F-XX (Airborne)

An indie flight simulator gmae without any game engine, just C++ and some libraries.

This project trys to make a little bit modern remake of the classic F-15 Strike Eagle II and others flight simulators made by MicroProse back in the 80s.

The magic of those games comes from the fact it is not really a simulator, and it is not really an arcade. It somthing between just genius like Sid Meier can create :).

Check out the development blog for updates ot the Wiki for more information.

The Rules

• Do not use game engine and or LLM
• I have to re-learn CPP and linear algebra (ohh, trigonometry)
• To have fun

How to

Still in progress, but...

Required Dependencies

• C++20 compiler with support for modules (I'm using LLVM with Ninja)
• CMake 3.25 or higher
• Tomtom and Mapbox API tokens for the maps/tiles.

Installation and Running

# make sure to have llvm installed and configured as your default compiler
brew install llvm cmake ninja

# let cmake find the llvm clang compiler
export CC=$(brew --prefix llvm)/bin/clang
export CXX=$(brew --prefix llvm)/bin/clang++

# required environment variables for the map API tokens
export TOMTOM_TOKEN=***
export MAPBOX_TOKEN=***

# creating debug build
cmake -B cmake-build-debug -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G Ninja

# compiling and running the game
cmake --build cmake-build-debug && ./cmake-build-debug/airborne

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TODOs

Leftovers from the ESC refactoring:

• fog shader
• complete configuring the terrain streamer
• performance optimizations: change read only view data to const reference
• autopilot controller
• navball widget

Drafts

# release
cmake -B cmake-build-release -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G Ninja

# asan
cmake -S . -B cmake-build-asan -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer" -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-fsanitize=address"

# clean builds
cmake --build cmake-build-debug --target clean && cmake --build cmake-build-debug