Jon S Berndt writes:
> >Is there any interest in space flight simulation out there? > > I don't think it's ruled out, at all. There are at least > two issues I can see: > > 1) FlightGear might have to modify the visuals approach it > is currently using to model the earth sphere. > > 2) The flight dynamics model. JSBSim models centrifugal > acceleration, but currently not Coriolis acceleration - > though this shouldn't be hard to add *when I have time*! > > I want to be able at some point to have JSBSim support > staged rockets with configurable GNC, but those things are > down the road a bit. > > In short, it's a potential "target area", but there are > some dominoes that need to fall first. You interested in > helping? :-) Yes, as I have time. Warning: I am a total newbie when it comes to both flight simulation and open source projects. I know systems, though it has been a few years since I have done heads-down coding. Not really sure that is a place where I want to go again either. Like I said its been awhile. The past couple of years I have been doing mainly system architecture. I got back into thinking about a space flight simulator recently (life long dream) and have started looking for information on the subject. Ideally I would like to promote a community of like minded individuals to work on a set of web based standards and tools that allow one to construct spacecraft specifications and "star system" servers to run them on. The goal is by using a set of standards one could hyper-jump ones spacecraft between star systems, much the way one hyperlinks between web pages. The object model and general physics model is managed by the server, the detailed physics model, visuals, and control is managed by the client. My musings for now, Dave Dave Tessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
