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Invliad distance to planet calculation #1998

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375gnu opened this issue Dec 3, 2023 · 0 comments
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Invliad distance to planet calculation #1998

375gnu opened this issue Dec 3, 2023 · 0 comments

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375gnu commented Dec 3, 2023

Describe the bug

void
displayPlanetInfo(Overlay& overlay,
                  int detail,
                  Body& body,
                  double t,
                  const Eigen::Vector3d& viewVec,
                  const HudSettings& hudSettings)
{
    double distanceKm = viewVec.norm();
    double distance = distanceKm - body.getRadius();

So this calculation assumes that the planet is a sphere. When close to the surface of oblate bodies this can give negative values. We should take into account actual semiaxes.

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