PermalinkSubmitted by Astarlia on November 22, 2017 - 19:11
So this is just for navigation relative to ships position right? (as opposed to through a whole solar system or whatever)
In which case I don't acutally understand how you got to the 'defaulty positive x will be going backwards'. you get to label the axis whatever you went and yeah i think it makes way more sense to label positive x as forward.
(actually if i were doing it i'd have x as the left/rigth axis, y as the up/down axis and z as the forward/back axis, bc i think that's what maps best to graphs ppl are used to looking at)
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we get to choose where we start from?
So this is just for navigation relative to ships position right? (as opposed to through a whole solar system or whatever)
In which case I don't acutally understand how you got to the 'defaulty positive x will be going backwards'. you get to label the axis whatever you went and yeah i think it makes way more sense to label positive x as forward.
(actually if i were doing it i'd have x as the left/rigth axis, y as the up/down axis and z as the forward/back axis, bc i think that's what maps best to graphs ppl are used to looking at)
Standards Compliance
The original approach is determined by the existing standard... although they may not have had starship navigation in mind when creating it.
You can find out more about the navigation system and the way the gird is configured in this navigation overview article.