Alliance Space Guard

[Cody]

Thought I'd already given this a thread, but I can't find it, so I presume I didn't. Anyway...

Alliance Space Guard (a 3D space-sim with orbits and ship avionics) is here.
The latest dev log video (ship maintenance) is here.

[Cholmondely]

I only know Oolite, so I don't understand this quote from the first link:

Space flight involves 6 degrees of freedom without any damping (no atmospheric drag) which makes manual piloting extremely difficult.

What does this mean?

[Cody]

Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed yaw (normal axis), pitch (transverse axis), and roll (longitudinal axis).

[Cholmondely]

Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed yaw (normal axis), pitch (transverse axis), and roll (longitudinal axis).

No, no, not that. Why is manual piloting without drag supposed to be so difficult?

[Cody]

New dev log here.