diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-018/3.png b/content/posts/newsletter-018/3.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..94ee6de45 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/newsletter-018/3.png differ diff --git a/content/posts/newsletter-018/index.md b/content/posts/newsletter-018/index.md index 4cd1ade51..89214da0f 100644 --- a/content/posts/newsletter-018/index.md +++ b/content/posts/newsletter-018/index.md @@ -169,6 +169,36 @@ bringing more interesting crafting scenarios into the game. [Antorum]: https://ratwizard.dev/dev-log/antorum [@dooskington]: https://twitter.com/dooskington +### [SeniorSKY] + + +_Over the mountains in Slovakia_ + +[SeniorSKY] +is a flight simulator which uses Vulkan API, developed by [@pmathia0]. + +As an aerospace engineering student, Peter has always been interested how +a flight simulator works under the hood. + +The development of SeniorSKY started as a hobby project during university +studies. + +SeniorSKY uses real-world elevation data with 1 arc +second precision and can render the whole globe in real dimensions. +During the flight, the terrain tiles are loaded dynamically based +on real GPS coordinates of airplane, with a decreasing level of detail +further from the camera. This is achieved using a combination +of a terrain-quad-tree and GPU tessellation. + +SeniorSKY also implements basic rendering of sky, atmosphere and fog. + +To be able to simulate a flight, the application temporarily integrates 3rd party +flight dynamics engine called JSBSim. Meanwhile, development of own, custom +flight dynamics is already in progress. + +[SeniorSKY]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMmaJuk-D7iaObZyhyvc83tNwpx3ghzkY +[@pmathia0]: https://twitter.com/pmathia0 + ### Flesh 