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Could it output drones for existing sims?

X-Plane Plane Maker: https://developer.x-plane.com/manuals/planemaker/

Juno: New Origins (and also Hello Engineer)

MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-based: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Introduction/SDK_Overv...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37619564 :

[Multi-objective gym + MuJoCo] for drone simulation
Idea: Generate code like BlenderGPT to generate drone rover sim scenarios and environments like the Moon and Mars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052833 :

awesome finite element analysis https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+finite+element+analy...

Also: awesome-cfd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31049608 :

Numerical methods in fluid mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_methods_in_fluid_mec...

Re: X-plane output. As it stands, no. But I believe a translation script can be made to output the vehicle's properties into a different format. Currently it is a python dataclass.

Thank you for linking to other resources. I will take a look at them.

Np. Interesting field.

"How to create an aircraft [for MS Flight Simulator]" https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/mergedProjects/How_To_...

Gymnasium w/ MuJoCo or similar would probably be most worthwhile in terms of research,

GlTF: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF

/? gltf msfs https://www.google.com/search?q=gltf+msfs

https://github.com/AsoboStudio/glTF-Blender-IO-MSFS :

Microsoft Flight Simulator glTF 2.0 Importer and Exporter for Blender

MSFS docs on the Blender plugin: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Asset_Creation/Blender...

There must be fluid simulation in MSFS and XPlane because they model helicopter flight characteristics.

I don't think either model things like solar thermal effect upon wings' material properties yet.

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