https://github.com/turbo87/flight-club

an online glider simulator
https://github.com/turbo87/flight-club

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an online glider simulator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/turbo87/flight-club
• Owner: Turbo87
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-03-17T12:40:43.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-26T22:34:15.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-26T03:24:31.311Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Java
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.21 MB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# ![Flight Club](img/hg_banner.gif)

## Introduction

![A glider over the flatlands](img/1glider_b.gif)

Welcome to Flight Club, an online gliding simulator. The gliders look a bit like hang gliders. However, imagine them to be paragliders or sailplanes if you prefer; the same rules apply.

### Thermals

![Circling under a cloud](img/thermal_b.gif)

Cumulus clouds are fed by bubbles of warm rising air, called thermals. By using thermals, glider pilots are able to fly long distances. When you fly into a thermal you should circle to stay in the lift and climb upto cloud base.

Your vario will start beeping when you are in a thermal.

### Ridge Lift

![Gliders ridge soaring](img/ridge_b.gif)

Hills produce lift as the wind flows over them. A glider may ridge soar by flying back and forth in the rising air in front of the hill.

Glider pilots also like hills because they function as reliable thermal triggers.

### Your mission

![A cloud street](img/street_b.gif)

Race against the other gliders; the finish line is 100km away to the north.

A note on navigation: To find the finish line, simply follow the road that runs north. You have a compass at the bottom right of the applet.

### Points of View

![Press <3> for the plan view](img/plan_b.gif)

Drag the mouse to rotate the camera position. You may switch between points of view using the number keys...

    <1> focus on your glider

    <2> watch the gaggle

    <3> the view from 5,000 meters above

    <4> the view from 8km away to the south east

Try pressing `
` to pause the action and then switch between the different points of view.

Dragging the mouse whilst the action is paused gives a cool 'bullet time' effect.

## Build Instructions

This project is now using the [gradle](http://www.gradle.org/) build system. To build the project run the following command from the command line:

    $ ./gradlew build

Use `./gradlew run` to run the game afterwards.

## Coding Style

For a general coding style guide, where better to look than the horses

mouth ? Look for some classes that interest you and study them

carefully. The author of this document finds Date.java, written by

James Gosling, a good read.

Code that is not well commented is probably not well thought out.

Here are some conventions used in Flight Club:

    float[] p; // a point whose x, y and z co-ords are (p[0], p[1], p[2])

    float[] _p; // the previous value of p

    float[] p_; // the co-ords of p after applying a transformation, T

    float[] dp; // a small change in p, say p(tN) - p(tN-1) where tN is

    the time of the Nth frame and p(t) is the path of a particle

    float[][] ps; // a list of points {{x0, y0, z0}, {x1, y1, z1}, ...}

    float[] ps; // a flattened list of points {x0, y0, z0, x1, y1, z1, ...}

## Author

Created by Dan Burton , 22 Aug 2002