After initially experimenting with Three.js’ orbital controls in class, I immediately was motivated to program first-person controls. This I was able to do, but the movement was jittery (moving some number of in-game units instantly rather than smoothly) and a little bit inconsistent. 

Fortunately Three.js has customizable flight controls as part of its native library, which are what you see in action here.

Physi.js, a physics library for Three.js, governs the bullet motion and collision detection. A few rudimentary textures were added to the gun barrel and to the bullets, along with some sounds taken from freesound.org.

Play Spaceflight on Heroku.

See the vid on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BesmBAED28z/?taken-by=spicedacademy

• Three.js
• Physi.js
• tween.js
• Node.js
• express.js