Made a couple more adjustments, now the function builds the
transformation matrix (sans the translation) directly from the five
inputs. After realizing that it may be necessary for the new location
class to publish a world up vector, comments were added indicating
which values constitute world up.
Minor patches to initial tower view code. Added calculation for "tower" at
any airport, placed a couple fractions of a degree off the center. Moved the
farplane from 100m to 5km so that "lookfrom" mode can see the model. 5km is
still in a reasonable range for a depth buffer. Note that looking at a model
anything but a small distance will cause some problems on older cards.
Temporarily changed viewer to always report elevation/lon/lat of the aircraft
in order to avoid a problem with the ground trim getting recalculated when
tower and aircraft are on different tiles.
radiostack.cxx, fg_init.cxx and main.cxx. If these changes are accepted
then you can remove Time/event.[ch]xx and Include/fg_callback.hxx from
the repository.
Tower View and viewer config is in place. Note that the interface is
still in a state of flux. A couple of the config items (namely the
offsets) are still using the old settings. The tower is hard coded
into the base package for a position off the starting runway at KSFO
and is probably not in the right place for there even. Looks pretty
cool though! Tower View is the third view. If you aren't at KSFO
you'll just see blank space in view 3. It's looking through the earth or
something like that :-). Important note: zoom in with a few
hits of the "x" key to see the plane better in tower view.
This should fix it. The problem wasn't the rotations but a difference in
the translations. Note that this fix also puts the wheels back on top of the
pavement when in external view.
Changed the steering gain from +/-0.1 to +/-1.0, so that the steering
angle for the nosewheel (when present) is the same as the rudder
deflection angle. That's probably not exactly right, but it's much
better than we had before -- you can now steer the plane on the ground
reasonably during taxiing.
case logging is disabled). This way, when people specify a
non-existant aircraft or have an error in a custom XML file, they'll
get an error report, at least.
system. A chap from Germany called Alexander Kappes (cc'd) got
in touch with me a few weeks ago and has written the start of
Approach control. At the moment tuning in to a valid approach
frequency (Dortmund or East Midlands) should result in vectors to
a spot about 3 miles from the active runway, and a telling off if you
stray too far from the correct course, in the console window. He
seems to know what he's doing so expect this to improve rapidly!!
I've added a rudimentry AI manager and a hardwired Cessna at
KEMT on the runway - I'll remove it before the next release if I don't
have it flying by then. There seems to be an issue with framerate
which drops alarmingly when looking at it - I've a feeling that I've
possibly created several Cessnas on top of each other, but am not
sure.
ability to run a nonlinear model with flaps. The files ls_model.c and
uiuc_aero.c were changed since we had some functions with the same
name. The name changes doesn't affect the code, it just makes it a
little easier to read. There are changes in LaRCsim.cxx so UIUC
models have engine sound. Could you send me an email when you receive
this and/or when the changes make it to the CVS? Thanks.
Also I noticed you have some outdated files that are no longer used in
the UIUCModel directory. They are uiuc_initializemaps1.cpp,
uiuc_initializemaps2.cpp, uiuc_initializemaps3.cpp, and
uiuc_initializemaps4.cpp
Rob
and specific animation types are derived from it. This change makes
the code much easier to read, maintain, and extend.
Added a 'translate' animation type for a scaled, 3D linear translation
(such as a sliding throttle knob).
Renamed the 'offset' property to 'offset-m' or 'offset-deg' as
appropriate; ditto for 'min' and 'max' properties.
MSVC fix from Bernie Bright:
You can keep the enum private if you add the following declarations
immediately afterwards:
struct mouse;
friend struct mouse;
It seems that MSVC doesn't grant the nested mouse decl. any special
access privileges to its surrounding class.
Clear frame buffer and render model after rest of 3D scene. This has a
small frame rate cost (YMV). But who thought 3D cockpit would be cheap?
If anyone has a better idea, have at it!
