But the advantage of the new code is that someone can reasonably look at it and figure out how to do this.
OK... understood. It just feels that there is no push-back from bumping into something. In real life, when you bump into something the elastic deformations cause an opposite force to propel you backwards. Bump hard enough, and those elastic forces become permanent. Then there is also the mass of the two bouncy objects to consider.
So, you should not be able to push an asteroid around unless you have some combination of serious horsepower and time on your hands
However, if you bump into something roughly your own weight it also needs to have some motion applied to it.
But I suppose we'll get there easier with this newer code, right?
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OK... understood. It just feels that there is no push-back from bumping into something. In real life, when you bump into something the elastic deformations cause an opposite force to propel you backwards. Bump hard enough, and those elastic forces become permanent. Then there is also the mass of the two bouncy objects to consider.
Haven't looked at what's there now, but when last I touched it, the collision code computed the 100% elastic and 100% inelastic collisions via the momentum conservation method, applied a blend factor in terms of how elastic/inelastic the collision was, computed the resulting new vectors, and then applied the difference in kinetic energy as the damage.
If you're not bouncing, then my chief suspicions would lie either with the normals that are being used to define the point of collision, multiple collision detections between the same two objects interfering with each other in some novel way, or with the particulars of how the resultant forces that need to be applied are derived from the expected post-collision vectors.
@evertvorster any luck else i go reboot my server (update)
I suppose I have to tell you that I am trying to upload a wallpaper
As long as I can get time in the evening that should be doable for me. Please ping me to help keep me on schedule.
but it's coming
thanks for asking :)
Vega Strike is foremost a good space simulator, and our efforts in coding should go towards that aim. However, what keeps people coming back again and again, long after the initial wow of the graphics has faded is a good story.
I played Chrono Trigger for hours on end, every day for MONTHS, because of the good story with it.
In Vega Strike, the missions have the making of a good story, but they just don't seem to be cohesive.
It turns out that there is a cheat sheet for writing a good story:
Is there any knowledge out there of efforts to create a good story to go with Vega Strike?
Nothing to say we can't start another one too, but let's at least see what the status and details are for the current one