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Intersting to see a flight sim post would make to the front page of HN lol. I'm also working on a free flight simulator lately, but focusing on drones/quadcopte

Intersting to see a flight sim post would make to the front page of HN lol. I'm also working on a free flight simulator lately, but focusing on drones/quadcopters/FPV and stick feel. It's browser based but can be played with gamepads or radio controllers. Give it a try if you are interested and let me know what you think, located here: https://dronesitter.com/sim https://dronesitter.com/sim

app4soft 5y ago
> I'm also working on a free flight simulator lately, but focusing on drones/quadcopters/FPV and stick feel. Guess, it would be better post it in "Show HN" section[0], beacuse your flight sim is online/WebGL-based — it is probably has nothing to compare with YSFlight. As side note, it is not good to launch WebGL-app immediately after user just visits your site — my PC near stuck with full CPU/GPU load; it would be much better give a user button "Launch now" instead to launch WebGL without permission by user/site visitor. N.B. YSFlight could be used with RC-transmitters connected to PC as joysticks, and even more, there are already a lot of drones "aircraft" addons for YSFlight too — so you may combining it with something like Oculus or Google VR Cardoard to use YSFlight for playing in FPV-mode. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show
- mosfets 5y ago
  Thanks for the advice! This is due to a recently added feature that maximizes FPS, I should have considered wider ranges of devices.
- cshimmin 5y ago
  Yeah, clicking this link on my 2016 MPB caused all of Chrome to completely hang for about 3mins until I could close it... yikes.
meheleventyone 5y ago
I found the calibration hard to use and it didn't give me much feedback to say if I was doing what it wanted or not. The end result seemed to get the axis extents correct but the mapping all over the place.
- mosfets 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I do feel your pain, will make this clearer in the future, already on the "roadmap" :D

app4soft 5y ago

> I'm also working on a free flight simulator lately, but focusing on drones/quadcopters/FPV and stick feel. Guess, it would be better post it in "Show HN" section[0], beacuse your flight sim is online/WebGL-based — it is probably has nothing to compare with YSFlight. As side note, it is not good to launch WebGL-app immediately after user just visits your site — my PC near stuck with full CPU/GPU load; it would be much better give a user button "Launch now" instead to launch WebGL without permission by user/site visitor. N.B. YSFlight could be used with RC-transmitters connected to PC as joysticks, and even more, there are already a lot of drones "aircraft" addons for YSFlight too — so you may combining it with something like Oculus or Google VR Cardoard to use YSFlight for playing in FPV-mode. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show

mosfets 5y ago
Thanks for the advice! This is due to a recently added feature that maximizes FPS, I should have considered wider ranges of devices.
cshimmin 5y ago
Yeah, clicking this link on my 2016 MPB caused all of Chrome to completely hang for about 3mins until I could close it... yikes.

meheleventyone 5y ago

I found the calibration hard to use and it didn't give me much feedback to say if I was doing what it wanted or not. The end result seemed to get the axis extents correct but the mapping all over the place.

mosfets 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I do feel your pain, will make this clearer in the future, already on the "roadmap" :D