This cannot be a true passenger simulation unless it also contains full airport experience, complete with TSA cavity search and CBP detaining you or denying entry for the pettiest reasons imaginable (in case of the US).
Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
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#142It's missing a few elements for realism:
- Passengers on either side of you taking both your armrests
- Continually crying baby seated just in front of you
- Person behind you coughing without covering mouth every 2 minutes
- Kids fighting for control of a tablet across the aisle from you
- Tiny cans of Coke
Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
#143Amazing reproduction, I even got some PTSD from it :D.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 images than you need. I've run entire flights on my 2022 mac pro with no issue, but as this is a side project it remains not as optimal as it could be. Any suggestions for order of operations /…
I have a few suggestions: - as I mentioned above, the shadow map is drawn twice, probably it's being auto updated by three.js at some point - the entire cabin has a lot of triangles while the player only sees a small portion of it - cabin lighting could be baked - a lot of triangles seem to be rendered without backface culling, that's probably not intentional - don't run GTAO at full resolution, try half And also, us…
fixed the shadow map being drawn twice, and have deployed that. going through each of these and considering. thank you for your suggestions.
Re: Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
#145Survival horror, my favorite genre
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#146Nice. Waiting eagerly for the "crying baby" extension pack. The "get to your seat" MMO. And the "I want to pee, but the guy next to me is sleeping" campaign. Also, inflightsimulator: 1980, with ashtrays and lethal weapon playing on dropdown TV sets
Dropdown TV sets, luxury! i seem to remember a projector and a screen at the front of the aisle :)
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#147This is brilliant. Some improvements I'd suggest
- Let me use the arrow keys to walk around the plane, having to keep double clicking on the floor to move is quite annoying
- Would be good if there was business class seat
- Add video to the inflight entertainment, you could probably just embed youtube
- Optimise it. Run okay on my M5 mac air but not that smooth
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#148Kindly simulate two hours of queuing at the Schengen border, a coin toss minigame over whether security is “laptops in” or “laptops out”, bonus if your belt pings, lounge access roulette, wailing infant(s), guy two rows back with the worst most productive cough you ever heard (still got that old N95?), retaining status planning spreadsheets, baggage systems failure at Denver, people using the loos in their socks, uns…
It needs a Health HUD with indicators for boredom, thirst, hunger, bladder distention, etc. Also cabin indicators for noise, temperature and humidity, CO2, methane, smells, etc.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
That one predates vibe coding by quite a few years though: a lot of hard work went into Goat Simulator, and there were no doubt other more obvious choices for how the developers spent their time, but they still chose to make Goat Simulator.
Also it's a geninue game with goals to complete, mainly cribbing from games like the Tony Hawk's series. Two separate categories: Meme games[*] don't have to be vibecoded, not all vibecoded things become meme games. [*] A "meme game" being a game which is tries to be ridiculous and is predominantly popular because of social media exposure. I would include games like Goat Simulator, Horse Magnifier, Squirrel with a Gu…
> Horse Magnifier
I can only imagine: clearly I need to check that out.
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#150This is really neat! I loved flying from MDW to ORD