Bonus Material

The MAK RTI (Run-Time Infrastructure) is the fastest way for High Level Architecture (HLA) compliant simulations to communicate. Efficient and easy to use, the MÄK RTI keeps CPU, bandwidth and memory requirements to an absolute minimum to maximize performance. This link lets you download the complete, released version of the MÄK RTI. You can run it and use all features without having to obtain a license key. The only restriction is that you can only connect two federates.

VR-Vantage FreeView is MÄK’s free terrain and model viewer, built on the VR-Vantage platform. With FreeView you can view your existing terrain databases and models. FreeView also allows you to experience the VR-Vantage user interface, VR-Vantage terrain composition capabilities, and the VR-TheWorld Online terrain server.

QT is an open source (LGPL) software library for cross platform GUI development developed and supported by Nokia. MAK uses QT in all of our products. We slightly modify the libraries before using them so that the libraries are linked with the versions embedded in the library name. This prevents conflicts between products which use different versions of QT.

The download page has links to Qt 4.5, 4.6.3, and 4.7.4 for several different platforms. If you need a different version, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Please read the QT FAQ for more details.

NetUtils is a package of several VR-Link example programs which are useful for debugging simulation network connectivity problems. The package includes a small sample federate called F18 which simulates a simple F18 object circling in the pacific. Other tools include a packet dump utility for DIS, and an Object/Interaction update tool for HLA.

These tools are provided as pre-compiled binaries only. You may use them for network debugging only without charge. Because they are free, and freely available, we ask that you do not redistribute them. Rather, if you would like to share them please direct interested parties to this site for download.

Please read the FAQ for more details.

Marine Missile Defense is a small plug-in for VR-Forces 3.12, which adds an anti-missile missile system useful for ships. Additionally, this module adds an enhanced damage actuator that calculates cumulative damage from multiple hits, useful for any large entity types.

The package includes pre-compiled binaries for Windows VC++8, full source code, a new simulation model set, and a demonstration scenario. More detailed documentation is included with the package.

This package contains XSLT files for converting HLA 1516 FDD files to the HLA Evolved FDD format. For those unfamiliar with HLA 1516, the FDD file is an XML formatted file which describes your FOM and is required by the RTI to connect a federate. In HLA 1.3 these files were called FED files and frequently ended with the .fed extension. XSLT is a powerful language which can be used to transform XML documents. Many open source tools can be found to do the transformation using these documents. Usage of these tools will require working knowledge of XML, XML Tools and the HLA 1516-2010 Standard.

The transformations performed by these scripts are not comprehensive, but will get you most of the way there, perhaps doing as much as 95% percent of the work.

OMTDiff is a command line tool that allows you to quickly identify the differences between object models.  It is useful for developing effective HLA bridges between FOMs as well as keeping track of changed between versions of FOMS