My Future Cold War 1945-1991 Sub Sim Project

[Avolanty]

I had to rebuild the logic for the submarine a few times, not to mention update the buoyancy system. Been a real hard 2 weeks but now I think its safe to say we got something that is working now. What I need though is how the sub climbs and dives, in seconds versus meters depending on which tank is blown or flooded. That kind of information will help me make this subsim much more accurate to the real thing. Any calculations you guys can offer will be greatly appreciative for Nsomnia and me.

[nsomnia]

Added a Trello board so people can view progress at a glance/click and vote on features. https://trello.com/b/W4yrCFe2/coldwarsubsim-wip

Also adding in particle systems and working on torpedoes today. I'm asking my partner if he can have a alpha working sub controller for April 3rd. Tech demo is still set for April deadline and first week of April goal (but of course goals are never met)

[nsomnia]

My partner started work on some convoy AI while I took over finishing up, tweaking, and cleaning up the sub controller. Its a mess, not his fault, its visual scriptings fault. April 5th is looking more like april 15th now.

[nsomnia]

Well in just a few hours I was able to get regular and crash diving with the boolean option of negative tank vented or blown rewritten to a simple one page function. Going to add in the ability for advanced players to adjust the fwd/aft trim if wanted at a later date.

[Woxor]

Originally Posted by nsomnia

Well in just a few hours I was able to get regular and crash diving with the boolean option of negative tank vented or blown rewritten to a simple one page function. Going to add in the ability for advanced players to adjust the fwd/aft trim if wanted at a later date.

This sounds great! Will we be able to control the ballast as well?

Cheers.

[nsomnia]

Originally Posted by Woxor

This sounds great! Will we be able to control the ballast as well?

Cheers.

We had that implemented in the original sub controller, we simulated every single tank in the nautilus except for sanitary, fresh water, torpedo tube drains, and oil tanks beacuse I dont think those affect buoyancy. So yes, its definitly a feature there will be a tab for advanced players to adjust ballast in each tank on the fly if they want, how fun that will be? Unknown. Maybe advanced hotkeys like ****+M pump 500L to port ballast tanks to compensate for damage, or shift+ctrl+1 pump 500L out of main ballst tank 1b && shift+ctrl+alt+1 pump 500L into MBT 1b.

So far I thought the easiest way would be a tabbed menu you bring up with a keypress where you drag sliders, 100% slider = full of water fully vented, 0% = fully blown

We have a very very cool effect of an AI ship sinking after getting hit on the bow. After a torpedo hits it starts slowly filling up with water and then goes bow first down, its pretty cool watching and its a start to the damage system. Will get a video from my partner later or wait till we do a file update so I can record it in HD.

Unfortunatly, we are behind schedule for the free tech demo, but hey, thats game deadlines, they are rarely met.

[nsomnia]

After a 5 minute crash dive to 2000 feet (past crush depth obviously or at least what the government will tell us) at all stopped I can verify the new buoyancy system works flawlessly looks pretty horizontal to me

[Woxor]

Originally Posted by nsomnia

We had that implemented in the original sub controller, we simulated every single tank in the nautilus except for sanitary, fresh water, torpedo tube drains, and oil tanks beacuse I dont think those affect buoyancy. So yes, its definitly a feature there will be a tab for advanced players to adjust ballast in each tank on the fly if they want, how fun that will be? Unknown. Maybe advanced hotkeys like ****+M pump 500L to port ballast tanks to compensate for damage, or shift+ctrl+1 pump 500L out of main ballst tank 1b && shift+ctrl+alt+1 pump 500L into MBT 1b.

So far I thought the easiest way would be a tabbed menu you bring up with a keypress where you drag sliders, 100% slider = full of water fully vented, 0% = fully blown

We have a very very cool effect of an AI ship sinking after getting hit on the bow. After a torpedo hits it starts slowly filling up with water and then goes bow first down, its pretty cool watching and its a start to the damage system. Will get a video from my partner later or wait till we do a file update so I can record it in HD.

Unfortunatly, we are behind schedule for the free tech demo, but hey, thats game deadlines, they are rarely met.

That's amazing, hype meter just went through the roof!