Building your own simulator brige

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[Nightdiver]

Hi

Me and some friends want to build or own simulator brigge.
first we want to start building the brigge white the controles.
wen that works we are planning to get the pro version of shipsim.

Now is my question is there some one on the forum that already
has made something like this or is working on it that can give me some tips
on how get the brigge components to comunicate white the game.

[JHB]

Hi

Me and some friends want to build or own simulator brigge.
first we want to start building the brigge white the controles.
wen that works we are planning to get the pro version of shipsim.

Now is my question is there some one on the forum that already
has made something like this or is working on it that can give me some tips
on how get the brigge components to comunicate white the game.

If you take a look at the Microsoft Flight Simulator game there are many players that build up their own cockpit, some pretty simple and others pretty advanced. There are also manufacturers that makes hardware components or even kits that makes you able to build such cockpit. 

I think there is very few manufactures that makes such stuff for Ship Simulator. The game is of course pretty new in opposite to MS Flight Simulator. You probably have to think out solutions and use other hardware (hydraulic platforms, electronic components and so on) to make this real bridge. How to connect this with a computer and make it communicate with the game is hard to say. Maybe someone here know some more about this. 

[steve149c]

A ship Bridge Sim requires a huge amount of processing power to get the true effect - you need mulitple computers. I have had the privilege of doing Bridge Team Management courses and have used bridge simulators, they are whole rooms to get the 360 degree view. You can't have a room and only the one screen. All the maritime colleges in the UK have them, e.g http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lairdsidemaritimecentre/ (http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lairdsidemaritimecentre/) is Lairdside the one that I use. They might be able to help?

Cheers

Steve

[Denis]

This has been discussed elsewhere on the forum, But I add the link here too !

a Desktop Ship Control Unit is in dev (by a firm which already builds a train control unit, for train simmers), and the project seems to be quite interesting (anyway, as far as I know, it's the only one at this time, since wilco forgave their similair project).

Here a link ... http://raildriver.com/products/shipdriver.php