hangglider/README.md

Hang Glider Mod for Minetest

This is a fork of the minetest-hangglider mod by Piezo_ (orderofthefourthwall@gmail.com)

Which is located at: https://notabug.org/Piezo_/minetest-hangglider

This version is an experimental version that is not intended for general use.

It includes the following changes by David G (kestral246@gmail.com):

• Give visual indication that hangglider is equiped.

  • Display simple overlay with blurred struts when equiped.
  • Issue: don't know how to disable overlay when using third person view.

• Also unequip hangglider when landing on water.

• Attempt to linearize parabolic flight path.

  • Start gravity stronger, but gradually reduce it as descent velocity increases.
  • Don't use airstopper when equipped from the ground (descent velocity is low).
  • Slightly increase flight speed to 1.25.

• Unequip/equip cycling mid-flight should not fly farther than continuous flight.

  • When equipping mid-air (descent velocity higher), use airstopper but increase descent slope afterwards.
  • Create airbreak flag so all equips mid-flight use faster descent.
  • Reset airbreak flag only when land (canExist goes false).
  • Issue: it wouldn't reset if land in water, use fly, and launch from air, before I added test for water,
    • Not sure if there are other such cases.

• Did another round of parameter tuning.

  • Commented out hud debug display code with prefix "--debug:".

• For Minetest 5.x the glider's set_attach point needs to be offset by 1 node.

  • Provided alternate commented out version of this line that has the correct offset.

• Discovered that sprint mod interferes with this mod's speed settings.

  • It's likely that other mods that affect player_physics will have this same problem.
  • May need to consider adding player_monoid support to this mod.