LVC Game ships with a browser-based configuration and monitoring tool. With a set of features that is growing every release, users can:

• Monitor traffic on the network
• Inspect the state of all local and simulation entities
• Configure incoming and outgoing mappings - including intelligent capture of unmapped types
• Export and import mapping sets to make transfer of configuration data simple
• Configure entity offsets and overrides
• Monitor the LVC Game log file for deeper analysis
• Automatically generate support packages for when you need quick-fire help from the Calytrix support team

Inbound entities are those entities that exist in the external DIS/HLA "worlds" and are controlled by the external systems. Inbound entities can be mapped to any object in the local "game" world of the supported 3rd party product. For example, a DIS enumeration of "x x x x x x x" could be mapped to a model of an American F-18 aircraft in CSE. In that example, CSE would display its F-18 model according to the info retrieved by LVC Game from the outside worlds of DIS/HLA. Specifically, if the pilot in an external F-18 flight simulator were to turn on the afterburners and pull the aircraft into a vertical climb over St Louis’s airport, viewers in CSE in the simulated terrain area of St Louis’s airport would see overhead an F-18 with its afterburners on, climbing vertically.

Outbound entities are those entities that are created in the private world of the supported 3rd party product and controlled by that supported product. Outbound entities can be mapped to any external DIS/HLA values.  As a result, changes in position, speed, operational status, etc. in the "private world" models are broadcast to the external DIS/HLA worlds. In this way, external DIS/HLA programs like JSAF or OneSAF are kept up to date with the latest info about entities controlled by the LVC Game supported product.

Dead Reckoning (DR) is the mathematical computation of the next likely position of a moving object based on its last known position and velocity.  Dead Reckoning is commonly required in simulation networks to display smooth movements while minimizing network load.  LVC Game performs DR calculations as a service to its supported products and supports all standard DR algorithms. LVC Game performs the specified calculations to generate new positions for each incoming entity between network updates. LVC Game also determines when to send a network update for outgoing entities based on the users choice of DR algorithm and configurable thresholds.

LVC Game transforms spatial coordinates between the external DIS/HLA worlds and the “private world” of the supported product. For example, many serious games products operate within small to medium sized terrain spaces, some as small as a few city blocks in area, others perhaps several square kilometres in area, and others perhaps many dozen square kilometres in area. At these smaller scales, the curvature of the earth is not significant and can generally be ignored. As a result, many game-technology products do not consider the curvature of the earth. Larger simulations, especially those that can operate on a global scale, must consider the terrain as a highly accurate representation of real earth.  LVC Game manages this divide by interfacing with the supported 3rd party product in its native spatial coordinate system yet simultaneously communicating with external DIS/HLA entities using "Round Earth" spatial coordinate systems.

Calytrix works with Development Partners to integrate LVC Game with their applications, thus enabling more and more 3rd party products with DIS/HLA and C2 compatibility.  Calytrix can supply an Application Programmer's Interface (in C++ API), sample code, and detailed documentation to permit integration of a new 3rd party product with LVC Game. Our experience has shown that integration can be achieved rapidly, with a proof-of-concept taking only a couple of days.