Testing out cannons, so I made them fire as fast as possible.

I started work on getting some tools in place to make large structures easier to create. Here’s iteration one of the box tool.

Made by using the box tool to create a big box, then using it again to replace one of the walls with glass.

I wrote a terrible method for building physics data for these structures. It seems to be stable (for now).

Maybe flying soon!

I hooked up the game to the Rift. Destroying perception of up and down is fun.

I haven’t made the cursor render on both sides yet, so it’s outside of the peripheral.

Wheeeeee. It’s much more fun to fly into an asteroid at maximum speed in first person.

So it begins.

I’ll make a video as soon as I get projectiles in the game.

I’ll also be investigating breaking ships into large chunks – it’s a little bit expensive to smash a structure into hundreds of pieces. In the above picture, I actually do a random chance (50%) that any individual block will be created as a physics object.

My friend Mark created some asteroids and an asteroid spawner, and I added some thruster physics to ships and a SPACEbox.

Here’s the result.

I added in some basic movement controls, and made a red fighter that chases me using the same movement controller.

Green line is target position, blue line is velocity, and yellow is target direction.

More tomorrow after I get some sleep.

I created a Unity component to allow me to easily add these cube models in-game.

I also use a wild color in the blocks so that I can swap out certain blocks for team-colored ones.

And then I added smooth lighting and a grid texture to make the edges stand out, and to make ships feel more like block models.