Open Source Simulation Software

Founded in 1997, FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create the most realistic flight simulator possible that is free to use, modify and distribute. FlightGear is used all over the world by desktop flight simulator enthusiasts, for research in universities and for interactive exhibits in museums. FlightGear features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute.

Rigs of Rods is a 3D simulator game where you can drive, fly and sail various vehicles using an accurate and unique soft-body physics engine. Since 2014, the development continued at https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods UPDATE: 10/30/2016: removed opencandy installers, replaced with zip files.

An Open Source model rocket simulator.

A complete open source implementation of DIS (Distributed Interactive Simulation) in C++. 1278.1 and 1278.1a are fully implemented including enumerations. Includes several utility classes to help with developing your DIS app. DIS 7 work is ongoing.

GLUI is a GLUT-based C++ user interface library which provides controls such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and spinners to OpenGL applications. It is window-system independent, using GLUT or FreeGLUT.

Small simulation that can drive a CIGI compliant IG to do EOIR sensor simulation. This is based on the OpenEaagles framework (HOST) and the MultiPurposeViewer (IG).

Step is an interactive physical simulation program for education. StepCore is a physical simulation library on which Step is based. Please refer to http://edu.kde.org/step for more details.

open-source flight simulator, for RC-models and real aircraft, with a special orientation towards gliders. OpenSceneGraph based full 3D renderer.

Sour*eforge.net has become inaccesible to me because of Cl*udflare. The latest version of skunks is on my site: https://matei.one/. 3D realistic driving (not racing) simulation with software rendering, based on Open Dynamics Engine (which is included in all *.tar.gz files so it doesn't have to be downloaded separately). 10 cars (all electric) and 16 tracks are available in version 5.1.0. Cars and tracks can be easily created and modified. Only SDL 1.2 or SDL 2 required besides standard C library. GNU/Linux and Wind0ws executables are available. If using GNU/Linux and SDL 2, it might be necessary to add -lpthread in the comp file, at line 2.

Palomino was an unfinished action/combat flight simulator. Air-to-air combat mode was never implemented. However, it does have a land-on-carrier and shoot-SAMs missions. Requires OpenSceneGraph. Optional: SDL, FLTK.

Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java. It is designed by the digital preservation community to make sure that documents and programs from the past can still be accessed in the future. Dioscuri is durable and component-based.

tXtFL is a strategy-based football simulator. Teams can be created from real stats on the web, built through custom designed plays, and then used to coach games or predict scores. Note that as of 2010, all new development is taking place at http://textflex.com/txtfl.

Free 3D Acropolis is a model 3D in hight resolution of the Acropolis of Athens shortly after its construction.

Quan is designed to model physical quantities in C++ programs. Advantages include automated dimensional analysis checking, automatic unit conversions, self documentation of code.

Scripted Roulette is an original application which helps you to develop and analyze new betting strategies for the casino game Roulette. Learn and understand more about the chances you really have to win.

The JASI library provides an architecture based on a simulation kernel and elementary classes for simulation elements and event to build event-based simulation systems in Java.

NIMSpro is a multiplayer simulator for emergency responder and homeland security training. NIMSpro enables fire, police, EMS, etc. to practice tactics, decision making, communication, and incident command (NIMS, ICS, Firescope). Instructor controls sims.

An Economy Simulation with many Possibilities trying to be near to reality. Using XML, Python an OpenGL to make it useable on many OS. And also beeing an simulation taht can be so realistic that ist could be used for research (maybe).

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A-Life CAD is a toolkit providing a graphical interface for designing autonomous agents that can be linked against an AI game engine. Though it focuses on creating boid-like behaviours, it can also be used for physical simulation or swarm optimisation.

This is a framework to develop Contexts and Agents and a Container to run them. The Container lets each Agent interact with the Context and other Agents. The agents are deployed in jar files and each one runs in an exclusive sandbox.

Track your Agility dog trial results. Multiple dogs can be tracked in a single file. Many venues are supported. Windows and Mac are supported. Please note: ARB moved to GitHub on 2017-12-27: https://github.com/dconnet/AgilityBook

Investigate and visualize ant-routing (or, Ant Colony Optimization)

Arcus is a Rubik's Cube Simulator written in Java featuring 3D display and cube manipulation. Besides conventional solving, getting from any pattern to any goal pattern is supported. Allows the user to bidirectionally walk through the cube's history.

Artifical World simulator, it simulate virtual 3D world and execute IA programs. It have API for programming IAs in C++. it use Irrlicht as 3D engine.