About Virtual Sailor
Virtual Sailor NG was created by Ilan Papini first version released in July 2021.
Virtual Sailor NG is based upon two older programs developed by Ilan – Vehicle Simulator and Fire Flight,
the first was a full fledged flight simulator and the second being a full fledged marine simulator.
During the years of their existence the power of the personal computer and 3D graphics increased so much that it became possible to combine the best of both worlds into one program containing :
- Excellent first person ground level graphics.
- Excellent naval environment both above and below water.
- Excellent atmospheric simulation up to space.
- Excellent vehicle simulation for land, naval and flying vehicles.
Virtual Sailor is a complete rewrite and complete conceptual redesign based upon the two programs above, resulting in a much denser scenery than before, excellent physical simulation, and scalable design allowing it to grow and contain more types of vehicles and objects.
The greatest benefit of all is offering a single platform for content development for both types of applications, allowing flight simulation to happen over the same scenery as naval simulations, and for planes to land on vehicles and more.
Virtual Sailor includes an intuitive and simple scenery design inside the 3D environment, making it much simpler for users to create and share content than before.
The program uses fully documented formats for creating scenery, vehicles and animals, users are encouraged to get a hands on experience designing and making add-ons and to share them with others.
Advanced add-ons can be created using DLLs for instrument panels, animals and scenery objects, source code for such DLLs is given as part of the program to encourage advanced users to develop high quality content for the program.
The program is fully compatible with scenery, boats and planes made for Virtual Sailor or Micro Flight, after installing these add-ons the program imports them automatically and creates the new vehicle paramters needed for them to run.
Vehicles can be edited and created inside the program and accurate physical properties can be set for them and tested in fligth or sail, making the program an excellet tool for learing the phyisical properties of these vehicles and their design.
Documentation and tools for designing scenery, vehicles and animals can be found on the websites of Virtual Sailor.
www.hangsim.com/virtual-sailor
Minimal requirements for running Virtual Sailor
Virtual Sailor was designed to run on the average gaming machine specs available for 2021, however it can be adjusted to run on machines with less performance.
Virtual Sailor is built to use DirectX9 with vertex and pixel shaders 2.0 and volumetric textures.
It is essential that your computer has a video card which is compatible with DirectX9.
Minimum Requirements
CPU: Intel Core I5
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6500 GTX
VRAM: 1024MB of Graphics Memory
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
OS: Microsoft Windows 10
DirectX: DX9.0c
Obtaining more vehicles and scenery
Virtual Sailor has several websites in which you can download more vehicles and scenery, and also get more information about creating these add-ons, these sites are the main sites and from them you can access the partner sites which offer much more content:
www.hangsim.com/virtual-sailor
To install vehicles and scenery follow this procedure:
- Copy the add-on file into the directory of the program (typically “C:\Virtual Sailor”)
- Run the add-on file, and allow it to unpack itself.
- Run the program and examine the new vehicle or new scenery.
Getting information or support
PLEASE NOTE YOU WILL NOT GET ANY SUPPORT SINCE WEBSITE IS NOT LIVE.
Virtual Sailor has several websites from which you can download more vehicles and scenery, and also get more information about creating these add-ons.
www.hangsim.com/virtual-sailor
There is also a support forum in which you can ask questions and get answers about using the program or creating new content for it
www.hangsim.com/forums
In case you need help installing or using your program and cannot find the answers on this document or the websites above please contact support
support@hangsim.com
We wish you a very enjoyable use of Virtual Sailor and many hours of exploration and fun.