DISUnity - Open-Source DIS For Unity[Alpha]

Hey Guys,

I just wanted to let you know about a project I have been working on over the past 6 months. I am planning on submitting a version to the Asset Store soon but wanted to get a feel for interest.

Its a Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) library.
DIS is an IEEE networking standard (1278.1) used to link simulators(mainly military) together - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation

I wrote a C++ DIS library a few years ago called KDIS(https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdis/files/stats/timeline) which has proven very popular over the years.
I was going to port KDIS to Unity but decided the best approach would be a complete re-write in order to get a portable and none Unity Pro integration with Unity. If you are familiar with KDIS then DISUnity will be very similar however it will also feature many more common simulation features, it will not just be a low level DIS API - however you can just use it as that if you wish

Some of the features at the moment:

• Every element of DIS can be edited in the inspector(PDU, Data types), many feature custom property drawers - Sorry this means DISUnity will only work in Unity 4.0 +
• Event based system. Subscribe to low level messages such as PDU type or higher sim messages such as new entity, entity removed etc
• Simulation framework features, entities, connection class supporting broadcast and multicast, Unity coordinates to world coordinates etc.
• Currently Entity State PDU is the only one implemented although I will be doing them all.
• Entity Map - Reads the SISO xml entity enumerations document.
• A simple wizard will set up your scene for DIS.

Hopefully this quick mind dump has peaked your interest

You can get a copy of this now from the project page GIT repository or wait for it on the asset store(probably better).

Project Page :- https://sourceforge.net/projects/unitydis/

I would love to hear from people who are using or plan to use DIS in Unity, what features would you like?

Karl

 

Hi Karl,

You can count me as one of the people interested in using DIS in Unity!

 

Thanks avee

I just replied to your message.

 

Hi

What became of this? I see you have a github page but still says 'prealpha' I also do not see it available on the asset store?

We have Unity Pro - What does it take to integreate KDIS with unity?

Regards

 

Hi,

I am still working on it, I just have not had as much time as I would like.
It will work in Unity Pro, just grab the latest version from sourceforge. What DIS features do you need? it has a limited number of PDU at the moment.

Karl

 

Hi Karl,

I see you are still working on this and I am quite interested. Is there an asset available that I can test? I went to the source page you posted but no files were available for download.

 

Hi Karl
How is your Progress ob this Library? I would be very interested in testing it out with Unity5.5.
Regards Daniel

 

I am also interested in this if available.

 

Hi, just wondering if anyone is using this at the moment?

Ive managed to get it working on my terrain and intergrated with VBS3 using unity 2019.3.017.

The Units are created in the correct location but are all orientated North,

Has anyone done any work with this?

cheers spriggsy

 

can you share your further findings ?

 

If you still have interest for DIS support in Unity, please contact me jpl@ds.tools.

Thanks

 

I wish this was still maintained.

 

Actually, is this a more updated version than the one on sourceforge?

https://github.com/karljj1/disunity