Re: [Flightgear-devel] How can I make a flight simulator like FGFS?

[David H. <dh...@gm...>]

Curtis, that was an excellent answer. I suppose we have to be careful about
questioning motives. Someone may be motivated by the need to tinker to 'see
how it works', I get that. I've tinkered with writing programming
languages, database designs and the like. I have no desire to design the
next great language, or database or whatever. These are learning projects.
Sometimes there is a need to understand, to look under the hood. It makes
sense though to ask the question: "Why do you want to do this?" Sure,
provide some guidance, state the dangers, pitfalls and scope, and give some
compass headings.

Thanks,
Dave

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:04 PM Curtis Olson <cur...@gm...> wrote:

> "Because I want to" is the truthful answer to a surprising number of
> engineering related decisions, so I think that is ok to say.  If you want
> to be fancy, you can call it "engineering judgement." :-)
>
> But your question is not something that can be answered in an email or
> two.  I can't find it now, but an interesting thing I saw in the last year
> or two (or more?) was a guy building a sim software using Cesium (which is
> a realistic world model on top of one of the proprietary game engines.)  He
> hacked something together that looked and moved in a very compelling way,
> but it was a quick hack so I don't think it had any depth to it.  I think
> if you googled around you could find more than a few demos and hacks and
> tutorials that would get you started and help you scratch the itch.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Curt.
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 2:56 PM The MontaLinuX Project <
> the...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> I dont know.
>>
>>
>> 10 Haz 2024 Pzt 22:21 tarihinde Josh Davidson <
>> jos...@ou...> şunu yazdı:
>>
>>> But why?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Josh Davidson
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* The MontaLinuX Project <the...@gm...>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 10, 2024 2:00:18 PM
>>> *To:* FlightGear developers discussions <
>>> fli...@li...>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Flightgear-devel] How can I make a flight simulator
>>> like FGFS?
>>>
>>> How can I put it, I want to have a simulator of my own. And I will
>>> contribute to FlightGear even after this project.
>>>
>>> Josh Davidson <jos...@ou...>, 10 Haz 2024 Pzt, 21:47
>>> tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>>>
>>> I don't understand. WHY not contribute to FlightGear instead???
>>>
>>> --
>>> Josh Davidson
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* The MontaLinuX Project <the...@gm...>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, June 10, 2024 1:41:53 PM
>>> *To:* fli...@li... <
>>> fli...@li...>
>>> *Subject:* [Flightgear-devel] How can I make a flight simulator like
>>> FGFS?
>>>
>>> I routinely play FlightGear every evening and I would like to make a
>>> simulator like this. You have told me before that this can be done with
>>> OpenSceneGraph. But I don't know enough about it. Can you give me some
>>> basic information about aircraft modelling, physics etc. (can be pLib)
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