Flight Sim Starter Script (Files Included)

Here is a flight sim script I recieved several requests for. It has'nt been pretied up and is mostly bare-bones script. All the variables are exposed in the inspector, and have all been given descriptive names to help with the tweaking process. Due to time constraints I have set the initial values to a basic flight pattern, not too realistic, but passable. The first thing you will notice is the lack of collisions, try as I might I could not get them to work, however I'm sure someone here will be able to figure it out and post a fix for it. This is not exactialy a finished project, I have yet to add decent gravity and nosedive, but enough is there to get you started.

The intent of this script is to help up-and-comming unity students with a basic flight system and HUD componants. No fancy models or terrain here, I am by no means an artist.

Controls are configured for a joystick, but I'm sure they can be changed to work with IPhone, gamepad or Wii (I dont have them to test on, so I cant gurantee anything).

Controls are as follows:

Joystick axis - Movement
Joystick button 1 - BB Gun
Joystick button 2 - Airbrake
Joystick button 3 - Afterburner

No royalties attached, but if you expand on it and make something better, please post it and pm me, I would love to see what you did with it .

*Note that the model is not mine, I got it off TurboSquid.

EDIT:
If anyone knows what I am missing in the upload, please tell me. The html loads ok, but the unity3d file doesn't show up... It is currently uploaded to mediafire untill I can get it hosted to the forum.

Package File
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjyydadz41m

HTML File
http://www.mediafire.com/?im52zzjzfnn

.unity3d File
http://www.mediafire.com/?h2gtijmvnmt

 

Usually the best way to post a webplayer in a forum post is to either host the HTML + U3D file on a webserver or zip both together as a download.

I gave the webplayer a bit of a spin. As you say, this would make a good starting point for many folks wanting to develop a space or other type of flight sim. Thanks for sharing.

 

Wow, this is nice of you. Thanks. A future project of me and my brother, is making a flight game in space so this may be of value. If we use this you will be credited for sure .

 

This is a great start for newbies (like me!) starting with Unity.

Thanks for your contribution.

 

Thanx maybe we can make a tutorial out of this for Unityknowledge, is it me or is the model missing from the package ?

Maurice

 

Dammit. Now I want to make a flight sim.. haha

Thanks a million

 

yeah, some files are missing, it needs some tweaking to make it work

 

:? It is working when I import...

The only ways I can find to test/play the uploaded version are to either place the html and unity3 files in the same folder and run html, or to compile a webplayer from the project. Sorry I can't get a working link up, but there is no how-to on how to upload here.

About the model, the mesh seems to have been lost in the upload to mediafire, and I cant find it anymore. Sorry about that, but it was purly a graphics thing. Simply attach any model to the prefab Fighter and it will work fine, no dependencies on the mesh at all.

 

The plane mesh is missing, but I just imported a plane model i had lying around

I really can't thank you enough for this!
It's really great, and gave me a chance og playing around with making a flight game
(always just love flying around in games, without having a specific purpose) so this makes me able to make my own little casual game..

 

Nice.

Quick bug report: You actually can collide with the (waypoint-)cubes. This seems to add a torque to the plane that you cannot get rid of by compensating in any way.

 

Thanks Mirage for the awesome script. It is exactly what I needed!

@Tinus - I found the same happened to me. I added a box collider to the Fighter, so it could collide with the terrain. I had the same crazy torque thing happen, until I changed the Angular Drag to 10. That seemed to get rid of the problem for me.

Greenlig

 

This is my first post here in the community. I'm from Brazil, sorry my bad english. This script is very good, but I use it with the keyboard - no Joystic. I managed to configure it.

But there's a problem, I need the acceleration is variable. I have total control of speed. When I set the speed, I can not control it. When do I stop my object, it returns the floor: (

I want to have complete control over speed, as there?

Thanks

 

Damn, this is great! been looking for a tutorial on air-plane physics for ages, never looked on the forums though, always just googled xD

 

downloading right now thankyou always liked flying game's and now i can make my own

 

I downloaded the package and it auto started Unity and installed all the files in the current project. My fault I know but kind of a silly assumption isn't it? No prompts, nothing... now I have to go through all the files and delete them and reinstall to a new project.

Not blaming anyone, just venting.

Hopefully this is awesome. Thank you.

Edit: The second time I downloaded it to a new project and it did prompt me! I wonder why it did this time but not the first time when it really counted...

 

It's going to help me a lot, it'll be in the first level of my FPS/Racing game. Say about that, can you configure a flight/racing simulator where you race in the simulator?

 

I am trying to make a space flying with 3rd person perspective view and adding touch joysticks for the controls left joystick left right up and down and right joystick rotate view anyone have any ideas thanks. I have tried everything that comes with unity with no luck.

 

hey i was wondering before i download it if you can get in and out of the aircraft?

if anyone has the answer e-mail me at timothydude10@aol.com
if anone knows the scripting to get in and out tell me also
for example you press (x) to get in and then (x) to get out

make sure its for the pc thank you

 

thanx, pretty nice stuff =)

 

Wow, just logged back in to re download this (formatted HD), got a programming course in college here, want to get back into this in my "spare time".


