The ofp world coordinate system

[Prospero 1]

For those of you who like this sort of thing, and may have wondered:

The OFP World Coordinate System is the same as the GIS local geodetic cartesian coordinate system "East-North-Up". That is, we have X going (positive) East, Y going (positive) North and Z going (positive) Up. It is a right-handed coordinate system.

A related (very similar) coordinate system often used in aeronautical engineering is "North-East-Down". It is also right-handed. Here, we have X going (positive) North, Y going (positive) East and Z going (positive) Down.

You may wonder why, in the latter case, Z is positive for Down. It seems odd, doesn't it? Well, one reason is to do with making a practical compromise. If you strictly comply with the rules of right-handedness when it comes to rotating objects (or vectors) around the axes of the right-handed East-North-Up coordinate system, you find that specifying a positive yaw angle makes the vehicle's nose go left. This is counter-intuitive - because most of us would say that a positive yaw should make the nose go right, just as a vehicle's compass heading increases as the vehicle is turned to the right.

NED solves this. A yaw to the right is positive. However, at the expense of "reversing" the Z axis. So Up becomes Down.

So, it's worth bearing the following in mind if you produce any scripts which use Euler Angles or Quaternions to rotate vectors:

In ENU (OFP):

Yaw nose left is positive.

Pitch nose up is positive.

Roll left wing up is positive.

In NED:

Yaw nose right is positive.

Pitch nose up is positive.

Roll left wing up is positive.

Prospero

[{HoD}Ferocious 0]

I'm not gonna even try to have an input on that.

But it makes me think, the technology for this game in particular{no other game has even close to the dynamics of OFP} is pretty advanced isn't it?

Are we seeing a pioneer for future WAR like scenarios?

Imagine with Higher intelligence comes a grester appreciation for life and yet winning is still important. So wars become like chess games. You all live in the end but it was still a competitive match in which one side sustained serious loss.

I'm high and not re-reading