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Author:	NightHawk The Sane [More]
Version:	1.3
Date:	01-28-2009 01:39 PM
Size:	6.48 Kb
Downloads:	1,259
Favorites:	22
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Displaying a positive (up) attitude.

Displaying a negative (down) attitude.

Showing relative horizontal velocity

basicAttitude

This is an extremely basic flight pitch monitor, implemented as a simple LDB plugin. It does a rough calculation to turn the game's pitch value into a value in degrees. It may not be 100% accurate, but it's probably close enough.

The text is colored green (for pitch-up) or red (for pitch-down), the colors become more intense as your angle approaches 90°.

While this is very usable, I intended it largely as a proof-of-concept, to encourage others to create more interesting and robust implementations.

basicAttitude now also includes a display for "relative horizontal velocity". This attempts to show how fast you're moving horizontally, while flying. Essentially, I take the speed returned by the game, and adjust it based on your current pitch. Note, this only works while flying, as pitch values are meaningless while on the ground. If you're not flying, it will still show a value, it'll just be your abstract relative speed. And, of course, speed is displayed relative to running (which is 100%).

Change Log - basicAttitude

v1.3
- Update toc to 30200
- Add relative horizontal velocity for flying.

v1.2
- If the player's in a vehicle use the vehicle's pitch (playerpet) instead of the player's.

v1.1.1
- Actually pass the proper arguments to LibDataBroker

v1.1a
- Repack of the zip file to try and eliminate some problems for windows users. There are no code changes.

v1.1
- Account for pitch values >90 degrees up or down. I'd forgotten about the ability to do that, and GetUnitPitch() appears to return sane results.
- Normalize pitch-up values past 180 degrees or pitch-down values past -180 degrees.
- Minor tweak to color thresholds.

v1.0
- Initial Release

Optional Files - basicAttitude

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Archived Versions - basicAttitude

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
basicAttitude	1.1.1	6kB	NightHawk The Sane	01-06-2009 12:33 PM
basicAttitude	1.1a	6kB	NightHawk The Sane	11-11-2008 11:29 PM

Comments - basicAttitude

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03-07-2009, 10:05 AM
Zorklat A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 8 File comments: 55 Uploads: 0	Dunno about you, Sargeant, but I use NinjaPanel instead. __________________ See how I improved my framerate by 20%!

11-12-2008, 05:25 PM
Sargeant A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 12 Uploads: 9	basicAttitude is apparently not appearing in Broker2Fubar. Any known way to fix this?

11-11-2008, 06:13 PM

NightHawk The Sane

A Kobold Labourer

Forum posts: 1

File comments: 17

Uploads: 8

Quote:

Originally posted by Bilb
Seems pretty accurate to me, and if it's not why so many decimals?

Well, the main issue is that the return from GetUnitPitch() is a float. I'm rounding that, and doing some work to convert it into degrees, so there may be some precision and accuracy lost in the process. It's difficult to know exactly what numbers correspond to.

For the purposes of maintaining level flight, it should actually be fairly accurate, as perfectly level flight is a known value to compare against.

That said, the specific number of decimal places shown is fairly arbitrary. It just felt right, and looked nice to me.

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11-10-2008, 08:55 PM
Bilb A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 5 File comments: 8 Uploads: 0	Seems pretty accurate to me, and if it's not why so many decimals? =p -edit a "a" got lost in "decimals". Last edited by Bilb : 11-10-2008 at 08:55 PM.

10-26-2008, 12:06 PM
blackpandemic A Flamescale Wyrmkin Forum posts: 123 File comments: 117 Uploads: 2	As soon as I have my flyer I'm going to test this out. Hated on my main hitting auto-run, coming back and have me 50 miles above the ground on the edge of Netherstorm's map :P Great idea! __________________ "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire

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