I have successfully implemented collisions. Missiles and planes can hit buildings now.
Tag: Open Horizon
Multiplayer… almost
First multiplayer flight in Open Horizon’s history, with duct-tape implementation over boost::asio. While I’m resting(got red eyes lately, so trying to stay away from laptop for a while, at least at home), asked a friend to help me with network. He’s going to implement an important part for some miso soup. I’m not going to implement full multiplayer support right now (who will play it anyway?), but still think that it would be good to have multiplayer-aware architecture before I go deep into game mechanics.
Open Horizon progress report
Demo 4 release and new features – effects, trees, radar, terrain, enhanced fonts, missile warning and lots of small improvements.
Cockpit view and missiles mount
Camera modes could be changed with V key. Most cockpit avionics works, other requires more work on the flight model, so I’d like to leave it as it is for now. Continue reading
Open Horizon progress report
After a long period of time you expected some major updates? (insert Sayaka pun here). Still, there are a lot of things done – clouds, post-processing, landscape data, fixes, and also dlc pack decrypted.
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Progress report
I’m glad to share with you my current progress. As you can see, I’ve loaded landscape (with hacks that I’ll fix later), loaded animations and added basic post-processing – color correction and FXAA. I also wrote linear approximation to AH’s flight model, it works pretty well, but another approach is required to get exact formulas. What’s next? Clouds, perhaps.
Textures
Instead of working on a flight model, I’ve researched locations’ format and texture assignment in AH a bit. Looks trashy without proper shaders and post-processing, but it’s an another step on a long way. I wish I had more free time…
A friend of mine (I don’t know if game files’ modification is legal or not) also found another approach in flight model’s research – to modify plane’s parameters, run the game and see, how it affects plane’s performance. By the way, Assault Horizon doesn’t recognize my PS3 controller on PC and I can’t complete the first mission with a keyboard, lol. Thus I shall start with F-22′s params.
I hardly believe that AH can recognize my save files from PS3
Nagase F-22 paint theme
I have found something interesting among original game’s resources
Map loaded
Hurray! The title speaks for itself.
I have learned how to load map files. Not everything, but enough for testing. Finally, I’m able to work on flight model! In fact, I don’t know how to do it. I shall start with simple manoeuvres and find relations between plane’s flight model parameters and speed/acceleration. I hope it’s possible to read AH’s memory at runtime and dump values to collect reference data. Memory address of each value can be found with ArtMoney but it’s not an easy way, so I’ll start with visual development of a simple model based on common assumptions and see where it goes.
Progress report
I managed to load models with bones and probably animations. I almost found out how to load map files. Looks like map meshes are inside ms01_mpt.fhm file and textures are in ms01.fhm
Those models are so awesome, I so like to watch them in viewer