rampage128 / space-fight

A fast paced space-shooter game in opengl and jMonkeyEngine3

Hi there 👋, I am Frederik (aka rampage)

Developer since 2003 and full time nerd since 1998

I love writing software and making things. Now that you have found me on github please feel free to check out my profile below or browse through some of my projects.

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space-fight's Issues

Bad motion handling

Issue:

Unfortunately the algorithm to compute exact steering commands for the AI is not entirely correct, which is leading to erratic behaviour in certain situations.

Background:

• AI uses steering-commands to control the ship (like a player)
• Physics is computed externally by jBullet (also threaded) and solely relies on impulses for input

This means AI has to anticipate the ships behaviour (linear and rotational stopping distances) and trenslate this into proper steering commands.

Bad turret aiming

Issue

Turrets do not shoot properly due to bad aim.

Background

• Turrets have their turning-axes not aligned on one point (vertical aiming or even rotation is offset by design)
• Offset of the barrels is taken into account, when aiming

Due to some wrong calculation this only works properly on certain angles.

AdvancedList is broken

Issue

The AdvancedList implementation is broken since the new nifty version. Fallback to the default ListBox causes severe layout issues, because the height of the List cannot be set by the container (only by number of items to show).

Background

• AdvancedList was decorating ListBox to allow setting the height of the ListBox as percentage
• ListBox implementation has changed and made most of the classes PackagePrivate, leading to severe breaking changes
• AdvancedList has been replaced with ListBox for the moment

Possible solution

Duplicating ListBox code into a game package.

Long engine trails on respawn

Issue

When a ship respawns, the engine trails draw a line from point of destruction to the respawn point

Possible solution

Reset trail computation when the engine control is reset