Fun one :)

[JRowe]

So, this should be relatively easy. I want to have 3 forces acting on a ship moving through space, with no gravity acting on it (it will slow down on it's own, though.)

I have this part working well enough. It's simple: Increment or decrement acceleration along an axis relative to the ship based on the key being pressed, or if the mouse cursor is located along the top or bottom of the screen (up and down).

You'll need A.Percy's Irrlicht plugin from here: http://www.box.net/shared/47jcql2vqk

Download my script, then copy and paste both Au3Irrlicht.dll and Irrlicht.dll into the script folder, along with irrlichtplugins.au3.

You can fly around in a spaceship

My problem is simple, I think. I want the camera to follow behind the ship model, while retaining the movement system. Anyone have any ideas?

Edited November 3, 2008 by jrowe

[JRowe]

Forgot to mention: Esc to quit, WASD to move the ship.

Once I can get a decent camera, I'm planning on doing a simple shooter game.

[monoceres]

To anyone else who are going to test this.

You have to change line 41 from:

$HeightMap = CreateImageFromFile( @ScriptDir & "\data\terrain-heightmap.bmp" )

To

$HeightMap = CreateImageFromFile( @ScriptDir & "\terrain-heightmap.bmp" )

Can't you use SetUpVector to position the camera behind the space ship all the time?

[JRowe]

Dunno, I'll check that out

Well, so far so good. I've gotten the camera to chase, and now I need to make the increment and decrement work according to the relative orientation of the ship, and not the absolute orientation of the force vector. I'll add pitch and roll, too, I guess.

Edited November 2, 2008 by jrowe

[JRowe]

By the way, devmaster.net is an awesome general resource and game development community.

http://www.devmaster.net/wiki/Vectors_and_matrices is exactly what I needed.