Belly Plates and Ropes

These are in fact three sets of arrays each with ten regions:-

• Region array IDRG_BLY_PLATE, a spherical tile effectively ANDed with an octahedron to form the beveled sides.

• Region array IDRG_BLY_GROOVE, two elliptical cylinders, two blocks, half an elliptical torus, and half a square torus combined to form the groove cut out of the belly plate to house the support rope.

• Region array IDRG_BLY_ROPE, two cylinders and half a torus combined to form the support rope which passes through the rope groove in the belly plate and extends upwards through the Panel Zone Volume.

User Control

The belly plates, grooves and ropes are disabled in the standard code but can be switched on with the command file GEOM_BELLY_PLATE_ROPE.CMD provided. Alternatively individual arrays can be switched on in the titles banks as follows:

• To enable the belly plates set the enable flag (word 1) of GEDS 310 to 1.

• To enable the belly grooves set the enable flag (word 1) of GEDS 315 to 1.

• To enable the ropes set the enable flag (word 1) of GEDS 320 to 1.

The following combinations are legal, all others are not:-

Plates	Grooves	Ropes
OFF	OFF	OFF
OFF	OFF	ON
ON	OFF	OFF
ON	ON	OFF
ON	ON	ON

Note that kevlar is included in the media banks and is used to describe the ropes.