Saturday, December 25, 2010

Creating The Right Flight Sim Software

By Dan Freeman


Many people like to fly. In the world there are thousand of flights each day. But how are the people that always get the pleasure of flying? Of course these are the pilots. They undergo special training for years but doest it mean that they are the only people that should experience the pleasure of flying. Sure no. That is why the Flight Simulation programs were created.

To construct programs that meets all the requirements for one Flight Simulation program to be great you need a team of several people to create it. First of all you need pilots that will tell you more about the flying and the experience of it. They need to be experienced in order to know how the plane reacts to different weather conditions. Also they have experience in landing planes and helicopters. That is why their help is really appreciated. However in order to make all this operational you need software engineers that really know how to handle the work best way possible.

Flight simulators are one of the things that are gaining popularity among the young people and the mid-aged people. Since the main audience is from this age the Flight simulation must be oriented towards them. The manufacturers of such products do that as adding some additional stamps on the planes to make the look cooler. Moreover they have added the option to change the plane color the way you like it. The limitation to be only white is gone.

To make the experience of flying more and more realistic you need to add to the team of workers 3D animators. They may take objects from the real world and with certain help of the programs to input them in the Flight simulators. The realism comes from using real planes, helicopters, airports and helipads. If you use some imaginary things the whole realism will be gone and the experience of Flight simulation will be reduced greatly.

Using real objects as models is the best way to achieve the desired results. That is why deep research should be completed about the weight, size and other things about the planes. That is the reason to make the planes react accordingly to different external stimuli. Realism may be achieved trough hardworking of the people that deal with that project and the deep knowledge about the objects and things that may influence them.




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