Make leaner interfaces to the groundcache.
Remove legacy interfaces.
Update users of them.
Add new query routines for 'nearest point' and 'body with given id'.
Modified Files:
src/FDM/flight.cxx src/FDM/flight.hxx src/FDM/groundcache.cxx
src/FDM/groundcache.hxx src/FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx
src/FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.hxx src/FDM/YASim/FGGround.cpp
src/FDM/YASim/FGGround.hpp src/FDM/YASim/Gear.cpp
src/FDM/YASim/Gear.hpp src/FDM/YASim/Ground.cpp
src/FDM/YASim/Ground.hpp src/FDM/YASim/Model.cpp
"""
- ground properties (e.g. feel bumpiness and the reduced friction of
grass or go swimming with the beaver)
- initial load for yasim gears (to get rid of the jitter the beaver has
on ground)
- glider/winch/aerotow (do winch start with YASim glider or do aerotow
over the net) I will place a how-to on the wiki soon, here very short:
use the sgs233y (or the bocian if you have AJ (up ot now) non-GPL
bocian)
winch start: Ctrl-w for placing the winch, hold w to winch, press
Shift-w to release the tow
aerotow: Place the glider within 60m to a MP-aircraft, press
Ctrl-t to tow to this aircraft. If the MP-aircraft is the
J3 and the patch is installed on both sides, the J3 feels the
forces, too. The J3-pilot has to taxi very slow up to the
moment, the glider starts moving. Increase the throttle gently.
Don't lift the J3 early, wait for the glider being lifted,
lift gently.
"""
"jitter" when the aircraft was stopped. This is a fundamental
characteristic of the gear model, and can't be fixed without major
surgery (and not a small amount of blinding insight). But we can at
least clamp it so the value can't change unless the wheel is moving
with a nontrivial velocity (5cm/sec in this case).
Dynamics (Sim)ulator. Basically, this is a rough, first cut of a "different
take" on FDM design. It's intended to be very simple to use,
producing reasonable results for aircraft of all sorts and sizes,
while maintaining simulation plausibility even in odd flight
conditions like spins and aerobatics. It's at the point now where one
can actually fly the planes around.
