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Gibbon
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I am trying to write a basic flight simulator, i have "tried" to write many now without any real success.
So if anyone is feeling kind and wants to have ago at talking me threw the equations in a more meaningful way than i kind find on the net, it would very much appriciated.
I think... to be honest, my pitfall is the Lift coefficient. I am.. just so confused about how i go about calculating this?
I know that L = CL * (r * (V sqrd)/2) * A
but CL? i have seen many ways of doing it, and i don't really understand it at all and don't get the correct results, and without "understanding" it, i can't go about trying to change it or make it work.
Im not trying to create Mircrosoft flight sim.
Just trying to simulate a simple plane and get the correct movement which i cannot seem to do.
I am using using Newtons Physics Dynamics in C++ and Lua.
So it really is a case of once the caluclations are done, then its a case of simply giving a body that force.
The programming is not a problem, it the correct calculations i just cannot seem to do.
Again, nothing complex, just basic for now and then i can slowly learn and add to it, but i just cannot seem to get any sort of resemblance of flight.
Hope you can help.
Andy
So if anyone is feeling kind and wants to have ago at talking me threw the equations in a more meaningful way than i kind find on the net, it would very much appriciated.
I think... to be honest, my pitfall is the Lift coefficient. I am.. just so confused about how i go about calculating this?
I know that L = CL * (r * (V sqrd)/2) * A
but CL? i have seen many ways of doing it, and i don't really understand it at all and don't get the correct results, and without "understanding" it, i can't go about trying to change it or make it work.
Im not trying to create Mircrosoft flight sim.
Just trying to simulate a simple plane and get the correct movement which i cannot seem to do.
I am using using Newtons Physics Dynamics in C++ and Lua.
So it really is a case of once the caluclations are done, then its a case of simply giving a body that force.
The programming is not a problem, it the correct calculations i just cannot seem to do.
Again, nothing complex, just basic for now and then i can slowly learn and add to it, but i just cannot seem to get any sort of resemblance of flight.
Hope you can help.
Andy