# FlyPath.sml

# startup script for TNTsim3D to loop through a flight path created by the
# SMLrecorder and saved as a text file named path.txt.

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###  For a script to run under TNTsim3D, it must include an instance of
###  class TNTSIM3D named "TNTsim3D".  The script must also be saved as an RVC
###  object in the TNTsim3D Landscape File you want to run it with.
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# declare class instance for TNTsim3D interface class
class TNTSIM3D TNTsim3D;

# turn on default sky
TNTsim3D.SetSky(1);

# declare arrays to hold viewer position coordinates and orientation angles in memory
numeric maxindices = 10000;
array numeric viewerx[maxindices];
array numeric viewery[maxindices];
array numeric viewerz[maxindices];
array numeric orientationx[maxindices];
array numeric orientationy[maxindices];
array numeric orientationz[maxindices];
numeric numindices = 0;			# number of indices in array set
numeric index = 0;				# current index during play

# set name of text file containing the saved flight path
string filename$ = _context.ScriptDir + "/path.txt";

# exit script if no path text file
if (fexists(filename$, "r") == 0) Exit();

# open path text file, convert positions to numbers and read into numeric arrays
class FILE file = fopen(filename$, "r");
string string$ = "something";		# variable to hold line of text from file
numindices = 0;
while (string$ != "") {		# while string is not empty 
	string$ = fgetline$(file);		# read line of text file to string
	if (NumberTokens(string$, ",") != 6) continue;
	viewerx[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 1));
	viewery[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 2));
	viewerz[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 3));
	orientationx[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 4));
	orientationy[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 5));
	orientationz[numindices] = StrToNum(GetToken(string$, ",", 6));
	numindices++;		# increment number of indices
	}

# procedure called automatically for each frame
proc OnFrame () {
	if (index >= numindices) then index = 0;	# if at end of path, go back to
															# beginning of path
	local class POINT3D viewer, orientation;
	viewer.x = viewerx[index];					# viewer position
	viewer.y = viewery[index];
	viewer.z = viewerz[index];
	orientation.x = orientationx[index];	# viewer orientation (x = pitch, 
	orientation.y = orientationy[index];	# y = roll, z = heading azimuth
	orientation.z = orientationz[index];
	TNTsim3D.SetSceneByOrientation(viewer, orientation);		# set frame
	index++;			# increment current index
	}

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