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Guva

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Elite Arcade
« on: April 18, 2026, 03:41:28 pm »
The practical one completely rewrote the code of the latest version.

🛸 Space Engine:
  • Advanced Physics: inertia, strafing, speed limit.
  • Collision System: Support for spheres, capsules and triangulated meshes (BVH).
  • Controls: Keyboard + mouse, gamepad (with vibration and dead zone support).
  • Camera: Smoothly follow the player.

🤖 Artificial intelligence
  • AI pilots with finite automaton: orbit, attack, evade, retreat.
  • Take into account the enemy's rating (from Harmless to Elite) and health level.
  • Merchants are running away from a strong enemy, the police are attacking pirates.
  • AI uses virtual keys (honest controls like a player's).
Ps: So far, they're very dumb.

🎨 Graphics and effects
  • Rendering via R3D: PBR materials, dynamic shadows, SSAO, SSR (reflections).
  • Procedural Sky: Shader skybox with nebulae, sun and planets.
  • Particle system: sparks from hits, explosions, traces of engines.
  • Effects: bloom, FXAA/SMAA, tinting (ACES).

🕹️ Gameplay mechanics
  • Trading between systems (purchase/sale of 17 types of goods).
  • The economy affects prices and accessibility.
  • Jumping between planets with fuel consumption.
  • Different types of ships: Cobra Mk.III, Asp Mk.II, Fer-de-Lance, Viper, etc.

I'll post the source code as I add the GUI.

Technical demo: https://youtu.be/us_DZfeV8QE
« Last Edit: April 18, 2026, 04:16:40 pm by Guva »
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domasz

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Re: Elite Arcade
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2026, 01:42:28 am »
Very nice!
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nomorelogic

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Re: Elite Arcade
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2026, 01:16:40 pm »
Impressive.
I can't wait to see how the project develops.
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trapanator

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Re: Elite Arcade
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2026, 11:44:23 am »
fantastic! I will play with it! will it run on linux systems?
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Guva

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Re: Elite Arcade
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2026, 06:35:26 pm »
Quote from: trapanator on April 22, 2026, 11:44:23 am
fantastic! I will play with it! will it run on linux systems?
Definitely. I'm developing on linux. And I'm doing cross-compilation for windows.
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Fred vS

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Re: Elite Arcade
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2026, 07:07:16 pm »
@Guva: It's even more impressive every time!

I was already super impressed by your first version: https://github.com/GuvaCode/NewELITE/releases/tag/v1

The quality is shocking.

Big congrats.  ;)
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