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Gitanmaxx
Viziam
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.20 19:40:00 -
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Shizuken wrote:Mr Steinberg wrote:My kid came over and asked me what makes eve space ships turn, and i had to make up some random stuff about stuff he cant see on the screen. Anyone have a good answer to this?  You set a new heading and the game engine proceeds to rotate your ship model according to a predefined rotation based ob where you were pointed and where you want to point. Seriously, CCP ****** their physics hard in the beginning because they lacked the budget to do it properly. Then they came up with this fluidic space nonsense to cover for it. It needs to be redone in the worst way.
Not at all. I think it adds a very sci-fi feel to it called "hand-wavium" all good sci-fi has that. I like that they didn't go with regular vacuum physics because it makes it unique and is plausible. |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.09.20 23:14:00 -
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I've played games with a full Newtonian physics engine.
Unless you start in pretty much the same place, you end up jousting, barely able to see the other ship. Fly towards them, starting firing when they come into range (don't forget that they're moving towards you too, so the range calculation is a little more complex, if your weapons have travel time), then turn, and shoot at them as you fly past. At that point, you might have to stop, if the relative velocity is higher than your weapon's speed. And that's only if you've both decided to fight on the same plane. Otherwise you will have to work on that, too.
It wasn't particularly fun.
FuzzWork Enterprises
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Bigpimping
Pimp Inc.
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Posted - 2012.09.21 00:02:00 -
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Using space propellers of course |
Echrah
Assisted Genocide
Black Legion.
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Posted - 2012.09.21 04:07:00 -
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Doctor ForumAlt wrote:The ship never turns.
Chuck Norris rotates space around your ship.
Fixed that for you.
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