Re: [Flightgear-devel] Properly rendering terrain data from FlightGear using OpenGL

[James T. <ja...@fl...>]

> On 15 Nov 2020, at 07:54, Samuel CUELLA <sam...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> A big thank you for pointing me in the right direction. For the record, I had three issues:
> 
> -Incorrect conversions between coordinate systems, solution was to use logic from View::recalcLookFrom.
> -Incorrect geometry: I had hiccups in my mesh-building code
> -The math lib I'm using had only float matrices/quats. I added a bare
> minimum support for doubles where I needed it, and voilà !
> 

That’s awesome, glad you were able to make it work. And yes, types conversion, coordinate systems, etc are usually the most frustrating bits of these integrations.

> While doing the testing, I ended up writing a FGTape reader to replace
> the FG instance I had running on another computer. I'll do a separate post for whoever could be interested in it.
> 

Please do.

Kind regards,
James