Fundamentals of Vehicle Simulation Design

Game Features

Representational flight simulators fall into two general categories: civilian and military. Civilian flight sims don’t include aerial combat; they’re mostly about the way the aircraft looks and performs, and so are often quite realistic. Military flight sims have to be simplified for reasons we’ll look at later, but they offer exciting physical and tactical challenges. Fantasy flight simulators can be about all kinds of crazy things, such as flying on a dragon.

Driving simulators also tend to fall into two major categories: organized racing and imaginary racing. Organized racing simulators try to reproduce the experience of driving a racing car or motorcycle in an existing racing class, such as IndyCar, NASCAR, or AMA Motocross. ...