Physics Simulation Forum

A few days ago I released my Android (and iOS soon) app which is a free flight simulator for radio-control planes:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rowlhouse.picasim

All the flight dynamics is home grown, but it uses Bullet for the rigid body simulation - so far it's worked very well. I was a bit worried I'd get problems with the heightfield collision, since I use a dynamic LOD for the terrain (with geomorphing - quite cool to watch but a bit old fashioned I know!) - so was very happy to find the DiamondSubdivision option.

I expect to push Bullet a bit harder in the future when I add support for undercarriages etc. In the meantime, many thanks to Erwin et al for the lib (saved me from using my own JigLib ).

- Danny

Great simulator. Source code (just of the flight dynamics / Bullet integration part) would be very useful to people! Think about it anyway...

Thanks. I'm quite happy to share the aerodynamics/simulation code with anyone (actually, it's really just a tidied up version of the aero code in my earlier Slope Soaring Simulator which is completely open source). Just email!

I'm not sure about the whole codebase though... I'm about to add online leaderboard support etc and am not inclined to spend lots of precious dev time making a open source system which can't be hacked...

As an update to this, it's now available on iOS as well as Android - more info and links to iTunes/Google Play here:

http://www.rowlhouse.co.uk/PicaSim

Thanks Bullet