Rollercoaster simulation written using Bevy. Press Enter to begin the ride, q to exit at any point.
The track is generated using pythagorean hodograph splines, a spline that has some useful analytic properties. On an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, generating a spline of 8 segments takes about 25 microseconds, and rendering the spline as shown below takes another 100 microseconds.
Some desirable and/or interesting features for the future:
- Real-time drag-and-drop editing of spline controls point & orientations
- Visualization of velocity over time (and detection of stalling)
- "Booster" segments that boost the player's velocity in a certain region
- Exporting tracks to a file
To run this project, you will need to install Rust. Once you've followed the instructions in the link, simply do cargo run --release. That's it!