Re: Position of object changing

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Kevin A. Pilch (kpilch++at++sim6.dciem.dnd.ca)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:01:21 -0400 (EDT)

> > Our problem is that sometimes the ship seems to jitter, moving as much as
> > 0.5 meters each frame. However the matrix that we
> > send to Performer when we set the ship's DCS seem to be fine. It is not
> > the whole scene that is moving, just the ship model.
>
> This could be the result of using very large (6 digits or more )
> coordinates. Since Performer and GL are using floats, you can lose
> resolution of you coordinates if they are large enough.

Unfortunetely this is not the problem, the ship only moves from the
origin to a position about 2500 meters away

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Kevin Pilch

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