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// Update location data for target...
if ( _at_model ) {
// update or data from model location
updateFromModelLocation(_target_location);
} else {
// if not model then calculate our own target position...
recalcOurOwnLocation( _target_location, _target_lon_deg, _target_lat_deg, _target_alt_ft,
_target_roll_deg, _target_pitch_deg, _target_heading_deg );
}
// save the "at" target object positon...
sgCopyVec3(at_pos, _target_location->get_view_pos());
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Update location data for eye...
if ( _from_model ) {
// update or data from model location
updateFromModelLocation(_location);
} else {
// update from our own data, just the rotation here...
recalcOurOwnLocation( _location, _lon_deg, _lat_deg, _alt_ft,
_roll_deg, _pitch_deg, _heading_deg );
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// save the eye positon...
sgCopyVec3(eye_pos, _location->get_view_pos());
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
2002-05-17 17:25:28 +00:00
// copy data from location class to local items...
copyLocationData();
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// make sg vectors view up, right and forward vectors from LOCAL
sgSetVec3( _view_up, LOCAL[2][0], LOCAL[2][1], LOCAL[2][2] );
sgSetVec3( right, LOCAL[1][0], LOCAL[1][1], LOCAL[1][2] );
// Note that when in "lookat" view the "world up" vector is always applied
// to the viewer. World up is based on verticle at a given lon/lat (see
// matrix "UP" above).
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Orientation Offsets matrix
MakeVIEW_OFFSET( VIEW_OFFSET,
(_heading_offset_deg -_heading_deg) * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS, _world_up,
_pitch_offset_deg * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS, right );
// add in the Orientation Offsets here
sgSetVec3( position_offset, _x_offset_m, _y_offset_m, _z_offset_m );
sgXformVec3( position_offset, position_offset, UP);
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
2002-03-20 17:43:28 +00:00
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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sgXformVec3( position_offset, position_offset, VIEW_OFFSET );
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// add the Position offsets from object to the eye position
sgAddVec3( eye_pos, eye_pos, position_offset );
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// Make the VIEW matrix for a "LOOKAT".
sgMakeLookAtMat4( VIEW, eye_pos, at_pos, _view_up );
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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// copy results from location class to viewer...
// FIXME: some of these should be changed to reference directly to FGLocation...
void
FGViewer::copyLocationData()
{
// Get our friendly vectors from the eye location...
sgCopyVec3(_zero_elev_view_pos, _location->get_zero_elev());
sgCopyVec3(_relative_view_pos, _location->get_view_pos());
sgdCopyVec3(_absolute_view_pos, _location->get_absolute_view_pos());
sgCopyMat4(UP, _location->getCachedUpMatrix());
sgCopyVec3(_world_up, _location->get_world_up());
// these are the vectors that the sun and moon code like to get...
sgCopyVec3(_surface_east, _location->get_surface_east());
sgCopyVec3(_surface_south, _location->get_surface_south());
// Update viewer's postion data for the eye location...
_lon_deg = _location->getLongitude_deg();
_lat_deg = _location->getLatitude_deg();
_alt_ft = _location->getAltitudeASL_ft();
_roll_deg = _location->getRoll_deg();
_pitch_deg = _location->getPitch_deg();
_heading_deg = _location->getHeading_deg();
// Update viewer's postion data for the target (at object) location
if (_type == FG_LOOKAT) {
_target_lon_deg = _target_location->getLongitude_deg();
_target_lat_deg = _target_location->getLatitude_deg();
_target_alt_ft = _target_location->getAltitudeASL_ft();
_target_roll_deg = _target_location->getRoll_deg();
_target_pitch_deg = _target_location->getPitch_deg();
_target_heading_deg = _target_location->getHeading_deg();
}
// copy coordinates to outputs for viewer...
