Since the closing of CAE Presagis company and discontinuation of STAGE product and support, all the existing customers had to face a need of an alternative for STAGE.

Those who have STAGE embedded into heavy and long term projects may be worried but not impacted too much since the replacement of STAGE SIM will be too costly and error prone. User Modules and scripts cannot be simply moved to another solution.

But those with a new project and in need of a simulation SDK or a scenario generation tool will have to consider using another tool.

From my long experience with STAGE as a programmer first, then expert consultant, I realized that 90% of STAGE users are only using the Real-time controller, the mapping, the trajectories, the platforms dynamics models and the sensors (all basics) while adding some scripts and C code user-modules. Considering the price of the SDK and the runtime license, it is a huge waste of money.

Those who need nice 3D and do not care much about fidelity, scenario edition and what-if procedures are going with VBS, even if they will end-up caught in a money trap on the long term.

Those who need an integrated SDK with just-enough 3D view, are going with VR-Forces, even if at the end, they will change four 25 cens for 1 dollar, between the cost of the product, the burden programming with an heavy C++ orientated API, the complexity of the SDK and the slowness of the simulation.

On the contrary, vsTASKER is a light, affordable and white-box solution. It does provide out of the box what 90% of STAGE or VR-Forces users are expecting, but with one main advantage: the visual coding interface. While competition is offering predefined tasks or doctrines mechanisms (which are black-boxes) vsTASKER let users define graphically their logics and place the code where it make sense. Easy to develop, easy to fix, easy to trace.

Since the size of the software vendor no more guarantee sustainability of the products, it is time to try another mature solution, lighter and more customizable than the market heavyweights.

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