On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:35, Curtis Olson wrote: > On 1/31/07, alexis bory wrote: > > leee a écrit : > > > Thanks:) If you need something to drive down to the railway > > > station... > > > > > > http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk/V3/im_GT40.16.jpg > > > > wow :) > > Did you also work on the FDM ? > > And on the cockpit ;) > > For what it's worth, if someone wanted to adapt one of our existing fdm's > to do automotive vehicle dynamics, that would be a cool thing. I don't > know if it would make sense to do it as an extension to existing code, or > start from scratch. We've got the aerodynamic effects down, but we'd need > to add engine, transmission modeling and add the ability to drive the tires > directly. > > We have some semi-intersting driving scenarios developed in house, and I > hope to soon start a work project to turn hi-res road data into 3d > databases. > > Curt.
It had occurred to me that YASim could be (ab)used to fake a car. The gear handling would be fine for the wheels and suspension - don't see too many problems there. Ensuring it didn't take off might be trickier though. Jet powered dragster anyone? What was that John? (U.K joke) LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