sgCopyVec3(_zero_elev, _zero_elev_view_pos);
sgCopyVec3(_view_pos, _relative_view_pos);
}
double
FGViewer::get_h_fov()
{
switch (_scaling_type) {
case FG_SCALING_WIDTH: // h_fov == fov
return _fov_deg;
case FG_SCALING_MAX:
if (_aspect_ratio < 1.0) {
// h_fov == fov
return _fov_deg;
} else {
// v_fov == fov
return atan(tan(_fov_deg/2 * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) / _aspect_ratio) *
SG_RADIANS_TO_DEGREES * 2;
}
default:
assert(false);
}
return 0.0;
}
From: "Jim Wilson" <jimw@kelcomaine.com> This is a new improved patch for the previous tile manager fixes. Rather than building dependencies between FGlocation or the viewer or fdm with tilemgr what I ended up doing was linking the pieces together in the Mainloop in main.cxx. You'll see what I mean...it's been commented fairly well. More than likely we should move that chunk somewhere...just not sure where yet. The changes seem clean now. As I get more ideas there could be some further improvement in organizing the update in tilemgr. You'll note that I left an override in there for the tilemgr::update() function to preserve earlier functionality if someone needs it (e.g. usage independent of an fdm or viewer), not to mention there are a few places in flightgear that call it directly that have not been changed to the new interface (and may not need to be). The code has been optimized to avoid duplicate traversals and seems to run generally quite well. Note that there can be a short delay reloading tiles that have been dropped from static views. We could call the tile scheduler on a view switch, but it's not a big deal and at the moment I'd like to get this in so people can try it and comment on it as it is. Everything has been resycned with CVS tonight and I've included the description submitted earlier (below). Best, Jim Changes synced with CVS approx 20:30EDT 2002-05-09 (after this evenings updates). Files: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.tar.gz or http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/viewer-update-20020516.diffs.gz Description: In a nutshell, these patches begin to take what was one value for ground elevation and calculate ground elevation values seperately for the FDM and the viewer (eye position). Several outstanding view related bugs have been fixed. With the introduction of the new viewer code a lot of that Flight Gear code broke related to use of a global variable called "scenery.cur_elev". Therefore the ground_elevation and other associated items (like the current tile bucket) is maintained per FDM instance and per View. Each of these has a "point" or location that can be identified. See changes to FGLocation class and main.cxx. Most of the problems related to the new viewer in terms of sky, ground and runway lights, and tower views are fixed. There are four minor problems remaining. 1) The sun/moon spins when you pan the "lookat" tower view only (view #3). 2) Under stress (esp. magic carpet full speed with max visibility), there is a memory leak in the tile caching that was not introduced with these changes. 3) I have not tested these changes or made corrections to the ADA or External FDM interfaces. 4) The change view function doesn't call the time/light update (not a problem unless a tower is very far away). Details: FDM/flight.cxx, flight.hxx - FGInterface ties to FGAircraftModel so that it's location data can be accessed for runway (ground elevation under aircraft) elevation. FDM/larsim.cxx, larcsim.hxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Commented out function that is causing a namespace conflict, hasn't been called with recent code anyway. FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx, YASim/YASim.cxx - gets runway elevation from FGInterface now. Scenery/newcache.cxx, newcache.hxx - changed caching scheme to time based (oldest tiles discard). Scenery/tileentry.cxx, tileentry.hxx - added place to record time, changed rendering to reference viewer altitude in order to fix a problem with ground and runway lights. Scenery/tilemgr.cxx, tilemgr.hxx - Modified update() to accept values for multiple locations. Refresh function added in order to periodically make the tiles current for a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/fg_init.cxx - register event for making tiles current in a non-moving view (like a tower). Main/location.hxx - added support for current ground elevation data. Main/main.cxx - added second tilemgr call for fdm, fixed places where viewer position data was required for correct sky rendering. Main/options.cxx - fixed segfault reported by Curtis when using --view-offset command line parameter. Main/viewer.cxx, viewer.hxx - removed fudging of view position. Fixed numerous bugs that were causing eye and target values to get mixed up.
