maglomanic
Junior Member
Ok since all you guys are either really brainy, thick glasses wearing Nerds or some really seasoned ex-military i thought i would ask if anyone of you is into fighter simulation. I came across these two open source modeling tools which might not be professional grade but still have some decent functionality.
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This is what they say "JSBSim is an open source flight dynamics model (FDM) that compiles and runs under many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, IRIX, Cygwin (Unix on Windows), etc. The FDM is essentially the physics/math model that defines the movement of an aircraft under the forces and moments applied to it using the various control mechanisms and from the forces of nature. JSBSim has no native graphics. It can be run by itself as a standalone program, taking input from a script file and various aircraft configuration files; or, it can be run as an integrated part of a larger flight simulator implementation that includes a visual system. The most notable example of the use of JSBSim is currently seen in the open source FlightGear simulator. JSBSim models the aerodynamic forces and moments by the classic coefficient buildup method.
JSBSim has seen the growth of a fairly large user base, with some of the more notable projects (of which I am aware) described on the Users page.
Features include:
Fully configurable flight control system, aerodynamics, propulsion, landing gear arrangement, etc. through XML-based text file format.
Rotational earth effects on the equations of motion (coriolis and centrifugal acceleration modeled).
Configurable data output formats to screen, file, socket, or any combination of those.
"
The man site lets you create an output file using the following link:
Also you can use (old USAF software) to calculate some of the data for your simulation software.
2)Now the above given software pretty much creates an xml file that contains profile of your plane. There is another another simulation software that would do the actual graphical rendering.
Just thought i should share this with you guys
.If anyone has been down this road i'd be interested in hearing from em.
1)
This is what they say "JSBSim is an open source flight dynamics model (FDM) that compiles and runs under many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, IRIX, Cygwin (Unix on Windows), etc. The FDM is essentially the physics/math model that defines the movement of an aircraft under the forces and moments applied to it using the various control mechanisms and from the forces of nature. JSBSim has no native graphics. It can be run by itself as a standalone program, taking input from a script file and various aircraft configuration files; or, it can be run as an integrated part of a larger flight simulator implementation that includes a visual system. The most notable example of the use of JSBSim is currently seen in the open source FlightGear simulator. JSBSim models the aerodynamic forces and moments by the classic coefficient buildup method.
JSBSim has seen the growth of a fairly large user base, with some of the more notable projects (of which I am aware) described on the Users page.
Features include:
Fully configurable flight control system, aerodynamics, propulsion, landing gear arrangement, etc. through XML-based text file format.
Rotational earth effects on the equations of motion (coriolis and centrifugal acceleration modeled).
Configurable data output formats to screen, file, socket, or any combination of those.
"
The man site lets you create an output file using the following link:
Also you can use (old USAF software) to calculate some of the data for your simulation software.
2)Now the above given software pretty much creates an xml file that contains profile of your plane. There is another another simulation software that would do the actual graphical rendering.
Just thought i should share this with you guys
.If anyone has been down this road i'd be interested in hearing from em.
