Monday, October 25, 2010

- Military Virtual Software Q & A

 White Arab-style architecture, street date palm, the land was filled with yellow sand, with a trace of Basra, not bad on weekdays. The only difference is that in moving through streets of a British team, the city seemed too quiet.

in an instant, an IED weighing tens of kilograms in the first car exploded a few meters left, jump on the tens of meters thick smoke high in the sky. Fortunately, the first vehicle armor plate and glass block a fierce blast and shrapnel like rain, keep the engine and personnel, self-inflated tires can not cause illness, still led the advance, then the whole team will become the staggered column volts at full speed through the area was, after only half a minute, let the armed men on foot looking dust sigh. 
soldiers have laid down their hands so the mini steering wheel and mouse, in twos and threes to stand up out of the room. Intense work is still in the corner of the room by several officers: they are just looking at the video, I can see that several of the referee is satisfied.

Here we all understand, we are discussing here is not the reality of the battlefield, but the computer software, in other words, computer games. But I want to say next , a professional interactive virtual software - so we can see that most of the game makers have it dismissed.

1, Why should virtual software?

was seen that the preamble, the mind will always emerge out of this scenario: in the dark old cafes, a dozen soldiers sit before the keyboard to the mouse, point a few bottles of cough syrup, then Start waving the mouse of the keyboard, directly killing Tianhundian became exhausted, rubbed his black eye before swinging out. This is a sort of Internet cafes in the virtual is by no means the military war, but a routine military training, a vital supplement.

Some people say that a military exercise is not enough? Effects of military exercises in the virtual program is not much better than it? But we should know that there is a military exercise in the environment and funding limitations. Imagine, in order to improve combat capability, a unit of special forces prepared to conduct a five-CQB exercise, the opposition for five. Method is very simple nature, and scheduling instructors explain, to find a training ground of the house, pull a few comrades in arms when sparring, get an afternoon. But we continue to imagine that a military prepared to carry out a military drill, the content is interspersed with the Battle of the rapid penetration level. In fact, fewer opportunities to exercise such organizations do not say too much difficulty. To give the two parties a division of red and blue (actually blue should be the number of divisions of the institution) expansion of space, have to keep developing in depth to get Kai interspersed Budui hands who can not wandered off to whatever the outcome, to Qing Kai dozens of square kilometers of land. In China, such requirements have to look north to the west and northwest regions. If we are virtual Waters, the original forest operations under complex conditions, is impossible.

continue to imagine, a hybrid force is about to go abroad to perform tasks before leaving to focus on training under complex conditions in the city counter-IED, insurgents ambushed the hostile response, as well as front-line artillery, explosives disposal robot, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, attack aircraft coordination training. This time trouble, the city is not no man's land, not a sudden one day be able to clear out the clearance of martial law as the drill sites. And to build a Today, the United States National Training Center at Fort Irwin, also built dozens of towns but only the size of the arena-style landscape, and its geographical size of Iraq's regions far from major cities, the cities of anti-complex conditions attack drill is At the same time, the exercise of spending also increased significantly. The above examples show that spending is military exercises with the growth in the number of second place, people, once increased, explosion-like increase in funding will: the exercise troops come and go, who will clean up the crater? Be Who should pay the oil money? Moreover, in order not to undermine the Moreover, a very important point is that the U.S. can support such a climate of This problem can only be to make up the blood on the battlefield.

this time the great advantage of virtualization software is manifested. Today's virtualization software can help in the virtual network architecture for large-scale interactive live real soldiers (in the live program) exercises, without having to worry about the hardware condition problem. All that exists in real life environment can be used as contour lines,Bailey UGG boots, models and textures have been entered the virtual software. A house in the virtual software is just a coordinate, a three-dimensional model plus a few MB of HD textures. To the professionals, then a few days can make a million square kilometers, is extremely close to the real state of the map and set the map units that may arise. And the demand for virtualization software is not high on the funding, the virtual device does not require a professional, just the hardware to keep up a personal computer. Of an army, as long as computer hardware, LAN, server to keep up, they can easily in a Corps-level virtual combat. Imagine a software system with hundreds of thousands of people in the military exercise, only hundreds of thousands of computer terminals, dozens of intermediary server can be done, the participating provinces and cities who can camp in any (Internet cafes are also possible) in participating in the exercise does not require cumbersome deployment of personnel, equipment, transportation, venue decoration and a series of pre-exercise preparation, no clean-up effort of the exercise venues such as the aftermath of cleaning, without the use of blanks and the blue smoke The exchange of fire, this is how big a step forward. At the same time, the software is with the number of virtual spending growth occurs once, when few people do not look not much economic advantage, the number of participating more virtual means of military exercises in the software advantages of the more prominent.

