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Flight Sim

Creating a Flight Simulator in Unity3D Part 4: Autopilot

This is the fourth part of my flight sim series. You can read the first three parts here, one, two, and three. These cover basic flight simulation, HUD, and combat AI respectively. This article will discuss creating an autopilot system for the flight simulator. The AI created in part 3

Flight Sim

Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D

I recently purchased the textbook "Aircraft Control and Simulation" by Brian L. Stevens, Frank L. Lewis, and Eric N. Johnson1. This book covers the control and simulation of aircraft. It's really dense and frankly hard to understand. As far as aerodynamics texts go, it’s pretty

Programming

PID Controllers in Unity3D

This post will cover the use of PID controllers in video games. If you've ever used your car's cruise control, flown a quadrocopter, or piloted a rocket, then there's a good chance that you've used a PID controller. A PID controller is

Flight Sim

Creating a Flight Simulator in Unity3D Part 3: Weapons and AI

Now that we have the flight mechanics and HUD, we can start working on the weapons and AI. The AI will have all of the same capabilities and limitations as the player. It's plane will have identical stats and it will use the same weapons. The AI will

Flight Sim

Creating a Flight Simulator in Unity3D Part 2: HUD

This article will cover the creation of the plane's animation, camera, and HUD. It answers one particularly tricky question: how can we make HUD elements line up correctly with a given angle? Flight Sim Part 2 by vazgriz Github at part-2 Animation The animations for the control

Flight Sim

Creating a Flight Simulator in Unity3D Part 1: Flight

I've been playing Ace Combat and Project Wingman recently. This inspired me to write my own flight simulator using Unity3D. I wanted to make a flight sim with more depth than the arcade flight sims, while still being accessible. You can think of realism as a spectrum. On

Programming

Reflex Sight Shader in Unity3D

In this post, I will describe a shader for Unity3D that recreates the look of a reflex sight. A reflex sight projects the image of it's crosshair to some distance in front of the viewer. Red dot sights holographic sights are both types of reflex sights, they only

Procedural Content Generation

Procedurally Generated Dungeons

I've been playing some roguelikes recently, so I wanted to try writing my own procedural dungeon generator. There are a lot of different ways to approach this problem, but I eventually decided to base mine off of TinyKeep's algorithm, described here. I extended the algorithm to