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I was never quite a fan of the initial Sador design for numerous reasons, the chief of which was that it always felt like a flying saucer got stretched out and had wings slapped on. Today, I got some free time and took a crack at redesigning the airframe. I may have erred a little too far on the sid...

After some thought, I'll likely implement an off-thread UDP socket handler that gets queried at the appropriate point by the Input system for the current headtracking state. From there, each headtracking connection (only one to start) gets it's own data structure in the Input system that can be quer...

Preliminary support of headtracking via joystick axis input has been implemented in PR #4536. I want to get headtracking input via FlightGear UDP protocol working as well, but that will require some additional design work to build an asynchronous method of passing updates into the engine's input sys...

WKFO: marking a variable as 'extern' causes the linker to not allocate storage for it, under the assumption that it exists in another object file. If you try to link an executable without storage for all external variables, the linker will error, because everything using those variables needs to kno...

Matanzan: generally, the development team doesn't take requests. We have enough work just trying to clean up all of the legacy code, not to mention being in the middle of two separate UI rewrites, updating the rendering engine, refactoring terrain generation, streamlining the asset-authoring process...

Looks pretty good, impaktor. Kudos for digging all of this up. Now here's the fun question - what's the performance like? I'd say that any solution we choose should take no more than 25% CPU usage for no more than one second to create a high-resolution face image suitable for the player / station of...

I think I may have found something worth using. LLGL (https://github.com/LukasBanana/LLGL) is a thin C++ wrapper over DX11, OpenGL, and Vulkan, with a common, (fairly) sane API abstracting away the platform differences (and the stupendous amount of boilerplate required for Vulkan). It builds with CM...

We have scrollbars, so it's not that big of a deal. I'd say a short description <= 300 words, and a longer description / backstory of ~800 words. @impaktor Regarding specific theme, the ship was mostly developed for combination air-and-space policing / military work. It's a heavy fighter (2x S3 guns...

I'm splitting this topic from the ship sketch thread now, as I feel this ship has matured enough for its own thread. Presenting the newest offering from Auronox Corp, the Sador Heavy Fighter! A multi-role, atmosphere-capable fighter craft designed for military and law-enforcement use, with a specifi...

Regarding BGFX vs Forge, there are some pros and cons. BGFX Pros: - Supports OpenGL. - Has a large userbase with many opensource implementations we can reference for our own use. - Bring-your-own-engine style means it's fairly simple to drop it in place of our current OpenGL renderer. BGFX Cons: - N...