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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / GPS Calculations in 3D Env.

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tmd13
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Posted: 13th Nov 2009 01:46
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How can I do the same calculation that a GPS does in real world for a simulated world where the "gps" will tell the vehicle what path should it take to reach its final destination.

Can somebody know how to do it??


Thanks in advance for the help
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 13th Nov 2009 06:53
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A GPS gives you the position, now how to get there. Try looking up stuff about pathfinding routines on the forums.

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HowDo
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Posted: 13th Nov 2009 13:21
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from what I remember from a program on discovery the sats are at a set distance apart form each other, so it just a matter of using old school stuff to do with acb of a triangle but the one for 3d position which i think DBPro as built into it(vectors I think).

sat a------------sat b ------- sat c --------- sat d



moving object x

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tmd13
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Posted: 13th Nov 2009 20:48
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What is
sat a------------sat b ------- sat c --------- sat d
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HowDo
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Posted: 13th Nov 2009 21:00 Edited at: 13th Nov 2009 21:04
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my bad spelling of satellite, our globe is covered by 12 satellites of which a GPS system tries to find three or more to work out where you are.

so if you had a triangle of them like so in the sky

a
|>c
b

and you are x on the ground then you work out

abx
bcx
acx
and because abc are the same distance apart to you work out the angle and distance. (how I can't remember.)

hopefully someone else will jump in and give some code or more info on what I mean.

or you can read this which tells all but might not help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System

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Dream And Death
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Posted: 14th Nov 2009 14:59
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HowDo....I think it is more the pathfinding that tmd13 was meaning. Try searching the forums for A* pathfinding

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Phaelax
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Posted: 18th Nov 2009 05:53
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A GPS unit will grab the position of each of 3 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Using the locations of those 3 satellites it can triangulate a position on Earth, the current location of the GPS unit.

Figuring out how to get from point A to point B requires a form of pathfinding. IanM has written a very good A* library in DB already, search the forum for it.


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