Ship Control

Devlog

• 1 year since dead anniversary
  March 31, 2019 by ThaiCat

  Not much changed in a while, huh?... Continue reading

  
• Generic building controls
  April 01, 2018 by ThaiCat

  It's been a while since I decided to go full 3d and changed the way building works. It was an absolute disaster for over than half a year, pressing buttons required to hold down tab key, block rotatio... Continue reading

  
• Premature optimization
  February 22, 2018 by ThaiCat

  As mentioned in change log there are multiple optimizations this time, most of them with dramatic effect. The very first and the most important is sector unloading, which, obviously unloads sectors fr... Continue reading

  
• the collider thing
  January 04, 2018 by ThaiCat

  Unfortunately, collision detection for mesh colliders in Unity is too inaccurate. if one the colliders is scaled, the distance at which collision will be detected is also increased, but only if one of... Continue reading

  
• 3d building and movement
  August 29, 2017 by ThaiCat

  About half a year ago on another site I mentioned in the planned features that this is going to be a 3d game at some point. I guess many of you probably noticed that the game used all 3 coordinates in... Continue reading

  
• Teleportation between sectors in multiplayer
  July 26, 2017 by ThaiCat

  In the last update, the I added possibility to move between sectors, right now it is only the most basic version, but works in multiplayer. All generated sectors are exactly the same with only one ast... Continue reading

  
• Future networking update
  May 31, 2017 by ThaiCat

  As I said earlier, according to the plan, I was going to add the possibility of moving between sectors. In theory, it looks simple: Move the ship to a sufficiently distant point by specifying the desi... Continue reading