The presented toolkit enables any user to view ship behaviour in rough seas or during grounding. These particular problems in ship dynamics become clear with the aid of visual simulation. For extending this visualisation system and gaining more flexibility and speed, the relevant data for ship motion and grounding, as well as the environmental properties, should be saved in a database where they can be changed easily. Some modifications are needed to make the code work in real time. After that, this visualisation system can be used as part of a real time simulator. For use in a simulator, other already widely accepted graphics format readers also should be included. These would make it easier to read additional graphic elements such as e.g. ship superstructures. This will improve significantly the visualisation quality. These graphics formats can be 3ds, dxf and flt formats. The system was, nevertheless, implemented in a way that easily allows these changes. If the computer capacity increases sufficiently to allow the LAIDYN calculation routine to work in real time, then this part is possible to use as the simulator core. Autopilot steering can be easily changed to joystick steering. As a result, a real-time simulator of ship motions in 6 DOF can be constructed.
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