Re: Flight or Space Shuttle sim
- From: "Will Pearson" <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 21:39:28 -0000
Hi John,
The idea of making a flight sim accessible is still very much an idea until
I can find the time to do it; however, thanks for the suggestion of making
an open source game accessible as it's not something that I had thought of
and certainly something worth investigating.
Whilst I'm not a games developer I've done quite a lot of work with
simulating physics in the past. My current field of research in haptics and
collaborative virtual environments, and these use some of the same
technologies as games, such as collision detection and physics simulation.
I'm surprised that no games for the blind have made use of these
technologies yet. Whilst they are quite time consuming to write yourself
you don't really need to write them yourself unless you enjoy inflicting
pain on yourself. There are open source physics engines available, such as
the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE), as well as open source scene graphs, such as
Open Scene Graph (OSG), plus there are commercial packages available, such
as Havok, which Intel have recently brought out. All will save you a lot of
time and pain over writing scene graphs and physics simulations yourself.
Will
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