At the same time, the software also have military exercises virtual interactions do not have the capacity. In the military exercise, This has two drawbacks. First, the referee is not and the correctness of the action force is equal can not make a comprehensive and detailed and effective judge. Second, the will reduce the effect of exercise. However, in the exercise virtual software, from the tactical level to the operational level of Shijiao extension, just painted with red and green circles Zhao free retractable dynamic maps and the focal length, all the tactical level conditions are changeable, scheduled rehearsal without command, but can no longer interrupted by the instructor to add the virtual case, this is the real test of interoperability of the forces and response capabilities.

view of this, the virtual software for military exercises with the economic advantages, it also has the operational and practical advantages. Therefore, the national military of various types of military virtualization software of all ages will be explained. We can see that both countries the military has used different software (of course itself a computer game) as the country's official or The software sorts, types and characteristics vary. However, the requirements of military training on the software is very special, so the next question will arise. Elaborate here, the military has a variety of virtualization software, designed to have different, in this article I will discuss only the infantry as the main focus of regulation to enhance interoperability between the establishment of virtual software, rather than as a practical exercise to discuss additional The virtual cockpit simulators and simulation-based software.

2, what kind of procedure is suitable as a virtual software?

present, the majority of NATO countries are united by a Armed Assault 1 also uses a But such a wide variety of virtualization software, a virtual Who's most suitable for military, who do not fit, who is good and who is atrazine it? This is our second issue to be discussed.

fact, a long time in a large family of computer game software can be transformed into a virtual shooting game there are four types: leisure, sports-based, subjective and objective-based immersive virtual reality type. Leisure Needless to say, war is too LORI are dudes and babes, are used in laser gun ship knife cut, harmony and love with all ages, whether for military virtual help clear; athletic type, such as , Therefore, regarding the choice of virtualization software, the focus of debate is that the subjective and objective-based immersive virtual reality type.

realistic model for the subjective game , a trace of situation as nuanced, highly expressive; objective realistic model to the game, Powerful mission editor, and a complete SDK. In the game industry, about 10 years ago, the game has just started shooting when the birth of the two games at the same time, evenly divided, and by now, the former being accompanied by A bad one reason Sheng, in fact, is simple. Give the simplest example, in the famous street, a group of Marines will be reduced to target fast rope around the building. Under the cover of helicopters, the Marines quickly eliminate the target buildings surrounding areas. A U.S. soldier holding a carbine to kneeling position to hide the car from time to time carefully with one hand hold the head out to look around ... ... lieutenant gave the order to take the lead, broke into the U.S. from both the doors, with lightning speed Candi eliminated, the whole process of successfully breaking the meet the requirements of CQB, neat, from start to finish is extremely exciting. On look around ... no ... take the lead in the probe lieutenant gave the order, and the brightest Marines threw the door and into the ... ... Although there are basic tactical movements and postures are much less, as the puppets are generally rigid. This is not the case, but the typical difference between these two types of software.