Just did some more careful testing and I see little or no frame rate loss
with the depth buffer clear. Also you can change the near plane to 0.1
and get rid of the "sunroof" (so I don't have to make up another set of
patches.
My last patch fixed the initialization problem only for the main branch, but
ignored the _MWERKS_ branch.
- merged the branches, only the loop head needs different treatment;
- don't access n.type before it is initialized (valgrind complaint)
- created a constructor; the operator>> wouldn't have initialized all
variables in case of a broken default.nav.gz entry, so we would have
got a mixture of the broken one and the previous one; in case of
the first entry, that would have made nice random values ... ;-)
- move the automatic FGNav variable into the loop, so that the gets
cleanly constructed for every database entry.
- commented out the frequency min/max exploration, which isn't used at all
- updated the commented out debug output statements, which were simply
copied over from the nav* files, but never adapted (I needed them :-)
* src/ATC/atislist.cxx
Patch from Melchior Franz:
- merged the _MWERKS_ & generic #ifdef branch, only the loop head needs
different treatment
- commented out a "n >> skipeol" that is used in navlist.cxx to gobble
the starting C++-style comment from default.nav.gz; atis inherited
that, but there is no such comment in default.atis.gz, so the first
data entry got thrown away
- commented out min/max frequency exploration (-> only for debugging)
- enhanced the constructor; the operator>> wouldn't have initialized all
variables in case of a broken default.atis.gz entry, so we would have
got a mixture of the broken one and the previous one;
- move the automatic FGATIS variable into the loop, so that it gets
cleanly constructed for every database entry.
- don't access a.type before it is initialized
- updated the commented out debug output statements; they were still
designed for the FGNav class ...
- merged the _MWERKS_ and the generic branch, only the loop head needs
different treatment
- created a constructor; the operator>> wouldn't have initialized all
variables in case of a broken default.fix.gz entry, so we would have
got a mixture of the broken one and the previous one; (valgrind
complained ...)
- move the automatic FGFix variable into the loop, so that the gets
cleanly constructed for every database entry.
- don't access fix.type before it is initialized
- updated the commented out debug output statements (they were copied
over from navlist.cxx but never adapted)
radiostack.cxx:703 says
bool light_on = ( outer_blink || middle_blink || inner_blink );
but none of the flags has ever been initialized when this line is first
executed.
This patch creates a seperate scene graph for the cockpit. The near plane is
only moved up when in the interior (pilot) view. This is because with
rounding (I presume) it the visible ground is a bit up higher than it is with
the older nearplane setting. Not much, but it is enough to bury the wheels.
I suspected this might be true but spliting to two sg's confirms it. If
necessary we can adjust the model up a bit when in interior view. This might
be good so we can set the near plane even closer when in the cockpit (its
still at 0.2m).
In general this looks a lot better on my Voodoo with this patch. No
perceptibel change in frame rate on my system. In terms of future plans I'd
see the sense in making the model plug into either scene. This will be
necessary when we have multiple model instances in the frame.
The matrix doesn't define some cells, which are actually used
in the multiplication. That makes the result unpredictable.
I have no idea if 0.0 is the correct value for these, but
garbage is hardly the correct value either. Should some of them
be set to 1.0?
Think my brain is getting clogged with matrices :-). Well I've got the funky
orientation offset bug out of the model code. In the process the model.cxx
got optimized a bit. At some point we'll need to liberate model.cxx from the
viewer class, but it is no longer hard coded to access the "pilot view" to
get it's data. Instead it uses whatever the "current" view happens to be. I
may try and do that final bit of having models rotate independant of the view
tomorrow night, or start right in on the viewmgr and get a tower view up and
running. You guys have any preference? My brother's family is coming to
visit for a few days so what I don't get done tomorrow night probably won't
get done until after the weekend.
The compiler complains about too long names for instanciated templates
that result in name truncation. There are warnings but finally it ends
with a fatal errors. I found that ignoring the warning cure the
problem.
