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Engine for flightsim

Started by freeflyklown Jun 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM 3 replies 900+ views

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Jun 12, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Hi, I am planning to start a flightsim project. Which engines would you recommend? Or would you recommend starting from scratch? Thanks Andi

Luckless

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Luckless

Jun 12, 2009 at 4:19 PM

What are your goals for a flightsim? What do you need? What do you want? What aspects are important to you?

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freeflyklown

Jun 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM

I want to have an area of about 500km * 500km, so I need a terrain engine that supports that size at reasonable detail. Then I want to have 3d (clickable) cockpits, and the flight physics should be realistic. Altough since I want to simulate modern jets like the EF200, which are fully fly-by wire, maybe I get away with a simplified flight model (not going to simulate damages into detail).
Basically I want to do something similar to Lock-on: Modern air combat, but a smaller scope.

PolyVox

Jun 13, 2009 at 7:58 AM

FlightGear is the only open source engine I know of. Maybe you can start there and then find more information: http://www.flightgear.org/

beun

Jun 13, 2009 at 8:02 AM

Well, you could use SimGear, which is used by FlightGear (GPL). I think SimGear was licensed under the LGPL, so that isn't a problem.

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