wow... Thanks for the encouraging responses...
yeah, Z and Fuller... you guys know what i was going through with the other dev tool... actually, it looks like I've settled to coding the WWII sub sim in Rad and the NUC sub sim in Blitz. Making good progress with the Blitz code so far... so good that it MAY actually get finished.
It's gonna be a lil complicated Foppy... but so far there will be an option to play as the Captain, and all you need do is to give orders... the ai crew will actually carry out the tasks.
But if you want, the Captain can take over any station and 'hand fly' the sub or control any of the weapons or sensor stations (so far ai is only working with ships control and that isn't really working that well)...
... this will involve knowing what you are doing. For instance, the dive planes are a lot more respnsive at high speeds than slow, and if you're not carefull, you'll wind up in a dive that you can't pull out from before the sub exceeds crush depth.
Also, the diving controls are a lil involved... not really, but there's a lot of switches and blinking lights.
Successfully killing another sub will take a while, and you'll have to do a lot of things...
My big thing is to convey the real feel of being aboard a sub, so I'm shooting for the eye candy and sound immersion type thing...
... but there will be a lot of 'work' for each sailor to do in order not to sink the ship... in other words, you don't just press one button to dive...
Thanks again people... more to come...
--Mike
yeah, Z and Fuller... you guys know what i was going through with the other dev tool... actually, it looks like I've settled to coding the WWII sub sim in Rad and the NUC sub sim in Blitz. Making good progress with the Blitz code so far... so good that it MAY actually get finished.
It's gonna be a lil complicated Foppy... but so far there will be an option to play as the Captain, and all you need do is to give orders... the ai crew will actually carry out the tasks.
But if you want, the Captain can take over any station and 'hand fly' the sub or control any of the weapons or sensor stations (so far ai is only working with ships control and that isn't really working that well)...
... this will involve knowing what you are doing. For instance, the dive planes are a lot more respnsive at high speeds than slow, and if you're not carefull, you'll wind up in a dive that you can't pull out from before the sub exceeds crush depth.
Also, the diving controls are a lil involved... not really, but there's a lot of switches and blinking lights.
Successfully killing another sub will take a while, and you'll have to do a lot of things...
My big thing is to convey the real feel of being aboard a sub, so I'm shooting for the eye candy and sound immersion type thing...
... but there will be a lot of 'work' for each sailor to do in order not to sink the ship... in other words, you don't just press one button to dive...
Thanks again people... more to come...
--Mike