Amazing work Why!

I checked out the Unity's website and found several tutorials. Which one did you use besides the basics?

Looking good. I get the feeling a lot of FL modders are dumping FL and experimenting with the likes of Unity. We seem to have almost reached the end.

fantastic work. it really looks promising.
as I remember, some Russian guy also started to make one similar, just dunno was it with a same engine.
rly wanted to see work being finished and test the feel of flying / shooting!
fingers crossed 4 u to succeed, even with freeware version (if it is as "must"

Hey Why, nice looking so far.

Have you thought of trying Torque 3d? A little bit more involved than Unity, but if you want buy it it is only $150 USD , you get access to full engine source code, and 2 programming seats on the license. It also comes with browser plugins that you can compile specific to your project for FireFox and Internet Explorer to allow playing via the browser. It is a modern Triple A rated game engine with one of the best Networking code bases available.

EA, Bioware, Microsoft, and NASA all use a version of the Torque engine. With the Cost of Full Source at only $150 USD it is way more affordable the a License to Unity at $1500 USD.

Just a suggestion. check it out at: http://www.garagegames.com if you want to have a look.

It is what i am using currently.

Tonight I started writing turret scripts. Unlike pretty much everything else I've written for this little prototype, I'm actually trying to do the turrets right. Meaning, writing the script so that it is robust enough to handle all sorts of arbitrary turrets.(Provided the models were setup correctly.)

As of tonight I have them tracking arbitrary targets. They also can be given limits in elevation and azimuth. A good example of azimuth limiting is the front turret on the Rhino. It can't turn past a certain point or else it would end up hitting the ship. Elevation limits prevent the barrels from elevating to impossible extremes.

Next up is to write an actual turret controller. This means something that will actually assign targets to turrets. Right now I'm only doing it in a sort of developer/debug way. There's no way right now for a player to assign targets.

No video for tonight. Turrets aren't that exciting.



Yeah I remember it. It is the same engine. I haven't actually looked at their code beyond just a glance. I wanted to start from scratch anyway. Another thing to keep in mind is that if I was to ever make this into an actual game, I would have to rewrite nearly all of this from scratch. I didn't really build any of this in any supportable way. I just wanted a proof of concept demo that looked really impressive beyond all else.



I tried it a long time ago. I had no idea it was Unity. It was a very visually impressive game, but I never actually got into it because of how bad the lag was. The game also felt kind of clunky. It's too bad really, because it looked fantastic.



Unity license does suck for being so expensive. I haven't looked at Torque but I think it's pretty funny to use the Tribes 2 engine for a space sim.

I did at one point use the Ogre 3D graphics library to try something similar. I got much further along in that project than I did this one. I had integrated an open source physics engine and my own ship managers and spawners. It was far more robust than this hard coded, but pretty, demo. I'm not to keen on switching engines. Not at least until my pro trial runs out anyway.

What are you using Torque for anyway?

It does now wOdk4, things have changed now the battleships are coming.

Perhaps the new RTS portion will use Unity, but I have serious doubts they'd rewrite the *entire* game engine to use Unity when their initial solution was more than capable of rendering pretty space vistas.