Am Dienstag, den 07.08.2007, 23:40 +0200 schrieb Mirko Stanisak: > > I have just played a bit with Racer (http://www.racer.nl/) but it > > seems pretty nice. It is an open source, cross platform driving sim, > > much like FG. It seems to use some pretty reasonable physics and > > have the ability to use different cars, again, much like FG. So it > > is something else that you might consider. > > Hi, > > unfortionatly, racer is not OSS. It's just free (like free beer ;-) ), but > not > under an open source license (http://www.racer.nl/legal.htm). Aside from > that, I do like it very much, too. > > But on the other hand I remember VDrift (http://vdrift.net/), which is open > source software. I didn't play it for a while, but it seems to have done an > amazing progress in the past. It is based on vamos > (http://vamos.sourceforge.net/). Maybe this could be used as a "pseudo-fdm" > for vehicles in flightgear? > I believe there is a point in adding driving related improvements to existing FDM, rather than adding a completly new one.
Although wheels are not extensively used on Aircraft, they use the same physics than cars. There has been a lot of requests for water or snow on runways on this list, things that would be in a driving simulation too. Even the addition of more detail of roads is desirable for the VFR flying people. Greetings Detlef > > Mirko > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