if my article has been beside the point: This is an article about the virtualization software, is about the virtualization software of choice, but we have been discussing shooting game called In fact, this is a virtual software in many countries a lack of military professionalism and effectiveness reasons. Many countries, including my military intended effect of virtualization software is not a precise definition, the power to choose virtualization software by combat units. Officers are naturally biased according to their own preferences and choose the software, in the above-stated objective and the subjective immersive virtual reality-type and simple type of comparison, one is better if there were a fixed number. So we often can, However,UGG boots clearance, we did not see the point behind:

this game in the above-mentioned tasks, the helicopter's flight path and speed are strictly defined by the task script, where a high degree of under what what direction at what speed to fly, when thrown down a rope when the rope is a good set of, there is no each location, movement and even toward the script are also defined by the task is a good calibration on the map, while the unit itself has only very limited circuit judge, who can only judge the DPRK fired there is no so-called random and openness. Gorgeous screen, run smoothly, because the game's largest map of only 2 square kilometers, while the unit appears only a maximum of 50 people, the map view will be 500 meters all maps, the sky (including the sun) is just a picture. And bullets do not If the choice of such games to virtual reality, it probably will soon have their own in the end is in the At the same time, This script contains a lot of tactical operations manual instructions and SCS members the experience, though ugly, but extremely versatile and effective. Bullets have been gravity, wind (requires plug-ins), and random deviations of the trajectory, also has a complex and complete chain of command. This is also not the case, but the main difference between these two types of software. Here, we've got a clear conclusion, the objective is the most suitable for military virtual reality-based virtualization software.

However, as mentioned above, objective and realistic model is an endangered type, enter the new century, the only objective and realistic shooting game type is . Not their performance in several major how exceptional, but the military no better program available. But the army's demand for professional virtualization software is an objective reality, then it raises the next question.

3, Why is no one willing to do virtual reality software?

To explain this, we have to get rid of a stubborn know: the army Qian Haozhuan. Like in the army as an important part of national institutions, but also spent taxpayer money, consumption should be as Now F-35 a close to 2.0 billion, or 50 U.S. Air Force to buy 50 aircraft, the billions of dollars into the pockets of Lockheed Martin; Japan even do not fly, tanks catch a 90 the price of Russian fighter plane, when the SDF did not even bat an eyelid on the column installed 300 units. Such things can not the same program, in the final analysis is not an entity Moreover, the bulk of spending on the computer - the computer, especially the graphics card and CPU,UGG shoes, a year behind three years out of date, and is always followed by the computer software technology is not always No renovation, such as 2006's Purchase this After several producers, public relations, eventually hundreds of thousands of copies sold is the right to use. Be used for realistic military software maker, the situation is even more tragic: the all itself (what is natural is not third-party plug-ins) that contains the Chinese army under modern war games are more or less bring some China threat theory companies are not even a local agent, not a penny fetched nature (such as In the United States are not much better, in June 2008, the U.S. Marine Corps purchased the volume (20 million) calculated to average a $ 30, equivalent to the price of the game in North America generally, at the same time producers have to sweep to free program updates. Long before the October 2007, investment, and the rest on the net ... ... game companies are they naturally are not stupid, which side which side to earn more money, do not care who is For now, the only military infantry level virtualization software sales) add up to the producers of the production of income than its former parent's subjective realistic type game The third game software sales charts), while more advanced level of technology to other manufacturers do, is just around to see a joke, almost no one willing to take this hot potato.

At the same time, countries armed forces have tried some of their R & D services for the infantry virtualization software, you can not progress in this regard the military a long time the software has indeed been two years of virtual civil computer game for a new generation to fall far behind, engage in a number of years with a well-known results have not, and finally had to give up part of the plan in this regard, recourse to private production companies. But the software maker who does not want to take this job without oil and water, the result is difficult on both sides, soldiers suffer. Only contact with Fortunately, our hero still in the field:

4, a virtual Who is the protagonist of the software world?

As mentioned above, in the software industry is willing to make a huge military virtualization software company, the only Mia dynamic studio (BIA), the outcome is that a number of Completed in autumn 2002 Who says a full range of sea and air combat exercise, that is, 5-6 Infantry Division to support the establishment and 5,000 observers from the group while the referee a battle in the software level virtual combat. U.S. Army strange temper, always put In the U.S. Marines and New Zealand, the support of the Australian Defence Force, chaired by the BIA developed However, this procedure will never like his father, the jerry-building. consumption of unimaginable human and material resources, but I am afraid none of them do military exercises of NATO need to use the army had thousands of people), and become active at the same time to support various types of light vehicles, armored units, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, virtual, support TFT Parallel three-screen helmet and a We often see NATO soldiers armed with mini steering wheel in front of a computer provided by the real parameters, which makes the software has the necessary confidentiality, so the US-led NATO and dissemination of the software distribution through a rigorous restrictions. BIS at first did not put , in the known way is to get the U.S. Army or Marines as the U.S. Department of Defense website. Of course, slip through the net where there are, Currently on the Internet can be downloaded to the But the BIA left here, a kernel barely able to open but the program has been

