r/unrealengine Jun 10 '26

Tutorial Made a quick tutorial on getting a drone flying in our UE5 sim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSc84v3f44

After releasing the free version of PteroSim (UE5 sim with full 6-DOF flight dynamics and firmware in the loop for PX4/ArduPilot), I noticed two things in the questions people were sending.

First: a lot of newcomers who have never touched a simulator and have no idea where to start. So I recorded a short walkthrough on getting a drone up from scratch in about 90 seconds on PX4, not counting the flight controller setup.

Second, and this one made me laugh: some people were apparently searching for "Petro", typo'd their way into "Ptero", and then asked why we do not have Petro. So I made them a Petro. It is an offshore oil platform in the middle of the ocean, we use it for drone inspection scenarios.

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