Flight Simulation

[jade vigil]

My first 'real' attempt at creating and releasing a game on/for steam.
everything aside from plane models are procedurally generated and all systems are built with the mindset of 'replicate/emulate physics' i.e. sound and flight simulation logic.

there are a few known issues such as the map causing locked fps of 20 and rubber-banding when using steamworks for multiplayer
i would love some tips from more experienced programmers in all areas of the game, specifically including but not limited to the flight simulation, terrain generation pipeline, rendering(vulkan) pipeline and the steamworks implementation
repo
latest github-produced binary download link

[flat storm]

Ooh 👀

Also löve 2D is peak

[jade vigil]

i dont like the discord community so i ported to C++ to continue working on it lol

[flat storm]

Hmm

[jade vigil]

bunch of negative nancies over there that act pessimistic

[flat storm]

But not gonna lie a full 3d fightsim in a 2D engine in honesty rly cool

[jade vigil]

you ask how to do something and theyll waste 10 minutes saying not to try without caring to think of a solution

i dont like it

i like helping others acheive goals, not shut down their dreams

sometimes that includes a reality check but not always

[flat storm]

Yeah honestly

[jade vigil]

its functional and i have a version saved locally but i dont want to support the community soley because of how i was treated in the discord by the general community

so its kinda basically dead media

[flat storm]

Makes sense

[flat storm]

NGL i actually like the engine as just an engine

[jade vigil]

its a framework but i agree lol

(semantics matter)

[flat storm]

Ehh, I guess

[jade vigil]

i Love Löve2D

but i wont use it anymore

[flat storm]

I also Löve Löve2D

NGL I don’t use it much tho

Cuz I do most of my programming in C

[jade vigil]

i would use ffi to call c/c++ from lua runtime

best of both worlds

easy window creation and such from Love and low level speed from C

[flat storm]

NGL I feel like if half of ur functions are in c, it’s easier to use smth like Python

But maybe thats jst cuz I use Python for more memory-safe types lol

And I jst call a C function

To do all the work

[jade vigil]

ive never had to use cpython much because i love lua so much and dealt with love since finding it

i have 60+ love2d based projects i think

and like 90+ python projects

most python i use is for the pip installable modules that make prototyping easy

[flat storm]

Makes sense

[jade vigil]

this also got pretty annoying with Lua/love2d lol

i would migrate logic into modules, add stuff to main while implementing it, then migrate to modules

[flat storm]

😭

[jade vigil]

constantly fighting the local declaration limit for a single scope

these are all from the lua/Love2D version