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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Boats!

As you can see in the screenshots, I just added highly accurate hydrostatic/hydrodynamic physics in Rigs of Rods.

In the same philosophy that makes RoR so different, this is not just an approximated Archimedes law that was added, but a realtime local pressure gradient computation, that is able to accurately simulate any buoyant shape, in any position, and even with uneven water surface (waves!).

With this method, making boats is also quite easy, you just have to mark cab triangles as part of the hull and that's all! The water pressure gradient will be applied to the "wet" side of the triangles, and all these pressure forces will combine to make the boat float.

As always, the physics (the fun part!) is only 10% of the code, and I have yet to integrate boats to the gameplay (making nice dashboard, sounds, special effects, port infrastructure...).

A small video:

20 comments:

  1. Great job Pricorde! I'm dieing to try this new stuff! I have a plane engine crash sound. If you are interested in using it, PM me at the RoR forum

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  2. hey! looks SO cool. what's happened to the file repository lately? i'm dying to get my hands on some of the releases. cheers, and love the game.

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  3. Looks really, really cool Pricorde! You do amazing work man. Now we need a Dodge Ram diesel truck and a trailer to haul it out of the water with, along with a mesh of a boatramp!

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  4. Don't forget to add swiming!

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  5. omfg !

    Now we can make "amphibious" !!!

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  6. Hang on. Physics is the fun part? OK.....

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  7. yeah, he can mess around

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  8. Nice news Pricorde!! With boats this is now the most complete simulation game around the world :)

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  9. pyllin, I know you from the RSC forums
    Good to see you in RoR!:) I hope 0.31 will be released very soon!

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  10. Now all we need are trains!

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  11. Hi zipppy!! I started with RoR 1 year ago :)

    It's a very nice game, and with some improvements on performance and graphics could rock anywhere! :P

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  12. pricorde! try and implement a Gui library for 0.32!

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  13. Here is some videos I made, Pricorde.
    You can put it in the headline of 0.31
    for now, here is the link
    http://rigofrods.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=screenshots&action=display&thread=1171164965&page=1

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  14. Pricorde, I would apprichiate it if you removed the Link to Jamie's Forum, as He Is lying through his teeth to make it seem like i am the bad guy.

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  15. http://danh.007ihost.com/forum/index.php
    A non-ban-when-you-disagree-with-the-admin-forum

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  16. yeah that sounds awesome. can't wait for the next uppdate..

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  17. Are there any estimates for when 0.31 will be out..?
    This game is just great, I waste way too much time on it!

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  18. Puddle Jumping Liebherr Style

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFBgQCLnIXk

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  19. Dear Pricorde, Please remove the link to Jamie's forum, as Several people have been banned for Saying something that the admin does not agree with, i hate to see your game associated with this terrible forum, www.rigsofrods.co.nr

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  20. Anonymous4/7/09 06:38

    来你这看看!!GOOD WORK!!谢谢分享!
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