{"id":4071,"date":"2016-10-30T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2016-10-30T23:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:05:34","slug":"p-172-unity-space-environment-part-28-space-exploration-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-172-unity-space-environment-part-28-space-exploration-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"P-172: Unity: Space Environment: Part 28: Space Exploration Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have fixed all of the bugs with my current scene, all of my existing code is now working again.<\/p>\n

I have also, after some effort, integrated my player with the SEE. I have collision working, and the advanced camera is working. The camera system is a little unusual. It is actually two cameras, one with a long view distance, to render the skybox and distant terrain nodes, and one with a short view distance, to render closer objects. Both of these cameras combine together to render the scene, and this eliminates any z-buffer precision issues. Very clever.<\/p>\n

I have decided to integrate the SEE player with my own player, instead of switching to it. I had initially planned to have a separate player and “player with jetpack”, but since the jetpack functionality is really part of the player, I just added it to the player controller. I can switch it on and off easily, and it seems to work well.
\nI am assuming for now that the jetpack ignores gravity, ie, its movement is very simplistic, and allows the user to essentially “hover” in space. In future, I will need it to take into account the gravity of any nearby planets.<\/p>\n

The next, and hopefully final, goal with the SEE is to enable the player to control ships. I am just using the simple demo ship that game with the SEE for now, and the player can already walk around it easily, but I am having some issues with actually controlling it.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to post pictures of my progress, since, as I said, the unity editor can’t render the scene that the player actually sees, since it just uses a standard camera with a short view distance. I would need to build the engine and run it as a standalone application, which takes some time.<\/p>\n

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I have fixed all of the bugs with my current scene, all of my existing code is now working again. I have also, after some effort, integrated my player with the SEE. I have collision working, and the advanced camera is working. The camera system is a little unusual. It is actually two cameras, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astral-realms","category-p-0","category-software-and-games","category-spiritus-astrum","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}