Distance arrow

SimObject implements an arrow between two (moving) points, with number indicating the distance.

Collaboration diagram for Distance arrow:

CDistArrow implements this.

Author

Vegar Johansen

Date

16.05.2008 VJ : Initial version.

Example configuration excerpt

<Lib
  LibName   = "fhsim_base"
  SimObject = "Visual/DistArrow"
  Name      = "ARR"
  TxtSize   = "1.0"
  Suffix    = "abc"
  Precision = "1"
/>

Input Ports

Name	Width	Description
PosA	3	Position of the point at arrow start.
PosB	3	Position of the point at arrow end.
Visible	1	Values larger than 0.5 sets visibility on. Lower values hides it.

Output Ports

This SimObject does not contain any outputs.

Configuration parameters

Name	Width	Description
TextSize	1	Size of the billboard text (Default: 1.0).
Suffix	1	Suffix of the string (Default: [empty string]).
Precision	1	Precision of the displayed numbers. (Default: 1).

Initial conditions

This SimObject does not contain any initial conditions.

Full example file

<Contents>
  <OBJECTS>
    <Lib
      LibName     = "fhsim_base"
      SimObject   = "Camera/Controller2"
      Name        = "CAM"
      NumInput    = "4"
      Time        = "0,1,2,3"
      UseDegrees  = "1"
      Interpolate ="1"
    />
    <Lib
      LibName         = "base"
      SimObject       = "Body/Mass"
      Name            = "M1"
      Scale           = "1"
      Mass            = "1"
      Material        = "Simple/Red"
    />
    <Lib
      LibName         = "base"
      SimObject       = "Body/Mass"
      Name            = "M2"
      Scale           = "1"
      Mass            = "1"
      Material        = "Simple/Green"
    />
    <Lib
      LibName         = "base"
      SimObject       = "Body/Mass"
      Name            = "M3"
      Scale           = "1"
      Mass            = "1"
    />
    <Lib
      LibName         = "base"
      SimObject       = "Body/Mass"
      Name            = "M4"
      Scale           = "1"
      Mass            = "1"
      Material        = "Simple/Black"
    />
<Lib
      LibName                     = "fhsim_base"
      SimObject                   = "Camera/Shot"
      Name                        = "camshot"
      Filename                    = "shot.png"
      Start                       = "0"
      Video                       = "1"
      Stop                        = "5"
      FrameRateControl            = "FPS"
      FrameRateValue              = "30"
      Refinement                  = "1"
      Path                        = ""
    />
    <Lib
        LibName         = "base"
        SimObject       = "DefaultEnvironment"
        Name            = "Env"
        Seadepth        = "500"
        Density         = "1000"
        CurrentVelocity = "0,0,0"
    />
  </OBJECTS>
 
  <INTERCONNECTIONS>
    <Connection
       CAM.Position1 = "-10,0,0"
       CAM.Position2 = "0,-10,0"
       CAM.Position3 = "10,0,0"
       CAM.Position4 = "0,10,0"
       CAM.Pitch1    = "0"
       CAM.Pitch2    = "0"
       CAM.Pitch3    = "0"
       CAM.Pitch4    = "0"
       CAM.Yaw1      = "0"
       CAM.Yaw2      = "90"
       CAM.Yaw3      = "180"
       CAM.Yaw4      = "270"
 
       M1.Force = "0,0,0"
       M2.Force = "0,0,0"
       M3.Force = "0,0,0"
       M4.Force = "0,0,0"
    />
  </INTERCONNECTIONS>
 
  <INITIALIZATION>
    <InitialCondition
        M1.Pos = "0,0,0"
        M2.Pos = "10,-20,0"
        M3.Pos = "20,-10,0"
        M4.Pos = "-10,20,0"
        M1.Vel = "0,0,0" 
        M2.Vel = "0,0,0" 
        M3.Vel = "0,0,0" 
        M4.Vel = "0,0,0" 
    />
  </INITIALIZATION>
 
  <INTEGRATION>
    <Engine
    IntegratorMethod           = "2"
    NumCores                   = "1"
    TOutput                    = "0,5"
    LogStates                  = "1"  
    stepsize                   = "0"
    HMax                       = "0.002"
    HMin                       = "0.00000001"
    AbsTol                     = "1e-3" 
    RelTol                     = "1e-3"
    UseRSSNormInsteadOfInfNorm = "0"
    FileOutput                 = "objects:all"
    />
  </INTEGRATION>
</Contents>

This SimObject is referred to as Visual/DistArrow