Unity 3D: Freelancer Flight Example (Source in Description)
Check out the GitHub repository here
https://github.com/brihernandez/Freel...
If you’re only interested in the standalone asset package, you can download it directly.
https://github.com/brihernandez/Freel...
This project is an example of Freelancer style mouse controls. One of the most notable things about the game was that it practically “solved” the problem of playing space games with a mouse and keyboard.
While setting up a virtual joystick as seen in my other space flight example, isn’t too difficult, Freelancer used a fundamentally different solution. Its end results are mostly similar, but there are a lot of subtle nuances to the way Freelancer controlled that I wanted to recreate. Particularly, it was the way the ships banked into turns and the effect it has on the ship, which requires a specifically set up camera rig.
As a bonus, I also included a more generalized version of the Freelancer inspired camera I wrote for my weird Freelancer Flight Simulator project because it's a fun camera rig to fly around with. Both a simplified camera rig, as well as the FL-inspired one are included.