as NATO plug-in, maps and SDK (The Why ... ...) Overall removed, leaving only the core program, naming Since the production of plug-ins is very simple, and many military and civilian software plug-ins can be generic, so the software can easily reach and So many non-NATO countries (such as Ukraine, China, etc.) are all the military But the Czech Republic, after all, is a NATO member, the software exports was largely the impact of NATO's foreign relations. By the known situation,

If unable to obtain a Civilian and military versions of these versions of the gap in about 10%. Of Within the mission, the only known difference between the civilian version of the engine does not support the use of rifles in the car (such as through the windows of vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles or armored vehicles firing holes, etc.), and New infantry carrier with the current universal abolition of the status of shooting holes can be considered civilian version of the In the external performance, although the official claim that BIS does not support third-party simulators, but the hackers in front of the simulator is not compatible with what is difficult. As a civilian version of the Assault 2 Satellite maps and the corresponding contour, and then make vegetation, building models, you can easily make a fool out of operation needed to map. Have trouble mapping, modeling is just a high-resolution satellite maps and the necessary elevation point. Stalemate in southern Tibet, when the territorial issue, the domestic part of the fans made a hundred square kilometers, the field full-scale map of southern Tibet, with the corresponding, the Indian army plug-in, less than two weeks time, and most time is in the production of plug-ins. Flexible mind many departments and organizations will be playing a civilian version of the idea, such as China's add plug-ins and the Chinese People's Liberation Army from the engine, has entered the military use (there are beta versions into the network, poor public comments.) Application of However, the production of non-professionals can not compliment the level of plug-art, models and textures suddenly people think back to DX8.1 era, third-party plug-in highly optimized production than even the producers are far smaller than the original cut corners, and more like a ghost character mask, looking at the enemy can be scared to death (posted plans to blame the producers not look good), arms, vehicles, very rough, which gives the virtual effect of greatly compromised. Prior to this system is extremely stable name,cheap UGG boots, actually has nothing to do with a Chinese version of the company, in fact, BUG to the process engine to do some Fixed the BUG ... ...), do a can only use the United States, the Soviet side to exercise (so often seen in scenes of military channels), practical and to some extent, lost the It is undeniable that there is a great civilian version of the development of space, the number of thousands of various third-party plug-ins is ironclad proof. As long as there are professional groups, professional production, is able to build a civilian version based on a suitable virtual training platform, and can be equally no doubt that, with the civilian training software is not entirely appropriate because, as above that civilian and military software is always a gap between the software, which is perhaps only 10% of the gap will be precisely the

5, the future of virtualization software, how?

in the foreseeable future, the above description of the key principles of this simulation software should not be much progress in terms of the. Because the basic features of such a program - a huge map, the actual time, many of the units, the task open, intuitive and precise editor, a high degree of function of the script - are already in the set good times, and time proved that there are still routine vitality. Now, the main development objectives of virtualization software for better performance is the objective environment, which make up subjective advantages of virtual reality-type game course. So far, for various reasons (DirectX version, the user CPU, graphics performance, the program the basic settings, etc.), these virtual reality software still can not achieve many effects, such as better and more grass loaded model, with a map showing the seasonal changes in vegetation, rivers, ocean currents, underwater sports, etc., rendering is still not through. However, the speed of software evolution is unimaginable. In the can be achieved; from

I can not help but think of a few years ago, when I first contact with the flight simulation game, that is, afterburner plume beating in front of me, suddenly felt After a few years exposure to simulation games), the Now recall ten years ago (ten years but graduated from primary school to the time) that Moreover, the development of virtual reality software is fast moving online,

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