Not to be confused with Pioneer Spacesim, the remake of Elite 2, a free online game https://pioneerspacesim.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Pioneer space sim https://pioneerspacesim.net/ Crashes when entering multiple star systems for me. Source: almost 2 years ago

I found the flight mechanics of Pioneer space sim to be realistic. https://pioneerspacesim.net/. Source: almost 2 years ago

Fans of the game have made games - see pioneer. https://pioneerspacesim.net/ - this should give you an inkling of what is possible compared to what you might wish. Source: over 2 years ago

Probably Elite. Specs are sadly below the minimums for the modern incarnation of Elite Dangerous, but Oolite and Pioneer are free open-source takes on the first and second games of the series that are worth suggesting to him even if it doesn't help get you a present. Source: over 2 years ago

Not exactly VJ, but could be used for it. https://openframeworks.cc. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

- openFrameworks https://openframeworks.cc/ C++. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Vulkan is sort of a post-API API. It seems to be designed specifically with high performance render pipelines in mind, and "end users" should interface with it through an intermediary layer. Ie, you might prefer bgfx[0], cinder[1] or openframeworks[2]. 0: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx 2: https://openframeworks.cc/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Since you have C# experience, take this time to learn more about C++ while you continue to look. While yes, it is very easy to write bad code, it's not a huge deal since you just graduated and are just hacking around. Plus there are a lot of helpers these days to make writing bad code a little less likely.A former mentor of mine gifted me "C++ Without Fear" by Brian Overland which I can recommend. It's not too... Source: about 1 year ago

Have you come across openFrameworks (https://openframeworks.cc/) or Cinder (https://libcinder.org/)? Source: about 1 year ago