rkotcher

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by rkotcher 10d ago
Thank you! appreciate the bookmark!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
thank you for your comment! I had looked a bit into doing the realtime views and actually had it working. I could get the real aircraft heading and orientation. I was able to get it for free with community ADS-B aggregators (though data was
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I could actually consider doing this - the flight itself is procedurally generated, so it's entirely possible. As for the second suggestion, it actually is possible now! but maybe it's not obvious and I
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by rkotcher 10d ago
well, I'm the kind of person who stares out the window for the entire flight, so to me this sounded fun to make and recreate that experience. but really, no point at all to this haha
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Your comment made my day! Thanks for the insight, and thanks for playing :-)
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by rkotcher 10d ago
thanks for the ideas, I will consider adding some of those!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
fixed the shadow map being drawn twice, and have deployed that. going through each of these and considering. thank you for your suggestions.
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by rkotcher 10d ago
awesome, I will look at each of these, one at a time. my bigger issue today was that I was not expecting so many people to try the app and have unoptimized bandwidth costs. bringing those down first and then will be looking into optimizatio
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by rkotcher 10d ago
thank you! I had actually made that feature and then removed it to simplify. I will consider adding it back :-)
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Thank you!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
It's a work in progress. I have cut down on the original mesh size by quite a bit but continue to do that. I also fade out the resolution of the map tiles as you approach the horizon so you aren't loading ihgher res satellite imag
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by rkotcher 10d ago
well, actually I had tested in iphone and did some things to but back on mesh size & also streaming terrain so that I'm not overrendering textures. I have not tested on all devices as I only have one mobile device. The tradeoff is
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by rkotcher 10d ago
yes, a few people have mentioned this. I am making it toggleable in the view menu and will push shortly. Thanks for suggesting
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by rkotcher 10d ago
lol!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Interesting. were you sitting on the tarmac for some time before takeoff?
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Thank you! I will definitely be adding things like this! Just wanted to get something out there, and then add to it! Thanks for playing!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
I will look into adding it.. I'm all for beautiful takeoffs and landings!
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by rkotcher 10d ago
HAHHAHAHAHA
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by rkotcher 10d ago
You can! just have to get out of your seat to then choose the next seat to sit in. can probably improve on that
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by rkotcher 10d ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll fix!
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by rkotcher 11d ago
Thank you!
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by rkotcher 12d ago
Interesting, thanks for the idea. Would be pretty cool if this app did have some real-world applications, beyond being a bit of a meme app. Thanks for the comment!
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by rkotcher 12d ago
Thanks for playing! I'll be sure to consider so of those for the next release!
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Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger(inflightsimulator.com)
14 points by rkotcher 12d ago|8 comments
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by rkotcher 12y ago
Hi stagas, great job on wavepot! Is there any way we could get in touch off of this thread? My startup company is working on a very similar idea, and I think it would be great to know each other. If you'd like I can send write down my