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double
FGViewer::get_v_fov()
{
switch (_scaling_type) {
case FG_SCALING_WIDTH: // h_fov == fov
return atan(tan(_fov_deg/2 * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * _aspect_ratio) *
SG_RADIANS_TO_DEGREES * 2;
case FG_SCALING_MAX:
if (_aspect_ratio < 1.0) {
// h_fov == fov
return atan(tan(_fov_deg/2 * SG_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * _aspect_ratio) *
SG_RADIANS_TO_DEGREES * 2;
} else {
// v_fov == fov
return _fov_deg;
}
default:
assert(false);
}
return 0.0;
}
void
FGViewer::update (double dt)
{
int i;
int dt_ms = int(dt * 1000);
for ( i = 0; i < dt_ms; i++ ) {
if ( fabs( _goal_heading_offset_deg - _heading_offset_deg) < 1 ) {
setHeadingOffset_deg( _goal_heading_offset_deg );
break;
} else {
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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// move current_view.headingoffset towards
// current_view.goal_view_offset
if ( _goal_heading_offset_deg > _heading_offset_deg )
{
if ( _goal_heading_offset_deg - _heading_offset_deg < 180 ){
incHeadingOffset_deg( 0.5 );
} else {
incHeadingOffset_deg( -0.5 );
}
} else {
if ( _heading_offset_deg - _goal_heading_offset_deg < 180 ){
incHeadingOffset_deg( -0.5 );
} else {
incHeadingOffset_deg( 0.5 );
}
}
if ( _heading_offset_deg > 360 ) {
incHeadingOffset_deg( -360 );
} else if ( _heading_offset_deg < 0 ) {
incHeadingOffset_deg( 360 );
}
}
}
for ( i = 0; i < dt_ms; i++ ) {
if ( fabs( _goal_pitch_offset_deg - _pitch_offset_deg ) < 1 ) {
setPitchOffset_deg( _goal_pitch_offset_deg );
break;
} else {
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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// move current_view.pitch_offset_deg towards
// current_view.goal_pitch_offset
if ( _goal_pitch_offset_deg > _pitch_offset_deg )
{
incPitchOffset_deg( 1.0 );
} else {
incPitchOffset_deg( -1.0 );
}
if ( _pitch_offset_deg > 90 ) {
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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setPitchOffset_deg(90);
} else if ( _pitch_offset_deg < -90 ) {
Major viewer-code overhaul from Jim Wilson: Description: This update includes the new viewer interface as proposed by David M. and a first pass at cleaning up the viewer/view manager code by Jim W. Note that I have dropped Main/viewer_lookat.?xx and Main/viewer_rph.?xx and modified the Makefile.am accordingly. Detail of work: Overall: The code reads a little easier. There are still some unnecessary bits in there and I'd like to supplement the comments in the viewer.hxx with a tiny bit on each interface group and what the groupings mean (similar but briefer than what you emailed me the other day). I tried not to mess up the style, but there is an occasional inconsistency. In general I wouldn't call it done (especially since there's no tower yet! :)), but I'd like to get this out there so others can comment, and test. In Viewer: The interface as you suggested has been implemented. Basically everything seems to work as it did visually. There is no difference that I can see in performance, although some things might be a tiny bit faster. I've merged the lookat and rph (pilot view) code into the recalc for the viewer. There is still some redundancy between the two, but a lot has been removed. In some cases I've taken some code that we'd likely want to inline anyway and left it in there in duplicate. You'll see that the code for both looks a little cleaner. I need to take a closer look at the rotations in particular. I've cleaned up a little there, but I suspect more can be done to streamline this. The external declaration to the Quat_mat in mouse.cxx has been removed. IMHO the quat doesn't serve any intrinsic purpose in mouse.cxx, but I'm not about to rip it out. It would seem that there more conventional ways to get spherical data that are just as fast. In any case all the viewer was pulling from the quat matrix was the pitch value so I modified mouse.cxx to output to our pitchOffset input and that works fine. I've changed the native values to degrees from radians where appropriate. This required a conversion from degrees to radians in a couple modules that access the interface. Perhaps we should add interface calls that do the conversion, e.g. a getHeadingOffset_rad() to go along with the getHeadingOffset_deg(). On the view_offset (now headingOffset) thing there are two entry points because of the ability to instantly switch views or to scroll to a new view angle (by hitting the numeric keys for example). This leaves an anomaly in the interface which should be resolved by adding "goal" settings to the interface, e.g. a setGoalHeadingOffset_deg(), setGoalPitchOffset_deg(), etc. Other than these two issues, the next step here will be to look at some further optimizations, and to write support code for a tower view. That should be fairly simple at this point. I was considering creating a "simulated tower view" or "pedestrian view" that defaulted to a position off to the right of whereever the plane is at the moment you switch to the tower view. This could be a fall back when we don't have an actual tower location at hand (as would be the case with rural airports). ViewManager: Basically all I did here was neaten things up by ripping out excess crap and made it compatible as is with the new interface. The result is that viewmanager is now ready to be developed. The two preexisting views are still hardcoded into the view manager. The next step would be to design configuration xml (eg /sim/view[x]/config/blahblah) that could be used to set up as many views as we want. If we want to take the easy way out, we might want to insist that view[0] be a pilot-view and have viewmanager check for that.
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setPitchOffset_deg( -90 );
}
}
}
}