Hello everybody,
I'm a complete newbie of irrlicht but before I start playing with it I would like to know if it is the right program for my needs.
I would like to develop an underwater rov simulator, or at least something to move a robot and a target into it.
My aim is to simulate the robot's movement, retrieve it's coordinates somehow and send them to a custom build hardware board (to set for example a route) trought canbus or rs232 and then back to irrlicht.
Are irrlich + a physical simulator the right tools I need?
Does something like it already exist?
I tried serching the forum but I didn't find anything.
Many thanks to everybody who will answer.
Underwater Rov simulator
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I think Irrlicht alone would be fine for this, if you get your ROV model with a skeleton in it, you can set the joint angles yourself through the Irrlicht API and animate your model procedurally though your code.
I don't think you would need a physics engine unless you wanted the model to interact with its environment automatically.
I have done some very simple bone animations from FreeBasic with my IrrlichtWrapper to test the concept and they seam to work well.
I don't think you would need a physics engine unless you wanted the model to interact with its environment automatically.
I have done some very simple bone animations from FreeBasic with my IrrlichtWrapper to test the concept and they seam to work well.
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Irrlicht will be fine for the visualisation part. Whether you need a physics engine depends on whether part of the goal is to model buoyancy, water resistance and other physical effects. If so, then you may want to choose a physics engine and an appropriate dataset first, and then pick a visualisation solution later.
Please upload candidate patches to the tracker.
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you can try subsim:
http://www.adrianboeing.com/products.html#subsim
http://www.adrianboeing.com/products.html#subsim