Scenery Not Updating

[Alex H]

Your windturbine says the following on its model page: "Vestas V90 with 105 m tower. z=0 at rotor center, use offset for height". This means that the center of the rotor is the actual reference point that you are placing in the scenery. If you want to place a 90m version of this turbine for example, you would enter 90 into the offset field to make the center of the rotor "float" 90m above ground level.

Thanks - you learn something every day (RTFM I assumed all models would start at ground level - anyone know why you would make it like that?)

A bit of updating to do , I think!

Regards

Alex

[wkitty42]

this is like some craft models having their 0,0,0
a) at the craft's nose while others will have it
b) in the middle of the craft,
c) or maybe at the craft's CoG, or
d) some might have it in the center of the craft but at the level where the craft's main gear touch the ground...

basically, modelers are free to draw the craft how they desire... it is up to those persons placing the models into the scene to understand the model and know where its 0,0,0 point resides...

ya done good to figure out the problem, though!

FWIW: here's the files i pulled the other day in that location...

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myuser@mymachine:~/myflightgear/TSScenery/Objects/w010n50/w002n55$ ls -lt
total 2076
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup   1994 Oct 25 09:41 2925664.stg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup   1486 Oct 25 09:41 2925656.stg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup   1301 Oct 25 09:41 2925649.stg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup   1619 Oct 25 09:41 2925641.stg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser mygroup    926 Oct 25 09:41 2925640.stg


there were no updates in the Terrain folder for that tile...

[Alex H]

ya done good to figure out the problem, though!

Thanks, nothing like getting thrown in the deep end!

I've updated 6 of the turbines with changed elevation offset, so we'll see what happens.

[wkitty42]

ya done good to figure out the problem, though!

Thanks, nothing like getting thrown in the deep end!

it is the best way to learn how to sink or swim

[Richard]

this is like some craft models having their 0,0,0
a) at the craft's nose while others will have it
b) in the middle of the craft,
c) or maybe at the craft's CoG, or
d) some might have it in the center of the craft but at the level where the craft's main gear touch the ground...

basically, modelers are free to draw the craft how they desire... it is up to those persons placing the models into the scene to understand the model and know where its 0,0,0 point resides...

Slightly off topc I know but the right way to draw an aircraft model is with the centre at the CoG and not the tip of the nose as otherwise over MP the aircraft will appear to turn around the nose and it looks very strange.

[wkitty42]

that's why, AFAIK, there are offsets specified in the -set files which straighten that out for proper working with FG...