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#14 Transport Update, also rigidbody character controller, patches and start menu
January 03, 2023 by ashtorak
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If you upload new game versions frequently on Itch use Butler! It's really good! I have shied away from it for too long, seeing the command line interface, but you really just have to put one line in... Continue reading
#13 tank farm
November 12, 2022 by ashtorak
At the beginning of August I was looking into using an existing simulation software for the tank farm. I mainly looked at Open Modelica. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to exist an easy way to integr... Continue reading
#12 new unity beta, updated ship and booster models
August 02, 2022 by ashtorak
At the beginning of July I was chilling a bit, watching TwitchCon and afterwards a lot of different IRL streamers (I am slightly addicted...) and then the new Unity beta for 2022.2 dropped. Updating t... Continue reading
#11 QDs and better prop loading
June 30, 2022 by ashtorak
Before work on the tank farm can start I had to do the QDs to be able to load the rocket with propellant in the first place. Big thanks to Owe for letting me use his Booster QD model. It's a bit old t... Continue reading
#10 Ray Tracing and new catcher
May 19, 2022 by ashtorak
Setting up Ray Tracing works pretty good now in Unity. Performance could be better of course. But I am happy that I get some usable results at all with my 2060. I love the real time reflections. It ju... Continue reading
#9 High Defintion Rendering Pipeline (HDRP)
April 03, 2022 by ashtorak
I have converted the Unity project to the High Defintion Rendering Pipeline (HDRP). What does this mean? In HDRP the rendering process works slightly different than in the default rendering pipeline,... Continue reading
#8 booster improved, charts, dust, vents, camera control
March 06, 2022 by ashtorak
The title pretty much contains everything new: - booster is now also on articulation body setup using aero drag, and there is a new shiny 33-engine version (I don't like how the reflection works, thou... Continue reading
#7 Owe, legs and flaps
February 07, 2022 by ashtorak
New: - launch mount by Owe with 20 clamps and nice staircase - Starship legs by Steve Mattinson - Starship flaps, fully functional with automatic pitch control and aero drag - complete rework of ship... Continue reading
#6 catching rocket ships
December 24, 2021 by ashtorak
Implemented basic ship control for xmas update. I barely got it done. So there are only PC and WebGL builds for the moment. I also wanted to look more into some issues with the Linux build before doin... Continue reading
#5 two small fixes and extra Oculus support
December 15, 2021 by ashtorak
Fixed not being able to fuel booster after landing. Limited the value range for the integrating part of the PID controller. Before it could run into a min/max float error when using extreme values for... Continue reading
#4 catching rockets
December 14, 2021 by ashtorak
Finally added landing and catching of the booster! Didn't expect it to take soo long, but there was so much fine tuning and testing and UI work. Crazy. In the end it was about half of the time work on... Continue reading
#3 fixing WebGL, again, and other bugs
November 01, 2021 by ashtorak
Only new thing, besides some smaller stuff, is the implementation of the small arms under the catchers which prevent the booster from swinging. I called them "swing locks". Even though it doesn't real... Continue reading
#2 new UI, better VR, radial catcher movement
October 22, 2021 by ashtorak
Dev Log #2 ooooff! Did an overhaul of the control panel UI to use the Unity Canvas system. As expected it took longer than expected! So many settings and bugs with the interaction when switching from... Continue reading
#1 First Update! :)
October 11, 2021 by ashtorak
I have updated the description quite a bit as well. Check it out also! What have I done: 1. Putting in VR with the newest Unity plugins was quite easy. But ironing out the details of the VR interface... Continue reading