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by testadilegno
Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:15 pm
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: Do we actually *need* atmospheric shielding?
Replies: 13
Views: 24523

Re: Do we actually *need* atmospheric shielding?

Would it be naive to just have: cone shield if aerobraking, otherwise (normal flight, fights, scooping) have hull shape set drag/properties? This is what I was arguing... if we can switch between cone-shield and hull-shield, why can't a DSMiner owner have a sleek von Karman atmospheric-flight-shiel...
by testadilegno
Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:45 am
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: Do we actually *need* atmospheric shielding?
Replies: 13
Views: 24523

Re: Do we actually *need* atmospheric shielding?

Dear all, I've been silently working on studying atmospheric drag and lift models since a few months, and made some progress in understanding how to put a simplified model in the code. There are ways to do that, depending on how much realism is desired. However, I've become convinced that gameplay r...
by testadilegno
Sat May 03, 2014 5:00 pm
Forum: Other space games
Topic: open source (GPL v3) terrain and sky generator
Replies: 1
Views: 4058

open source (GPL v3) terrain and sky generator

Dear all,
I stumbled upon this thread about fast terrain and sky (clouds) generator for another project I'm following (UFOAI).
http://ufoai.org/forum/index.php/topic,6771.15.html
I thought you might want to have a look:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tribalc ... rce=navbar
by testadilegno
Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:40 pm
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: Project a plane/grid onto a sphere
Replies: 6
Views: 6072

Re: Project a plane/grid onto a sphere

Dear all, after a quick search I found this, maybe it's close to what you're looking for: http://cadal.cse.nsysu.edu.tw/3D_Team/3D_seminar/seminar_file/2008/080710_jmwu_paper.pdf http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/theses/projects/projgrid/ http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~fl/assets/wscg_2009.p...
by testadilegno
Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:20 pm
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: About atmospheric flight
Replies: 11
Views: 10386

Re: About atmospheric flight

Progress report :-) I've mostly been searching the net and reading stuff, and I have found a few interesting things. In order to put in a simple aerodynamic model, we can use rather simple equations (like the drag one in the code), and have the ships provide correct aerodynamic parameter. The most c...
by testadilegno
Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:23 am
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: About atmospheric flight
Replies: 11
Views: 10386

Re: About atmospheric flight

I had in mind something among the lines you have pointed out. I imagine having a table, or a "per model" set of parameters, that could be used to calculate the forces acting on a ship in the atmosphere. Since I had a very positive feedback (thanks!) I'll start working on that, and I'll kee...
by testadilegno
Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:18 am
Forum: Pioneer development
Topic: About atmospheric flight
Replies: 11
Views: 10386

About atmospheric flight

Dear all, I'm a long time 'lurker', having discovered this project around alpha 6 or 7. I have started to follow you more frequently in recent times, and I was wondering if I can contribute a little: I'm not a very experienced programmer (especially in C++), but I'm a physicist, so I guess I can len...