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Danger from the Deep 0.3.0 – free submarine simulation
Posted by JLP on June 13th, 2007
One of my favourite films of all time is Das Boot. It’s a story about a German World War II submarine U-96 and its crew embarking on a dangerous mission. Submarines also fascinate me in general. When younger I’ve often played submarine simulation games like Silent Hunter and Jane’s 688(I) Hunter/Killer. Today I’m happy I can say we have a free and open source submarine simulation game that also runs on Linux.
I’m talking about Danger from the Deep (DftD) which is a World War II German submarine simulaton game. Source code is released under GPL license and artwork under Creative Commons license. Danger from the Deep 0.3.0 has just been released and it features much improved graphics (thanks to upgrade to OpenGL 2.0 and GLSL 1.1), 4 new u-boat types (IIA, IIB, IIC, IID), a new Tribal class destroyer, models can now have moving parts (turrets, guns…), multi-threaded code, new sound system, improved torpedo management, new basic torpedo camera and more. For details see latest news section.
I’ve played DftD for a couple of minutes today and I can say it looks like a very promising open source game project. If you are also a submarine fan be sure to download Danger from the Deep and… Dive! Dive! Dive!
June 22nd, 2007 at 06:43:48
I have just been given a task to simulate a submarine for a grad school project. Does anyone know how involved it would be to port some cad drawings of a large AUV into this game in order to simulate scenarios well enough to test an auto pilot design? I am new to this and would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks
Gideon
June 22nd, 2007 at 07:31:30
Gideon, I think it is best to contact developers of Danger from The Deep about this. I guess the easiest way would be using the Forums. The developers know the simulation engine the most and I’m sure they will tell you how it is best to import the models.