Pretty sure most of the questions here have either been resolved or the user went on to better things. For the sake of future readers:

jerrol3d: Acceleration with a keyboard
Try binding the keystroke to the throttle. Holding down the "accelerate" and "decelerate" keys should then set the throttle which affects the speed. I would avoid binding anything directly to the speed as you loose the acceleration and deceleration sliders. (trying desperately to avoid the obvious question why you would want to play a flight sim without a joystick/gamepad...)

alexxxhp: Mapping input:
You are using a gamepad? If so your problem lies in the edit > preferences > input area. I have no experience adding gamepad support (just got my first pc gamepad actually, havnt set it up as input yet). Should be relativly simple, try mapping buttons to print out their values, press every key and see what their input names are.

steelers fan 252: Getting in and out of aircraft
Should be as simple as setting a switch that enables or disables the script/ switches between control schemes.

Apologies to caldepen. As I built the file on my computer I did not extensivly test the actualy project file iteself, just the script. Hope you got it working.

 

Despite what I said earlier I didn't download it and I don't know what a joystick axis is.

 

Converted to C#
Added the original Modell (http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/?page_id=25)

The Folder Structure changed quite a bit since I copied out of my project folder.
I wanted todo it now, before I start messing with it.

It's quite possible that the weapon code is not working at the moment since I already started work on it.
Then I decided it would be nice to put my C# conversion up here for anybody else so I had to do some undos.

The Waypoint stuff is not included in this version.

I will probally be using this as a base/placeholder while trying to get to grisp with Flight Dynamics.
For anyone interested the nasa has some great explanations in regard to flight dynamics (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/)

Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?b8cubc0u5eua03a


Any Finally a Big Thank You

 

Whats a Joystick Axis?

 

How'd you mean? If it was a general question, a joystick axis is a range of input along a dimension of the joystick input eg. forward/backward is the joystick Y axis.

In the context of Unity; if you use GetAxis() instead of just direct input keys (as you really ought to, if your user is to be able to change controls ) then you will find both joystick and keyboard can control something by default.

This is most likely caused by manipulating an object with rigidbody physics directly rather than with forces, ie. by Rotate() rather than ApplyRelativeTorque(). This would explain why angular drag fixes it, and compensating inputs do not (as Rotate will not affect the angular momentum). Not looked, so I'm making a guess.

Will definitely take a good look at this later!

 

I don't get it and I don't think I will get it so just leave the question.

 

Joystick Y axis is when you rotate your stick ( generaly using as rudder control ). Not all joysticks have Y axis rotation.

Knight12ify: Moving joystick frontward/backward is X axis (with this you put nose of airplane up and down), and left/right movement is Z axis ( with this you make your airplane roll). If you still don't get it, then i strongly advise you to try some real flightsim with joystick. Flightgear is free nad opensource, and it is fairly decent.

 

True, for the aircraft. However, on the joystick, forward/backward is typically the Y axis, and the twist motion is called the Z. In Unity they are called Horizontal and Vertical though, which is less likely to confuse. But I agree, in terms of the movements on an aircraft you are absolutely correct.

 

I have a problem,
I can't turn down or left or rolling left...

 

Great script! Helps what I am doing quite a bit, one question though:

I noticed with this script that when you bank, you don't actually change heading. You have to add pitch to change the heading. Is there a specific variable I need to change to enable this or do I have to modify the script another way for this to work?

 

The .unity3d file was removed.

 

The .unity3d file has been removed!

 

Wow, I didn't think anyone was still using this. Afraid I've been pretty busy with school and work but I want to get back to working on this again. I am going to start cleaning out the code some and adding more realism and more accurate flight dynamics (been doing some research and I might need to redesign some code). If anyone has suggestions for improvements or additions they would like to see please either add them here or PM me.

 

Has anyone made any revisions?

I'm a beginner and I'm having lots of trouble.

I'll gladly pay for some help.

Thanks

 

can someone help me make this work with iphone

 

How do you use unity if you dont know what a joystick axis is?

 

First of all thank you for the great script. I am learning to make a space sim game and the control systems I was using were driving me crazy . And this just worked greatly.

I have a question tho, when I use mouse movement input for yaw and pitch the ship seems to be rotating like mad and it only works with either a joystick or sepate keys for each axis but I want to use mouse as well. Is there a way to do it?

 

Can anyone upload it again?

Thanks!!!

 

I love this flight script. It really helps a beginner like me. It is easy to use and figure out.

I have two questions. One simple and one complicated:

1) Is there an easy way to limit the "Roll" amount to... let's say 80-90 degrees. In the scene I'm trying to make I don't want users to be able to fly upside down (at least not in an easy way).


2) I'm trying to make "Upwind" zones where the lift on the "plane" is so high, that the movement of the plane. goes up almost no matter what you do (except actively flying downwards ofc). Like a stong thermal on a paraglider.

I cannot for the world figure out how

I tried easy ways like changing liftconstant and gravity... not really the desiresd effect. Some change in flight mechanics, but no "real lift".
I tried entering flyerrigidbody.Addforce / flyer.Addforce with different variables..... No movement at all.

I tried getting a complicated solution like this: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/156974-quot-Upwind-Zone-quot
... to work.

It doesn't... even with the help I received from others. I'm afraid I'm simply too dumb and ignorant to understand how :roll:.

Would a kind soul maybe help me.... Sorry for being a newb.

 

Thankyou for this package, extremely helpful.

 

Any Finally a Big Thank You

 

Can you re-upload the unity file please, unity3d file link is broken. Thanks in response.

 

This is a pretty cool thread! I got it all working but when I added a collider to the plane to prevent from going through the ground, now if it hits the ground or does a "taxi" it won't lift off again, any advise would be much appreciated why would a collider affect this so much?

 

Dude, is this not it?:
Package File
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjyydadz41m