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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...