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Common Driver Trainer (US Army National Guard)

This simulator places the trainee in a full-scale vehicle cab mounted to a large-capacity Stewart Platform (Hexapod) providing 6 degrees of freedom of motion, with intense acceleration and jerk capabilities. The cab can be configured on-the-fly for multiple different military vehicles, including Abrams Tank, Abrams Engineering, Stryker, MRAP, Medium and Heavy Tactical Wheeled vehicles. As Lead Environment Artist, my principle role was to model the surrounding environment using procedural terrain generation tools (e.g. Terra Vista, CityEngine, Maya, and custom C++ code). As such, it was part of my responsibility to ensure that the motion base moved in sync with the shape of the terrain through a combination of animated motion profiles and interactive physics engine.