heligun

3D helicopter shooter with raytraced terrain for Emscripten

Copyright (c) 2016 Joseph Kuziel

Description

Heligun is a game based on the Comanche series by NovaLogic. The player takes control of an attack helicopter to complete missions and battle with other attack helicopters.

The terrain is generated using a similar technique found in Comanche where a ray is cast from the viewpoint to a heightmap as an alternative to vectorized graphics which were computationally expensive in 1992 (http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=comanche). Heligun uses raymarching to draw the terrain which is run on the GPU in parallel for each pixel.

Controls

Key	Command
w	Pitch forward
s	Pitch back
a	Roll left
d	Roll right
i	Increase throttle
k	Decrease throttle
j	Yaw left
l	Yaw right

License

MIT

See LICENSE for more information

Languages

• C
• GLSL

Dependencies

• SDL2
• OpenGL 2.0
• OpenGL ES 2.0
• Emscripten (optional)

Supported platforms

• Web (Javascript / WebGL)
• Native
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • Linux

Building

• Emscripten
  • Add Emscripten SDK to your PATH (Bash: source ./<emscripten sdk>/emsdk_env.sh)
  • Run ./build_emscripten.sh
  • index.html, index.html.mem, index.data, index.js should be generated
  • Run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 from heligun directory
  • Open http://localhost:8080 in your web browser