Nav Panel Incorrectly Reporting Pitch

[upbeat topaz]

@earnest ermine and I have extensively tested the nav panel and have seemed to have noticed that there is an erroneous cosign calculated for the pitch value. Using asign reverses this error.

I have uploaded @earnest ermine's test build that is extremely compelling and conclusive in showing that the nav instrument has a rather severe calculation error which can throw off autopilots, angle of attack calculations, and far, far more.

This, I believe is a critical error in the game that is likely leading to far more issues in virtual computer computations.

Hopefully this can be resolved asap.

[earnest ermine]

Horizon Pitch on nav Instrument is the sin of the pitch angle instead of the normalized pitch angle. The screen display also displays pitch based on this incorrect value.

[small hazel]

prograde/retrograde yaw is also using the sine of the value instead of being normalized...

working on it now

this change may break some vehicles but is necessary for consistency

[small hazel]

fixed in next update

better? 🙂

[tough whale]

@small hazel does heading behave weird in some cases?

it changes (very minor) based on pitch. separately, the instrument I show at the end, it seems to know the correct prograde values for the current orientation, but the heading is is 37.4 instead of 81.2

[upbeat topaz]

This was an awesome fix and fixed a LOT with my autopilot 😆

I thought everything was normalized and programmed everything for normalization...

You thought my autopilot worked great before this fix, you should see it now LOL

[upbeat topaz]

at 90deg up it will... At that angle the nav instrument will have a hard time determining what direction is is facing because it's not facing any direction but up (every cardinal direction at once 😛 computationally speaking)