Flight Simulator
ROLE
Solo Game: C++ & Opengl
DESCRIPTION
This is a small game I made over summer, it features a simple plane controller and random terrain generation. My main goal of this project was to learn a low level graphics pipeline and also improve my C++ skills.
YEAR
2022
GENRE
Casual, Simulator
PLATFORM
PC
Source Code
Gameplay
Flight controls
The flight controls are very simple, using 'W' to move forward and 'A' & 'D' to rotate the plane's yaw, and the arrow keys to manipulate pitch and roll. These work by using quaternions to track and change the planes rotation, after I stumbled into problems with gimbal lock using Euler angles. In the future I hope to implement my own basic physics engine to improve upon the flight simulator with realistic aero-physics.
Terrain Generation
Procedural terrain generation is also a feature in this game. It works by populating a flat plane with added vertices, then combing a few Perlin noise functions to offset their positions. Resulting in large slopes with an uneven surface. I made a saving system by simply writing the configuration to file and since the randomness is seeded it will produce the same result once read and sent through the generation function.
Also in the terrain class is the skybox creation and drawing. The background can be changed to different times of day during runtime.