ROVIEW // LIGHT INSPECTION-CLASS ROV PILOT SIMULATOR
Fly a compact tethered ROV the way working pilots do: photograph ship hulls, moorings and live pipe-lay, watch your depth, surface with a scored report. Scroll to dive.
WAYPOINT 01 · −6 M · THE VEHICLE
ROView models the light inspection class generically: the compact, hi-vis workhorse that flies photo surveys on hulls, moorings and pipelines. Drag, buoyancy and restoring forces are all simulated, so the vehicle drifts, settles and holds station like the real thing.
ROV STATUS · PRE-DIVE
Diffuse beats direct in turbid water. You'll learn that the hard way — once.
−20 M · VIS 12 M · CURRENT 0.4 KN
The colour goes first.
Then the light.
WAYPOINT 02 · −26 M · THE JOBS
Pick a job from the mission board. Every one runs the way inspection operators run it: deploy, survey, surface.
JOB 01 · MOORED VESSEL
Bring any of eight hulls alongside, then photograph every General-Arrangement component: props, rudders, sea chests, anodes, sensors. Coverage and capture quality drive your score.
13–27 INSPECTION POINTS / HULL
JOB 02 · DEEP-WATER MOORING
Descend 60 m down a working mooring: buoy and bull ring, moused shackles, swivel, riser chain, ground ring and three ground legs out to the anchors.
MAX DEPTH 60 M · FULL CHAIN
JOB 03 · LIVE PIPE-LAY
A lay barge steams ahead paying out pipe at up to 1 m/s. Inspect the moving touchdown, the catenary and sagbend, then range back over field joints, anodes, free spans and coating.
BARGE ≤1.0 M/S · ROV 1.5 M/S
JOB 04 · PILED JETTY
Fly the piles top to bottom: marine growth, splash-zone corrosion, concrete spalling, scour, bracing and fender damage. Confined water, live traffic.
SPLASH ZONE → BED · SCOUR CHECK
WAYPOINT 03 · −34 M · THE FLEET
The harbour keeps eight vessels on the roster, each with its real inspection-point count from the game's vessel registry. Draught, trim and clearance change the flying, so no two dives brief the same.
WAYPOINT 04 · −41 M · THE SURVEY
You're alongside the Coastal Defence Ship, five components from her General-Arrangement sheet in range. Put the reticle on each one and shoot. This is the gameplay loop, playable right here.
SURVEY COMPLETE
COVERAGE 5/5 · SCORE 0 · REPORT READY
In the full mission it's 26 points on this hull, a timer, capture-quality grading and a scored report at the surface.
−52 M · VIS 4 M · LIGHTS DIFFUSE
Past fifty metres,
the survey sheet is the map.
WAYPOINT 05 · −58 M · THE CONSOLE
The heading, depth and tether readouts around this page mirror the simulator's own HUD. In the game they carry live flight data, beside an MJPEG feed that any browser or VLC can watch from a second screen.
WAYPOINT 06 · −60 M · TECH FILE
The full write-up of the physics and systems behind the sim: rigid-body hydrodynamics, thruster allocation, the camera and lighting model, mission scoring, and the MJPEG streaming architecture. Math typeset, figures included.
ASCENT · 0 M · SURFACE · DEBRIEF
ROView is in active development and headed to Steam at A$15. The store page is on its way; until it's live, this is the place to watch.
COMING SOON ON STEAM · A$15
A$15 on Steam. The store page is being set up now; until it's live, this site is the place to watch — or write to us and we'll tell you when it lands.
A Windows PC handles it comfortably; it's a compact Unity 6 build. Keyboard works out of the box, and any gamepad is plug-and-fly with full remapping and transmitter Modes 1–4.
Both, deliberately. The hydrodynamics, FPV workflow, checklist discipline and scored reports mirror real inspection operations, and every mission is still built to be fun to fly.
Please. Manufacturers, training schools and working pilots are exactly who this is for. Write to [email protected].
