BGEFS - The Blender Game Engine Flight Simulator

Game Engine Works in Progress and Game Demos
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This is the possible culmination of my work with the Blender game engine. Three years ago, I decided to make a flight simulator. I looked around for various ways to do this for free (Java, Alice) before finding Blender. Since then, I have been creating blend after blend in an attempt to understand the BGE at a deep enough level to do this. I am now on the final file, which will become a fully-fledged flight simulator. Currently I have only a basic flight model, having been focusing more on graphics (I may end up using Xjazz’s FDM or something else entirely.) Motion blur, bloom/hdr…more to come!

Enough boilerplate! Here are some screenshots:

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I have a time-of-day control, here is the same scene at two different times:

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[edit] And here is the .blend: http://www.mediafire.com/?busrabnaxe6tcz4

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Here the time-of-day setting can be better seen in action (I integrated it with the bloom for more bloom in night scenes):

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And here is the .blend: http://www.mediafire.com/?busrabnaxe6tcz4

Please remember this is nowhere near done! I have much left on my “todo” list, such as autopilot, sound, getting the plane to fly realistically, etc.

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Hi skykooler!

Very well made. Wisely used a smaller scale.

The models looks good but for my taste the bloom(?) effect is a bit over done.

The flight model needs some tuning but it is pretty neat :slight_smile:

Keep this ongoing.

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Nice job! Keep it up! I think this is going to be pretty cool!

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Quick question: For the night scenes, what exactly did you use to make the blurry shine effect? I keep seeing it, and I want it lol.

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I wrote the bloom script myself based on some random Google searches. In the .blend it is called bloom3. Feel free to use it!

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Thank you. This will be very useful to me for majority of the games I’m working on.