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0 pointsspeeder6y ago0 comments

The aerodynamics, he was then a flight simulator modder, and said his dream was to make a game where you could use parts to build an arbitrarily shaped airplane and it would calculate automatically the aerodynamics, because the manual setup of aerodynamics for flight simulator was really bad and annoying.

Granted wasn't him that implemented airplane aerodynamics on KSP (it was a modder of KSP, his mod being considered "mandatory" with how much it changed the game physics)

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shadowgovt6y ago

You had the right instinct---what he's describing is done by X-Plane, but X-Plane started as an aerodynamics sim tool that became a flight simulator, so they had to swallow the hard-part elephant before getting to the game part of it.

(On the other hand, someone should note that maybe both our instincts are flawed, because you could also see the X-Plane story and say "Why can't he do it? It's been done before!" ;) )

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