Newtonian Flight and Weapon Gating
We integrate assisted Newtonian momentum, implement roll controls, and implement broadside weapon firing arcs.
Developer Log
- Newtonian Motion: Integrated Newtonian-like momentum for warship flight. Thrust inputs now accelerate the ship locally, letting pilots coast through the stars with automated brake-assist overrides.
- Broadside Fire Prototyping: Formulated the first weapon gating check. Capital ships compute target angles and ranges to determine if weapons are locked in side-firing broadside arcs.
Visual Changelog
Visual proof verifying local thrust vectors aligned with ship yaw rotation.
Visual broadside weapon ready status check, mapping target range and side arc verification.
Newtonian roll control test demonstrating up/right vectors following ship local basis.
Translucent compound voxel collision debug mesh highlighting physical bounds.
Showcase capture demonstrating skysphere rendering, engine ribbons, stardust particles, and planetary lighting.
Retrospective
- Basis Alignment Importance: Initial control mappings treated forward as world axes, which made movement feel disconnected once rotation was added. Interpret inputs in local ship axes immediately.
- Kill Stale Processes Guard: The game engine and build tools can hang when active windows are stacked. Terminating stale .NET runtime instances before each run is a must-have process guard.
“Add Newtonian flight momentum, WASD turning, Z/C roll. Integrate BEPUphysics v2 engine.”
Newtonian coasting and roll controls mapped in local space. BEPU v2 colliders active. Headless physics benchmark runs successfully at 10,000 entities.