Hi, Hmmm..Well, if I ever get in a mood to do a flight sim I'd probably use the open source simulator, Flight Gear, as a basis of comparison. I don't know how much true to life the math and physics is in Flight Gear but its suppose to be fairly equal to Microsoft Flight Simulator in a lot of ways. Flight Gear is written in C/C++ so there would be a lot of great ready to use sample source code for any C/C++ game developer right there. I'm pretty sure the math and physics would be fairly accurate in Flight Gear and would give a novis developer a big leg up on the technical end of a flight sim.
cheers! On 5/9/11, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi Imbar, > > Well if I had the code for a flight sim I could try to convert it to a space > sim. Don't have the code for a flight sim though. And to write one I would > need degrees in mathematics, physics, aeronautics, geography and probably a > couple more that I am not thinking of right now. And heck I never even > graduated high school. Back then I was not yet legally blind, but I was a > very very slow reader and reading always gave me bad headaches. Now I could > take Star Wars or Star Trek or Jetsons sounds and replace the sounds in my > Puppy 1 game and make that more of a space game. But Puppy 1 is more of an > arcade shooter game than a flight sim. And it does not have actual > mathematics, physics, aeronautics, and geography such as longitude, > latitude, altitude and attitude etc. Like the one flight sim that I played > with when I had a tiny bit of sight. It was the Microsoft flight sim > version 5 for dos. I was just playing around putting in longitude and > latitude numbers and the next thing I knew I was flying around the statue of > Liberty. So then I tried to land on Ellis Island, which didn't work. But I > did fly under the Brooklyn bridge. Was never able to land on it though. > And then I flew between the Twin Towers. Umm occasionally crashing into > them. I wonder how many programmers with how many degrees it takes to write > a flight sim like the Microsoft flight sim programs. > > BFN > > Jim > > I got my degree from Briggs and Stratton. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
