{"id":1366,"date":"2022-05-12T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:20:18","slug":"blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/05\/12\/blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a developer blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1366\" class=\"elementor elementor-1366\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-48ecea93 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"48ecea93\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5faff85b\" data-id=\"5faff85b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ccb68ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6ccb68ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01-1536x624.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-6746\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01-1536x624.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01-1024x416.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01-768x312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64c7e146 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"64c7e146\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Unity <\/em>isn\u2019t particularly well suited to build flight simulators (to be fair: no game engine is), so I had to write a lot of code from scratch.<\/p><p>One example is the terrain rendering engine. <em>Unity<\/em> terrain is flat, and a terrain patch can\u2019t be larger than a couple of square kilometres max. You can stich terrain patches together, but that doesn\u2019t help when what you need is the entire planet.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-b8d2fb7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b8d2fb7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-74ec4463\" data-id=\"74ec4463\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18038a6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18038a6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When <em><strong>F-Sim|Space Shuttle VR<\/strong><\/em> for <em>Oculus Go<\/em> was finished, I posted about it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Unity3DGameDev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unity Game Developers International Facebook group<\/a>. Feedback was great and many people wanted to know more. So that\u2019s the idea behind this blog.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-485cd8ba\" data-id=\"485cd8ba\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f263b94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3f263b94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-6734\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img02.jpg 720w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img02-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-199bbc75 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"199bbc75\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4321bef\" data-id=\"4321bef\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59d21074 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"59d21074\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img03.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-6741\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img03.jpg 577w, https:\/\/fsim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BLOG-2022-05-12-img03-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-77d6367e\" data-id=\"77d6367e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26fa8fc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26fa8fc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I\u2019ll post some articles about past and future development, with focus on the technology we\u2019ve created and how we\u2019ve integrated it into <em>Unity<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I started to re-write all of F-Sim on top of Unity 3D. 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