Gravity

Anonymouse · Post by **Anonymouse** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:45 am

I don't know any programming, but I was thinking a mod that introduces planetary & star gravity wells might be cool. It would be interesting having to orbit and do slingshot maneuvers, and combat would be a whole different animal.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:28 pm

(Different Guest)

Anyone _really_ good at maths, then?

I've got the feeling that this may require a rebuild of the entire physics engine.

Post by **dandandaman** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:09 pm

if you browse on over to the old sourceforge forums (from the project page)....or get in your time machine and travel back to the earlier incarnations of this forum, then you'll see that the topic of "realistic physics"/"realistic gravity"/"anything more real" has been mooted each and every time by effectively overwhelming opposition

at the end of the day, if people want it enough, and can find someone willing to do it properly, then you are free to do a mod, but I probably don't think it's going to happen in the main VS data set/source

Dan.a

ATStriker · Post by **ATStriker** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:00 pm

i thought it was originally in, but was really really not fun.

Post by **dandandaman** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:05 am

ATStriker wrote:i thought it was originally in, but was really really not fun.

well,the physics engine is using newtonian physics.....but most of this is hidden from the pilot by the "ship computer".....

to change this would require 1 - config variable changes and 2 - some source changes ( to get the proper gravity simulation stuff for slingshots etc)

Dan.a

pincushionman · Post by **pincushionman** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:44 am

I believe the developers of Rylix intend to have those kind of game mechanics.

-pincushionman

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