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Welcome to Rigs of Rods, the Open Source Everything Simulator!
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Have you ever wanted a program that can simulate anything? For example, have you wanted an accurate rally car simulation with real suspension physics?
Have you wanted to fly an airplane with realistic flight characteristics based on the aerodynamics of the airplane without having to spend money to buy X-Plane?
What about driving boats which act according to the shape of their hulls?
Have you wanted to design bridges for specific loads and see how capable they are of surviving those loads?
All these things can be simulated accurately in Rigs of Rods.
Rigs of Rods is an Open Source everything simulator. Anything that exists in real life can theoretically be simulated in Rigs of Rods. What makes RoR different to most simulators is its unique soft-body physics: vehicles, machines, other objects, etc. are simulated in real-time as flexible objects, giving the simulation an extremely accurate behavior which entirely depends on the physical construction of the objects you create.
Express you mind at your will
Features
- Soft-Body Physics. Objects according to their weight distribution, construction, and/or suspension (in the case of vehicles).
- Advanced Flight Model based on blade element theory. It allows the accurate simulation of any airplane, based entirely on its physical dimensions and wing airfoils.
- Accurate Buoyancy Model based on elemental pressure gradients, enabling boats with complex hulls to move realistically in the swell.
- Basic support for dual-core processing. More multithreading and CUDA support is planned.
- Basic support for scripting using AngelScript.
- Based on the OGRE Graphics Engine.
See for yourself
Recommended System Requirements
- CPU: P4 or equivalent AMD at 2GHz or more, better with HyperThreading technology or dual-core (RoR has dual-core support)
- RAM:512 MB of RAM
- Video Card: 3D Accelerated with 128MB of VRAM or more
- DirectX 9c on Windows, or GLX on Linux
- supports force feedback joysticks and wheels (except on Linux)
- supports 3D sound effects with multichannel sound cards (enable the hardware sound renderer)
Mods
RoR is highly moddable: currently there are over 2000 mods for RoR. Here is a small random selection:
License
RoR is licensed under GPLv3. It is given free of charge.
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