Hello all
Hello Johan
It is already there, just not with a fully descriptive title, not in the best category (Aircraft enhancement, rather than Modeling) or with well placed links to it. In essence you almost need to already have seen in to find it again. While mostly being about animating gear scissors using the tracking animation the article is called Tracking animation (permalink).
For your information, Franck did start using the information on the very pages you are referring.
Correctness have been double checked.
But the result was : ...not working...
Feeding the console with the code (values properly updated) was resulting with : error line #1.
At line 1 you have : import("math");
Recooking that line did not helped
But removing that line have generated the expected code. ( if not needed - why it is on to that wiki page ?)
Further, the resulting code was improperly parsed. It had to be redacted and lined up/justified left ... ??? then it did worked. ( but no information about this in that wiki. )
Other errors / unclear / source of confusion are present in that article.
Again - no criticism - and thank very much to the unknown author.
But things always evolves, is it not ?
Last but not least, redacting an article written by some one else without having, prior, "a word" with him is not the best way to show respect, is it ?
This is not an ethic but a moral matter.
Having the "technical rights" to do edit the page is not the "whole" solution.
And as already said, the author of the said page is unknown...
This is what led Franck to offer a new wiki information.
It does sound to me very great and we should thank Franck for his work.
So ...
this, and many repetition of the very same event, with many users, led me to an idea that would benefit the whole community :
Information is true or wrong depending the age.
Things evolves and what was accurate then stop to be appropriate because a new reality supersede it.
...normal.
In this example, import("math"); does seem related to a former need of the nasal, at a time where we still had nasal able to run standing alone.
May we suppose that since then "everything" are intern to FG and no "import" is any more necessary ?
That would explain why line import("math"); do sort an error, today there is nothing any more to import ! but the old information is still in the wiki, is not ?
This leads to disappointment(s).
Of course anyone with a bit of "computer mojo" will come up with the solution.
But this defeat the goal of our wiki.
Of course any one with a good code mojo can re invent the whole FG wheel alone - if enough time . etc. etc. (theoretically)
The goal of the wiki is to avoid to have to re invent the whole, sharing the updated knowledge.
I believe "informations/wiki" authors (all) should be made aware that information is "age sensitive".
They should be invited to add
[b]date[/b] to their information.
Then a status, ... pretty clear status ... should be on each pages :
a)
maintained and information still up to date
b)
not any more maintained - information may be already inaccurate
(because the "this page have been last edited the, is just failing his goal/purpose)
We could even put an auto / delay to swap from maintained / not maintained information.
This clear status "maintained/not maintained" could , in exemplis, allow to sort out and focus only on currently usable information and help a lot the maintainers to archive what should be.
We have a wonderful tool with this wiki.
But we hear so many time complaints about how outdated are and how not (any more) useful are theses informations
that it does not sound silly to wonder if we are not getting too close to some kind of obsessive excessive collection creating more difficulties than help.
Please, consider it, for the love our wiki.
LoCall