Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[AndyJWest]

Only the parts that the player can see and only the details you can see is in the RAM at any given time.

This approach works for MSFS because it only needs to model a single aircraft. An air combat simulator needs to be able to model the details for each aircraft independently, or at least give a realistic approximation for such modelling - you can take some shortcuts where the action is well separated from human playersb but even using such techniques a simulation can only cope with a finite number of aircraft on a finite map. Not that I'd use MSFS as a good example of how to model even the limited world-representation it does...