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FS2004 Secret to bounding box in cat

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Hi fellow developers,

I noticed last year when I go to another airport and set up my animated marshaller using bounding boxes it's not aligned properly. But it's always perfect at my first airport location. This year it did the same thing. So I decided to read forums and see what's going on. Tried some tests. I have made my own diagram explaing why thin rectangels used for gates and marshallers always have a problem. Take a look at the diagram.

A: A large rectangle box aligns perfect using 0, 90, 180, 270,and 360 degrees.

B: Using odd degrees will match your rotation you input, but remains fixed.

C: 270 degrees works perfect

D: A thin box at 0 degrees for aligniment works perfect.

E: Same as B

F: 300 degrees, but made 6 sepperate boxes to work!
I would recommend rounding off to 0,180,270 and 360.

CAT%20BOUNDING%20BOX%20SECRET.bmp


This should help most developers on all that confusion!:confused:

DG,
 
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Hi,

The problem is that the bounding box does not rotate together with the mdl heading.
 
other solutions

Maybe developers can mention other methods, if there is. Although my project is fine.
Unless you don't get that code written for me to test. Actigate FSX.

Thanks Arno!

DG,
 
Hi,

An alternative is to use the SEPARATION_PLANE command, with that you can define a plane in any direction to check your position against. This is what I used for my docking systems for example.

They also don't rotate with the MDL, so you need to define them at the correct direction yourself.
 
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