Posts made by Scott Przybylski

Thanks @Ryan-Yates that is helpful. Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure how I'd use that in the physics calculations. What I envision for figuring out the lift generated by the hydroplane tunnel/air trap would be to setup a grid of points at an angle. I can then sample the water at the center of each square to find the height above the water. From there I'm not sure what the equation is to figure out the lift force exerted by the air pressure. I'm thinking it may be similar to ground effects.

@TinyBeard RT and LT on an xbox controller typically share the Z axis. At least on an Xbox 360 controller. One side goes from -1 to 0, the other side goes 0 - 1, if both are held down the same amount they cancel eachother out.

@Harley-Gray What Ryan said, I've found that running the game fullscreen at half or lower resolution helps a lot. The shaders for the water are very GPU intensive. I will add a graphics settings menu eventually to allow you to tweak the graphics settings more.

@Cei I've always thought it would be cool to have the cranes lowering the boats into the water and other atmosphere details. Roughness of the water over time should be doable, it should probably take into account how many boats are on the water and for how long. I plan on exposing options for the server admin to adjust the water conditions.

@Ryan-Yates Yeah, the old algorithm I was using was trying to simulate planing and slamming forces better, unfortunately it seemed to stuff it in the turns even more. I also think that the center section shouldn't be simulated like a wing, I found some research papers on it (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266593645_Dynamics_and_Stability_of_Boats_With_Aerodynamic_Support) The hard part is figuring out how to actually use the equations.

My guess is that your pedals share the same axis for each pedal. You may need to see if there is a way to set it to use split axis through the driver software.

Making the Input settings more robust is on the TODO list, unfortunately Unity's old Input Manager doesn't expose a lot of needed functionality, so I need to look into 3rd party solutions or move everything to Unity 2018 (which I am in the process of doing right now) in order to use their new Input System which currently requires Unity 2018.2

1. Sounds like a good idea, along the lines of car racing sims that have the racing line that you can toggle. The only hard part is that the lane sizes aren't fixed, most of the rules define lanes based on the width of the boat. I may try and implement this when I start working on the course map overlay.

2. There likely won't ever be a way to paint the boats in game. Photoshop and Gimp are much better tools than anything that I could ever come up with. I was a little hesitant making it so people could add paint schemes this early on, since I am planning on eventually creating a new boat model for the Unlimiteds.

Anyway, there are Photoshop templates for painting the current boats, if you're a graphic designer it shouldn't be too difficult, its just a matter of exporting them to the correct DDS image format.

3. More race courses are definitely planned.

4. Yes, I would like to make it so the boats can be setup differently. I'd think of the current boats as just a place holder right now, I have some ideas for trying to make the physics more realistic as well as adding the ability to setup different parts of the boats.

Unfortunately, I'm just one guy working on this in my spare time.

Feel free to leave any ideas/suggestions you may have.

@Ryan-Yates I believe they are all exported as DXT3, I think DXT5 should also work. I think DXT1 might even work, since I'm not currently using the alpha channel.

v0.5.1.1

Fixed:

• Synchronizing buoys screen getting stuck when changing courses.
• Fixed loading times.
• Fixed driver replay menu when viewing live.

Download HydroSim v0.5.1.1 (Windows)

I fixed the loading issues when switching courses. I was also able to speed up the loading times. I'll post an update after the race today.

@jeffdewalt Yeah I made the water a bit rougher. Eventually I'll make it so the water conditions can be changed.

@PeytonHopp I haven't had any audio glitches. I wonder if it has something to do with the trees coming into view on the back straight. Detroit will probably be the next course.

There seems to be a bug when changing courses while connected to the server. It sometimes gets stuck at the "synchronizing buoys..." screen. I'm looking into it.

Happy 4th of July! An update is finally here!

v0.5.1.0

Updates:

• New replay menu that has boat / camera selectors and current time.
• Added loading / transition screens.
• Add support for loading other race courses.
  • Added course selection menu to the main menu.
  • Added course selection to server admin menu.
• Added Guntersville course.
• Made performance optimizations.
• Added more detail to San Diego.
  • Terrain now uses MicroSplat materials / shaders. Also using new textures.
  • Using EasyRoads Asset for creating roads / bridges.
• Added some more boats to choose from.

Fixed

• Fixed bugs with leaving the server and re-connecting without restarting the game.
• More dedicated server fixes (still trying to get the timing issues sorted out).
• Various other bug fixes.

Download HydroSim v0.5.1.0 (Windows)

Newer build available here

I will try to make both races. Put me down for the U-22.

@Mickey I can, just let me know where to get them from.

Working on the Guntersville course. Need to fix a couple bugs with course loading, hopefully an update soon.

The pits are really far away from the course, I'll probably need to implement a course map, otherwise its easy to get lost, haha.

FYI, I've migrated the code/issues from Bitbucket to Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/skaughtx0r/HydroSim

I ran out of space on Bitbucket and Gitlab has a much higher quota for their free account.

@PeytonHopp That is good to hear, sorry I couldn't make it.

1. Yeah, I figured there would need to be some tweaks to this, its hard to test out by myself.

2. I'm still trying to figure out why the server gets into a weird state sometimes, also tricky to debug. We may need to do a race with me hosting the server on my dev machine.

3. Ha, yeah I saw that in the video, I was scratching my head. Not sure what the heck happened there.

Hmmm, seems like youtube videos embedded with the time argument t= don't work.

Sorry I couldn't make it, some old friends of mine that moved away years ago were unexpectedly in town yesterday.

@CanYouFoush Wow! You hit 208mph on one of those laps.

Sorry guys might not make it tonight

@CanYouFoush Yeah, good point, you can lower the resolution and run in full screen mode.

@Hydro_Harley What are your computer specs? CPU, memory, GPU? Is it a laptop or desktop?

@Hydro_Harley At the moment, the only thing you can do is change the Graphics Quality in the Configuration window that opens when launching the game. Eventually, I will add more settings in game to turn off the water reflections, wakes, and other GPU intensive visual effects.