====== SimCore ======

☛ **Position**: **Software Architect & Main Developer**\\
☛ **Schedule**: Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2017\\
☛ **Client**: [[http://www.wescam.com/|L3 Wescam]]\\
☛ **Team size**: 1 people

===== Project description =====

SimCore is the successor of the [[public:work:mxsim:mxsim|MX-Sim project]]. This project was initiated to provide a new implementation of the simulation system, using state of the art technologies, in a very short time frame. Indeed MX-Sim was becoming overly complex and hard to maintain/extend and furthermore, upgrading from Virtual Battlespace 2 (VBS2) to VBS3 presented serious incompatibilities which required significant refactoring.

===== Responsibilities & Achievements =====

  * I adapted the system to the changes in the underlying 3D platform (moving to 64bit, removal of DirectX Hook, removal of lua bindings,etc)
  * I introduced an higher level of abstraction: making the core of the system "3D agnostic" and encapsulating DirectX interactions in a plugin. 
  * I significantly extended the project long term maintainability with:
    * A unified architecture: merged 5 separated softwares (created by 7 developers) in one, 
    * Major optimizations: moved from Lua & Java code to C++ (and javascript).
    * Intensive use of test/behavior driven implementation: written more than 450 complex tests,
    * Strict usage of git/gitlab workflows.
  * I created multiple communication channels (sockets, serial ports, IPC).
  * I built support for SDI video streaming (with embedded KLV data),
  * I designed all the user interfaces and HUDs as web apps based on AngularJS 2 framework and integrated them in the engine with CEF3.


⇒ In about 1 year on this project I managed to refactor and optimize the work that was previously achieved in more than 4 years by a team of 7 qualified developers. The SimCore project is currently in beta release phase, and already provides complete support and significantly better performances for a few of the major Wescam turret models. 


===== Skills & Techs =====

  * **Bohemia Interactive VBS3** 
  * **VTMAK VR-Vantage** 
  * **DirectX** 
  * **HLSL** 
  * **C++**
  * **NodeJS**
  * **HTML5**
  * **SASS** 
  * **Chromium Embedded Framework 3** 
  * **AngularJS 2** 
  * **RaphaelJS**

===== Links =====

  * [[https://www.gmv-insyen.com/product_l-3_wescam_mx_emulator.html|Official GMV INSYEN MX-Emulator webpage]]
  * [[https://www.gmv-insyen.com/product_l-3_wescam_mx_sim.html|Official GMV INSYEN MX-Simulator webpage]]
  * [[https://www.wescam.com/products-services/training-simulation/simulation-solutions/|L3 Wescam MX-Sim webpage]]

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8 video outputs from a single turrets
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SimCore control interface web app
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MX-Sim Emulator system
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Typical in simulation display
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5 outputs from a single turret in VBS3
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Video stream retrieved from SDI output
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MX-Sim simulator system
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